Shibuya Fifteen

TV Series
2005–

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" If you are with me you can get it. This is Shibuya but it is not Shibuya. This is where Shibuya 109 is next to 108 (Tokyo), and the highways signs write Shibuya. The people who live in thi... Read all" If you are with me you can get it. This is Shibuya but it is not Shibuya. This is where Shibuya 109 is next to 108 (Tokyo), and the highways signs write Shibuya. The people who live in this virtual world are "Shibuya 15". The only thing real is the pain. "" If you are with me you can get it. This is Shibuya but it is not Shibuya. This is where Shibuya 109 is next to 108 (Tokyo), and the highways signs write Shibuya. The people who live in this virtual world are "Shibuya 15". The only thing real is the pain. "

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5.7/10

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7/10

Far better than I expected

Rather late, but to address some points in the other review:

The gender bend on Tsuyoshi's casting isn't actually that bad - Saya Yuki for the most part does really well portraying a male vocally and physically, especially considering Japanese fashions since then. It's also an artistic choice, considering the subtext in the last two eps.

Mark Musashi (playing Peace)'s accent is really odd, considering the actor is actually perfectly fluent (check his recent SFxTekken short). Again there's a justification that could be made for that choice though...

The fight choreography outperforms most big budget shows, and is really impressive for a cast largely made up of 16 year old girls.

All in all, it's a surprisingly intricate scifi/punk plot with twists and turns, that's a hundred times better than the intro sequence makes it look. It would have been easy for this show to be ruined by the hammy /cutesy acting, shoddy directing, or inappropriate music that pops up in a lot of Japanese action serials, and it was nice to find out it wasn't.