The Anime Masterpiece Nobody Knows About

That’s not the final bit, though. The scene ends with the guy with the mustache lowering his gun, observing from afar. It shows even the other wolves didn’t know whether he’s a human. It’s all complicated by the fact that he very likely knew that he was being observed, and she was dead anyway, along with him if he spared her. This echoes the girl’s “what choice did I have?”

This is just about the only anime I’ve ever liked. No whiny teenage protags, no thirst traps, no magic or born heroes, no katanas cutting through solid stone. Just a man with good armor, a machine gun, and ptsd.

What really got me were the little details in that final.. well.. massacre. Like how even though the agents were there to kill Fusei he'd still only shoot after they shot first and it'd be a quick "precise" (by MG42 standards) burst to the chest, then when he reaches his friend that betrays him instead of a quick burst he just about empties a whole belt into him. Or how the music during the whole thing would sound more and more desperate after each guy was gunned down. Thing was a work of art I'd say.

Thank you for explaining the plot in a way that kind of makes sense. The first time I watched Jin Roh, I couldn't understand why different police departments are shooting at each other because of an accident in the sewers. It's worth mentioning that Japan has a history of a very intense inter-service rivalry between the navy and the army where they refused to help each other while squabbling for resources. Staging an incident to frame the other is not out of the question.

The Red Riding Hood stuff is actually very integral to what the movie is about. It's meant to show a distinct difference between how stories are usually told and how things actually go. You have RRH who's the good side and the wolf as the bad side in the book. In Jin-Roh, both RRH and the wolf are the good guy and both of them are the bad guy. Life isn't like a story, even less so a fairy tale. Sometimes there are no happy endings and good and evil are always a matter of perspective. That's why the movie concludes with the fairy tale book lying in a dirty puddle at the end.

If I remember correctly, the suits of Jin Roh inspired the uniform of the helghast forces in the killzone game series

"...turning him into an emotionless man trapped in his own mind, a redditor" I laughed so hard 😂😂

Saw Jin-Roh as a kid by accident on Showtime. It was incredible.

As a person who does not like anime, I can confirm that this is a must watch.

I kinda like the characters being "hollow" or "shallow" it fit in well with how depressing the rest of the world was

Lots of really good anime stories have metaphorical undertones. These are often used in literature to send coded information to the reader without the author being arrested, or it can be used as an Easter egg. For those with short-attention-span disorder, it can seem tedious, but then a gourmet meal can seem tedious to someone who just wants to scarf down a Big Mac and some fries.

Jin-Ro was an award winning anime. There are probably a lot of younger fans who haven't seen it but buttloads of people who like Anime own this film.

The animation and the attention to detail was incredible. Even down to the detail of showing the MG42 as firing from the open -bolt Vs the C96 and the Sturmgewehr firing from the closed bolt

Finally an anime where japanese actually looks like a Japanese person

The fact that this is the third movie and is the only animated one is an even more forgotten fact.

This movie changed me as a person. In that how I looked at anime. I watched shows like Star Blazers and Robotech or movies like FOTNS or Ninja Scrolls. All for the flash and violence and even though I walked out of the movie theater thinking Akira was a game changer. It was Jin Roh that opened my eyes to the true beauty of anime story telling. I still get teary-eyed watching this movie with that punch in the gut feeling at the end. My daughter and watched it about a year ago and it blew her away. Without a doubt, my favorite anime of all time.

jin-roh's armor was the main inspiration for the NCR Ranger armor and Riot Armor in Fallout New Vegas, so I basically owe my life to it.

10:24 irl alot of people in the military wish to go back to war, or go back to the military because they miss the community. It gives them a sense of belonging, you should listen to some veterans speaking they talk about how they felt a role in a team and shit. The military is also the go to for like people who dont know wtf to do with their life and have just left college/high school lmao

Goddamn these guys are absolutely tanking the recoil of those MG42s.

I watched this movie like 20 times and I just end up loving it over and over again. Timeless classic!