Psycho divers are people who, through technology, are able to enter an individual’s psyche where they can directly address any psychological issues. Due to his reputation as one of the most skilled divers, Busujima is hired to remedy popular musician Yuki Kano's bouts of psychosis that prevent her from singing. However, when he learns that a previous diver has died trying to help Yuki, and that her mental condition has a strange connection to a religious cult, Busujima wonders if he will be able to make it out of her mind alive.
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animegorey
I was very surprised when I purchased this after only watching the trailer. Usually, it's been about 50/50 when I do this, but this one is very hard to find in eng dub. I thought it was very good. Older anime style from 90's with good, original story. Pretty gorey violence that was typical of the Akira, Ninja Scroll type. Short 50 minute OVA, but worth watching. The main character dives into people's brains and tries to stop them from commiting crimes or to get info. It has nothing to do with deep sea diving. It's sorta like a cop drama, almost like Jonny Mneumonic(keanu reeves). Check it out if you like cyberpunk too. I would not call it a cyberpunk anime, but similiar in animation.
barcaman101
its sad that this ova is such an anigma,when it really deserves praise.I watched it many years ago on the former action channel and its still awesome.for an ova that is less than 50 mionutes long ,it is filled with so much quality.Its about a guy who by his profession is called a psycho diver because he dives into peoples mind to uncover any mental trauma or disorder and remove it.one day he is force to come out of retirement after getting a special case of a singer who is suffering from a serious disorder,he later finds out that this case tookthe life of his close friend.the entire plot is sorounded with deception and intriqe.The animation is wonderfully done with the dark colours suiting the mood and feel of the anime very well.a very good watch go check it out.
Gsarthotegga
Psycho Diver is an anime original 1997 Madhouse OVA that runs only about 50 minutes long, and I feel kind of bad giving this such a low rating, but it really is the sloppy rush-job you'd expect from a short OVA without any source material. It's styled like an old-fashioned noir: a somewhat ugly main character who looks like Golgo 13, the phoned-in "love interest," deep shadows and grimy imagery, a bunch of tough guys and assassins; and a crime plot involving two intertwined subplots that probably would have been better served as separate scripts with such a short running time. We have a weirdpsychic cult that remains pretty ambiguous, as well as another subplot involving a pop star who is experiencing "psychic disturbances." You could probably liken it to Exorcist with the possession scenes, but it's not as colorful. There's a massive amount of plot cramming, but it never culminates into anything rewarding or worthwhile.
The really interesting aspect of this OVA is why I think almost everyone is drawn to it, which is hinted at in the name: Psycho Diver. The dark gritty noir stylings merge well with the mild psychological horror elements embedded into the script. Characters can dive into the psyche to correct psychological distress or other disturbances. We don't have a baseline example of how this works—we only have Yuki Kano, who is such a unique case that the previous Psycho Diver was actually KILLED by diving inside of her mind. He basically exploded because of the amount of trauma his nervous system experienced from the event XD. Any decent production would give you an example of a more normative case to actually understand the process. What we're given looks like a random nightmare. Filled with stabbings, imagery as you can see on the cover, dim interior shots, and Hans Bellmer-esque ball-jointed dolls. The main only even psycho dives twice in the short running length—the rest is focused on gumshoeing and action sequences. Although his dream-self becomes a voodoo pincushion, the final psycho diving scene is anti-climatic and limp-wristed. Better would be if these diving incidents weren't so high octane, and they were more explorative and atmospheric. We're never even given any surprises, where the main character loses his sense of reality, as you'd expect with most good productions on this subject.
I've always been intrigued by this sci-fi concept, but thus far, it hasn't been pulled off with great success, at least not in most instances I can recall for visual mediums. ID: Invaded does a decent job, despite its flaws. Paprika, is another adequate alternative, even if not one of Satoshi Kon's best. For films, The Cell and Inception both explore this subject matter; the former has interesting visuals as you might expect from Tarsem Singh, and the latter is overrated pap, though worth watching for the effects and the exploration of diving into the mind—it's just hollow as art. Frankly, I would say none of these listed are strongly above average, unfortunately.
In terms of production values, this is okay, but this was obviously a small-time, low-budget project for Madhouse. Some of the noirish cinematography and lighting are pretty good, there is fairly creative direction, and a nice dark atmosphere. Animation is passable—fair at times, but never overwhelmingly good or anything you'd expect to see on a sakuga video. While the opening music video is a fair effort, the english dub is exceptionally cringe when it comes to the opening song. The dub is probably more fun overall, but I couldn't tolerate it just because of the song.
