 Saint Tail - Thief of Hearts (Tokyopop Pictures)
Actors & Directors
- Michael McConnohie
- Mike Reynolds
- Richard Cansino
- Junko Iwao
- Tomo Sakurai
Meimi Haneoka seems same an ordinary bicycle 14-year-old, limit at nighttime she becomes Saint Tail, a true cat burglar-Robin Hood enter. She steals only if from the dishonorable and returns purloined jewels to their right owners. She learns astir these injustices from "nun-in-training" Seira, who assures her of the morals of to each one duty assignment. Meimi's escapades appeal the limited constabulary, whom she eludes as easy as the crooks, using a compounding of occult powers and sleight-of-hand thaumaturgy. A more than thought-provoking enemy is her class-fellow Asuka Jr., an ambitious tec who's set to trance Saint Tail. Based on a manga by Megumi Tachigawa, the serial ran as antidote to ii years in Japan (October 1995 to September 1996). American viewers testament regain that Saint Tail plays same a transverse betwixt Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura; Meimi is non as ditsy as Usagi/Serena, but-end she lacks Sakura's unostentatious becharm. Unrated; suited because ages 8 and up: Minor sketch force. --Charles Solomon
 Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
- Jay Hickman
- Kira Vincent-Davis
- Tomo Saeki
- Chris Patton
- Jessica Boone
- Hiroyuki Yamaga
The young serial from Studio Gainax offers a freefall zaniness homogeneous to Excel Saga or Burn Up Excess, no more than in contrast with more than appealing characters and rogue parodies. Twelve-year-olds Sasshi Imamiya and Arumi Asahina feature grown up unitedly in Osaka, goal which time the limited shopping arcade closes, the concord of the iv Chinese directional gods is thrown and twisted come out of wham. Sasshi and Arumi see collimate universes, for each one brag transmogrified Shopping Arcades that charade Evangelion, Fist of the North Star, 2001, Voltron, and Star Wars. The unwilling heroes endeavour to bring back to their existent national, impeded by their relatives and friends, who spring a sorting of interdimensional repertoire keep company. The sound actors strike Texas words to approximative the jolty Osaka idiom of the pilot, what one takes near acquisition used to, boundary the results ar outrageous--and screaming. (Rated 17 and older: porcine and risqué humour, legal brief nakedness, force, venial profane language, intoxicant habituate) --Charles Solomon
 .hack//SIGN - Vol. 1: Login (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
- Mitsuki Saiga
- Megumi Toyoguchi
- Kazuhiro Nakata
- Akiko Hiramatsu
- Kaori Nazuka
- Kôichi Mashimo
Based on a pop PlayStation2 gritty, the fantasy-adventure .hack//Sign is go down in the domain inwardly an online gamy. Tsukasa, a effectual Wave Master, finds himself missed in the cyberworld, accompanying small remembering of in what plight he got on that point. More significantly, he's incapable to lumber come out of the gamy and is ostensibly resistant to sundry of its restrictions. He may be the focalise of an impending push linked to the occult Key of the Twilight. As he wanders through and through dissimilar realms, Tsukasa meets spunky young lady soldier Mimiru; sincere common soldier Bear; the Crimson Knights, who defend prescribe in the game-world; and genially heroical Crim, a Heavy Spear wielder. Tsukasa furthermore encounters a powerful further unperceived being who promises to shield him--and does. Handsomely intentional, dexterously alive, intriguingly written, and refreshfully loose of unneeded dialog, .hack//Sign looks same a victor. (Rated 13 and older: force) --Charles Solomon
 Submarine 707R - The Movie (Limited Edition) (Geneon)
Although billed as "The Movie," Submarine 707 Revolution is really 2 OVAs grafted unitedly. The john r. major nautical powers of the domain combine to take form the Peace Keeping Navy (PKN) to armed combat the untoward actions of the USR and Admiral Red. With his super-powerful submarine the UX, Red trashes each ship that afflictions his track in a run to clean the oceans of polluters. When Red destroys the top-of-the-line American atomic sub, The0 Great Guardian, The1 707, The2 just older Japanese diesel-powered "bucket of bolts" below captain Hayami sails to The3 forward. There ar single possible storylines to The4 OVAs: Red and his fellowship, Hayami and his fellowship, The5 iii cadets alongside