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| Buy | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | Sesen Kelader | # |
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It bears really thoughful ideas. There are lots of actions and violent scenes, and the background of the world is extremely extraordinary so that it's pretty hard to adapt it at the beginning. The world is more like corrupted Earth after couple hundreds or thousands year later from now. PPL are divided into two category, one living on the rotted earth, the other living on the machi in the air. Story happens on the earth, however. Hate, Dreams, Hopes, Love, Revenge, Friendship, and many human feelings include in this anime. Although the way it tells the story is kinda gloomy, it has pretty good points of telling human nature. Last updated Saturday, January 04 2003. | ||||||||
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I really liked this anime. The only problem I had with it was there wasn't enough of it! The animation was very good, and I liked the character designs of Gally and Yugo a lot, cute without being nausiating, though I didn't care for many of the supporting cast. The art was cool, dark and brooding, and it reminded me ever so much of Masamune Shirow. The music was very cool, and the story, while not excellent, was sufficient, even engaging. The mechanical and cybernetic design was really good, and there were some novel and intelligent ideas presented, like hooking Yugo's head into Gally's life support systems. Little touches like that made Battle Angel even better. Remarkable action sequences, great animation, cool characters and a decent story make Battle Angel a buy, even if it does run a bit short. Last updated Wednesday, October 09 2002. | ||||||||
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I hate it when people make an anime based off a manga and refuse to go the full nine with it! BATTLE ANGEL is a victim of such a horrible crime as its volumes of interesting manga are ignored just so some production company could make a few quick bucks on the generalities of a series. A quality beginning to a series I doubt well see more of. Not too bad a premise, but I am getting a little tired of these cyber-punk stories (never a fav genre of mine). Probably a more enjoyable viewing if youve read the comic, otherwise youll just feel a little confused/cheated after watching the makings of a great saga.
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This is a very interesting anime. The environment the story takes place in is really neat. One thing that was especially great, was the mystery of Zalem(a floating city). The main characters were quite good, especially their designs. The minor characters' designs were a bit disapointing,(and even a little annoying at times). It kept me interested through the whole show. My only complaint was that the last battle, with the bounty hunter who has been following Gally, was a little anti-climatic. It starts out like its going to be this enormously tough battle, then becomes a short and (in my opinion) unimpressive battle. Over all it is enjoyable and recommend buying it.
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| Rent | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | Andy | # |
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GENERAL The two OVA's are named "Battle Angel" here in the US because ADV wanted to hook in the Manga, which was renamed by Viz, because they are silly. ART The art is very good with detailed backgrounds and time taken for every scene. ANIMATION The animation is for the most part very very good, however some of Gally's flips seem very awkward. High frame rates all around. CHARACTER DESIGN The main characters have attractive, reasonable designs, but some of the secondary characters are very strange looking and don't fit in. First is the man with the huge face in the first episode, as well as Greweicia with his massive bow legs. MUSIC The music is effective and doesn't get in the way. It isn't too memorable eitherm, and is a bit repetative. Much of the time it sounds almost exactly the same as the music in Terminator 2. STORY The world of this story really feels like a place. The background of the story is very rich. The story itself is dark, violent with an overwealming sense of melancholy. Last updated Tuesday, November 09 1999. | ||||||||
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This is my first review. In other words, I do not have the slightest idea if this will work. Strike this from your page Andy if it is not in keeping with the idea of the review section :) Ok, basically I'd give the series a "rent" rating for reasons I will outline below. Beyound this point are several *SPOILERS* So we have this giant floating city, Zalem. Very nice, but why exactly are they discarding all this rusted metal? Do they leave it sitting in the rain for a couple of years before dropping it down the chute? It just doesn't make any sense! Anyone who can create a floating city is going to have super-light alloys that don't rust and they will likely recycle most of their stuff anyway. As for Gally, she is really one of the best character designs I've seem. The cute head (eyes more detailed than from Kodocha) attanched to this strange metal body. The dichotomy of the two is simply beautiful! Obviosly there is not a lot of time for character development in just two eps (big minus in my book). However, Gally and the other kid, Yugo I think, work quite well in their few scenes together. That leads to a few more problems however. In the final ep something happens to Yugo (let's say he is gravely injured). There is this idea where Gally sort of hooks herself up to Yugo to keep him alive. Do we get to see this awesome scene, the type of thing that would make Masamune Shirow cry with joy?? Noooo, we get some stupid pen and ink drawing. Did they run out of cash in just two eps? And finally, at the very end (of the OAV, the manga has barely started I gather at this point)Yugo basically commits suicide! Did I get this right? He jumps off of Zalem for Pete's sake. This has no emotional effect on me at all because it is so insipid! Now if he fell, different story; but he chooses to die with Gally right there. The fight scenes between Gally and the BIG guy are pretty good, as is the overall mood evoked by the day-to-day goings on in Scrap City (or whatever it was called). A movie taking off from this point might be quite interesting. Last updated Thursday, September 09 1999. | ||||||||
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