Actors & Directors
- Cynthia Cranz
- Chuck Huber
- Christopher Sabat
- Laura Bailey (II)
- Justin Cook
- Noriyuki Abe
List Price: $79.95
Price: $29.99
Review Yu Yu Hakusho: Spirit (4pc) / Funimation Prod:
Actors & Directors
- Bryan Cranston
- Unshô Ishizuka
- Shinichirô Watanabe
- Shôji Kawamori
- Takumi Yamazaki
- Richard Epcar
- Anne Sherman
Review Macross Plus:A recut version of the four-part OAV (1994), the Macross Plus movie plays like a mixture of Top Gun, Gundam Wing, and Key the Metal Idol. It's 2040 on the planet Eden: former high school rivals Isamu Dyson and half-human/half-Zentraedi Guld Goa Bowman have become rival mecha test pilots. They're also still competing for the affection of Myung Lone, the producer for cybernetic singing sensation Sharon Apple. When an illegal "bio-neural" chip is implanted into the computer that generates Sharon, she becomes sentient, attacking Myung and attempting to lure Isamu to his death. Wild and crazy Isamu and serious Guld defeat the plot with their hotshot piloting. The film boasts elaborate computer-animated special effects and exceptionally well choreographed aerial battles, but director Shoji Kawamori correctly summed up Macross Plus as "a serious story with a silly plot. " Unrated; suitable for ages 16 and up: Nudity, violence, sexual situations. -Charles Solomon.
Actors & Directors
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Nicholas Brendon
- Anthony Head
- James Marsters
- Alyson Hannigan
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer / WB Television Network, The:
Actors & Directors
- Masako Katsuki
- Hideaki Anno
- Maria Kawamura
- Rei Sakuma
- Noriko Hidaka
- Norio Wakamoto
Review Gunbuster:The OAV Gunbuster (a. k. a. "Aim for the Top") proved so popular it spawned a manga series, the sequel Diebuster (2004) and a theatrical feature (2006). When she was a child, Noriko Takaya's father was killed in humanity's first encounter with aliens from the core of the galaxy. Her desire to follow him into space leads Noriko to the Okinawa Girls' Space Pilot High School, where she meets her future partner Kazumi Amano and Coach Koichiro Ohta. Noriko displays little aptitude for steering mecha, but Ohta sees the potential beneath the maladroit exterior. Soon Noriko is in space, piloting the experimental robot-suit Gunbuster and fighting aliens who look like the monsters in Gahan Wilson cartoons. Gunbuster plays like a mixture of Patlabor, Star Wars, and Robotech, with a generous helping of fan service nudity. In the intervening years, Noriko's mixture of weepy ineptitude and I'll-do-my-best fire has become an anime archetype. [+]And there's simply too much story for a six-part OAV: characters appear and disappear with little effect. Gunbuster has received a great deal of attention because it marked the first commercial success from the fledgling Gainax studio and the directorial debut of Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno. It's hard to see much foreshadowing of Anno's later brilliance, except for the dramatic use of a black and white palate and still artwork in the last episode, set 12,000 years in the future. Spreading six episodes with minimal extras over three discs seems chintzy, as the material could easily fit on two or even one. (Rated 16 and older: violence, nudity, minor risqué humor) -Charles Solomon.
Actors & Directors
- Yuriko Fuchizaki
- Yôko Matsuoka
- Minami Takayama
- Hiroki Hayashi
- Miki Itô
- Rei Sakuma
Review Sol Bianca 2:
Actors & Directors
- Bryan Cranston
- Richard Epcar
- Unshô Ishizuka
- Shôji Kawamori
- Shinichirô Watanabe
- Takumi Yamazaki
- Anne Sherman
Review Macross Plus:A recut version of the four-part OAV (1994), the Macross Plus movie plays like a mixture of Top Gun, Gundam Wing, and Key the Metal Idol. It's 2040 on the planet Eden: former high school rivals Isamu Dyson and half-human/half-Zentraedi Guld Goa Bowman have become rival mecha test pilots. They're also still competing for the affection of Myung Lone, the producer for cybernetic singing sensation Sharon Apple. When an illegal "bio-neural" chip is implanted into the computer that generates Sharon, she becomes sentient, attacking Myung and attempting to lure Isamu to his death. Wild and crazy Isamu and serious Guld defeat the plot with their hotshot piloting. The film boasts elaborate computer-animated special effects and exceptionally well choreographed aerial battles, but director Shoji Kawamori correctly summed up Macross Plus as "a serious story with a silly plot. " Unrated; suitable for ages 16 and up: Nudity, violence, sexual situations. -Charles Solomon.
