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Across Town @ Full-Throttle

This one-off anime hails from 1989, based on the manga of the same name by Kenichi Sonoda (Gunsmith Cats), which was also cut short due to the closure of the magazine, Monthly Comic Noizy. It centres on a wheel-man and twenty-four hours of his life.

For $45,000 you can hire Bean Bandit (J. Patrick Lawlor) and Rally Vincent (Brennan MacKenzie), and they will deliver you or what ever you can fit into his custom-built car, based on a Porsche, but with armour plating, specialized wheels and bulletproof glass.

Tonight Bean and Rally are transporting a bunch of incompetent bank robbers and a fee is a fee. If that is a problem, it is your problem, not theirs. The night is not over for our daring duo, there are more adventures out there for our petrol-heads.

Known as the “Roadbuster” to Percy (David Kraus) the police detective, who has sworn to put the destroyer of dozens of police cars behind bars. To do this, he has bought himself a Shelby Cobra GT 500 to chase him down.

Bean has a nemesis, Semmerling (Barbara Lewis) and she has kidnapped the owner of Grimwood Company/Grimwood Conglomerate, as well as his daughter Chelsea (Mary Boucher), which Bean and Rally manage to save and try to get a reward but not everyone is not pleased to see him. It is part of Semmerling’s plan to get away with the ransom money. Can Riding Bean save the day?