Legend of Lemnear

I knew when I saw the “this show has nudity” warning at the beginning of Legend of Lemnear that I found a "winner." I thought Netflix didn’t carry this type of show? Oh well, if it meets Netflix’s standards of “not porn”, I guess I can review it. Legend of Lemnear is about 45 minutes of sound, fury, and fanservice. Should you choose to watch it, and you should not, do not expect a particularly good or clear plot. The style is rough, low-budget 80s anime, akin to MD Geist or the Adventures of Captain Tita. Children definitely should not watch this OVA — adults shouldn’t watch it either, albeit for entirely different reasons. It is the sort of anime that gives people the wrong idea about anime.

Lemnear opens with a scene of supernatural warriors under the command of a floating sorcerer burning a village and killing the inhabitants. Their orders? Kill everyone except the Champion of Silver. Suddenly, a man comes up behind them and starts hacking and slashing them into nothing. A single magic spell later, and the bad guys have captured the Champion of Bronze. Way to go, Champ.

The scene then changes to a woman in the proverbial chain-mail bikini, going through the countryside with what looks like a cross between a turkey and chocobo. One thing leads to another, and there’s a bar fight. Our heroine, Lemnear, emerges victorious, but is later captured by… a guy who surrounds himself with topless, hypnotized women. And he just happens to have a wise, old man that knows everything in the basement. And he works for the big bad wizard that captured the Champion of Bronze earlier.

I am not going to spoil anymore of the plot; it’s mostly just action sequences anyway. It was very fun to watch Legend of Lemnear, because it is a very, very bad show. It would make good material for a MST3K style redubbing, or late-night convention screening. For all other purposes, walk away.