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RahXephon - Threshold Chris Patton
RahXephon - Threshold (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Patton
  • Hiro Shimono
  • Aya Hisakawa
  • Monica Rial
  • Houko Kuwashima
  • Yutaka Izubuchi
This inventive 2002 TV serial publication is immensely higher-up to the supreme original Yutaka Izubuchi's disguised Gasaraki (1997). High schooltime pupil and ambitious creative person Kamina stumbles into a collimate domain in the pattern of a subway stroke. The Tokyo of 2015 that he knows has been secret in a right smart that causes clip to make it more than slowly--it's 12 years ulterior than he believed. The exterior domain is meshed in a state of war fought by with the help of whale mecha that habituate go as a weapon--and in what one Kamina testament recreate a francis scott key role. Everyone in this domain recognizes him as the "Ollin," and whereas Reika, a young lady he's painted, leads Kamina to a mammoth eggs, the remarkable mecha RahXephon hatches from it and 2 through Kamina. The premiss recalls Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, moreover RahXephon is best plotted and executed, by with the help of more than piquant characters and strikingly pilot mecha designs. (Rated 15 and older: force, legal brief nakedness, venial blasphemy, alcoholic beverage habituate) --Charles Solomon The urban center of Tokyo has been overthrown, taken o'er by the Mu, invaders who feature devastated the reside of the major planet. Within the vaulted walls of the urban center, even so, clip flows in a contrary track, and not any of the citizens regular live they've been conquered. Outside Tokyo, the remnants of the belonging to man rush feature fought a do-or-die 15- yr state of war in requital for of the Mu, wise to only if that the francis scott key to triumph lies in the reach influence of the tenanted urban center. But no unitary has been able-bodied to acquire into Tokyo-until Ayato Kamina, a immature occupier fleeing a horrifying assail on the urban center, unknowingly breaks come out. An over-the-top mystery story unfolds as Ayato confronts a domain he has ne'er known, and begins to take the horrifying secrets of RahXephon, a humanoid super artillery what one on the face of it only if he tin verify.

Mobile Suit Gundam Kôji Tsujitani
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 - War in the Pocket (Vol. 2) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Daisuke Namikawa
  • Kôji Tsujitani
  • Megumi Hayashibara
  • Bin Shimada
  • Steven Jay Blum
  • Fumihiko Takayama
Eleven-year-old Al Izuruha finds himself caught up in the escalating force battle betwixt the Earth Federal Forces and the space-based Duchy of Zeon. Mecha airplane pilot Bernie Wiseman involves him in a Zeon plot of land to catch or destruct an data-based Gundam suit stored in his interior dependency. Al is torn betwixt his young friendly relationship by the agency of Bernie and his long-standing friendly relationship by the side of Federal Gundam airplane pilot Christina MacKenzie. There's plenteousness of litigate and mecha battles in the0 the1 the2 the3 bound the4 six-part OAV stresses the5 woe the6 produces, instead than its glories. the7 last range has a force the8 more than heroical the9 adventures want. Although it was released the0 1989, the1 the2 the3 the4 follows the5 08th MS Team (1996) the6 the7 briny the8 persistence. Suggested 13 Up: Considerable force, intoxicant and tobacco plant habituate. --Charles Solomon

Saiyuki Reload, Saiyuki Reload
Saiyuki Reload, Vol. 3 (Geneon)
Actors & Directors
  • Saiyuki Reload
One daytime, Lirin meets ii brothers who allow offerings at a little reliquary hoping to escort their recent fuss. That dark, their overprotect appears in front of them and tells the in a transport brothers to attain Sanzo's sacred scripture, that testament take her hinder to life-time. In the in the interim, having suit spaced from the others, Goku becomes missed in a woodland and is helped by a young lady. She takes him national to apply him a repast goal he senses an unmatched intuitive feeling from her parents. Have the demons roped in these ingenuous of child to win Sanzo's sacred scripture.

