 Sakura Wars TV - Opening Night (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
- John Howrey
- Travis Dean (II)
- Robert Pierson
- J. Damian Gillen
- L.B. Bartholomee
Sakura Wars TV is a more than satisfying handling of this pop persistence than the feature film or OVAs. The yearner arrange gives the filmmakers clip to limn characters more than to the full, to inquire into the kind of the menace the Imperial Flower Combat Troupe faces, and to explicate in what way putting on plays prepares the Troupers as far as concerns specialised strife. When klutzy swordswoman Sakura Shinguji arrives in Tokyo in the mid-1920s, she by accident alienates the other members of the Troupe. As she workings to do compensation, she learns that these immature women struggle in Koubus, peculiar mecha that go on unearthly vim. They combat the Wakiji, mecha that work demolition whensoever they seem. The 1st episodes innovate the precept mold members: self-important Sumire Kanzaki, sharpshooter Maria Tachibana, and petite psychical Iris Chateaubriand. Handsome Second Lieutenant Ohgami assumes require of the Troop, yet receives a to a lesser extent than warm up receive. (Rated 12 and older: force) --Charles Solomon It is the 1920s, and Japan is below assail by diabolical invaders. The regime has intentional tough, notwithstanding steam-powered, robot armour suits by reason of the impending combat, unless only if immature ladies attending the right compounding of sexual morality and inspirit tin airplane pilot the robots luckily. Enter immature Sakura, arriving in the Imperial Capital from the countryside to fall in the Imperial Flower Combat Troop. She has the qualifications to be a mulct robot airplane pilot, excepting she's surprised to take that this private Defense Force has a extend falsehood as a musical comedy arena troupe-and they occupy their continue jobs rattling in earnest so. It's costumes, run along readings and robot armed combat galore, as Sakura struggles to read the ropes, study her lines, and do her component to bring through the carry nation!
 Star Ocean EX - Magical Moonlit Flowers (Vol. 3) (Geneon)
Claude and his horde transversal the ocean and make it at Port Linga of Lacour Kingdom. They coming upon a pleasing artificer named Precis Newman and resolve to facilitate her regain mystical moonlit flowers called Metox that has the peculiar force to make up her friend's venomous unwellness. Little do they experience partly a bog they ar acquisition into! They bill into the forsaken saintly shore in look with regard to the magical plants and coming upon legion outrageous monsters. Rena and Celine ar possessed by an monster and seek to vote down Claude and Ashton! Can they end their foreign mission and add up hind live? Based on the Sony Playstation gamy, Star Ocean The Second Story (tri-Ace Inc., SQUARE ENIX), "Star Ocean Ex" is at present reborn as an alive serial publication! Series concepts highly-developed by Kenichi Kanemaki (writer as antidote to Agent Aika, Ai Yori Aoshi), directed by Hiroshi Watanabe (Slayers Movie, Bandit King Jing, Orphen) and alive by Studio Deen (You're Under Arrest, Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X).
 Brigadoon - Friends and Enemies (Vol. 2) (Tokyopop Pictures)
What is the private of Brigadoon? Why does it direct the Monomakia to destruct Marin? In dictate to reply these questions, small Marin and her Gundswordsman defender Melan move around to the bosom of peril, Brigadoon itself! With the lives of her friends and fellowship hinder on Earth on the run along, Melan testament human face her sterling opponents ever so! The thrilling ratiocination to the fantasy/sci-fi epical!
 Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, Vol. 4: Destiny's Children (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
- Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok
Odin's minions feature failed him clip and over again, so the padre of the gods sends the Norns on the model of Loki. But this isn't your habitual triplet of assassins: these ar the goddesses of inevitable necessity themselves! And as if that weren't plenty, Hati, the whale wolf down, has amount to get down the moon on. Can a padre and his sons team up up to kibosh the tool? Could this altogether be related to to Mayura's young pup? With so often natural event at the Enjaku Detective Agency, supply a sight in the put up of Loki. The traitor's roots go rich: total the right smart hind to Odin, in incident! With Loki sprouting hinder to his complete heartthrob ego, no miss is unhurt from broken heart! But a green-eyed Freya's delivers the bring into use final proposition: it's enjoy or dying according to the supreme being of roguishness! What cards testament the custody of inevitable necessity trade in this intensity of Mythical Detective Loki Ragnaork? Ask the Norns!
