Thrawn

Story

Don't you be fooled by that cover image, because this OVA is a brutal, savage look at a world where a stuffed bear can go about and maul the everloving fuck out of bank robbers and dolls can do things. The doll would be spoilers because she is absolutely darling! But in tune with this OVA, brutal and moralistically ambiguous. Ness.

First off, it starts with a bank robbery and child endangerment, which is more like taking a child hostage and threatening to splatter his brains all over the place. The bank robbers, in their genius ingeniousness failed to take into account the face wrecking tribal drumming of Kuma, The Bear That Will Maul Your Nuts Off. Kuma steps in and gets a few whacks for his troubles, the start of a show of violence and brutality. But Kuma, he ain't no punk bitch. He ain't going to take that shit lying down. He just fucking unloads on that fool, smacking the everfuck out of his bitch face. And shit, then it gets hardcore. Kuma gets shot at by a six shot revolver and the guy misses 7 times. He hits twice or trice and Kuma gets pumped full of led while people outside probably got shot by the terrible accuracy of the felon.

And then he threatens to blow the kid away, right in front of Kuma. Big mistake. Kuma just went fucking ape shit, turned into Super Kuma, sprouted some claws, ripped off his ear and threw it at the bandit. He fucking ripped off his fucking ear and threw it at him. With him distracted by the dismembered ear, Super Kuma charged the robber like a SCUD missile, taking him the fuck down and just tearing his fucking face to shreds, ripping and mauling and tearing and holy fuck the kid was still there watching the relentless savagery go down.

I neglected to mention the tribal drumming, which is kinda like tribal drumming of cannibals on the hunt for dumbass travellers or dumbshit university students trying to study them or some shit. That drumming... some haunting ass shit. Also like drums of war, to scare the crap out of your enemies before you tear them flesh from bone.

That is just the tip of the ice berg, as the show tackles mature subject matter such as depression, suicide, drunk driving, reckless endangerment of children, assault and battery, grand theft, vehicular manslaughter, depressing ass shit, even more robbery, mayhem (Not the band but the act of maiming), destruction of city property, vandalism, attempted murder and the concept of sucking out the souls of man.

This is some fucked up shit. Kinda reminds me of Popee the Performer, but vastly less homoerotic.

Animation

For 2003 or therabouts, it's fugly as all hell. I've seen 80s OVAs look better than this shit. The doll is both cute and creepy as all hell and there is plenty of pants shitting terror moments in it as well as horribly depressing crap that transends it's generally shitty ass animation. Got nothing else to add.

Sound

The video I had didn't play the sound. I'm pretty sure Kuma sounded like Winnie the Pooh and the tribal drums were one of the most terrifying things in it.

Characters

The kids and the humans, nuts to them. It's all about Kuma, a savage bear who masquerades as a clown's pet bear and does tricks and shit while eating ice cream. When he isn't maiming the everloving tits off of robbers or various douchebags, he is doing that clown thing. He likes kids and tries to not maim people in front of them if he can help it but sometimes you just get consumed by your hatred for humanity and lash out at those who rightfully deserve your fang and claw-filled wrath.

The doll, holy fucking shit. No spoilers on her but she provides some of the most feels, terror and that primal terror feeling. Like getting buried in a shallow grave or crawling in a place where you can't even kneel and then it gets darker and darker and you can't even turn around and holy shit it's just so cramped and dear fucking god there is only darkness ahead and why death where are you-

Overall

Score was brought down because there was no sound for my vid. If there was, it would have been like an 8 or so. Kid friendly my ass. Just like Popee the Performer or Funny Pets is kid friendly.

This Has Been a Daily Anime Marathon Club Presentation of Depression, Suicidal Tendancies, Brutal Violence and Rampant Sociopathy