Coyote Ragtime Show

[DB]

Seen all 12 episodes.

Meet Mister (yes, that's the handle he goes by) and his merry band of three. He's a thief, one of the best out there who's never been caught (except for a traffic violation, proving no one can take every x-factor into account). He's being pursued by a hot babe who works for the intergalactic federal police force, and she's the best at what she does too. But Mister has stayed one step ahead of her the entire way, but only one.

However this isn't about their game of cops and robbers. It turns out the late former Prince of Thieves has left a legacy behind, and it's time to claim it before the planet it's on is blown up. Complicating matters is Franca, the daughter who Mister has been informally taking care of (and who thinks he's only keeping an eye on her since she has the key to discovering the loot) and a psychotic bitch who's head of the local criminal guild and her 12 uber-chick fembots, who are an answer to just about every fetish out there. Can our protagonists get the treasure before they get caught by the authorities, killed by the guild, or the planet blows up from under them?

This is space adventure, and an enjoyable one. It's a good mix of plot and characterization in 12 episodes. The plotline stays focused, so there's no awful filler, and things stay exciting. There's no real sentimentality, except between the girl and her feeligns regarding Mister and her desceased father. Action is very high. The only complaint I really have is with the '12 Sisters' (robot chicks). There's way too many of them and only one is given even a tiny bit of personality. Six would have been more than enough to do what was required of them as muscle, and I might have actually been able to associate a name with a face (oh yes, and they copied Sol Bianca by having them named after the months, except there's more sisters here). But I guess you can sell more action figures of them, and everyone can buy their favorite fetish, or even two. ^_^

Overall in enjoyable series. Upbeat music, nice character designs and artwork. A much tighter plotline than a lot animes use. I can't really compare it to anything out there. Maybe a cross between Cowboy Bebop and Lupin, but not really. It's got it's own style.

Anyway, I can give it a solid 7 out of 10. Definitely worth watching once now, and worth watching again somewhere down the line.

[Dracos]

About fits with what I thought.  Good, but not great.  Felt kind of like lupin antics in space for a bit.

The tweleve sisters were most awkward at the end where they really didn't have enough for them to do.  Several just kind of stand there.  They could clearly have owned the heroes if they all fought, but they don't.  It makes the end pretty anticlimatic.  Not because the idea they were shipping didn't work, but because the villians were trumped  up too much and never dealt with so the end has this huge army.

Dracos