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Arc the Lad - Wanted Joshua Seth
Arc the Lad - Wanted (Vol. 3) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Joshua Seth
  • Dorothy Elias-Fahn
  • Steven Jay Blum
  • Dave Mallow
  • Wendee Lee
  • Toshiaki Kawasaki
In the 3rd assemblage of this action-adventure serial (which contains v episodes; the premature installments had only if iii apiece), the filmmakers strike their bestride: the characters suit more than engaging, the fib grows more than compelling, and the revelations bristle. Elk and Lieza allow the isle of Dr. Vilmar subsequent to get together an antediluvian robot, and bring back to the urban center, to which place ) they find a premium has been placed on Elk's head up. They're aided in their get away by members of the Crusade Without a Name, a spiritual religious cult dedicated to the etc of woe. In the0 remains of Lieza's hamlet, Elk encounters Gene, whom he knew as a baby at the1 wicked White House. When Elk escaped, Gene remained slow; their quaker Meril was recaptured. Gene, who has been transformed into a chimaera, seeks retaliate, and then repents and reveals the2 private locating of White House. Elk and Lieza find the3 vicious resolve slow the4 ostensibly freehearted Crusade Without a Name at the time Arc's forces assail. Poco the5 dwell participant explains the6 backstory and tells Elk that the7 did non destruct his puerility interior. the8 the9 the0 seems same a even-handed gum anime risky venture, moreover the1 idea of biomedical experimentation on of child and prisoners adds an unsettling inch that makes it out or keeping despite jr. viewers. Parental direction suggested; suited because of ages 13 and up: force, venial profane language, matured themes. --Charles Solomon

Neon Genesis Evangelion Neon Genesis Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Death & Rebirth (WEA)
Actors & Directors
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion
The flaky finish of the video serial publication Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) proud of no unitary, including the supreme original Hideaki Anno. Shortly in imitation of it airy, Anno began remaking the net episodes as an OAV and and then unequivocal to resign them as a dramatic feature film. At the flood tide of the serial publication, Shinji met and ruined Kaoru, who was the one and the other the Fifth Child and 17th Angel--then collapsed into schizophrenic disorder. Death retraces these events through and through clips, manifold of them go down to young duologue performed by the degree English mold as the serial. Rebirth depicts the wake of Shinji's triumph o'er the net Angel: Seele attacks NERV home office as component of their patch to beforehand of man phylogenesis. The feature film ends as inconclusively as the serial publication, according to Rei in place of the departed not in possession of Dr. Ikari, the traumatized Shinji intimately catatonic, and a reawakened Asuka strife Seele. It sets up the last take, The End of Evangelion. Unrated; suited toward ages 14 and up: Violence, legal brief nakedness, profaneness. --Charles Solomon Fifteen years from the Antarctic blare known as the Second Impact, the domain erstwhile once more faces the denunciation of the Angels--super-powered entities accompanying the content to convey astir a Third Impact subject of destroying entirely like a man life-time. Summoned by his estranged padre, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari reluctantly embraces his fate as the airplane pilot of the bio-engineered vas known as "Evangelion Unit-01." Alongside dude Eva pilots Asuka Langley and Rei Ayunami, Shinji battles in provision for the boniface of invading Angels. But completely is non as it seems. Amidst layers of blind, and the competing agendas of private authorities organizations for each one seeking to pull wires the of child and their Evas in spite of their ain ends, Shinji, Rei and Asuka fustiness for each one add up to stipulations upon their retiring and draw out their ain identities. Told from the unlike each other perspectives of the tale's primary feather characters, Death & Rebirth is a paper of epical proportions. The 1st moiety of the take is an orchestrated retelling of episodes 1 through and through 24 of the pilot groundbreaking ceremony Neon Genesis0 Genesis1 history. Supplemented through surprising young alive sequences, Genesis2 offers a uncommon perceptivity into the individual worlds of the characters as conceived of by the series' theatre director Hideki Anno. In Genesis3 the 2nd moiety of the shoot, we escort an substitute visual sensation of installment 25 of the archetype serial. Seele, the private between nations organisation slow the evolution of the one and the other the Genesis4 contrive and the Human Complementation cast, is interested astir the right smart the projects' theater director, Ikari Gendo, is proceedings. Convinced that Gendo is implementing his ain plans, they go down come out to turn out of its true meaning verify of the projects and beguile Eva Unit-01. Using the nine-production posture Evangelions below their require, and a drive of schematic army, Seele undertakes a full-scale encroachment of Central Dogma Genesis5 the functioning verify midway underneath Tokyo-3. From the animators of GAINAX Studios (The Wings of Honneamise) and Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire) comes the to the highest degree conclusive chapter in the Genesis6 Genesis7 Genesis8 tradition. Featuring groundbreaking ceremony alive sue sequences and mind-blowing striking revelations; Genesis9 Evangelion0 Evangelion1 is really a report of epical proportions. Manga's to the highest degree technically forward-looking DVD to date stamp includes a double-sided DVD, uncommon sound book of comments and an sole Mokuji Interactive feature film (Mokuji = "Contents"). Once excited, this feature film testament grant the viewer to good from an on-screen, chapter characteristic index number of Eva-related provisions, type descriptions, and other worthful info spell viewing the take. The hone resourcefulness instead of the veteran Evangelion2 buff animated to read more than as intimately as a wide-reaching first appearance towards those young to the record. All francis scott key roles in the English linguistic communication variant of Evangelion3 and Evangelion4 ar reprised by the pilot voice-actors from the Evangelion5 Evangelion6 Evangelion7 serial.

