Angel's Anime Rating Guide

Three weeks ago, I ordered the Power Puff Girls Christmas Special - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas ... It's Christmastime in Townsville, and the Powerpuff Girls are soooo excited to see what Santa brought them! So imagine their surprise when they discover their Christmas stockings are full of.........coal!. Can this BE? There must be some horrible mistake! There is. And her name is Princess! Her fiendishly foul plot: to trick Santa into turning her into the fourth Powerpuff Girl! (And, in the process, make him believe the Powerpuffs have been very, very naughty!). Now, Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup must explode into a Yuletide tornado of bad-girl-thwarting action to put Princess in her place --- and keep Christmas from disappearing forever! Today, after a three-week trek through the postal system, the Power Puff Girls Christmas Special - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas  has finally arrived. I was beginning to wonder about the whereabouts of the package, when it appea

I picked up Jinki: Extend  and promptly added it the the pile of unwatched anime. The pile of unwatched anime are titles that I paid good money to have in my collection, but, for one reason or another, have never actually been watched -- some of them haven't even been unwrapped. In most cases, it's not that they are unloved or unappreciated. I'm from the old school of anime fandom which prefer subtitled anime over dubbed anime. In order to thoroughly enjoy reading my anime, I need to set aside some time without any interruptions or distractions and camp out in front of the TV for a while. As it happens, my life is complicated and hectic at times and I haven't had the opportunity to sit down and enjoy the anime that I have. As if that weren't bad enough, the anime industry doesn't seem inclined to wait around for me -- new titles are coming almost every week. As a devout anime fan, I feel compelled to show my support for the U.S. anime industry in the only wa

I discovered to my surprise, that the 1967 Avengers series is available on DVD. In fact, there's an Emma Peel "megaset" on DVD that includes all of Emma's appearances in the black and white version of the show (1965-1966) as well as the color version (1967). None of my local video stores carry it, so, I'll have to order it. The Avengers practically defined British cult television, and it was never better than during the three years that Diana Rigg's Emma Peel character tossed out her witty barbs and karate kicks. The supercool 2006 edition of The Complete Emma Peel Megaset encompasses all 51 episodes from 1965-66 (in black and white) and 1967 (in color) plus a new bonus disc, all in 17 space-saving Thinpaks. Paired with Patrick Macnee as the dapper, umbrella-wielding John Steed, Rigg's Mrs. Peel turned heads with her sexy outfits, then broke skulls of the various would-be world-dominating bad guys who crossed her path. Like the mixed crime-fighting team

Over the long holiday weekend, I spent a lot of time recording episodes of the Blake's 7 TV series... Set in the "third century of the second calendar", Blake's 7 follows the exploits of revolutionary Roj Blake as he leads his band of reluctant rebels against the forces of the totalitarian Earth Federation which rules the Earth and many of the planets of the galaxy. The Federation controls its citizens by means of mass surveillance, brainwashing, and pacification with drugged food, water and air. Blake makes his daring strikes against the Federation using the Liberator, a spacecraft far in advance of anything the Federation possesses, with superior speed and weaponry as well as a revolutionary teleport system that allows crew members to be transported to the surface of a planet without having to land the ship. Although many of the tropes of space opera such as spaceships, robots, galactic empires and aliens are present, the series is primarily noted for its strong