We open with Mega Man running and blasting his way through multiple enemies in a heated action packed sequence. Well I learned my lesson last episode and tried to remember that these awesome scenes are going to be cut off once Mega Man enters "The Real World." Sigh...
Mega Man runs into Roll who wants to help him fight, but Mega Man is well aware of how useless Roll is and turns her down. While they are arguing, they are sucked away into the real world. This time, Utah and his sister called Mega Man and Roll to celebrate some parade with them. Isn't this just a wee bit irresponsible? I mean, yeah, the first time no one could have predicted that would have happened, and the second time was just bad luck... but shit, to deliberately call Mega Man from the game is just asking the world to be placed in danger isn't it?
Well guess what? While Mega Man is partying, Dr. Wily escapes into Japan. Shocking, I know. During the fireworks shooting, Dr. Wily's face appears in the sky... out of the fireworks... and threatens the people of Japan. Yeah, way to go Utah, you fucked up again! Well Mega Man and Utah hop on Rush in search of Wily but he's no where to be found. They head back and think of a new plan. Mega Man figures if they use Dr. Light's time machine to travel a year into the future, they'll figure out what Wily's plan is and be able to stop him.
Fast Forward a year later, and Japan is mostly annihilated, and what's left is floating above the Earth. Hmmm... this could be interesting... Mega Man heads to the floating isle where Dr. Wily confronts him. He then turns several of the skyscrapers into giant robots to fight Mega Man with, and sends his entire Mega Man 5 robot masters after him.
So Mega Man is going to fight sky scrapers? Holy fuck this is going to be fucking awesome! NOPE! Mega Man jumps into the time machine and runs away! ARRRRG! FUCKING BLUE BALLED!
Figuring maybe they had traveled a bit too far into the future, Mega Man sets the time machine one month ahead to the present, but all that's going on are a few typhoons which Utah assures Mega Man is perfectly normal around that time of the year. Yes, today's episode is about Japan's weather... great.
Well fuck it, they go ahead another month and this time Dr. Light contacts Mega Man and tells him Wily's built a giant Typhoon making robot. Mega Man heads with Roll to where the typhoon is heading towards Japan and uses his modified buster to combat the typhoon's winds. Roll decides she needs to help by driving the time machine directly into Mega Man's line of fire and destroying it, which sends her comically hurling into the air and face first into the ground. It's a pretty violent collision for a kids show actually, but god damn is it hilarious!
Well Roll is alright, but now Mega Man just has to wait for Wily to strike since the time machine is destroyed. A few weeks later, Wily uses his typhoon maker to life a huge chunk of Japan into the sky to create the floating isle from earlier. Are the giant sky scraper robots coming back!? No? GOD DAMN IT!
Mega Man flies up there with Proto Man and starts a pretty heated action sequence that is entertaining, and Elec Man makes a guest appearance to get blown the fuck up by Mega Man! He's on screen for about a split second, making him the only robot master not from Mega Man 5 to show up in the OAV series. Mega Man and Proto Man defeat Wily's giant robot, and Wily begs not to be taken back to the game, so Mega Man says "fine, hope you like prison Dr. Wily!"
Then everyone celebrates Christmas... I'm not joking.
Critique
Every line in this episode is delivered so awkwardly, every sequence is so insane, and every piece of writing is so stupid this is by far the best episode of the OAV series! This is really a guilty pleasure in that it's way too funny how bad this episode is. The other episodes are kind of dumb, but this one takes it to a whole new level that everyone needs to see. Even if you hate watching really terrible writing like this, the action sequences are quite good, so at least visually there is something to this episode.
Anyway, this is the last of the Upon A Star series, and this show would eventually turn into the full on Ruby-Spears production everyone knows and loves. There's a few animated sequences here and there that are directly, frame by frame, reproduced in the new show which is a kind of cool thing to see if you are looking for it. Oh, and maybe I'm hearing things, but by does the credit sequence remind me of this song???
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