Mezzo DSA (2003–2004) User Reviews

Fun with the Danger Service Agency

[Tweekums · 7/10 · 5 February 2014]

This series follows the members of the Danger Service Agency as they take on a variety of jobs; all of them dangerous. The group consists of protagonist Mikura Suzuki, a girl with combat skills; Kenichi Kurokawa, the agency's manager and noodle addict and computer expert Tomohisa Harada; they are occasionally joined by schoolgirl Asami Igarashi who wants Mikura to teach her how to be like her. Most of their cases only take one episode but there is something going on in the background; a mystery assassin appears to be targeting Kurokawa… who employed him and why will remain a mystery till the series approaches its conclusion when things get a bit darker.

This fun series is a sequel to 'Mezzo Forte' although you don't have to have seen that to enjoy this… in fact, judging by other reviews' it might be better if you haven't or you might find this a bit too tame! The small central cast are all entertaining in their own way; Mikura is a good lead and Kurakawa provides plenty of laughs. Their mode of transport; an pink VW Beetle, which is always getting damaged, also provided so laughs as it gets damaged yet again. The cases can be a bit 'Scooby-Doo'; in on episode they must transport a 'cursed mummy'! The animation is good enough and I rather liked the distinctive character designs. Normally I watch anime in Japanese with English subtitles but I watched this series dubbed and must say that I thought the cast did a pretty good job.

meezo dsa's story is taken from many angles.

[uglysob · 7/10 · 11 May 2006]

While watching Meezo DSA it seems like you are seeing the same action again but those with two or more brain cells will realize that you are seeing the same day from another characters point of view There is lots of retrospective and the story line progresses with these insights Sure the action is great but the alternating view points is what they are pushing. Meezo's back story with the recruitment of of DSA and hope they get together is in the series and so its a more satisfying series than some where peripheral characters are ignored.The threes interactions become more clear as you watch the series and work out interaction which seem to have depth from different angles.

Not the greatest, but definitely entertaining

[ultramouse · 28 December 2007]

This was based on the movie Mezzo Forte, and a couple episodes contain flashback scenes in the form of clips from that. The story centers around an "A-Team" style group of misfit mercenaries led by an ex-cop who goes by "Pops" and drives a pink VW, rounded out by the obligatory cute-girl-bad-ass and funny-haired engineer-nerd.

In the first couple episodes, the animation is great and the action is top-notch, but that goes way downhill after. The story stays good, but the action becomes nothing more than potential-- I can't help think how much cooler the show would have been with the quality of animation from the first episode.

Characters aren't bad, dialog is generally one of the better parts and is pretty well dubbed. The tone is humorous and irreverent, nothing dark about this. Pops especially gets great lines in the form of goofy metaphors ("A bodyguard should be close and intent like tighty whities... she relaxed and now there's nothing covering my ass!"). The story progresses and deepens toward the end, and while it's not incredibly deep, it's not insulting to your intelligence either.

If you like action with a heavy dose of humor, and you dig the "motley bunch of misfit outlaws" style of anime characters, this should be entertaining enough for you.

Watered down Mezzo Forte....Niagra Falls watered down.

[godzilla179 · 4/10 · 29 April 2008]

Only very minor spoilers in this review.

Anyone who has viewed the 2 episode Mezzo Forte knows how awesome and utterly brutal the series was. That was quality animation, great action and if you saw the original version, very sexual as well. The series never got finished and it took about 5 years to get a chance to re-appear on TV. I doubt Yasuomi Umetsu had anything to do with Mezzo DSA except sell the rights, because this series sucks. The first episode is decent enough and starts with a great fight scene and introduces the characters well. The series is like a mix of Magyver and A-Team with some goofy comedy and supernatural tones as well. After the first episode, the series loses animation quality, most of the action and any sense of direction. And if ghosts and aliens for clients weren't bad enough, they take jobs transporting bio weapons and mummy's. They even have a very young girl for a groupie who hangs around the shop which turns out to be a bus parked on the roof of a barber shop.

The cast is led by Kurokawa, a balding ex-cop who is obsessed with eating noodles who drives around in a pink VW bug and has some ties with the acting police chief. Mikura is the girl with the pink hair and shoots at everything that moves and Harada is the cyborg building nerd who seems to be the smartest one in the group but is the low man in the pecking order in the DSA.

The series offers nothing but a cookie cutter anime with no real surprises and forgettable dialogue. Just watch Mezzo Forte instead. If you toss out the first episode of Mezzo DSA you have no action, a retarded plot and a total mess of a potentially great series. This one's a rental at best.

A more tone version to Forte

[WeAreLive · 8/10 · 31 December 2022]

Mikura and her friends are back for more danger then ever in these 13 action packed episodes.

While this series is a lot more tame and toned down to the Forte OVA's. As there isn't a lot of gory violence or sex and nudity (although the directors cut has very explicit content), I am glad while it is telling it's own story it doesn't completely ignore the events of the OVA's and does still acknowledge them by even going as far as showing flashbacks and still keeping the same art style.

That being said though I did have a great time with this series as well and I kinda thought the animation was an improvement.

While the dub actors do change the voices here were still good.