Adventures of Mini Goddess

This whimsical series is a spin-off of the enormously popular Oh! My Goddess series, and has the three goddesses Skuld, Urd and Bell Dandy in miniature format. Together with her friend Gan-Chan (is a rat, of course), they have crazy adventures, which are so small in length as the characters are in size.

Adventures of Mini-Goddess requires no prior knowledge of the OMG series, and each of the tiny seven minute episodes are pretty much stand-alone, although some do refer to earlier episodes.

The first episode on this DVD contains Gan married to a boiler, the stories are very often extremely mad. If you see this as a negative, do not even think to buy it. It is predictable fun for those days when you feel a little brainless, not a huge lot more. Even so, I found it really started to grow in me after a few episodes.

The animation is above average, the slapstick comedy and character development completely absent. The nice thing about this series is that it is not too serious. It is full of parodies and even laughs at himself occasionally. You'll have fun watching if you have a silly sense of humour, but if you are heavily involved in this act a miss.

A short note on the sign. Although Gan was not present in the original series, it is quite important main character here. Most of the action revolves around him, while Urd and Skuld as a sign of support and Bell Dandy appears only rarely.

Bell Dandy and her sisters first appeared in the U.S. in 1994. AnimEigo the OVA series released on video, and Dark Horse serialised novel of manga as an experiment to see how popular these really crazy Japanese comics. Since Oh! My Goddess remained a firm fan favorite, has produced and the goddess mini spin-off series and a movie. A brand new series is currently broadcast in Japan.

Howl's Moving Castle

In a fairy-tale world of the hilly landscape, cobbled streets and go dark castles, a young girl named Sophie plays the quiet routines of their lives. She works as Hatters in a small shop, surrounded by magnificent creations - but far from feels beautiful. Miyazaki's latest film is that it constantly ask what it means to feel and the beautiful, whether Sophie feeling, surrounded by the glamour to it in her studio, or roar, the main male lead, with a Tantrum of his hair .

At the beginning of the film, Sophie is a hat and was hassled by two dishonest and amorous soldiers. A large, blond man dashing swoops in to save her and Sophie is overwhelmed by its proximity to such a beautiful and charismatic young man. He is on the run from mysterious dark creatures and in the truest sense of the word sweep them from their feet and provide it with the word. He had them in the safety and disappears, Sophie has to wonder what they did to his attention.

But Sophie is not as safe as they thought, and the dark forces. Later a huge snail wife Sophie visits in the night, a curse on it. Getransformeerd to a very old woman, and not in a position to say that fate on the search for a cure. Is the love of the key to their lost youth?

The story begins slowly, the establishment of the domestic side of Sophie's life and give you the city where she lives. In the surrounding area have a Germanic feel Edwardian steam powered vehicles and hints of a distant war. Then, suddenly the pace of the story about the occurrence of roar that brings him with his impotence rakish personality and dignity, and his dark magic.

The English vote, especially Christian Bale, all this good work. In all honesty would be hard to top the performance Bale, and he will probably still a long way, his character, roar, move to the public. Billy Crystal as the fire demon, Calcifer either endears itself to those who are already fans, or other upset when his performance sometimes sounds very similar that have been improvised. Although never Crystal dominates the scenes in his strong accent comic then some people. The other voice actors, although some of them are high (Jean Simmons, Lauren Bacall) are neither poor nor exceptionally good, but they do their job well enough in conjunction with the background.

The character behavior is good, and you can see them in time. In particular, the scenes in which Sophie discovered until the completion of her body, her resulting confusion and behavior is very credible and warms up their fate. Even in the form of an old woman, the character is still attractive, and you feel for their situation. The film gives you visual cues as they finally break the curse and thus the films resolution is to be expected and natural.

The animation is excellent and institutions as diverse as the destinations roar of the magic door. The mixture of magic and steam flow produces a number of interesting juggernaughts of warships, flying gunboats, City bombing winged battle ships and even on foot castle, in which all the colors add to the film. There are brief scenes of a very dark and devastating war, but there is much attention to the daily routine of Sophie's more domestic activities and adventures.

Although there are a number of themes run, although this epic story, this is primarily a love story. The extension may feel a bit designed and ran when he ties together the many story, but please, everyone loves a cheerful and romantic ends.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Platinum Edition 1

Evangelion is both the embodiment of Japanese animation, in whole or overstated, depending on your opinion. Regardless of your opinion about whether the controversy surrounding the rather confusing ending Evangelion is still one of the most popular anime series of all time.

The direction is bossy and frightening. The storyline is mysterious, without frustrating. There is so much to continue the struggle and to act with the conduct of the act, instead of time to fill and bulk episodes. The other side of the coin, but it can be so philosophical that you want to scoop your brains out and throw it into a wall.

There have been big improvements in the quality of the sound and animation in comparison with the original version, but none of them are big enough to close the purchase of the series, if you already own. The English dub was cleaned, but I think the American voice acting overly hammy. The sound is Dolby 5:1 snazzy, but cheaper TV (like me) it sounds not so spectacular. If you have a brilliant sound, it's worth it.

A new Evangelion live-action film is currently in pre-production in the United States. Details are patchy at the moment, but the film has been reported that a huge budget and special effects by Weta - godlike these people that our LOTR. Hideaki Anno, director of the original series, is not involved in the project, but the original Japanese and American VAS may be asked to do cameos.

Yu Yu Hakusho 1

Yu Yu Hakusho is a series shonen struggling with its headquarters in a supernatural world where witches fly on Blue Haired rowing oars and speak with the most frightening bad English accent ever, and the leader of life after death looks like a baby.
The series begins, as the American TV series Desperate Housewives, with the main character die. The comparisons, because the action to follow Yusuke as he comes with his death.

Yusuke begins the series of almost daring the audience to hate his angsty little courage. He is a student criminals with a bad attitude and a tendency to beat fellow students. (And he swears!) Soon it becomes clear that he misunderstood, and his last act in life, he shocks by all jumping for a car to save a small child. From that moment, the story gets weirder and weirder as Botan, the aforementioned Blue Haired witch, tell him they have no place for him in life after death, because nobody expects him only…

The first CD contains the story line, the main characters (all pretty well rounded and have interesting backgrounds) and generally facilitated the viewer into the supernatural world, Yusuke now inhabited. I found it very interesting plot that, although the more action-packed episodes on the discs later began to grate on me.

The animation looks now, the (originally founded in 1992), and a bit simple. In fact, if you look at "Dragon Ball Z" They will not be that far away looks of the action. If you think that sounds vaguely offensive, you need not bother with Yu Yu Hakusho - they will probably also formulaic for you. If the comparison with DBZ move your imagination aflame, but I do not think you will be disappointed with this series.