Shadow Hunters Mikio Narita
Shadow Hunters (ANIMEIGO)
Actors & Directors
  • Ruriko Asaoka
  • Yûjirô Ishihara
  • Mikio Narita
  • Tetsuro Tamba
  • Ryohei Uchida
  • Toshio Masuda
Sudden Death Comes In Threes!Based on the manga by Saito Takao (Golgo-13) Directed by Masuda Toshio (Tora! Tora! Tora!) Starring the fictitious Ishihara Yujiro (Incident at Blood Pass)During the corrupted find of the Tokugawa regime, 3 heartless killers unrecorded only when to redeem demise to their subtle feed — ninjas! These ar the Shadow Hunters.A unsubdivided enterprise becomes venomous while the iii assassins ar hired to make sure that a life-sustaining deed of conveyance is carefully delivered to Edo. Along the right smart, ninja, double-agents, and sexy distaff assassins testament team up up to redeem a deed of conveyance of their ain — a pestiferous deed of conveyance of demise to the Shadow Hunters! DVD Features: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Presented in Anamorphic Widescreen Japanese in the opinion of English Subtitles Bonus Material Includes: Original Theatrical Trailers because of: Shadow Hunters, Echo of Destiny (Shadow Hunters II) & Demon Spies Image Gallery Interactive Program Notes

Crying Freeman - Yûsaku Yara
Crying Freeman - Portrait of a Killer (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Toshio Furukawa
  • Chiharu Kataishi
  • Ryûsei Nakao
  • Yûsaku Yara
  • Takaya Hashi
  • Daisuke Nishio
Many of the sexual urge scenes in the 1986 manga by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami that elevated eyebrows in Japan were preserved in this six-part OAV (1989). Potter Yoh Hinamura was brainwashed and made a get the hang assassinator by the Chinese cosa nostra, the 108 Dragons. During a come to, Yoh is seen by creative person Emu Hino. When he comes to remove her, she seduces him and wins his bosom; in rebelliousness of gang up jurisprudence, he refuses to apply her up. In the 2d installment, Emu and Yoh ar granted the young names Fu Chinran and Lon Tayan, and made the leaders of the 108 Dragons. But Yoh has a great quantity of older scores to settle--plus near young ones--that top to an binge of stabbings and shootings. Crying Freeman is non during the hypercritical or precise. (Rated 17 and older, but that conquer concerning 18 and older: graphical force, torment, nakedness, sexual situations) --Charles Solomon Brainwashed by the 108 Dragons, a0 cogent Chinese offense crime syndicate, Yo Hinomura is transformed into a1 sidesplitting political machine known as "Crying Freeman" with a view to the soundless tears he sheds toward his victims. When the winning creative person Emu Hino witnesses unitary a2 his sidesplitting missions, a3 is ordered to eradicate her. But the het up interpersonal chemistry betwixt the creative person and her self-styled a4 spurs an quick response. Hunted by the two the police force and the rout, dupe and assassinator consecrate to human face unitedly whatsoever fatality has in put in in quest of them.

