Bleach Episode 311

adapted from Bleach (manga)

Related anime:
Bleach Rock Musical (musical special)
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion - Mō Hitotsu no Hyōrinmaru (movie) (sequel)
Bleach: Fade to Black - Kimi no Na o Yobu (movie 3) (sequel)
Bleach: Jigoku-hen (movie 4) (sequel)
Bleach: Memories in the Rain (OAV)
Bleach: The Sealed Sword Frenzy (OAV)


Yellow Star's main selling point is its character designs by Yasuomi Umetsu, who is best known for his Robot Carnival short "Presence" as well as for his work on Megazone 23 Part 2. As usual, his women and clothing are drawn beautifully, and most male characters are drawn the most disgusting way possible -- no bishonen to be found here! However, Yellow Star is actually very well-done in the plot department. While she emotionally bounces back a bit too quickly from the drugged rape she's forced to endure, her desperation, coupled with some well-placed directorial touches, make this short OAV a well-done (if oversexed) vignette.

Slave Warrior Maya I & II, however, seem like Kitty Media releases with a little more spark -- there is very little substance to it, spooge or otherwise. What starts out like a bad Johji Manabe anime (schoolgirl is tricked by a street-side fortune-teller and gets beamed to another world, only to be found by weird lizard-men played for comic relief) eventually takes a perverse turn when she's sold at auction -- at an outragous price -- to Lord Estilgar, a mysterious member of the elite -- and is chained up and has a tube stuck up "there" in order to make her a sex slave.