Synopsis
メタル スキン パニック MADOX-01
Ace female test pilot Kusomoto Elle humiliates macho tank driver Lt. Kilgore in the first demonstration of the advanced personal battle tank, the MADOX. Kilgore vows revenge, and gets his chance when the army rather carelessly loses the prototype in Tokyo. The MADOX is found by engineering student Sujimoto Kouji, who doesn't take the time to completely read the manual and ends up zooming around Tokyo trapped in a machine he doesn't quite know how to operate. Guess who gets the job of stopping the now mobile missing MADOX? Poor Kouji. If he's late for his date, it's over between him and his girlfriend. His current attire redefines the term "over-dressed." And to top it all off, Kilgore wants to make him late- as in "the late Kouji!"
The 1986–1988 Japan Window
99 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 sits at position #92.
#1Legend of the Galactic Heroes
★ 9.0 · 1988
#2The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
★ 8.6 · 1986
#3Silver Fang
★ 8.6 · 1986
#4Grave of the Fireflies
★ 8.5 · 1988
#5Saint Seiya
★ 8.5 · 1986
#6The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
★ 8.3 · 1986
#7Dragon Ball
★ 8.2 · 1986
#8My Neighbor Totoro
★ 8.1 · 1988
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
3 sharedMobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I – Blue-Eyed Casval
★ 6.5 · Japan
3 sharedMobile Suit Gundam: The Origin VI – Rise of the Red Comet
★ 7.2 · Japan
3 sharedMobile Suit Gundam: The Origin III – Dawn of Rebellion
★ 7.5 · Japan
3 sharedMobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV – Eve of Destiny
★ 7.4 · Japan
2 sharedNeon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
★ 8.3 · Japan
2 sharedIron Man: Rise of Technovore
★ 5.9 · Japan
The 1980s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 1980s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 premiered. 280 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #4,298 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (6th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.5 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Science Fiction productions specifically: #504 of 566 (top 89%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Studio ARTMIC |
| Runtime | 41m |
| Release Date | December 16, 1987 |
| IMDb | tt0093529 |