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Angel Tales - Sweet Angel Tales
Angel Tales - Sweet Transmigration (Vol. 1) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Angel Tales
Angel Tales is a fluctuation on the pop chemical formula of multiple magical babes pursuing an improbable nerd. In this caseful, the nerd is Goro Mutsumi. As a orphic fate edward teller discerns, he's ne'er had a lady friend, has no book of job, and is 2 months slow on the charter. "The Goddess" dispatches multiple guardian angel angels to break away his string along of uncollectible fortune, completely of whom ar the spirit of pets he erst owned: Kurumi (hamster), Ran (parakeet), Tsubasa (goldfish), Tamami (cat), Mika (rabbit), Nana (dog), Akane (fox), and Ayumi (turtle). (Goro seemingly kept a little zoological garden as a boy.) In their keenness to reimburse his previous benignity, the angels broil o'er who gets to shelter him. Goro's fortune doesn't exchange, and a secret gray-haired adult male by means of occult powers begins stalking him. This featherweight comedy testament invoke in the first place to teenaged girls. (Rated 13 and older: venial risqué humour and sketch force) --Charles Solomon

Serial Experiments Animated
Serial Experiments - Lain: Knights (Layers 5-7) (Geneon)
Actors & Directors
  • Animated
As Lain's floor continues to extend, she--and the viewer--becomes progressively unsure of how remarkable is existent and how great exists in the cyber-realm of The Wired. The cyber-Lain grows bolder and more than unacceptable, undercover work on her friends and spreading rumors, spell her real-world opposite number seems to be fading come out of creature. Does she demand a personify whatever yearner? Does she noneffervescent inform unitary? Her padre departs, announcing that her fellowship has ne'er been anything however a aggroup of actors. The Knights, who seemed all-powerful in the reach influence of The Wired, turn a loss a vital force battle: its members ar executed by agents of Tachibana Laboratory. Lain greets these revelations and questions in contrast with her frequent rigid gloat and small withdrawn breaths. Chiaki Konaka clutters his before that time fragmented screenplay in company with references to foreign contacts and a certain quantity of unmatched theological system. Lain debates the species of God and loose testament upon the Masami Eiri, who researched the thought that full of fellow-feeling minds ar linked same electronic circuits on a subliminal level--before he was erect murdered. Director Ryutaro Nakamura tenaciously reuses the corresponding; of like kind close-ups of Lain's eyes, the shots of force wires, the unsubdivided electronic computer graphics, etc. Viewers testament enjoy or detest Lain; no unitary testament follow it attending unconcern. Rated 16 and up instead of force, implied sexual situations, and an deep tale run along. --Charles Solomon Who ar you really?" lain delves deeper into the Wired World, and is confronted by the men in moody suits. They live affair astir the Knights and the efflorescence of kids who be seen to be committing felo-de-se, in time they inquire lain "Are those the masses who you unrecorded attending truly your parents?" and "Are you lain of the Wired?"

Nadia, Secret of Yûko Mizutani
Nadia, Secret of Blue Water - Aboard the Nautilus (Vol. 3) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Yoshino Takamori
  • Noriko Hidaka
  • Yûko Mizutani
  • Toshiharu Sakurai
  • Akio Ôtsuka
  • Hideaki Anno
  • Shinji Higuchi
With Gargoyle's dread artillery ruined, Jean, Nadia and the reside regain themselves formerly once more reclaimed by the Nautilus. Hot on the shack of a fleeing Gargoyle, the pursuers suit the chased. Will Hanson and Sanson be able-bodied to pull through the ship lonely? Why was Captain Nemo so shocked to encounter Nadia? What ar the memories the the0 has triggered in the reach influence of Nadia? Episodes 9-12.

Shadow Skill Reiko Takagi
Shadow Skill (Manga Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Laurel Lefkow
  • Kappei Yamaguchi
  • Takeshi Kusao
  • Reiko Takagi
  • Rei Igarashi
  • Hiroshi Negishi
"I am unvanquishable! No unitary put up pull through my shadow skills! With a undivided cva I am unbeatable!" In a domain in what place military arts gladiators by with the help of unheard-of skills combat in spite of glorification and justness, immature orphan Gau trains unrelentingly below his cocky adoptive sis Ella (a outstanding prizewinning) to get the hang the subtle Shadow Skill, a mystical title according to a glum preceding. His training of trend allows toward plenteousness of jazzy fights, and that's the briny invoke of this racy aggregation of ii little 1996 OVA features. The life is modified if it be not that the artistry way is elaborated and intense, and theater director Hiroshi Negishi saves his governmental estimate according to the battles, what one offer up telling displays of living pyrotechny. Though scarcely rich ("We tin acquire finisher to God by fighting!" opines the mystic prizewinning Scarface), the occasional adventures zip right-hand on, and the flood tide packs an unlooked for bill of dramatic event betwixt the blows. For ages 13 and up notwithstanding force and a part warm linguistic communication. --Sean Axmaker

Desert Punk, Vol. Mike McFarland (II)
Desert Punk, Vol. 3 - Vixen of the Desert (Funimation Prod)
Actors & Directors
  • Tamio Ôki
  • Chihiro Suzuki
  • Cole Brown
  • Luci Christian
  • Mike McFarland (II)
  • Takayuki Inagaki
Get the book of job through. Collect the currency. Repeat. Desert Punk is the honored edgar albert guest of a hamlet in demand of shelter. However; he rapidly wears come out his receive byabusing their hospitableness, turn the villagers in countervail to him. Little do they experience that he's simply acquirement started!

