The AnimaTure

~The Anima-Ture~

I am watching 8 man after instead of watching 8 man so i can't say much about the pre-story and such.
It starts with a man called Azuna catching fire and jumping out of the window and his lover was narrating that he was not what she thought he was.

I am looking at the dub version and so far the voices fit and so does the dialog at the moment.
A woman is talking to the future mayor and he is annoyed by all the thefts and thugs in his city.

He also explains what his goal is and how he wants his dream city to look like.

The woman leaving the office was reading her papers and a guy took it out of her hands asking if she was the secretary, but she said she was from public relations.

She noticed his gun and he hid it and she assumed he was a cop but he said he was a former cop and had no need for his gun.

The boss of the company came out with his secretary and the secretary tried to warn the security but the man stops him and holds him like a police officer does it.
The boss also noticed he was a police officer and the man asked some question but got no answers and left.

The woman from public relations was waiting for a taxi outside and the man arrived with his car and asked if she wanted a ride.
She gives in and got in the car but noticed that he was being chased by the security that the secretary alarmed after he left.

The man and woman were talking about what he was doing and they arranged their next meeting.

Then the part that we are all used to and that is horrible voices when watching a dub.
A young police guy and his uncle the chief in a police car with both a voice that is irritating.

Well the first thing the uncle said was 'EEEYYY!' with ketchup all over his face and suit from a hot dog.

He began to regret letting his cousin join the police force and suddenly the episode takes a turn.
Dead bodies everywhere with wounds and a lot of blood.

They trapped the criminal that killed eleven people and on his arm we get to see a machine gun and he runs out like a maniac towards the cops who are all shooting him.

He gets hit and stops his movement and attacking and so do the cops, but the criminal with '13' tattooed on his head was about to attack again but they shot him and he got two bullets to the head.

They were talking about the weaponry on his arm and the chief looked rather pale when he looked closer at it.

The man who many thought of as a cop is called Hazama and he arrives at his apartment and noticed his door to be unlocked.
He took his gun and noticed a little boy dancing with his new boombox which he got 'legit' after he pick locked the door to enter the apartment.

The boy asked about his father where he was but Hazama told him to look for himself and got a phone call.

It was important and once he arrived he got guided into the lab and we see the chief standing at a robotic arm and the two men have their differences.

The chief and the professor show the weaponry that the 'cyborg' had and ask Hazama to help with this case.

The chief tries to blackmail Hazama into cooperating but he still declines the offer.

After that he is at the bar where he made an appointment with the lady from public relations and her name is Yokugawa.
She disliked the place and tried to run out as Hazama noticed it he grabbed her and did agree that the place was not suited and went to another place.

They started talking about how he always plays the tough guy but he goes with it and joked about it.
They started talking about the case he was working on and as it goes on he notices a man looking at him from a car outside but he drove away.

The meeting quickly ended and he drove her home and as he started driving he noticed the same car that he saw earlier and he got suspicious.
He runs up to her apartment, despite being there the first time so far i know.

The man grabbed Yokugawa and stabbed the top of her throat with he tip of his knife and then wanted to cut her bra but Hazama arrived and turned on the lights.
He shot the man but he deflected the shots with his arm and we see he has a robotic arm like that guy with the '13' on his head.

The man that was attacking them decided to kill them both because Hazama said his name out loud.

Hazama jumped out the window together with the man and a car took the man out of nowhere leaving Hazama for dead.


At the hospital we see him fatally wounded and we see him die and the chief was talking to someone with big surprise.

The chief was asked by Yokugawa where Hazama was being kept and he told her he was transferred to another hospital.

We get to see a guy with '8' on his chest with a blue skin all wired up in machines.

As it goes to the chief's cousin driving Yokugawa to Hazama's home they get rammed by the punks.
They had no intent to fight, but only scar the car.

As they arrived at his home the little kid opened and they took him out to eat hamburgers for information on finding Hazama.
Instead of getting information they're getting into a fire fight with the punks called cyber punks that cut off their limbs for cyber parts.