Actors & Directors
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- James Marsters
- Anthony Head
- Nicholas Brendon
- Alyson Hannigan
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer / WB Television Network, The:
Actors & Directors
- Keye Luke
- Janet Waldo
- Ronnie Schell
- Alan Young
- Casey Kasem
- David E. Hanson
Review Battle of the Planets:
Actors & Directors
- Rei Sakuma
- Masako Katsuki
- Maria Kawamura
- Hideaki Anno
- Noriko Hidaka
- Norio Wakamoto
Review Gunbuster:The OAV Gunbuster (a. k. a. "Aim for the Top") proved so popular it spawned a manga series, the sequel Diebuster (2004) and a theatrical feature (2006). When she was a child, Noriko Takaya's father was killed in humanity's first encounter with aliens from the core of the galaxy. Her desire to follow him into space leads Noriko to the Okinawa Girls' Space Pilot High School, where she meets her future partner Kazumi Amano and Coach Koichiro Ohta. Noriko displays little aptitude for steering mecha, but Ohta sees the potential beneath the maladroit exterior. Soon Noriko is in space, piloting the experimental robot-suit Gunbuster and fighting aliens who look like the monsters in Gahan Wilson cartoons. Gunbuster plays like a mixture of Patlabor, Star Wars, and Robotech, with a generous helping of fan service nudity. In the intervening years, Noriko's mixture of weepy ineptitude and I'll-do-my-best fire has become an anime archetype. [+]And there's simply too much story for a six-part OAV: characters appear and disappear with little effect. Gunbuster has received a great deal of attention because it marked the first commercial success from the fledgling Gainax studio and the directorial debut of Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno. It's hard to see much foreshadowing of Anno's later brilliance, except for the dramatic use of a black and white palate and still artwork in the last episode, set 12,000 years in the future. Spreading six episodes with minimal extras over three discs seems chintzy, as the material could easily fit on two or even one. (Rated 16 and older: violence, nudity, minor risqué humor) -Charles Solomon.
![Review Geneon [Pioneer] / The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion - Terrible Power](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515036983ZL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1999-07-27
Run time: 65 min.
Price: $9.98
Review The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion - Terrible Power / Geneon [Pioneer]:Shaka and Jamar take advantage of Kimba's conviction not to fight within Panja's Jungle and seriously injure him. While he recovers, Malody challenges Kimba's ideals and makes Kimba face the possibility that some conflicts will result in violence. After Kimba recovers, he finds himself tempted by the terrible power and adrenaline that comes from fighting. He also discovers that while his strength will defeat his enemies, it also frightens all of his friends. He resolves to resist the temptation of his darker impulses and to pursue his destiny!.
Actors & Directors
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Alyson Hannigan
- Nicholas Brendon
- Anthony Head
- James Marsters
Price: $32.99
Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 5 (Box Set 2) / WB Television Network, The:
Release date: 2004-10-05
Run time: 60 min.
List Price: $7.98
Price: $29.99
Review Little Nemo (Sub Edit Clam) / Funimation Prod:
Actors & Directors
- James Marsters
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Nicholas Brendon
- Alyson Hannigan
- Anthony Head
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer / WB Television Network, The:
Actors & Directors
- Kyôko Tongu
- Shigeru Chiba
- Takashi Watanabe
- Taiki Matsuno
- Kousei Tomita
- Tesshô Genda
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Gô Nagai
List Price: $19.98
Price: $29.99
Review Abashiri Family / Adv Films:
Actors & Directors
- Kôichi Ishiguro
- Sanshirô Nitta
- Bill Kestin
- Takeshi Kusao
- Yûko Mizutani
- Kôzô Shioya
Review Kyôshoku sôkô Guyver:Three high school students find themselves drawn into a plot to turn humans into metamorphic monsters or "Zoanoids" in this 1989 OAV, based on Yoshiki Takaya's manga. Sho Fukamachi finds a lost "control metal" that transforms him into the super-warrior Guyver via a mecha suit derived from alien DNA. With his friends Tetsuro and Mizuki and the mysterious Guyver III, Sho fights an increasingly nasty series of Zoanoids created by the Chronos corporation: hands get ripped off, holes are blown and punched through bodies, and blood sprays everywhere. The character designs recall Ronin Warriors (1989), and the plot of a sinister corporation trying to take over the world through illegal bio-technical experiments has become a standard in the intervening years. Two live-action films were also based on Guyver. (Rated 13 and older but more appropriate for 15 and older: violence, grotesque imagery, profanity, brief nudity) -Charles Solomon.
Release date: 2001-01-09
Run time: 52 min.
Price: $24.95
Review Ramma 1/2 Martial Mayhem - My Kagemusha, Myself / Viz Video:A carton of Soun and Genma's coveted takoyaki or "octopus puffs" goes missing, and the entire household is suspect. It's Rashomon, Tendo Dojo style! AND THEN: Who better to train against than yourself? But is the time Ranma's spending with this "shadow self" really good for him?.
Actors & Directors
- Laura Bailey (II)
- Justin Cook
- Christopher Sabat
- Noriyuki Abe
- Chuck Huber
- Cynthia Cranz
List Price: $79.95
Price: $29.99
Review Yu Yu Hakusho: Spirit (4pc) / Funimation Prod:
Actors & Directors
- Charisma Carpenter
- Alyson Hannigan
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Nicholas Brendon
- Anthony Head
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 6 Collection - Part 1 / WB Television Network, The:
Actors & Directors
- James Marsters
- Nicholas Brendon
- Anthony Head
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Alyson Hannigan
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer / WB Television Network, The:
Actors & Directors
- Chance Munsterman
- Laura Bailey
- Justin Cook
- Kent Williams
- Noriyuki Abe
- Chuck Huber
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Yoshihiro Togashi
Price: $14.95
Review Yu Yu Hakusho: Seven Ways to Die (Edit) / Funimation Prod:Includes episodes 19 – 21 While Yusuke’s team struggles through Maze Castle, another battle is being fought on the streets of Yusuke’s city. Humans controlled by the Makai Insects have been sent to murder Kayko! Now the Spirit Detective’s only chance to save the girl he cares about most is to destroy the Makai Whistle, which rests in the hand of Suzaku, the final Saint Beast. And in this battle, the price of victory is Yusuke’s life!.
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