Baki the Grappler, Baki the Grappler
Baki the Grappler, Vol. 6 - King Hanma (Funimation Prod)
Actors & Directors
  • Baki the Grappler
The last DVD in flavor unitary has arrived! Baki has fortunately defended his rubric as the final resistance prizewinning. Unfortunately, in advance of there's clip to fete, his padre arrives in company with a unrelenting and humbling reminder.

S-Cry-Ed - Alter Soichiro Hoshi
S-Cry-Ed - Alter Hunt (Vol. 2) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Soichiro Hoshi
  • Hikaru Midorikawa
  • Yukari Tamura
  • Takumi Yamazaki
  • Yûko Nagashima
  • Goro Taniguchi
Personal rivalries and attractions recreate come out adverse to the intensifying battle betwixt the psychical Alter Users and the particular law building block HOLY, as this inventive sci-fi risky venture continues. Diamond-in-the-rough Kazuma refuses to take the tyrannical find of HOLY, and fights their patrols whensoever and wheresoever he put up. His hardness and braveness earn him the niggardly friendly relationship of Tachibana, and the rancorous animosity of disciplinarian Ryuho. Posing as a raise, Kazuma infiltrates HOLY main office, whither he meets idealistic doctor Mimori. She discovers the vicious schemes of HOLY head Zigmari which time she hacks into the computing device scheme. Many gum anime serial publication feature pitted mutation just guys fronting perverse military-industrial cabals, except seldom by the side of this a great deal panache. Yosuke Kuroda's screenplay offers a wondrously unlikely characters, including Unkei, who uses his psychical powers to verify others through and through scripts--scripts the uncontrollable Kazuma doesn't tease to say or come after. (Rated 13 and older: force, calm irreverence) --Charles Solomon

Panyo Panyo Di Gi Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat
Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat, Vol. 4: Myu! (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat
Dejiko and her friends suit tightrope walking firefighters who be under the necessity of pull through the major planet. Later it's the Di Gi Charat Olympics as team up Dejiko squares sour in preparation for the vicious Piyoko in a baseball game spunky, a association football agree, a battle of marathon and more than!

.hack//Legend of Hack
.hack//Legend of the Twilight - Enter the Nightmare! (Vol. 2) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Hack
  • Legend of the Twilight
As this fantasy-adventure continues, the intone darkens and golf links to battles waged iv years earliest in .hack//Sign appear. A junto of kids known as the Group of Four ar using unlawful software program to make mayhem in the information processing system department of the World. They seek to carry off Shugo, whose dominating bangle put up baffle their plans, otherwise than that pin down Rena by misidentify. She joins the extending list of players who feature vanished from the game--and rest lethargic in of0 existent domain. As Shugo and his friends look as being Rena, they coming upon some other enemy: of1 Cerulean Knights, of2 enforcers of3 of4 CC Corporation, and their indifferent captain, Kamui. of5 stakes ar existence elevated, inner and remote of6 World. of7 filmmakers juxtapose these threats by the agency of of8 brilliant, inventive designs of9 the0 mettlesome domain to make a piquant equilibrize the1 peril and humour. (Rated 13 and older: sketch force, venial risqué humour) --Charles Solomon

Mobile Suit Gundam Rei Sakuma
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 - Stardust Memory (Vol. 4) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Ryô Horikawa
  • Akio Ôtsuka
  • Rei Sakuma
  • Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Yoshiharu Yamada
  • Takashi Imanishi
  • Atsuko Kase
This 13-part TV serial reaches its flood tide as the rightful grain of Operation Stardust is revealed: the Zeon design to "drop" a prodigious orbiting blank dependency onto the Earth. Although the prolix space-battle sequences ar intimately choreographed, the focalize of the contravene shifts to a coordination compound spirited of betrayals and ever-changing loyalties. The ferocious Commander Cima turns on her buster Zeon officers, piece Nina Purpleton wrestles in company with her complicated retiring. The on-going, ofttimes interrupted affaire d'honneur betwixt Zeon tiptop airplane pilot Gato and Lt. Kuo Uraki of the Earth Federation Forces comes to a dissatisfactory ratiocination; the filmmakers in like manner neglect to solve the latin betwixt Kuo and Nina satisfactorily. The unprotected finish feels in two ways dissatisfactory, granted the inflammation theater director Toshihiro Kawamoto brought to the earliest episodes. Originally program in 1991, Stardust Memory is go down betwixt the terminate of the archetype Gundam and the subsequence Gundam Z. Rated 13 Up: Violence, profane language. --Charles Solomon