Angel's Anime Rating Guide

Years ago, I used to have the VHS version of Roujin Z ... Written and designed by Katsuhiro Otomo - the director of the ground breaking film Akira - and featuring the top names in Japanese animation industry - Director Kirohuki Kitakubo (Patlabor - The Movie, Black Magic M66), and Animation Director Fumio Lida (Wings of Honneamise)! An elderly invalid, Takazawa, is volunteered for a bizarre experiment that may revolutionize care for the elderly - despite the protests of his young nurse, Haruko. The Z-001 is supposed to be the ultimate surrogate nurse - it can monitor, bathe, feed, exercise, and provide entertainment by linking with the patient's brainwaves. However, the capabilities of the mechanical caregiver grow beyond the designer's original plans when it attempts to satisfy Takazawa's every need. Responding to his whim, the Z-001 transforms into a bizarre, unstoppable robot - which smashes out of the hospital and battles its way through police barricades en route

Recently, I picked up Princess Resurrection ... Volume 1 No good deed goes unpunished, so when Hiro Hiyormi tries to save a beautiful young woman from certain death he ends up a bit dead himself! Now normally a corpse is a corpse, of course, of course; but when the girl you've saved is the daughter of the King of the Monsters, there's no such thing as resting in peace! Pulled back from the grave to join Hime's monstrous retinue of servants and sycophants, Hiro must NOW follow in the wake of carnage and destruction that trails his chainsaw wielding mistress as she battles the various rogue werewolves, vampires and zombies that make her life (and his post-death) a living hell! Still, while this isn't quite the afterlife Hiro was hoping for, it DOES beat that OTHER alternative, should Hime decide to stop funneling life back into his body! She's the ghoul your mother warned you about and she wants your body in PRINCESS RESURRECTION! Volume 2 If you thought the fir

I picked up the Season 1 set of Spice and Wolf last week... Lawrence, a traveling merchant searching for profit, finds a naked girl with the ears and tail of a wolf asleep in his cart. Her name is Holo - a harvest goddess with an untamed beast lurking inside who longs to return to her beloved northern home. Armed with his street smarts and her animal instincts, a simple peddler and a forgotten deity begin a journey through the wild countryside. Along their path, the riches of happiness shall be reaped, even as the bankruptcy which dwells in the human heart is exposed. I've always had a soft spot for cat girls. It remains to be seen if that soft spot extends to wolf girls. I've seen a few episodes and so far, it seems fairly intriguing...

I had seen the previews and read the comments on the web regarding "Dances With Smurfs". After talking to a few people who saw the movie and were generally pleased, I decided that I would not wait until the DVD came out to see Avatar . On New Year's Day, Mom and I thought it would be a good idea to head over to our favorite local movie theater in South Philly to see the movie. With the house being full of people, catching one of the early shows was out of the question. So, we settled on the 8:00pm showing. This is the first time I'd ever gone to see a movie on New Year's Day, so we were expecting the theater to be crowded. And, as we approached, all of the parking lots surrounding the theater were completely full -- there were even cars on the sidewalks and even though the strip malls in the area were closed, all of the parking lots were filled to capacity. As we drove past the theater, we could see that the line wasn't very long, but, without parking we wer