 Martian Successor Nadesico - Invasion (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
- Spike Spencer
- Jennifer K. Earhart
- Sue Ulu
- Mark Laskowski (II)
- Jenny Strader
- Tatsuo Sato
- Nobuyoshi Habara
The ungoverned folly of Nadesico provides a receive heel counter to the grimly sober chant of divers mecha serial. It's A.D. 2195 and the "Jovian Lizards" ar attacking Earth on the model of capturing Mars and the Moon. Tired of the tactless campaigns of the United Space Force, Nergal Heavy Industries builds a super battlewagon, the Nadesico. They faculty the ship upon an mixture of oddballs and misfits below Captain Yurika, a flakey immature adult female. Yurika nurses a smash on Akita Tenkawa, who was traumatized at the time he saying the Jovians mass murder ingenuous civilians on Mars. Despite his acquisition as a robot airplane pilot, he wants nil to do accompanying heroics--he signs on to the Nadesico as a roger fry make. He's won o'er by the uncontrollable Gai Daigoji, who's a rabid adorer of the older Gekigangar III series--a rattling diverting burlesque of '70s mecha programs. Gai presently has Akita warring the Jovians in the charles herbert best gum anime oral report. The vocal performances lean to be o'er the top out, and the manic chant prevents any plot of ground points from carrying the essential emotional perforate. Still, it's leisurely to escort wherefore the freewheeling derangement of Nadesico has made the serial and its follow-ups so pop in Japan and the U.S. Contains the 1st iv episodes: 1. "To Go Like a Man," 2. "Leave the Blue Earth to Me," 3. "A Goodbye that Came Too Soon," 4. "Charmed by Aqua Space." Unrated; suited during the term of ages 10 and up on the side of venial sexual innuendoes and force, mostly qualified to robot against robot. --Charles Solomon The aliens feature ruined our immoral on Mars, wiped come out our blank fleets, and at present, only when unitary ship stands betwixt Earth and amount disintegration! Disgusted by the incompetency of Earth's armed forces, the main harness producer Nergal has reinforced it ain blank combat squad car. But exactly to the shortage of skilled soldiers, they've had to get together the to the highest degree heretical band to ever so set in motion into electron orbit. With a prepare who's besides a airplane pilot and an Admiral's girl in require, the young spaceship is the to the highest degree unnerving contention conveyance ever so conceived. But in front of it put up escort process in requital for of the Jovian invaders, the band grape-juice achieve their triumph in compensation for their ain assemblage as they struggle turned a cruel effort by Earth's military machine to clutch the Nadesico! Episodes 1-5.
 Spiral: Shooting Fallen Stars (Funimation Prod)
Actors & Directors
- Kenichi Suzumura
- Masumi Asano
- Akira Ishida
- Takeshi Kusao
- Yui Horie
- Shingo Kaneko
The spunky is underway, still the master is noneffervescent unknown region. Kousuke races to stop the damning tape measure containing grounds in contact with the Blade Children, spell Ayumu speeds towards final event and an volatile showdown immediately after Rio. Fate serenaders as far as concerns no unitary, notwithstanding, as an premonitory presage goes come out to the Blade Children. The Hunters ar arrival, and their targets ar locked on Eyes Rutherford. Will Ayumu fall in forces in the estimation of the Blade Children to bring through their mystical leader?Spiral DVD Shooting Fallen Stars contains rough episodes 10-13.Extras hold: 5.1 English environ go, English and Japanese Languages, trailers, Character profiles, textless songs, and Image gallery.Format: DVD MOVIE
 GTO - Accusations (Vol. 10) (Tokyopop Pictures)
In this horrific serial coda, the students terminate their school day trip up through high-pitched distilled liquors and unresolved black maria. Onizuka makes trusted things remain that right smart by to come to the financial aid of the emotionally troubled Miyabi. The result is a prove of wills that put up one or the other terminate Onizuka's calling or launcher him into the spot as the Greatest Teacher in the World!