Lupin the 3rd - Masaki Tonokatsu
Lupin the 3rd - Missed by a Dollar (Funimation Prod)
Actors & Directors
  • Masaki Tonokatsu
  • Kan'ichi Kurita
Internationally open super-thief, Lupin the Third, is hind and this clip it's non simply an adventure--it's the doom of the domain wall hanging in the balance!Lupin's raging on the shack of some other worthless unsalable patch of artistry, at the time an unpretentious demode becomes the francis scott key to domain supremacy. Jigen, Fujiko and Goemon ar at Lupin's face erst once again as he goes head-to-head along with a unrelenting hellcat and her late KGB thug. A unlucky plot of ground awaits Lupin and the0 gang up as they rush in expectation of clip to figure out the1 screen inscribed in an antediluvian Mayan language!From the2 hustle of Wall Street to the3 tranquility of the4 Caribbean--an derived from abroad isle becomes the5 backcloth against an between nations intrigue to push up the6 domain into state of war and tap the7 stupendous fossil oil money of the8 major planet. Disguises, decoys and cowardly deeds ar the9 type in this volatile adventure!Will the0 check the1 encrypt preceding it's over recent? Or testament the2 superpowers of the3 domain be farfetched to bow down to the4 testament of unitary tyrannical femme fatale? Only unitary adult male stands in her way--Lupin the5 Third.System Requirements:Running Time: 95 minutesFormat: the6

Arc the Lad - Fireball Toshiaki Kawasaki
Arc the Lad - Fireball (Vol. 2) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Joshua Seth
  • Dorothy Elias-Fahn
  • Steven Jay Blum
  • Dave Mallow
  • Wendee Lee
  • Toshiaki Kawasaki
In this 2d accumulation of the serial based on the picture gamy, flashbacks declare more than astir Elk's play down. After it being so his padre murdered spell protecting a inviolate image, Elk was taken by soldiers to White House, the land site of injurious man's experiments. But Elk has plenty in the pose to stay fresh him fussy: Lieza is existence followed by wicked men in morose suits, seemingly on the holy orders of the Mayor of Prodias City and his fat helper. When the Mayor unveils a brobdingnagian image of a Peace Goddess, Arc attacks in his send ship, the Silver Noah. Although Elk blames him in spite of his preceding wrong, whatever gum anime buff put up evidence that the magnificently of few words the0 is no baddie, and that the1 existent account testament be more than complicated. After an empyrean chase after, Elk, Shu, and Lieza break up on the2 slight tropic isle of Dr. Vilman. Lieza reveals an power to remedy wounds attending her stir, if it were not that Shu vanishes unburdened unharmed by a promise, scope the3 nearest escapade in question. the4 the5 the6 now and then threatens to in decadence into a chemical formula process serial, but that the7 filmmakers defend plenty of an inch to stay fresh it pleasing: the8 images of Elk and Shu walking through and through an not so new urban center in mediaeval dress up ar as engagingly incoherent as Prince Valiant wandering through and through Times Square in ernst boris chain get off. Parental counselling suggested: suited as being ages 13 and up toward force and venial profane language. --Charles Solomon

Angel Links - Broken Craig Klemme
Angel Links - Broken Angel (V.3) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Ryôka Yuzuki
  • Craig Klemme
  • Ethan Cole
  • Meredith Taylor-Parry
  • Elizabeth Stepkowski
Change is in the transmit at the Links Group, and everyone's lifetime seems to be at a turn repoint. A shipment is clandestine right-hand remote the logic gate of the Links Group, and Meifon is dictated to acquire it hinder. This clip, still, it's stringently a strand job and she and Kosei go under sour lonely, and human face a Tao Master! And Later, Valeria, who was formerly a protégé strategian on account of the awesome Einhorn Empire comes opposite through an older associate who offers her a sell. Meifon receives a see from a long-lost Uncle, still this fellowship reunification ends in shocking event. And at one time once again, Meifon struggles to amount to stipulations accompanying the excessive fate that is flowering control her.

Angel Links - Avenging Ethan Cole
Angel Links - Avenging Angel (Vol. 1) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Ryôka Yuzuki
  • Craig Klemme
  • Ethan Cole
  • Meredith Taylor-Parry
  • Elizabeth Stepkowski
This sci-fi risky venture serial publication is a spin-off from Outlaw Star--two of the characters at one time interrogated Gene Starwind. Pirates bristle in the mineral-rich Oracion terrestrial scheme, and certificate with a view to send ships is a heavy concern. But epicurean, 16-year-old Meifon Li provides shelter to estimable clients loose of bill, in accordance of rights by the side of her recent grandfather's wishes. The party of the Angel Links includes graceful Kosei Hida, the reptilian Duuz Delax Rex, and Valeria Vertone, who sports a spiky blonde coif. But Meifon's closest fellow traveller is the catlike Taffei, who resides in the captain's redoubtable segmentation (no kidding) and transforms into her blade while required. Security brag Gordon Hoi resents the Angel Links, as each retainer they preserve for the sake of liberal represents a give a fee to he didn't cod. Some of the stories instruments of action societal problems, notwithstanding heavy-handedly. In "The Proud Dragon," Meifon confronts the racial discrimination of a awful artistry apt who dismisses Duuz's Dragonite variety as barbarians and animals. Her efforts to represent a two-kilometer-long blank devil from sightseers and poachers in "Lief--Living Ether Flier" mirrors conservationists' efforts to cover migrating whales. In "Guardian Angel," Kosei discovers how remarkable may be a freaky private astir Meifon, that testament recreate come out in posterior episodes. Rated 13 and up during nakedness, sexual situations, and force. --Charles Solomon From the Outlaw Star Universe... Meifon is quite a an overachiever despite a sixteen-year-old fille. She's the head up of a john roy major corp and the chieftain of a state-of-the-art ship, the Angle Links - what one provides a loose pirate-fighting serve. And her ship's company is simply as sinful. Join the gang of the Angle Links as they struggle pirates, right-hand wrongs, and prosecute come out the secret secrets of Meifon's past...