In summary, Psycho Diver is a quirky combination of sci-fi/horror/noir with a cool concept, but it's just too rushed to be truly worthwhile.
Sidewinder51
Watched with eng. dub. Was a 7-8 rated movie for me. Very Impacting with their message(the main song) This anime was hard to rate. On one hand: the story kind of made sense; did allow for revisits to better understand the movie; great art considering time frame it was made. In the other hand: art was not current with life to date, there was still some confusion with the ending at least for me. p.s. To better appreciate this movie i suggest reading on the back story of some actors like the person who played Paige in the TV charmed. perhaps after viewing the movie and getting some insideon some celebrities you will better appreciate your life. I know i did.
1stDecame4Danime
This isn't horror, it isn't even remotely trying to be horror. It's an adult sci-fi action movie. Compared to sub, the English dub adds a lot of noir detective tropeyness: lots of internal monologuing exposition by the MC and a ton of creative liberties with the dialogue even to just straight up invent entire plot elements not originally there (such as MC mentioning he's coming back out of retirement. there being an undercover agent). Some of it decently builds on traces to form actual concrete connections/themes and it also makes some dialogue more coherent from what I presume are poor sub translations, it is a bitunsubtle in spoonfeeding themes and all to the audience though. Most would probably prefer it (even I prefer it), but there's also genuinely horrendous redubbing of the music video in the beginning (and end credits), so I'd recommend switching to the Japanese version for those parts instead at the very least. (Aside from sub for the music opening, The best way to watch is to have the sub's subtitles on the dub as some sites do.)
If I were reviewing the music video, I'd fully recommend it (it starts 1 min in), and much of my good will towards not completely panning this OVA comes from that. But the rest of the sub OVA has nothing to do with this random completely irrelevant backstory of the girl as a singer. These are very much 2 separate animation projects smushed together by sharing the same character model (with no character consistency, literally explained away through brainwashing). To be clear, this is essentially a pretty decent punk-rap music video lasting 3 mins that has been attached to an uninspired 45 min OVA not because the 2 have any purpose being connected but because it's commercially convenient for their intentions of selling a full-length OVA product.
The story of the OVA is like a sci-fi Indiana Jones with their shared spoofed James Bond guy and Bond girl, it's also very reminiscent of Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Akira (1988) (it also reminds me of a lot of other media at points, though to be fair so much of it is cliche af). In other words, it's a bunch of random bs strung together involving noncharacter ESP cultists (such as her mother) worshiping a noncharacter god using the noncharacter ESP girl as a noncharacter vessel for their unspecified goals, all of which comes of nothing and goes nowhere when ESP MC actionboys his way through the action climax to save the girl or whatever because he's just so cool.
To be fair, the plot of this movie is mostly dumped in at the action climax ending, and there's actually an entire rest of the screentime prior dedicated almost unrelatedly to a plot about having the MC dive into the girl's mind... This becomes almost an afterthought to the story though by the end...
Though, the dub goes a long way in trying to fix some of these issues as best it can with rewritten lines here and there, (though some of it requires info from the sub too: the sub's gamey-competitiveness comment of their mind-fight to the dub's killing a girl over a board game).
There's a ton of superficial imagery alluding haphazardly to a bunch of stuff... though much like the sexdoll-torso's phylactery, most of it has little meaning and crumbles away to nothing upon the slightest scrutiny.
Fine, maybe I'm being a bit unfair. The blue phylactery is actually supposed to represent the manager's blue teardrop necklace. Why? Unclear. (maybe repressed lesbian subtext that the dub removed). There isn't a single character in this with long black curly hair like that doll-head thing has, so... no one in particular. I suppose the doll would naturally be representing her shadow self she rejects, so just a wig since she wears the mask of an actress. Her darkness is supposed to stem from the kid whose head she popped and her cult brainwashing and maybe a real god, but... sure, random sexual doll symbolism because of her job as a performative sex icon I guess... but this has nothing to do with why she can't sing (and directly contradicts how she really likes that idol job), I mean there were definitely plenty of avenues they could've actually explored with that very much like Perfect Blue, but it doesn't even really try, oh well. Random sex-doll. Random broken chair. Random bandaged head-staff and wandering mystic. Random monster hand pullout failsafe.
The art and animation are typical for OVAs of that time, maybe a little below average of the better ones people still watch, better animation than many anime these days anyway.
I'd give the original sub a 3/10, but I'll be generous: merging the best of both with the sub's songs and much of the dub I'll give it a 4/10 (where 5/10 is average).