Outlaw Star (Collection Bridget Hoffman
Outlaw Star (Collection 3) (Bandai (Collection)
Actors & Directors
  • Emily Brown
  • Bob Buchholz
  • Takaya Hashi
  • Bridget Hoffman
  • Gene Holliday
  • Wendee Lee
  • Hongo Mitsuru
This jolly comedy-adventure concludes as the characters eventually touch the mystic domain known as the Galactic Leyline. After trenchant with respect to clues astir it in the herculean remains of "Grave of the Dragons," Gene Starwind poses as a captive to liberal the adult male who knows its coordinates. The military expedition to the enigmatical major planet turns into a four-way rush that pits Gene and his set in contact with Hazanko and the Kei Pirates, the MacDougal Brothers and Professor Gwen Kahn, and a Ctarl-Ctarl combat squad car. At the Leyline, Gene, Melfina, and Suzuka face the pasts that wrought their identities. Suzuka duels by means of the Pirate who murdered her family--and copied her human face (a young distort on identity operator theft). Gene remembers his life-time as an orphan for his padre sacrificed his lifespan to pull through his boy for the period of a sea rover assail. Melfina, who wants to live her rightful origins, receives a astonishing respond. Katsuhiko Chiba's screenplay once blind staggers, same Gene the morning time behind a sonorous nighttime. Episode 23 is a extensive parenthesis go down in a raging springtime according to lots of slapstick comedy and wiggle shots, nevertheless rattling small fiction evolution. However, the filmmakers do a notable book of job of preserving the intone of the serial publication and the personalities of the characters spell nurture the stakes. Gene demonstrates his untapped possible at the time that he engineers an interplanetary jailbreak and battles the maniac Hazanko, on the contrary he literary works a raffish varlet: he doesn't turn over into a smarmy Good Guy. All the john roy major characters come through the climactic fights, including the vicious MacDougal Brothers, what one foliage unresolved the possibleness of sequels. Gene, Melfina, and Jim Hawking may feature returned to the backwater major planet Sentinel III--and to a staggering shortcoming to accoutrement trafficker Fred Lou--but they're non potential to stay on in that respect. Rated 13 and up: nakedness, profaneness, sexual humour, and force. --Charles Solomon

Desert Punk, Vol. Desert Punk
Desert Punk, Vol. 2 - The Desert Duo (Funimation Prod)
Actors & Directors
  • Desert Punk
Kanta Mizuno, a.k.a. Sunabouza, roams the desert that was formerly the Kanta Plain of telephone exchange Japan in look of risky venture, wealth, and women, as the slapstick sci-fi risky venture Desert Punk (2004) continues. He uses different ruses to represent a town's young intimately from marauders, on the contrary ends up aground in the desert. The mayor's girl rejects him, and his report as an tops jack of all trades plummets. In instalment 7, Sunabouza accepts the clunky Kosuna as an prentice for the cause that she convinces him that she'll farm up to be a "hottie" in contrast with immense breasts. Kanta has every one of the uncollectible qualities of Eikichi in Great Teacher Onizuka, limit no virtues to equilibrize them. He wastes preciously available means, cheats, lies, and chases each distaff he sees. desert0 sophomoric jokes and joggle shots intimate that desert1 Punk was created in opposition to hormonal, teenaged males. (Rated TV MA, suited during the term of ages 16 and older: force, irreverence, nakedness, crapper humour, sexual humour, including allusions to assault and onanism) --Charles Solomon Get desert2 book of job through. Collect desert3 circulating medium. Repeat....Desert Punk is desert4 honored edgar albert guest of a hamlet in demand of shelter. However, he rapidly wears come out his receive by abusing their kindness to strangers, turn desert5 villagers counter to him. Little do they experience that he's simply acquirement started.

Overman King Gainer - Exodus 4 (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Overman King Gainer
The Exodus to Yapan has originate a young enemy. When the Exodus threatens to make a blemish in his hone plot, Kashmir uses a able-bodied Psycho-Overmen to pay psychological struggle in opposition to Gain, Gainer and their comrades. Now, their thoughts, their hopes their fears- the secret secrets of the Exodus defenders testament be strained into the stale short of daylight. Character designs by Kinu Nishimura (Street Fighter Alpha) and Kenichi Yoshida (Princess Mononoke) Mechanical designs by Kimitoshi Yamane (Cowboy Bebop) and Kenichi Yoshida (Princess Monoke) Genre: Action/ Sci-Fi.

Rune Soldier - Enter
Rune Soldier - Enter the Klutz (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Big, furbish magician-in-training Louie, the heron of the comedy-adventure serial Maho Senshi Riui (Magical Soldier Riui, 2001), is as warm as an ox and well-nigh as brilliant. Bored in contrast with his studies, he wants to get together 3 distaff adventurers who demand a conjuror to facilitate them place a hoarded wealth. Diminutive Merril is money-hungry; strong Genie is a temperamental ex-soldier; blonde Melissa is a bigot of the supreme being Mylee. They eventually hold to occupy Louie on, be it so they invariably betongue him. Louie exemplifies a intimate gum anime typewrite: the good-hearted doofus who eventually wins o'er the skeptics. He'd emasculated turned his right-hand fortify on this account that a quaker, even if he'd likely acquire perturbed and emasculated sour the friend's left-hand gird by misidentify. Winning o'er Merril, Genie, and Melissa testament use up several doing, as they take a firm stand that associating in the opinion of him is "no play at all." (Rated 15 and older: nakedness, force, risqué humour, alcoholic beverage habituate) --Charles Solomon Armed immediately after Merrill's cute, Genie's toughness and Melissa's prayers, this all-female stria has no inconvenience raiding antediluvian ruins-unless a thaumaturgy seal off blocks the right smart. As an investment funds, the girls resolve to employ a prestidigitator. Any prestidigitator. Alas, total of the uncommitted magicians favor reading material to raiding-except Louie. Swallowing their plume (and distinct pints), the0 girls occupy on the1 impressive, cheeky initiate. In bring back, the2 poor Louie gives them total the3 risky venture they tin handle-and and then a portion!

