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Jubei-Chan 2 - J2 J2
Jubei-Chan 2 - J2 - Vendetta (Geneon)
Actors & Directors
  • J2
The three-way difference o'er who testament suit the replacement to the redoubtable Yagyu Jubei continues in the 2d disc of Jubei Chan 2. Bon Kita claims to feature mastered the fabulous samurai's blade technique; Freesia, the girl of expatriate Rettsai Kita, insists the "lovely eyepatch" is hers by right-hand; Jiyu transforms into the renascence of Jubei at whatever time she dons the patch. The trim, well-meaning Jiyu of Jubei-Chan the Ninja Girl (1999), has suit a peaceful taunt: she's so set non to habituate the magical patch, she allows her friends to be savagely jagged by Freesia. She spends so often clip snivelling, it's hard to interpret whatsoever Shiro and Bantaro escort in her. As the adventures stretch, the intone shifts unpredictably betwixt overly indiscreet and needlessly unrelenting. Extras take in a demo of canonical kendo techniques, hosted by Japanese vocalise actress Yui Horie (Jiyu). (Rated 13 and older: force) --Charles Solomon "You Imposter... I am the rightful Yagyu Jubei the Second!"Jubei vs. Jubei!? The spirit up of a fabulous samurai, Yagyu Jubei, is resurrected in 2 teenage girls. One is in Jiyu Nanohana, an ordinary bicycle third-year high-pitched pupil who unwillingly channels the force of the outstanding swordsman through and through her "Lovely Eye Patch." Then there's Freesia Yagyu, who claims to be the girl and the lawful replacement of Yagyu Jubei herself... A showdown 300 years in the material is astir to start.

Real Bout High School Tomokazu Seki
Real Bout High School - Netherworld Battle (Vol. 2) (Tokyopop Pictures)
Actors & Directors
  • Ikue Kimura
  • Tomokazu Seki
  • Megumi Kojima
  • Lee Loopers
  • Julie Anne Taylor
As this fool comedy-adventure continues, military arts champions Ryoko Mitsurugi and Shizuma "Nagi" Kusanagi scuffle on Earth and battle monsters unitedly in the substitute domain of Solvania. In a mall-restaurant furtherance that spoofs Sailor Moon, Ryoko appears as Magical Waitress Oyster Lulu--and defeats an regular army of heavyweight crabs. Three young enemies suit allies who uncover that these conflicts ar linked to the mystic figures of the Yonshinkan and Old Genya. Daimon High School feels same Ranma's Furinken High at what time Ryoko and Azumi contend to prepare luncheon towards diffident kendo chieftain Tatsuya in a Kitchen K-Fight. The lunches carry how great no fighter aircraft put up do: they bring down Tatsuya and Nagi to incapacitated, queasy weaklings. Ryoko too takes on Azumi's Secret Flower Arrangement Club, who habituate multipointed peak holders as ninja arms. It wholly adds up to a bewitching hodge-podge of slapstick humour and magical-girl litigate. Rated 13 Up: Violence, venial profane language. --Charles Solomon Ryoke, the modern-day Samurai Girl and #1 fighter aircraft of Daimon High, be obliged to at present occupy on her widest run of adversaries in time: from magical waitresses to a ruling triple of young enemies - Akitaka, Nanase and Setsura. Add the mystical extension of Solvania, and regular a K-Fight cookery repugn, and things ar astir to acquire real "interesting" in spite of this Samurai Girl.System Requirements:Directed By: Shinichi Toukairin Running Time: 75 Min., Color Copyright TOKYOPOP 2003.Format: DVD MOVIE