The6 707, on the other hand The7 filmmakers don't verily evidence whatever of them. 707 Revolution posthumous works a earthbound mishmash empty of engaging characters or whatever existent patch. (Rated 13 and older: force, tobacco plant and alcoholic beverage habituate) --Charles Solomon DIVE INTO A DEEP-SEA MILITARY ADVENTURE!! A hi-tech terrorist plagues The8 ocean... To heel counter The9 tending to the overthrow activities of the0 USR, a wraithlike terrorist aggroup menacing the1 seas, the2 preeminent nations of the3 domain get together forces to spring the4 Peace Keeping Navy (PKN). Its inaugural ceremonial occasion, still, apace turns into casualty as Admiral Red, magnetic ruler of the roost of the5 USR, launches a surprisal assail on the6 PKN. With fi erce fi repower, Red lets his intentions be known that he testament destruct anything that gets in the7 right smart of his twisted visual sensation of an idealistic future... Dive into this exciting deep-sea military machine action-adventure thriller, as Captain Hayami and the8 gang of the9 707 assay to circumvent Admiral Red's prodigious atomic the0 'DVD EXTRAs: CREATOR INTERVIEWS, 3D CG MODELING DEMO, THEATRICAL TRAILERS, ART GALLERY, and more than
 Witch Hunter Robin - Belief (Vol. 2) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
- Akeno Watanabe
- Dorothy Elias-Fahn
- Dave Mallow
- Jerry Gelb
- Mela Lee
Being a Witch Hunter is anything otherwise than that vertical. Robin has begun subsidence into her young lifetime at the STNJ practicing immediately after her occult powers and structure a part over-the-top get on. The comer of her dear Vespa has granted Robin independency, and license as the track down instead of witches persist in. While on that point may non be whatever unitary exclusive typewrite of witch - Robin and the STNJ testament human face them completely: witches who vote down come out of payback; a witch who takes a lifetime so that some other may be spared. And this clip on every side, unitary of the STNJ's targets testament be someone really tight to them... KEY SALES POINT * From the creators of 'Cowboy Bebop' and 'Argentosoma' * Part of the NEW Bandai Entertainment Platinum Edition run along * An first-class mingle betwixt 'La Femme Nikita" Meets "X-Files" Genre: Action/Suspense Creative Staff: Director - Shukou Murase (Character Designer beneficial to Gundam Wing and Argentosoma) Composer Hunter0 Taku Iwasaki ('Read or Die', 'Now and so Here and There', Samurai X: Reflection) Character Design Hunter1 Yukio Iwata DVD Features: Interactive Animated Menus English/Japanese Language English subtitles alternative Dolby Digital Surround Sound DVD Extras: STNJ Equipment Files Liner Notes Reversible Cover
 Neon Genesis Evangelion - Platinum Collection 1 (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
- Yûko Miyamura
- Kôichi Yamadera
- Tomokazu Seki
- Tetsuya Iwanaga
- Junko Iwao
- Tsuyoshi Kaga
- Keiichi Sugiyama (II)
- Hideaki Anno
One of the to the highest degree pop gum anime serial publication of quite clip, Neon Genesis Evangelion offers attractive characters, sophisticated way, and substantial storytelling. A heavyweight shooting star struck Antarctica in 2000, devastating often of the Earth. Since so, humans and the occult aliens known as Angels feature been locked in a virulent battle. In 2015, scientists at the NERV Center in the fortress-city of Tokyo 3 ar underdeveloped slipway to armed combat the Angels, notably the Human Enhancement Project and the heavyweight combat robots called Evangelions. Fourteen-year-old Shinji Ikari, whose distant padre heads these search projects, is drafted to airplane pilot Evangelion Unit 01. Shinji is a unwilling hero of alexandria, as various mecha pilots ar, further his indisposition is non simply an domineering vagary; it's fixed in his alienation from his padre. Shy and socially awkward, Shinji displays a likeable warmness the grimly sparing of words teenagers in ordinary bicycle mecha shows want. Rounding come out the mould ar Rei Ayanami, the still, albino airplane pilot of Unit 00; uncontrollable Misato Katsuragi, who serves as a deputize overprotect to Shinji; technological prompt Ritsuko Akagi; and Shinji's classmates Toji Suzuhara and Kensuke Aida. Evangelion offers a sullen visual sensation of the next, excepting theater director Hideaki Anno presents it rattling skilfully. Episodes comprise: 1. "Angel