The cyber punks kill everyone on sight and the man with a blue skin and the 8 on his shirt arrives and starts tearing the parts off their bodies and knocking them all out.
The leader takes a hostage and shoots at the 8-man but the bullets are going in slow-motion for him.

The leader decides to run but The 8-man grabs his cyber hand and pinched it off.

As he walks away Yokugawa seems to notice it is Hazama and the 8-man seemed to react to her calling him that.

Later as the police arrive they are not believing the boy telling it was the 8-man's work and the woman and chief's cousin vouched for him.

They thought it would've been Hazama but he seemed to arrive on scene and somehow Yokugawa demanded him to be protected by him.

We know why Hazama is acting though and vengeful because he killed seven detectives who were dirty and that his sister was killed before his eyes.

Yokugawa asks what the man does and he explained he was a criminal that stole secret plans from the government.
We get the information now about why these cyber punks are attacking and why it fails.

We get to see a room full of toys and that man that thought to have killed Hazama but the man called MR. Halloween was getting irritated about it.
He activated the arm on the mans body who is called Tony which makes the nerves feel pain and as he falls down in agony MR. Halloween is saying how he hates it that his machines need to be recalled for a repair.

The scene goes back to the garage from the company boss we first saw and they entered the building.
The camera registered Yokugawa and Hazama and they entered her office.

He needed to crack a password and asked for a cup of coffee and as she leaves he turns his hand into a mechanical like status and starts cracking the code.

We now know for sure he is the 8 man and Hazama triggered the alarm and the security mechanism spread out sleeping gas which only works on Yokugawa because he is an android.
He escapes with Yokugawa and the scene goes to the police chief with the mayor and a lot of pills.

I bet if he took just 1 of each pill that is standing on his desk he'd die instantly.
The police chief told him to be careful with them and stuffed his mouth with pills right after as if it was candy.

They are talking about the criminal mastermind MR. Halloween and the mayor is frustrated because everything is getting on his back what happens in his town.
The chief told him the 8 man was back in town and he demanded to get a picture with him holding hands.

Hazama in his cyber form is very robotic and also speaks that way as the professor was downloading the data Hazama downloaded at the company.

Hazama was not allowed to feel any emotions of his former human self which the last 8 man did have and he had to pay with his life because of that.

We hear him saying he has nothing like emotions and called himself or rather 'Hazama' a host for the 8 man's body.

As Hazama arrived at his home and opened the door there was an explosion.
As an android he noticed it and also found the culprits but they got away.

The little boy noticed his father on TV which Hazama discourages because he could not play football anymore because he took a serious injury.

We get to see the man that tried to kill Yokugawa and Hazama together with the two that escaped from 8 man and they are supplying the football players with the cyber drug that is used by the cyber punks which causes them to be suicidal.

They started playing football and the team that uses the drug are taking out the other players with ease and are breaking their bones but quickly attacked the public creating chaos.

Hazama tried to safe all the people but one killed a woman right before Hazama's eyes which made him remember how his sister got murdered.
He killed the man and Yokugawa was under attack and he got another flashback and he turned berserk trying to kill the little boys father.

Not seeming to listen to reasoning he did not kill the father but destroyed his cyber parts first.
Sam, the little boy tried to stand up for his father but Hazuma punched him out of the way and Yokugawa tried stopping him too.

Hazama calmed down after he fully analyzed Yokugawa and had no clue what he did.

Hazama went to the professor to talk about this mistake about him running rampant without his will but the professor said it was him overwriting the security systems implanted in his body.

What bothers me right now is that he was suddenly talking normal instead of the robot-like talk.

We see what happened and who did the murder of his sister and what Hazama did after it happened.
The man who killed his sister named Tony, is also the man who tried to kill him and Yokugawa and is the lapdog of MR. Halloween.

Sam was talking with his father but his father was suffering badly.

