Guy: Double Target

Guy & Reina will do the job.

Today's forgotten OVA from 1988: ガイ 妖魔覚醒 known in English as Guy: Double Target. Directed by Yorohisa Uchida, who's brief career has been mostly about working in the Hentai genre, Guy: DT (from now on) is another two-parter about Sci-Fi and well known tentacled monsters. 

The animation and character design was in charge of Masami Oobari, who's CV include working in several Gundam titles, Megazone 23 Part 1, Bubblegum Crisis, Macross II, Gunbuster 2 & Project A-Ko just to name a few, so if you're looking for top quality 80s animation, look no more! These OVAs look incredible. However, can we say the same about the story? Based on a script written by Hiroyuki Kawasaki, who's worked in Ranma 1⁄2  & Sakura Taisen, the story is about two bounty hunters: Guy & Reina. They travel across space to get whatever job suits their appetite, but obviously, they will get in the way of a couple of antagonists that won't make their job easy.

The official synopsis:

A simple salvage operation turn into a nightmare journey to the Prison Planet Geo; where evil warden Helga has built an illegal empire based on slavery and exploitation. Dr. Vail, also a resident of Planet Geo, has discovered a new process to turn the inmates in vicious monsters. The appetites of the monsters and Helga's own insanity transform Geo in a literal hell but Guy and Reina know just how to handle it.

 

Space monsters with tentacles.

Guy & Reina up for a good challenge.

While Guy: DT is labeled as a hentai title, it is also a sci-fi action series. Guy and Reina are bounty hunter/thieves always looking for the ultimate loot. The two part series covers two separate adventures where this couple give everything they have to achieve their goals. Even if that requires transforming into a monster and have a threesome with a mobster and the girl you've just rescued.

In Awakening of the Devil (episode one), Guy and Reina head to a galactic prison to search for the formula for an eternal youth formula created by the infamous Dr. Vail. Obviously, the formula is nothing but a dream, and what our heroes find instead is a planet infested of mutant monsters, and a lesbian mob lady that has a collection of slave women to please her.

Mean mobster lady in action.

Girl on girl sticky action.

Guy & Reina go separate ways for different reasons, and while Reina is forced into sex with a gun, a mobster and another lady, Guy finds Dr. Vail who provides him with a special formula that will grant superhuman abilities allowing him to fight against an evil horde of mutants crawling the planet. Of course, easier said than done, so a lot of people will die while Guy makes his way back to Reina to fight the mobster lady and free the salves from her claws for once and for all.

Now, the first episode is fully loaded of gore scenes and explicit sex. So if this offends you in any way, you may want to fast forward to episode 2 where things get PG-13 for the whole chapter. On the other hand, the first episode features mostly lesbian sex. We do get to see some very detailed vaginas (someone wrote somewhere in the internet he'd never seen vaginas as detailed as what he saw here), predictable fingering scenes, masturbation, oral sex, pubes, shaved vaginas, a lot of moist and only one penetration scene featuring a penis plus another featuring a gun. Obviously, as it is with most of these direct-to-video productions, the hentai section adds nothing to the plot, it's just there to boost sales, and thinking in 1980s terms, to boost rentals also. So, like I said before, if you're offended by it, just skip it, no one will be harmed.

Attention to detail matters.

Some people have the strangest fetishes.

Second Target (the second and final episode) sees our heroes setting their eyes on a golden statue that is controlled by a powerful religious sect. When they infiltrate the holy sanctum they find out that there are strange powers at work and must fight with the heads of the religious order for their lives.

This title features several of the stereotyped characters that defined Animé during the 70s & 80s. Strong male lead characters that can easily go from bending steel bars to crushing their enemies arms to a bloody pulp bare-handed. When Guy gains a strange new power he becomes an even bigger badass as well. On the other hand, female characters are weak and easily exploited by their captors. Reina is not so different. Strong female characters were usually depicted as strong and independent when the hero wasn't around, but once the savior is on scene, they become a damsel in distress. Moreover, if you are a heroine in the  80s you're totally sexed up or a slut who will use sex as a weapon if needs be. What makes this episode different is the lack of explicit content both gory & sex wise. It's like the producers somehow decided to make a family friendly episode just in case the OVA gained some following, somehow leading to more episodes or an actual series. Of course, none of that happened and the story was completed by the time the credit rolls on part two.

 

Guy transforms!

This won't end well.

Plot wise, there isn't much to say. Each episode follows the same premise, Guy & Reina get a tip on an interesting loot but they will have to fight their way to get it. Supporting characters, including the antagonists don't really add much to the overall storytelling instrument. They're there because good guys fight bad guys, and most of the supporting cast, mostly females, are there because these evil doers need someone to exploit and kill. Even if you watch it in Japanese with no subtitles you will find it quite easy to understand what's going on. Probably the onion thin story is a reflection of a limited budget production where most of the money went into the amazing animation this OVA undeniably has.

This series was originally released on VHS tapes with subtitles and an English dubbed version. There were also censored releases that cut most of the graphic scenes from the first episode. Of course, you can find it on digital formats if you know where to look. The series was also released on DVD in Europe but it's been out of print for decades now.

Two ladies that have just fucked a gun and a man.

Sex in space seems so available.

So to sum up, if you are looking for a hentai title, go elsewhere since you won't find much satisfaction here. If you are looking for an Ecchi action anime that really delivers, then you do not want to miss this one.

In space no one can hear you scream.

Too bad Guy didn't get any "action".

Here's the trailer: