Angel's Anime Rating Guide

Sometime ago, I picked up the VHS version of  Macross II ... 80 years have passed since the events chronicled in Macross- Do You Remember Love?. The descendants of the Zentradi/Meltrandi conflict have established a new society with the people of Earth. The U.N. Spacy force has integrated Zentradi warships into its fleet, and Zentradi and humanity peacefully co-exist.

A while back, I picked up Angel Links ... Volume 1: Avenging Angel Meifon Li is... ...the head of a major corporation, ...the captain of a state-of-the-art space ship, ...a formidable martial artist, a skilled negotiator, ... only 16 years old! Meifon is an extraordinary girl, with an extraordinary tale to tell. Join Meifon as she and the crew of the Angel Links run a free pirate-fighting service. She's rounded up a crack staff of experts, including the master strategist Valeria and the unstoppable Dragonite Duuz. They're going to clean up the galaxy, and they're not afraid to get their uniforms dirty!

Years ago, I picked up the VHS version of Cowboy Bebop ... Session 1 The year 2071 A.D. That future is now. Driven out of their terrestrial Eden, humanity chose the stars as the final frontier. With the section-by-section collapse of the former nations a mixed jumble of races and peoples came. They spread to the stars, taking with them the now confused concepts of freedom, violence, illegality and love, where new rules and a new generation of outlaws came into being. People referred to them as Cowboy Bebops...  Meet Spike and Jet, a drifter and a retired cyborg cop who have started a bounty hunting operation. In the converted ship The Bebop, Spike and Jet search the galaxy for criminals with bounties on their heads. They meet a lot of unusual characters, including the unusually intelligent dog, Ein, and the voluptuous and vexing femme fatale, Faye Valentine. See why Cowboy Bebop was Japan's best-selling anime title in 1998.

At a time when video tapes still stalked the Earth, I picked up the VHS version of Geobreeders ... The brave men and women of Kagura Total Security work around the clock to rid the world of its most troublesome pests - phantoms! Their only weapons: their wits, the most advanced computer technology, and ... REALLY BIG GUNS! Okay, so they're a bunch of trigger-happy lunatics. But when a young friend gets kidnapped by a mysterious enemy, the Kagura team is her only hope. Boy, is she in trouble.

Way back in the misty down of time, I picked up Hand Maid May ... Volume 1 Maid To Order Nanbara is furious! Nanbara, the self-absorbed, pompous, overbearing villain of our show has always resented Kazuya, the constantly distracted hero, and developed a virus to exact his ultimate revenge. Unfortunately, "revenge" became an accidental delivery of a 1-foot tall cyborg maid whose sweetness is only exceeded by her cheerfulness! Will Nanbara's schemes of revenge ever become realized? Will Kazuya be able to pay the $1,450,009 bill? Join May and our new cast of lunatics for a wild ride to explore the cutting edge of computer peripherals.

A while back, I picked up  Pet Shop Of Horrors ... Based on the hit manga by Mori Akino, Pet Shop of Horrors comes to life in animation. Welcome to Chinatown's most unique pet shop. There is a variety of exotic creatures to choose from, each with an intriguing tale to share with the lucky owner. But be careful, what you see is not necessarily what you get. Here is a collection of four stories of lost love, second chances, and redemption. Whether or not the client can handle the responsibility, however, is a matter of life and death.

Sometime ago, I picked up Magic Users Club ... Volume 1 I'll Follow You It was in another world, during a magical time full of mystery, wonder, and ancient power. It was a place known as high school. When humanity was threatened by an alien force so powerful that all of Earth was left helpless, it became clear to anyone with any common sense at all that no one could ever stand against them. Luckily, our brave Magic User's Club doesn't have much of that. Earnestly clueless Sae Sawanoguchi must challenge the most powerful force in the universe, keep up with her homework, and thwart the bouncing bust of the evil queen of girl's comic books, Miyama.

At a time before Pioneer had made the seitch to DVD-only products, I picked up the VHS version of Parallel Dual: Trouble Adventure ... Volume 1 Visions Kazuki is plagued by visions of giant, destructive robots that no one else can see. But all of the years of ridicule are about to pay off! Before he knows what's happening, Kazuki gets ensnared by a pretty face, and then a mad scientist's experiment throws him into his world of visions! Now the danger is very real and his allies are twice as strange as he ever imagined! On the plus side, he gets to drive the robots!

Years ago, I picked up the VHS version of  Gestalt ... Oliver, a young priest of the Vasaria order, has heard about a god who lives on G, a distant island so forbidden the speaking its name brings a curse on all! When Oliver saves a young mute girl from slavery, their destinies become intertwined as they set out on a perilous journey to G. Ohri, a silenced sorceress from the island, is involved in a deadly game of survival that brings her and Oliver face to face with treacherous dark elves, giant carrion crawlers and powerful elementals. In the end, there is only one truth - Gestalt - a fantasy-filled voyage packed with plot twists, magic and wonder!

In  Amazing Nurse Nanako , we follow the misadventures of Dr. Ogami, the worlds's leading surgeon, and his live-in nurse, housekeeper and troublemaker, Nanako... Volume 1 Memories of You "From the mind of the world's most brilliant scientist, comes the most powerful weapon of the 21st Century... Then again, maybe not. My name is Dr. Kyoji Ogami, the world's leading surgeon, scientist and bioengineer. The young lady that you see here is Nanako Shichigusa. She works for me as a nurse, housekeeper and addle-minded troublemaker. But despite Nanako's flaws, she is about to become the subject of my greatest experiment. Her simple brain will be removed and transplanted into the body of my ultimate cybernetic combat robot, the Venus 2000!!!

Sin is based on a video game of the same name and is notable for being a U.S.-Japan co-production with AD Vision funding the effort... Enter the world of SIN. In the 21st century, the city of Freeport teeters on the verge of collapse. The twin tides of rampant crime and ruinous graft face but a single barrier, an elite strike-force labeled HARDCORPS. Lead by Colonel John Blade, they have become a fierce fighting force for justice in Freeport.

Hayao Miyazaki (creator of  Kiki's Delivery Service  and  My Neighbor Totoro ) brings us  Princess Mononoke ... The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects. When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village clan, kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is in fact an infectious "demon god," transformed by human anger.