Pinky Street

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Mei (Main) - Voice Actors: Saitou, Chiwa
• Saki (Main) - Voice Actors: Hirohashi, Ryou
• Keiichirou (Supporting)

Staff:

• Kawaguchi, Keiichirou (Director)
• Motoyama, Satoshi (Sound Director)
• Hasemi, Saki (Series Composition)
• Shimada, Satoshi (Character Design)
• Taguma, Jun (Editing)

Reviews:

• User dollie_mixtures (Score: 5/10):
  Frankly, I'm surprised anyone would bother translating this; if you aren't familiar with Pinky:st, I don't know what interest or pleasure you'd derive from watching these two episodes. These short movies, not even 15 minutes long, were released singly on DVDs, each coming with a Pinky:st figure. And that was the sole reason for making of these movies, to plug the merchandise and appeal to the fan-base. The animation is decent enough and the 3D well done and cute, but the recycling of certain footage got old and made me roll my eyes. There is no time to develop a proper story or characters, hence itleaves you wondering why they even bothered. At least, the opening song is catchy and I find myself humming it often.nnI would only recommend it to Pinky:st figures' fans, and my score is really for them only; everyone else is better off looking elsewhere for entertainment.
• User SgtSalamander (Score: 5/10):
  So. I get why everyone here seems to be so hard on this little OVA. It's a weird little two-episode children's show chock full of some of the worst CG ever put to screen, that was only made to push some bizarre Barbie clone. Indeed, that's all it really is. It is a bad, low-quality product. However, the second episode is what gets me- while the first episode follows Mei, a young girl who wants to be more feminine, the second follows Keiichirou, an otaku who collects these dolls. This absurdity is so genuinely hilarious that it shocked me at the very start- I hadto pause it to brace for what was to come. I won't get into specifics here, but he is just about as much of a menace as you'd imagine he'd be, and not even the characters of Pinky Street really know what to do with him. This is like if MLP had a dedicated episode where a brony was transported into their world for a day, and they were all kinda uncomfortable about it. I guess the folks up at Pinky Street headquarters knew their market well enough to make a dedicated episode for each half of their fanbase- little girls and dudes in their 20s. I cannot emphasize how funny this contrast was, and it is for this reason that I believe the story is the strongest aspect of this title, and also absolutely recommend it- whether or not they meant for this to happen, the people behind this anime have produced comedy gold. nnThe art is a mixed bag, with that warm yet simple Saturday morning 2000s style reminiscent of Yu-Gi-Oh! for the traditionally animated sections, and CG portions which are lengthy and nauseating, terrible in all respects even for the time it was produced. The CG alone drags it down so much, as it is actually hard to watch, especially when they cynically repeat animations despite the whole anime only having a run time of 24 minutes or so. How many corners do you really have to cut if your whole anime is under half an hour? I get this is made for kids, but that's insulting, even to them. nnThe sound is unremarkable, with a grating looped track that plays during the CG portions. However, the VA work was pretty good, as the genuinely unsettled reactions from the various characters at Keiichirou and his antics are pretty great. nnAs for the characters themselves, they're all pretty generic, serving the roles that are required of them throughout, with the sole exception of Keiichirou. He provided such a hilarious and absurd contrast in the second episode that he made this OVA worth watching, and as such he is easily my favorite character here. Overall, Pinky Street is supposed to be a cynical boilerplate moneygrab designed to push product, and in many ways it is, but it is also a hilarious look at certain aspects of Otaku culture from an angle rarely explored. As such,…

Forum Topics:

• Pinky Street Episode 1 Discussion
• Pinky Street Episode 2 Discussion

External Links:

• Official Site
• AniDB
• ANN