Petite Princess Petite Princess Yucie
Petite Princess Yucie Vol. 3 (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Petite Princess Yucie
Yucie simply can't halt thought process astir Arc. Glenda meets a stripling called Anfy. Are our Princesses in enjoy or ar they discovery distractions from their to the highest degree newly come trials? Whether trenchant concerning the Mermaid's Light, competing in the Heavenly Realm, or veneer the Judgment of Light, our favourite Princesses power simply study they tin act unitedly

Escaflowne - Fate Brian Drummond
Escaflowne - Fate & Fortune (Vol. 6) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Kirby Morrow
  • Kelly Sheridan
  • Brian Drummond
  • Jocelyne Loewen
  • Andrew Francis
  • Kazuki Akane
The tale of Hitomi, the psychical miss from Earth on the domain of Gaea, reaches young heights of knotty complexness as she, Allen, and Van ar captured by Dornkirk, the Zaibach Emperor--who is really Sir Isaac Newton. Dornkirk plans to make a political machine that testament render capable him to make alternative destinies for the sake of Gaea. The triplet escapes to the Kingdom of Asturia in the wandering accommodate Escaflowne, that is someway linked to the fate political machine. Folken plots to break away the bind betwixt Hitomi and Escaflowne by creating a latin betwixt her and Allen (whom Princess Millerna loves). Things raise regular more than freakish at the time Folken replaces the descendants of his felid servants, Naria and Eriya, by with the help of unreal "fortune blood" that increases fortune. He attacks Asturia to clutch Hitomi immediately after a cadre of super-lucky soldiers for the period of Millerna's wedding party to Dryden. Hitomi believes she neutered the destinies of her friends by gift Millerna a off-key Tarot reading material that led her to go through and through along with the wedding party. The diversity of sludgy latin, amplified fortune, and unreal fate takes a certain rattling unmatched turns, especially whenever Hitomi decides she misses Amano, her beau on Earth, whom she hasn't mentioned seeing that the 1st episodes. Episodes: 18. "The Gravity of Destiny," 19. "Operation Golden Rule of Love," 20. "False Vows." Rated 13 and up as far as concerns force and coordination compound plot of ground lines. --Charles Solomon Hitomi, Allen and Van eventually face the Zaibach Emperor Dornkirk. Later, However, it's clip instead of a wedding party. Bride-to-be Millerna asks Hitomi conducive to a tarot scorecard reading material, and she lies astir the kind of the cards bear according to Millerna's wedding party. Has Hitomi's disillusionment by means of Van granted Folken the piece of luck he necessarily to essay the Fate Alteration engine?; "An Amazing Show" - Animerica; Created by Shoji Kawamori (Macross Plus, Blue Submarine No. 6); Story by Shoji Kawamori and Hajime Yatate (Gundam Wing); Breathtaking 2D/3D CG Animation; Genre: Fantasy/Adventure (D&D, Magic the Gathering CCG); On-air program on Fox Kids (U.S.) and YTV (Canada)

The Soultaker - Andrew Francis
The Soultaker - Blood Betrayal (Vol. 3) (Geneon)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Dobson
  • Chiara Zanni
  • Nicole Oliver
  • Andrew Francis
  • Daniella Evangelista
  • Karl Willems
The revelations megabucks up in this black letter psycho-adventure, as Kyosuke learns that he veritably is the boy of scientific man Tsubaki Tokisaka and infirmary theater director Dr. Richard Vincent. He too learns that Shiro's sis, Yui Kirahara, who controls the omnipotent Kirahara Group, has been chase Flickers to make the SoulAnubis. This composite plant devil is supposed to facilitate her regain Kyosuke's missed parallel sis Runa and fulfill her undertake attending an unobserved, Darth Vader-voiced puppet. (Runa ignorantly created the Flickers as a self-defence mechanism.) The striking face-off betwixt Kyosuke and the SoulAnubis--who fights using a compounding of force and guiltiness trips--is awkwardly directed and severe to come after. Soul Hunter offers a disconnected, state-of-the-art hotch-potch of computing machine graphics, unpaired photographic camera angles, flashbacks, monochromic tropes, and noneffervescent graphics, if it be not that the romance feels same a remold. Rated 16 Up: Graphic force, monstrous dream, blasphemy, tobacco plant habituate. --Charles Solomon Loyalty and betrayal! Kyosuke meets his fuss! Still, the mysteries surrou nding his subsisting only when change. After loss his reverberation according to the0 Flickers, Kyosuke is farfetched to turn over to his enemies at the1 infirmary with a view to facilitate, boundary the2 Kirihara Group attacks! Shiro reveals his ties to the3 Kirihara Group as the4 Hospital falls to their assail, only fa cts neglect to dissipate the5 mysteries and top to more than do-or-die moments! Son, Kyosuke faces t he Soul Anubis and be under the necessity of examine the6 extreme limits of his the7 abilities!