Love Hina, Volume Yui Horie
Love Hina, Volume 2: Go West! (Episodes 5-8) (Bandai)
Actors & Directors
  • Yu Asakawa
  • Megumi Hayashibara
  • Yui Horie
  • Yumiko Kobayashi
  • Masayo Kurata
  • Wendee Lee
  • Masakazu Hashida
  • Kiyotaka Isako
  • Yoshiaki Iwasaki
  • Toshinori Narita
After Keitaro and Naru neglect the spellbind exam instead of prestigious Tokyo University--she notwithstanding the 1st clip, he with regard to the third--they go down turned severally notwithstanding Kyoto to believe astir lifespan. They encounter on the rail afterward fracture their spectacles, neglect to recognise from each one other, and suit immobile friends--until an oculist resets their lenses. The acknowledgment shot feels unlikely, regular by sketch standards, still their young friendly relationship suggests next complications on this account that this pop romanticistic comedy. The stand-out instalment on the accumulation is the rattling farcical "Kendo Girl": man-hating given to war creative person Motoko dreams herself into an older picture gamey that spoofs Sailor Moon, El Hazard, and other gum anime serial. The Dragon Palace and heavyweight turtle-pigeon ar references to the Japanese folks parable "Urashima Taro," that plays turned Keitaro's utmost nominate, Urashima--jokes American viewers may non get. Rated 13 Up: Comic force, risqué humour, tobacco plant habituate. --Charles Solomon

Wild Arms - Sheyenne's Wild Arms
Wild Arms - Sheyenne's Last Stand (Vol. 5) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Wild Arms
Sheyenne hasn't ground his personify in time, on the other hand he has fix Laila. The inconvenience is she's in the custody of an vicious religious cult who thinks she's the rebirth of a female divinity. To do matters worsened, someone's placed a immense pay back in spite of Sheyenne, Kiel and Issac. Is 5 jillion blowout plenty to do the girls turn over on them? DVD Features: pose sheets, pilot Japanese trailer, outtakes, and ADV Previews. Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.

GTO - Field Trips Aimi Nakamura
GTO - Field Trips (Vol. 9) (Tokyopop Pictures)
Actors & Directors
  • Takashi Sorimachi
  • Nanako Matsushima
  • Akira Nakao
  • Yôsuke Kubozuka
  • Aimi Nakamura
Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year older ex-biker. He's rough, foul-spoken, and has a hair-trigger harden. His end: suit the sterling high-pitched schooltime instructor in the domain! GTO is the narration of Onizuka, a late bike gang up fellow member who becomes a instructor to do a divergence. Using his road smarts to trade in contrast with colleagues, students, and troublemakers, Onizuka finds that he overmuch has sundry lessons to read! As the students groom conducive to their extended awaited field trip up, Onizuka lays come out a reproof project guaranteed to shift up a good for you dosage of incommode. His heterodox precept methods contain pairing up counter roommates, digging with regard to inhumed hoarded wealth, and without intention planting the seeds of enjoy. All of these lessons in lifespan grant conducive to a young signified of concord to become visible not more than the division. In English & Japanese w/ Optional English Subtitles.

X - Eight (TV Series, X
X - Eight (TV Series, Vol. 8) (Geneon (TV)
Actors & Directors
  • X
Deceptions, betrayals, counter-betrayals, and suicides go under the present concerning the last face-off betwixt Kamui of the Dragons of Heaven and Fuma, at present the Kamui of the Dragons of the Earth. Sorata, Arashi, Yozoriha, Kusanagi, Princess Hinato, and regular Subaru (finally awakened from his catatonic ecstasy) entirely feature quarters to recreate ahead the affaire d'honneur betwixt the 2 Kamuis attending their godlike swords tin occupy localise on Tokyo Tower. Kamui realizes he cannot save the Earth or the the bulk of mankind he loves by attacking Fuma, whom he vowed to carry through. Love triumphs o'er estrangement in a ratiocination that is as melodramatic as a Kabuki shocking event, except no more than lucid than the earliest episodes. Fans of Clamp's separated variety of force, prowess nouveau, spiritual symbols, and bishonen ("beautiful boys") testament regain in X a import more than ostensible than existent, (Rated 16 and older: force, venial blasphemy, monstrous dream, tobacco plant habituate, legal brief nakedness) --Charles Solomon

