"Under the Dog" Is an Anime I Watched

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Under the Dog should've been a 26-episode series but instead ended up being a 24-minute OVA. The cool trailer with the action, the main girl kicking ass, the themes of family and yourself, duty and death, and all that wrapped up in some anime sci-fi goodness that could stand alongside Akira and Ghost in the Shell.

But oh no. Nope. Nuh-uh. Instead we not only got something that felt like episode 1 of a 26-episode show (extra info: this is considered episode 0 and if things went better with the Kickstarter funding, we could've gotten 2 prequel episodes on top of this), but we got absolutely nothing. NOTHING, like we saw in the trailer.

We were stripped away from the city and instead got dropped into a high school. We thought this was going to be about a morally grey war between people. Instead we got some alien shit. We thought this was going to be a gritty thriller. Instead we got boobs. Hell, the main girl from the trailer didn't show up until the end to show off her boobs. I'm not even kidding! We barely got anything in this OVA! Barely! I have trouble saying much of anything about this.

Despite being very different from the trailer, at least it did a great job at showing its potential. With the little time they had, they showed us some sick action and a world that was begging to be explored. You want to learn more about the anti-terrorist unit, what caused the creation in the first place, what other shit happened and happens, what the hell is up with the Pandora shit. White? Black? Superpowers? All that, you are begging to learn more about the story and setting in this and how it will progress onwards, but instead you're blue balled. Someone may ask, "Where can I watch the rest of this?" and all anyone can say is, "That's it, buddy. That's the final product. It's finished. There is no next episode. It's done." Reminds me of that one video on YouTube where a kid finished Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and says "I wonder what's gonna happen in the next one," to which his dad says, "There's not a next one."

So that's it for Under the Dog. It was funded on Kickstarter and looking at it now it seems like the best we could've got was a 90-120 minute film (or 2 prequel episodes which would have also been pretty cool). I wonder how that would've played out. We may never find out.