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!

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.

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.

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 ...