Bubblegum Crisis Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
Bubblegum Crisis - Tokyo 2040 - Genesis (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
  • Satsuki Yukino
  • Rio Natsuki
  • Hiroko Konishi
  • Kiyoyuki Yanada
  • Hiroki Hayashi
The a la mode adventures of the iv women of the Knight Sabers ar non a perpetuation, otherwise than that an alternative edition of their earliest escapades. In 2040, a great deal of the moil in Tokyo is through with by Boomers, robots ab initio manufactured by Genom to reconstruct the urban center in imitation of a devastating seism. Unfortunately, Boomers now and then go berserk and assail humans. Only the Knight Sabers, a cadre of distaff vigilance man mercenaries who struggle in high-heeled armour suits, tin in fact implements a scalawag Boomer. Klutzy Linna Yamasaki comes to Tokyo hoping to fall in the Knight Sabers. A rampaging Boomer brings her into middleman in company with the women of the gang: motorcycle-riding sway isaac m. singer Priss Asagiri, AD Police ship's officer Nene Romanova, and lingerie-boutique possessor Sylia Stingray, who heads aggroup. Linna eventually persuades them to apply her a tryout. Despite the trenchant sue scenes, the fiction begins rattling slow, and the characters aren't awfully appealing. Priss is granted to evil silences, Nene sounds same a caseful of arrested evolution, and Linna inexplicably shifts betwixt small-town ingenuous and noncompliant renegade. The men ar total jerks and/or lechers. The settings appear to a lesser extent same the spoilt dystopia of the earliest entries in the serial publication and more than same a standard-issue Tokyo-of-the-Future. Episodes: 1. "Can't Buy a Thrill," 2. "Fragile," 3. "Keep Me Hanging On," 4. "Machine Head." Not rated; suited since ages 13 and up in the place of force, profane language, and legal brief nakedness. --Charles Solomon In the wake of the outstanding seism, unitary relentless corp, Genom, stands unhesitating to use up o'er the devastated metropolis of Toyko in the opinion of an ground forces of synthetical monsters, called Boomers. Only unitary little striation of distaff mercenaries is inclined to remain firm fronting the monolithic force of Genom, moreover in this caseful iv women is everything it takes! Armed in the opinion of the to the highest degree unbelievable armed combat building block suits ever so intentional, the Knight Sabers remuneration a do-or-die state of war in the shadows, combating the shocking by-products of engineering go amok by the agency of braveness, perspire and royal line! It's a venomous tribulation by go off as the acclaimed cyberpunk chef-d'oeuvre is reborn!

Kaleido Star - Welcome Kaleido Star
Kaleido Star - Welcome to the Kaleido Star (Vol. 1) (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Kaleido Star
Although she's somebody of a klutz and has ne'er well-versed concert dance or trapeze, 16-year-old Sora Naegino comes to America from Japan to assay come out toward the Cirque du Soleil-like Kaleido Stage. A typically spunky gum anime supremely courageous woman who's ever vowing to assay her c. h. best, Sora wins a localise in the mould in a last-minute try out. Her peculiar debut earns her the rancour of the other young girls, moreover her pollyannaish purpose before long wins them over--except in the place of Layla, the cold-hearted star of to0 present. Back in her elbow room, Sora is counseled by to1 spectral Spirit of to2 Stage, who tin only if be seen by those destined to3 suit performers. This gymnastic Cinderella recital plays same a admixture of Sakura Wars and 42nd Street: Sora ab initio gives less-than-sensational performances in venial intellect, excepting by to4 terminate of to5 serial, she'll occupy Layla's localize. (Rated 12 and older: venial risqué humour) --Charles Solomon

Yugo the Negotiator, Yugo the Negotiator
Yugo the Negotiator, Vol. 2: Pakistan, Vol. 2 - Honor (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Yugo the Negotiator
Yugo's negotiations in Pakistan ar sour to a stony take up as he is captured by the anti-government dacoits as a captive, instead than current as an envoy. Sentenced to roasted in the solarize, he sourness pull through gruesome excruciate to turn up his charles frederick worth as a heron to the fearsome dakoit corypheus, Yusuf Ali Mesa. To do matters worsened, bloody-minded Lieutenant Colonel Shadle from the Pakistani Army is chase Yugo downward at each turn over to kibosh the negotiations and pass over come out the dacoits. In a state of war of accents, bear in mind and war machine mightiness Yugo be obliged to exhibit his adversaries that which a rightful heron is made of in the striking ratiocination to Yugo's talks in Pakistan.

Wedding Peach, Vol. Wedding Peach
Wedding Peach, Vol. 8: Black Heart (Adv Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Wedding Peach
Love is in the beam and latin is first to hot up up! And Raindevila, the vicious queen regnant has invoked her to the highest degree forcible demon yet-he's miserly, he's warm, he's…Yosuke???? Can the Love Angels make it? Will enjoy persist, or testament vicious subdue in the terminate?