Angel's Anime Rating Guide

Sadly, Divergence Eve just wasn't for me. Cheesy CG effects abound as humans battle wave after wave of "Ghouls". Volume 1 Welcome to the Watcher's Nest Directed by Hiroshi Negishi (Tenchi Universe, Burn Up W), this futuristic high-flying epic is brimming with intense space battles, high-tech fighting robots, and babes who more than fill out their skimpy military uniforms. In the 24th Century, intergalactic space travel has become a reality. One of the first outposts in the far reaches of space is the Watcher's Nest, a launching point for the brand new state-of-the-art inflation hole drive portal. Unfortunately, the outpost has recently come under attack by a mysterious and vicious alien force known simply as the Ghoul. A group of young hard-headed (and hard-bodied) female cadets with fresh out of boot camp have been assigned to defend the station at all costs. This bevy of beauties is unexpectedly thrown into a hornet's nest of trouble as they finalize

In the early '80s, Thundercats aired on TV and featured a band of feline-esque characters fighting the forces of evil. My pride and joy for many years, was a video tape archive of nearly every episode broadcast in the Philadelphia area. I've lovingly preserved the tapes and they still work, even twenty years after they were recorded. Video tapes can't last forever and sooner or later the tapes are going to degrade with the passage of time. So, when I heard that Thundercats was coming to DVD, I had to get it. In a distant galaxy the world of Thundera is in crisis. The planet's structure has become unstable and is near collapse. With their destruction imminent Thundera's denizens--known as the Thundercats--escape in a spaceship and plot a course for a new home. While in transit the Thundercats are attacked by evil mutants and their craft is irreparably damaged. Jaga the eldest Thundercat sacrifices himself in order to pilot the ship safely to its destination: Thir

To my surprise, not only was  Paranoia Agent  really, really good, but, it was also only four volumes. For some reason that defies description, I was under the impression that the series was longer. In Paranoia Agent , after the first victim's story, the police felt the overly stressed woman was having a breakdown and lied to cover-up for some crime. However, after the third and fourth attacks upon unrelated victims led to the same description of a young attacker with a golden baseball bat and in-line skates, the police had to wonder - is the Lil' Slugger real or some kind of sinister phantom? An interesting side note turned up when I was listening the commentary track. The director, Satoshi Kon, confirmed that the opening and ending animation have nothing whatsoever to do with the story. Apparently, the opening and ending created a great deal of controversy when they were originally aired in Japan. With fans of the series studying the sequences in microscopic detail and try