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Yes yes yes! This is hilariously terrible, and I've watched it four times just trying to understand what the heck is even happening--and I STILL couldn't give you a simple rundown! Its all over the map! And they keep spoiling their dramatic reveals before the dramatic reveal, through these comic panels that spit all the plot points at you. Seriously, pay attention to those comic panels and you will see that the next scene will reiterate everything you already know. No surprises. And it has very little to do with a world's where companies repossess organs, its merely set there. Kind of like describing Romeo and Juliet as being about renaissance-era Verona, Italy when the actual story is about lovers being parted by their feuding families IN renaissance-era verona. The one repo guy could just as easily have been a corporate assassin working for, say, the pharmaceutical industry or some other healthcare profiteer in our world with few changes. I was excited to think, from the description, that this would be an interesting take on ouyr system where the rich poison the world for profit, then sell the world a remedy for the symptoms they caused and get richrer still(like a company that poisons the drinking water then sells the locals bottled water and filters rather than clean their own mess). All that told skillfully through a creative medium. And that is the opposite of what I got.
Yet it has an underground following. Why? Well, lots of crap does--i myself enjoy this terrible obscure cartoon from thew nineties called "Botsmaster" that is now solely available on YouTube. But Repo does have a rather stunning and creative visual style, for all it lacks in plot coherence, character development, and music (which to my ears is both terrible and forgettable--four viewings and I still couldnt whistle a single tune from it if you paid me). But I had a very good memory of the visuals after a single viewing.
This would be amazing to get a riff on!