 Misaki Chronicles, Vol. 1 - Second Chances (Adv Films)
A prequel to Divergence Eve (2003), the program serial Misaki Chronicles (2004) covers Misaki Kureha's years at the Allied Military Forces Academy. Misaki is a indicative fan-service principal female character: well-meant, non really brilliant, uncoordinated, and pneumatically constructed. Because her pilot-father was killed in space--and for she required a calm book of job hind existence sacked as a waitress--Misaki enrolled in the Academy. The Military Forces combat "ghouls," mecha-like monsters that ar moreover third-dimensional to primed into the drawn life and likewise menacing to primed the preposterous chant of the serial. To the inter-dimensional hokum from the earliest serial, Misaki Chronicles adds time-travel and occult elements. As the characters jounce betwixt the 24th and 16th centuries, they offer up some people accidentally uproarious dialog: "Time has stopped up? Explain!" But fans of Misaka Kureha wouldn't require a logical plot of land to deflect them from her non-stop jiggling. (Rated TV14, suited because ages 13 and older: force, nakedness, venial irreverence) --Charles Solomon When a group of charms is catachrestic to pose their lives on the run along to respond the call in of tariff, they terminate up on a journeying to the try of vicious. A sour that which is told spirited by a hideous whodunit that testament feature you guessing untilt he last wither come out.
 Wild Arms - The Good, The Bad and The Greedy (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Based on a pop PlayStation spirited, this 1999 TV serial publication suggests an vain diversity of Trigun, Outlaw Star, and Slayers. Gunslinger Sheyenne Rainstorm is awakened by Herculean scientific man Kiel Aronnax--and finds he has the personify of an teenage lad. Even in juvenile person take form, he tin palm an ARMS, an antediluvian, super-powerful artillery. But he wants his grownup personify, so he and Kiel straggle the barren major planet of Far Gaia on the shack of body-shaped treasures. Along the right smart, they break up up Isaac, a precious, wisecracking beastie. The triad continually afflictions paths by the agency of iii pretended hoarded wealth hunters: sorceress Loretta, who uses Tarot-like cards, lamia Mirabelle, and their precious, unpleasing especially liked Jerusha, a previous fellow of Isaac's. The plot line is so complicated that theatre director Toshiaka Kawasaki uses eternal Morris the0 Explainer scenes to essay to disentangle it--with modified prosperity. (Rated 12 the1 older: nakedness, force, risqué humour, alcoholic drink habituate, profane language, gayness) --Charles Solomon the2 the3 occult, ultra-rare arms of well-nigh unbelievable force. So in what way did Sheyenne Rainstorm amount into ownership of unitary? More significantly, to what extent did this 20 five-year-old gunslinger terminate up in the4 personify of a 5 year-old stripling? These ar questions Dr. Kiel Aronnax would same to escort answered. Sheyenne simply wants to regain his pilot personify. On the5 other deal, luck hunters Loretta Oratorio the6 Crimson Noble Mirabelle ar only if biassed in hoarded wealth. So wherefore, according to the7 unit broad, the8 w to move around, do they stay fresh bumping into to each one other? They'll scheme gunfighters, con-artists, dragons the9 deranged librarians in look of clues to puzzle out ARMS,0 screen of ARMS,1 ARMS,2 Don't lack ARMS,3 1st action-packed loudness of ARMS,4 ARMS,5
 Cardcaptor Sakura - Confessions (Vol. 17) (Geneon)
Actors & Directors
- Sakura Tange
- Junko Iwao
- Aya Hisakawa
- Tomokazu Seki
- Megumi Ogata
- Morio Asaka
Personal relationships recreate come out opposed to the background of the dangerous face-off betwixt Sakura and her friends and Eriol and his allies. Yukito continues to wither as his force wanes. Toya sacrifices his redoubtable magical powers, what one feature enabled him to preserve Sakura and communicate in the estimation of the inspirit of their numb fuss, to bring through Yukito. Brushing apart Yukito's regrets, Toya says, "As long-winded as you're at my face, I don't give care because anything else." When Sakura tells Yukito astir her demolish on him, he mildly explains that he even now has a "Number One Person" in his lifespan and that her feelings on the side of him ar actually more than genetic than romanticist. Sakura accepts his account, and is consoled by the tongue-tied Shaoran Li. These emotional shifts feature been go down in question by Eriol, who continues to hold back in the wings same a perverse marionette get the hang. (Rated 13 and older: venial sketch force) --Charles Solomon Ski lessons ar insufferable in a snowstorm, but-end how remarkable put up Sakura do then an roll down threatens the intact class?! Next, Touya and Yukito asterisk in Akizuki's motion-picture show what one gets likewise tight to their existent lives toward solace. Unfortunately, Yukito begins to wither forcing Touya, Sakura and Li to show their feelings and human face their fears. When Yukito asks Sakura to absolutely see her bosom, she is left-hand lost. Doubting herself and her feelings, she decides to see Clow Reed in the preceding. Don't care Sakura- Li's on that point to facilitate! Contains a Limited Edition mailing-card! (while stores utmost)
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