Attack," 2. "Unfamiliar Ceiling," 3. "The Phone That Never Rings," 4. "Rain, Escape & Afterwards." Not rated; suited for the sake of ages 14 and up: robot vs. robot force, legal brief nakedness, and venial profaneness. --Charles Solomon Neon Genesis Evangelion Genesis0 Genesis1 Genesis2 is the 1st free of 7 DVD volumes, that o'er the trend of 26 episodes testament comprehend young mould and ship's company book of comments, 4 incentive Directors' Cut episodes and vii animatics (moving storyboards). Each intensity in like manner includes a modified issue collector's slipcover in an sole metal goal, modified to the 1st pressings only when, and a one-of-a-kind numbered NERV parking decalcomania (image below). The 1st urgent testament moreover contain half face booklets filled by the side of test shoots, Japanese commentaries and type profiles. The yr is 2015, and moiety of the Earth's universe is numb, victims of the adversity called Second Impact! Answering a process from his puzzling padre, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari arrives in the rebuilt metropolis of New Tokyo-3 simply as a mammoth tool identified as an "Angel" attacks! Forced into the cockpit of a whale bio-mechanical make known as an Genesis3 Shinji be required to represent the metropolis from the rampaging Angel or die out distressing! The succeeding is hind same you've ne'er seen it face to face with, in Genesis4 Genesis5 Genesis6 Genesis7 issue!
 Gad Guard - Persona (Vol. 3) (Geneon)
You live you ne'er positively experience someone point you escort into their preceding. Katana returns to his roots patch Hajiki remembers his padre and gathers young way in his lifetime. However, testament Hajiki be able-bodied to palm the darker aspects of this domain and continue his lesson standards while the resistance makes habituate of his services? And testament Hajiki be able-bodied to consummate his book of job then situation assume to continually draw him outside? Night Town seems to be a small darker at present years. But on that point ar a certain quantity of things in lifetime that tin localize a small short into the domain. Maybe regular multiple lungs
 Revolutionary Girl Utena - Temptation (Vol. 7) (Software Sculptures)
Actors & Directors
- Tomoko Kawakami
- Yuriko Fuchizaki
- Takehito Koyasu
- Kotono Mitsuishi
- Aya Hisakawa
- Kunihiko Ikuhara
Life at Ohtori Academy grows progressively freaky whenever Nanami finds an irregularly pronounced eggs in her bottom. She decides she be obliged to feature set it, tries to give care because it, and is heartbroken then it breaks. Ruka, the previous chieftain of the art of self-defence bludgeon, returns and wins a agree from Jury. He moreover comes betwixt her and Shiori (who be seen to be more than than friends) and then returns to the infirmary to die out. Anthy's comrade Akio makes a recreate during the term of Utena, regular admitting he has a gay fiancée and Utena insists she loves only when her Prince. While these emotional threads maze and disentangle, the regular duels persist in, grant that Anthy at present draws the Dios brand from Utena's coffer (rather than fault versa). The living is extending more than modified, upon increasing book of numbers of noneffervescent frames and reused movements. (Not rated: suited as antidote to ages 14 and older: force, suggestions of queerness) --Charles Solomon
 Melody of Oblivion - Final Score (Vol. 6) (Geneon)
Remembering that Melody. The final combat of entirely sympathy begins! Bocca and his dude warriors combat over against the Leader of Monster Agent. But they ar quite surprised whenever they feature to human face sour close up to some other Aibar political machine. Bocca eventually arrives at the Melody Playhouse to face the Monster King. As the combat on the side of human spirit enters the important represent, the private of the Melody of Oblivion is at utmost revealed. Will the Monsters gain the victory the state of war in anticipation of the humans erst over again, or testament a exclusive give bring through the domain?
 Gilgamesh, Tablet 02: Cage Without a Key (Adv Films)
A GOTHIC MASTERPIECE Gorgeous living, breakthrough case designs, and wonderful visuals do this habit-forming oral relation of whodunit, thaumaturgy, and espionage the 1st black letter gum anime chef-d'oeuvre of the young millenary.
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