Anime: Burn-up W 3z442

Tries to get to the broadest audience ever. Silly comedy, ecchi, exaggerated action - but lacking a decent plot.

The animation is pretty okay, with all of the female cast in semi/very revealing outfits, if not half/completely naked when they get the chance to display them. Display of bare breasts isn't uncommon either, so for the ecchi people amongst us, they will enjoy this series every once in a while - especially since the females are all well shaped.
While keeping in mind that the series is from 1996, it doesn't seem all too bad either. There are series which have much worse animation than this, but that doesn't mean that you can't see that Burn up Warrior isn't the newest series out there, because the style is very clearly 1990s.
I have to it that I haven't seen any really annoying reused frames, which gives the series a good point as well.

Although it's only a 4 episode OVA, they managed to add an Openingsong to it which isn't all too bad either. Although you can hear that it's old (^^) it isn't repelling, just ... well, typically 90's comedy, which means that it's not really creative, but entertaining alright.
The ending song is a slow one and a tad romantic, which doesn't fit the series at all, although it's not a really bad song. The series is just too comical to listen to such a romantic/sad song after it has ended.
The voices are typically overly genki as usual. lots of female highpitched voices, but if you grow used to them they're not that bad.

The story is more or less not there. Every episode is a standalone episode more or less, with a small red thread going through it all, but the story of each episode is always just silly comedy, combined with a lot of ecchi comedy. Nothing to laugh out loud about, but it's amusing for a little while anyway. After all, even if you like silly ecchi comedy, this series doesn't have that much to offer in comedy either.
Near the ending, the atmosphere becomes a tad more grim, with more rough action and violence, but although it seems to try to be serious, you can't help but waiting for the next joke to break the atmosphere - which just doesn't come.

The characters are all carefully chosen out of the cliché-box in order to become the most funny series ever, but although the lot of them are special enough to be funny, it doesn't always work out. Lots of them don't appear together and if they do, they are assigned to different tasks, which means that the combination of several characters is mostly forgotten. That's a pity because those combinations would probably be more hilarious than the current setup in which every character does her own thing. Unfortunately, most characters are just sidekicks, used when something has to be done, but beside that they aren't used much at all.

Value of rewatching depends on whether you like the show - or rather, if you like silly and ecchi humor which doesn't go as far as you might think it could go. Also, the series isn't as funny as you might think, compared to other series, but it's the typical 90s kind of humor and you have to appreciate that in order to like this series.
For the ecchiness, although it's overly present, it's not always that over the top, so for the people who really like to see the embarrassing pantsushots this might be a rewatch, but personally I wonder.

But to say if I enjoyed it? Well, it's a typical kind of series you should watch when you have nothing to do or when you have just come home from a day of hard work and you don't want to think during your anime. Switch the brain to zero and watch. You might smile or smirk a bit every now and then because of the silly humor, but it's not something to watch when you're fully sober and wanting to watch something interesting.

Synopsis

In of plot: not much. Some obscure Syndicate is trying to take over the world with a new kind of brainwashing technique via some kind of VR interface helmets, while a special police force (made up of girls, of course...) named the "Warriors" are on their trail. But that background story is mostly unimportant during the separate episodes - the 'Warriors' don't even know anything about the syndicate most of the time, but are only battling the symptoms of their plans.


Genre: Action/Comedy

This one's an unskilled mix of life-and-death action scenes, funny intermezzos and prolonged ecchi moments. The problem with it is that, unlike in other titles (like "Dirty Pair Flash", that hits almost the same drum, but does so in a much better way) the comedy/action/ecchi mixture somehow just doesn't work here at all.
While the first two eps are mainly relying on comedy/ecchi parts and still offer a certain amount of light entertainment, the last two are a badly choreographed bloody mix of lots and lots of dying people and unfitting ecchi-esque scenes involving the 'Warriors' - like for example one of the girls being forced to partially strip.


Characters

The only character that is halfway fleshed out would be the main female protagonist, while the rest of the team is a clear set of "out-of-the-box" standard types, ranging from the "cute pinkhead" to a "weapon crazed girl". Still this wouldn't be too much of a problem, if those charas would have received some additional level of detail making them at least a bit more vivid. Nothing like that is the case, though - and accordingly, during the series, they are degraded to not much more than a easy-to-handle source of comedic moments and running gags without a significant amount of on-screen-time.


Animation/Design

In my eyes, the animation quality is slightly below TV standard, although this might be a consquence of the fansub. The characters' facial designs are surprisingly fresh (albeit a bit pointy), while the body designs range from 'optimistic' to 'heavily unrealistic' - meaning that all of the female protagonists are unbelievably busty and wasp-tallied even when compared to anime standards. While this may appeal to some and befit the 'comedy/ecchi' aspects of this title, it serves as a constant reminder of the rather artificial plot with the next ecchi scene always looming on the horizon. (not that there'd be that many of them, but they are always emphasized and drawn to length when they occur.)



Finishing Line

"I don't know what to make of this... risotto would be nice." (Terry Pratchett, I think...)
I'm rather sure that this one's bound to dissatisfy almost any viewer - since no matter with what expectation you approach it, you will be disappointed sooner or later.
First, it lacks the proper drive and has too much sidetracks to be considered a real action series, then it lacks the actual ecchi aspects to fall into the hentai or even just 'really ecchi' genre (regardless of all the stripping you never really see anything...) and finally, although the funny aspects would be sufficient to categorize it as 'comedy', this idea fails because of the bloody scenes and the terribly high bodycount of the last episodes.

I must say really liked "Dirty Pair Flash" that, when seen from a theoretic point of view, deals with a lot of very similar elements (a "Police Team" in the future, lots of humor, cute girls, ecchi aspects and destructive action), so that clearly proves that I don't have anything against the genre itself... it's just that "Burn-Up W" is worlds apart.
Stay away from this one and go get some DPF episodes or, if you really cant help it, leech it, view it and then discard it. =)