Golgo 13 – Episode 9 – Sleep In The Prison

Golgo 13 goes to prison.

Sentenced to life imprisonment, Golgo arrives at a high security Alaskan prison, run by a weasel-like, sadistic warden. But what is Golgo really there for?

After the best episode of the series, we now get the worst. Good grief, the animation is bad, epitomised by some scenes early on, where the chief warden pulls a gun on Golgo and the perspective is reversed. Things closer to us get smaller and things far away get larger. It’s really quite poor.

The actual mechanics of the story are fine, though mostly stereotypical for prison stories. One exception is the spotlight scene, which I’d not seen done before. However the rough looking animation detracts from the positives that are there.

Finally, the eyecatch looks like it belongs to an entirely different episode. Who is that guy? He’s not in this episode for sure.