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>Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold diggers) currently on the Amazon forest, there is a Japanese known as Rio Baraki. Reaching their destination, her crew member is promptly attacked and she is raped as a warning to stop their work and return immediately to their home country. Determined to do her job, she stays and finds out from the attacker that he is none other than Baraki, a white haired muscular man with a large scar on his back. Later she discovers that his real name is Keisuke Ibaraki. Once a promising quarterback, he ended up falsely incriminated by a powerful organization known as GPX.

(Source: ANN)

Wounded Man is a fun(ny) one.

In under 7 minutes of the first episode, there is violence, nudity and rape with you sitting there going "what the f-". The rest of the first flavor of Wounded Man is some Amazon-setting "Raiders of the Lost Ark meet Tarzan" mixture with some added Fist of the North Star fights.

But if you manage to get through it and push on, the setting jumps around across different locations; the narrative becomes more adventurous and the whole vibe switches to some revenge-motivated action series. There's women who fall head over heels over our guy (very Bond-esque), there's creative albeit a bit goofy enemies, there's an evil corporation and there's tragedy. It becomes much more watchable and actually seems to follow a string of a story to the end.

The only subs in English available seem to be translated by someone whose 1st language isn't English but it's kind of charming and in lieu with many unlicensed OVA's of the time.

The ending songs , in my opinion, are wonderful. Instrumental jazzy tune, heavy metal one, synthwave, you've got it all. The art is consistent and the animation is solid; the charactes stand out design-wise from today's moe leads; how often do you see an adult woman with twintails like a school- Actually, let's not go there.

TL;DR if you can get past the weird mixture of everything cringey in the first episode, I think Kizuoibito is a solid OVA who would profit from some newer, more consistent subs. Supposedly the manga's better, but I can't vouch for that.

I've read Narutaru years ago, am now delving into Bokurano. I love his unique stories and the weird, Elfen Lied-esque violence directed at young/teen characters. Lots of his works are compared to NGE, too.

What do you think of him as an author and/or his manga?