https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/e443ba9eb494c83ffb86041b9f390b07.mp4 Deeply marked by the aesthetics of its time Bounty Dog: Gatsumen no Ibu offers you a handful of style and a bucketful of confusion. Its 90s aesthetic and its rare surpringly nice to look at action scenes treat those willing to pursue the sunk cost fallacy in vengence of their time though the whole production is a bit too washed out and amber for my tastes. Its story is nothing to call home about and leaves the viewer with a lot of questions. Episode 1 starts with a travel sequence to the moon that mildly peaks your interest and then begins flinging plot points and images disjointedly and directly into your face. The last minute of this episode is the most coherent portion. Thats not to say that you cant grasp a few things beforehand but its just...pretty out there. Its like the team had ideas for cool scenes before they had a mild grasp of the events that bring that sequence into reality. Even then take my definition of cool sparingly the well framed shots are far from one another. It does successfully introduce its main characters of which the chief character is the best. Even though the team is introduced as some sort of investigative unit it doesnt ever truly feel like thats whats occurring. It feels much more like a military focused scifi space opera than a space cowboy/bounty hunting adventure the vast majority of the time contrary to what image a title like Bounty Dogs invokes. It is a peculiar name for this show. Deep analysis of the characters isnt really necessary or is it possible. They are all shallow stereotypes that often populate this genre. Thats not necessarily a bad thing on its own but wrapped in the other layers of mediocrity is just another strike against it. https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/6f3f40565681d04d471278b6ea3fcc3c.mp4 The second of the two episodes thankfully is more coherent and actually feels like an average episode of anime rather than staring into a strobe light. Its cliche and nothing to call home about but once youve gotten into it you might as well finish it. The alien elements offers something the first episode didnt and theres a good deal of questions raised that you probably would like to be answered if you have gotten this far. The experience feels like youre holding your breath for something to unexpectedly raise the production to slightly above average. The romance I think? element is not well executed and the full explanation of just about everything is not offered. Instead you usually get scenes that reveal Bounty Dogs to be kind of dumb solidifying its midtier status. It can offer true 90s scifi stans something to watch but I wouldnt suggest it to most people.