As Hazama arrived at sam's home Yokugawa started questioning him and not soon after Sam and his father arrived home.

Hazama ties Sam's father saying he would be very dangerous without his drug and Hazama explains to Yokugawa what this is all about but not saying anything about himself or who the 8 man is.

Not soon after we suddenly get to see the identity of MR. Halloween and Tony, who was his lapdog is kicking him out of the board.
Tony send him off to a person that i assume he would turn MR. Halloween to MR. robot.

Tony took command of the board despite one that was opposing but Tony killed him.

Yokugawa went to talk with Hazama about his wounds he got from Tony and she asked for proof which would be the scars on his body which he produced on his body.

Yokugawa was calling it coincidence and thought he was 8 man which he got irritated for and he tried to kiss her which made her run away.
The professor is worried about Hazama because his emotions are overwriting the systems and he could go berserk again.

Sam's dad woke up and started freaking out because he couldn't get his drug but Hazama used the drug the professor gave him to calm him down.

We see Tony sitting on his bed and his whole body is that of a robot and we see how he lost his body.

Back to Sam's father he started acting normal and Hazama made him a meal because they are friends and started talking about old times.
As they started talking he suddenly called Hazama 8 man which he denied but sam's father begged that he would tell it but still didn't.

We see the cops running up the company of MR. Halloween who is now MR. Robot and he attacked the cops and overpowered them.
As MR. Robot threw a cop outside 8 man grabbed him and fought MR. Robot and noticed a bomb hidden in his frame and told the cops to run but as soon the bomb went off it makes me think how they could run that fast as that little bomb destroyed half the building.

As Hazama escaped from the blast we go back to Sam's apartment and the two men who tried to kill Hazama stood at the door and were looking for Hazama.
Sam's father attacked the two men but was overpowered and for now it seems that they killed sam's dad.

Hazama is telling the chief who is behind all of this now and made it clear he was unsatisfied with being a cyborg.
One of the other cops said he had a report on a black male jumping out of a window and Hazama realized it was his friend and rushed off.

As he arrived on the scene he noticed that sam's father was still alive and is planning to bring him somewhere.

We get to see Tony being adjusted and talking to a brain that is doing all the work on his body.
They are talking about the cyborg brain that only the 8 man has and this peeked the interests of Tony going after the 8 man to get it. Soon after the brain informs Tony that the two men are back with Yokugawa.

Sam's father seems to be stabilized thanks to the professor and went on his personal errant without telling the professor anything.

Sam's father seemed to know that his body was destroying itself and asked the professor how much time he had left but that remains a secret for us as the scene changes to Hazama going after Tony to safe Yokugawa.

He got apprehended and Tony told the tale how he became like this and that the situation looked like that of three years ago how Hazama's sister died.
Hazama went berserk again and killed the two lapdogs but Tony seemed to be on par with him.

Tony thought to had killed Hazama but he kept appearing time after time but Tony lured him into a trap that is so convenient.

As the scene goes back to sam and the professor he was asking what his dad was and then they noticed his father running away.

The scene goes back to Tony and the brain and after they talked there was Sam's father arrived on scene and what confused me is that the 8 man was not able to get a hit on Tony but sam's dad could do it with cyber junk parts.
Tony accidently destroyed the computers holding Hazama and the brain and Sam's dad gave the dose Hazama needed to recover his powers.

Tony seemed to be desperately attacking 8 man but his body started to fail and he made the place explode.

The only thing left of Tony is his head but not soon after it defected and we see Yokugawa and Hazama that survived the blast but Sam's dad died because of his injuries.

Hazama went with the professor after the incident and the night after that he was leaving the city because it was full of bad memories.
He now seemed to be grateful for his cyber body.

Yokugawa is left behind looking outside of her window as the movie ends.

After the ending song we get to see that Yokugawa found Sam and Hazama and now the ending credits appear and here ends the amazing adventure of 8 man after!


I have given 8 Man After a well deserved  4 out of 5 on Anime Planet