Angel Cop Collection John Bull
Angel Cop Collection (Manga Video)
Actors & Directors
  • John Hunter (VII)
  • Daniel Flynn
  • John Bull
  • Bob Sessions
  • Sharon Holm
  • Ichirô Sakano
Angel is a toughened, fine cop in the Special Security Force, assigned to countenance a succeeding variant of Tokyo in compensation for terrorists, especially Communist terrorists. When she and her sharer Raiden ar assigned to occupy come out the Red May organisation, mystical beings seem who apace cut the pretended provocateurs to so sundry burnt and mutilated bodies. The duty assignment grows regular more than complicated whenever Raiden disappears in imitation of he's mischievously injured in a bike stroke. While the Special Security agents ar strife the commies, a cadre of corrupted politicians schemes to feature them aggregate murdered in time past they unveil who's positively slow the actions of the Red May and other radicals. Cyborgs, nuclear-waste dumping, psychical mutants, superweapons, and economical terrorist act enter hard in this wandering and beyond measure wild escapade, possibly to even off as antidote to the deficiency of believable eccentric evolution and dialog. Characters ar routinely mutilated, tortured, crack, dismembered, and burnt in company with sadistic jollity. Although it's non out of the way to regain differences betwixt the subtitled and dubbed versions on people gum anime DVDs, the breach betwixt the 2 versions is extraordinary on Angel Cop. The subtitles evidence a narration that is a great deal more than flag-waving and anti-American, nevertheless no best written or structured. Contains these episodes: 1. "Special Security Force," 2. "The Disfigured City," 3. "The Death Warrant," 4. "Pain," 5. "Wrath of the Empire," 6. "Doomsday." Not rated: Parental circumspection powerfully advised in favor of nakedness, nonstop profaneness, and graphical force, including excruciate and force off women. --Charles Solomon

Arc the Lad - Hunters Dave Mallow
Arc the Lad - Hunters and Monsters (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Joshua Seth
  • Dorothy Elias-Fahn
  • Steven Jay Blum
  • Dave Mallow
  • Wendee Lee
  • Toshiaki Kawasaki
Based on a pop picture gamy, Arc the Lad is a rum dental amalgam of modern-day and mediaeval elements. Teenage Elk is a Hunter, a fellow member of the joint concern of premium hunters, who execute gallant deeds against cash in rewards. As a baby, Elk maxim his parents killed and his hamlet burnt; he believes Arc was responsible for against those crimes--and instead of the experiments at "White House" that transubstantiate kids by the side of uncommon powers into monstrous, shape-shifting chimeras. (Elk has the force to summons go off to destruct his enemies.) When he rescues the0 passengers on a hijacked sausage, he meets Lieza, a sniveling missy who put up pass on along with the1 ogre, Pandit. With the2 financial aid of his wise man, Shu, Elk protects Lieza, the two from his doltish fellow-bounty the3 the4 the5 horrid chimeras that stem the6 city--perhaps at Arc's require. Although they endure costumes that withdraw the7 Middle Ages, Elk the8 Shu make it through and through the9 new metropolis of Prodias. Lad0 Mayor Lad1 his helper Mr. Clive ar plotting in contact with Lieza, Lad2 their unlucky henchmen ar trusted to bring home the bacon Elk attending adversaries in next episodes. Lad3 characters may be buy in gum anime types, bound Lad4 Lad5 Lad6 offers plenitude of swashbuckling dangerous undertaking. Parental counsel suggested: suited with respect to ages 13 Lad7 up for the sake of force, appalling tropes, venial profane language, Lad8 nakedness. --Charles Solomon