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Plastic Little
Captain Titty... err Tita...  
Studio: KSS
Format: 1 OVA Released: 3/21/1994 by Face - July 2, 2004 
Plastic Little resides in the vaguely defined confines of ecchi fanfare. Yet, for some bizarre reason ADV has illogically re-released this one episode OVA as part of their Essential Anime Collection. Oddly, the most amusing aspect of the DVD is not the film... not hardly. The most informative, most entertaining, and most useful part is the Jiggle Counter... an alternate feature that counts how many times breasts jiggle...
Plastic Little chronicles the adventures of the 17-year-old Captain Tita, commander of a Pet Shop Hunter space vessel. Their job is to capture rare and exotic animals to sell to collectors. The rest of her older, more experienced crew seems to have no problem being commanded by a frequently topless teenager, but after rescuing 16-year-old Elysse from a group of evil men, these simple Pet Shop Hunting folk find themselves in a grave situation. If they don't take action, the whole world could very well be in danger, but can Tita and Elysse keep their clothes on long enough to stop the evil menacing Lord Guizel? If there is any explanation for Plastic Little's widespread popularity, the gratuitous nudity is undoubtedly the answer. The film remains faithful to Satoshi Urishibara's excellent character designs, and a large portion of that excellence goes into the female characters' bosoms. Urushibara displays his skill with overlong scenes full of disrobed women. For example, the entire backstory is laid out as Tita and Elysse bathe naked in a massive water park bathtub. The film is permeated with the sexual deviance of a teenager. Nevertheless, Plastic Little has strong points that do serve a purpose. The animation is fantastic. It's extremely vivid and visually impressive, making the action sequences fluid, quick paced and energetic. The characters don't just move, they dodge, they leap, they bellow, they cringe, and they scurry about. Urushibara also contributed to the design of the film, creating an incredibly in-depth and detailed world. On a technical standpoint, it is superb. However, despite its technical merits, Plastic Little is too frail and implausible to carry itself beyond even perfunctory questions. Why would a Pet Shop Hunter space vessel have enough firepower to hold back warships? Why does her crew have such an affinity for her when she is unquestionably useless? Why does the military want to destroy the planet? Why is it called Plastic Little? None of these questions are answered with anything that could be considered a reasonable explanation. The story is so transparent; the characters are so undistinguished, it becomes a frustrating task just to sit through it. Pure and simple, this film is a guilty pleasure. It has great animation and fantastic artwork, but suffers from overindulgence in fanservice and narrative immaturity. * 1/2 (Poor) Updated: August 13, 2009
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