Akudama Drive (アクダマドライブ) - Review
Brief: In a dystopian future where Kansai became a vassal state of Kantō, multiple highly skilled criminals, called Akudama, are sent a message from an anonymous client to free a death row prisoner named Cutthroat before he is executed. Four Akudama respond to the challenge and descend into Kansai Police Headquarters to earn a big payday. However, once inside, they discover the job was part of a larger scheme by their client to make them work together on a bigger job: to infiltrate the Shinkansen and steal precious cargo from a vault at the front of the train. Roped into the job are an ordinary girl arrested on a minor charge but forced to keep up the appearance of a Swindler, and a low-level Hoodlum who was accidentally broken out of jail during the initial heist. The team must work together to finish the job and earn their large payday, all while keeping ahead of the Executioners from the Kansai Police on their tail.
My big surprise for this season! It wasn’t in my plans to watch this one but people were telling me how cool it was that I decided to give it a chance and I’m glad I did. The story is set in a cyberpunk style city, follow by a simply great action anime, from the beginning till the end this story is definitely beyond to what it’s seems, specially the weird dark truth behind Kanto.
I really liked each of our main Akudamas, what surprised me the most is that the story doesn’t tell much about each character and somehow it wasn’t necessary because their personalities was good enough to create a great atmosphere for a good story.
Animation was great, eye catching. Fighting scenes were amazing! and each character way of fighting was really cool. At first it was cool, and the story didn’t seem to be a big thing, I wasn’t expecting much of what would happen. I even thought they will simply achieve de mission and continue their lives.
But well, things really started changing half the way. I really liked how complex the story gets once they got sister and brother, even though it’s still confusing the whole Kanto and Quantum computer stuff.
I believe this was one of the good ones for this year and definitely if you’re in to this type of anime you should definitely watch it!
