Belated follow up to the OAV adaptation of the Wild 7 manga. One of those shows that there’s little information in English about. The series concept is a doozy, and given its timing I wonder if this 2002 adaptation was a piece of 9/11-sploitation. The original manga was about a Dirty Dozen-style group of convicts who make up an anti-terrorist motorcycle unit. As the original itself was a piece of exploitation playing on the fear of things like student militants, it seems likely. See Go Nagai’s “Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko” for similar exploitation with the militants as the “heroes”. In fact, I wonder if Tsubasa Nishikiori’s gang of bikini clad, go-go checked, machine gunning bikers were a rib on Wild 7, given the go-go check motif on the 7’s own helmets?
As I can’t find a clip from a movie site that doesn’t block my country, here’s the opening to the 1972 live-action TV series.