The continuation of Mezzo is back, and I didn’t really like it this time, certainly not as much as I thought, and certainly not as much as MEZZO FORTE, which had great style, heavy violence and cool characters. Also animation is pretty sub par, though I like the actual designs. After watching Paranoia Agent you really see how low quality this animation is. This is OK, but really without the violence MEZZO loses something, and the stories this time kind of suck.

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…p;

The first episode is about Harada’s past, he and Mikura meet a girl who claims to be his old girlfriend while he is shopping for Android parts. She offers him a job doing AI as he used to do AI before he moved into hardware. Then we flash back to him in high school. He asks out Manon, the smartest girl in the school and she agrees to go on a date with him. She is totally different when she is with him, alive and vibrant, and he falls for her, but on her last date with him she does not return after 4 hours and her battery runs out because she is actually M-ANNON an artificial intelligence that is in an android body that the real Manon has been working on with her father. Harada freaks out and smashes the whole place, ending up with the M-ANNON memory card, and it is then that Harada meets the cop Kurokawa.

The little girl Asami is bullied by some girls and is sent to an old apartment building to take a picture of a ghost. She runs into some Yakuza attacking the old man who olds the place and the Danger Service Agency comes in to help get the Yakuza out. They get 2 of the 4 arrested and the old couple lets off the DSA, but Asami goes to the place to see the girl and they find the old man and women have killed the gangsters, and their dead daughter is sealed in a wall from 40 years before.

Asami is once again being bullied, and this time ends up getting tickets to a virtual reality experience, but Mikura ends up doing it. It turns out to be an evil experiement by some scientist, and Asami must go into the virtual world and save Mikura.

A clown faced serial killer is out there, and he ends up hiring Mikura as a bodyguard, trying to get her to kill him. He only actually killed scum, but now he wants to die. And we learn that Kurokawa has a special relationship with the chief of police who gives him bullets.

Pretty horrible actually. Bad animation, lame stories. Not good all around. I can’t recommend this at all.