Battle Of The Planets - Vol. 1 (Animated)

Advantages: Good animation and action sequences, terrific music
Disadvantages: So-so extras, lack of plot coherency

...in the original trilogy when they're on the Empire's side!). As you might expect there are lots of battles, in fact lots and lots and lots of battles, taking place on various planets but all part of the same galaxy-wide conflict of the Clone Wars. It's very, very light entertainment, lots of action and aesthetic wonderment but not much plot, and better than average dialogue for this sort of thing. While of itself I only marginally recommend Volume 1 of Clone Wars, it does set things up nicely for the superior Volume 2. To complement the animation, the voice acting is well up to standard with all the characters sounding respectably enough like their film counterparts. (From quickly scanning the voice acting crew I can only see one - Anthony Daniels [C3PO] - from the film's doing voice acting here.) The voice of Anakin does occasionally sound a little... Read review

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Advantages: back to 6 episodes per volume
Disadvantages: still not enough episodes

...Even though they are on earth, Kira and his ship can not get to the earth federation base, and are constantly being chased by asuran and his group. here they meet the reinforcements of a neutral countries help and involment, who turns out to be the father of kira's sister, there is a long and brilliant battle between the mobile suits, and leads to the capture of one of the mobile suit pilots. the dvd features on this are the usual 6 episodes on 2 MPEG-2 dvd disc's, and the usual character info, this time on the human girl who hates new humans and seduces kira into believing that he is helping her when she is using him. There are also the usual 5.1 dolby digital surround sound with the usual 2 audios of english and japanese. along with the usual list of european and english language subtitle options and the chapter selction option too.... Read review

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Advantages: Unique , funny, moving, brilliant characters
Disadvantages: contains nudity, fantisy violence and mild inuendo 12+ only

.... They have been tracking Ryoko in order to find their missing brother. They in turn are followed by the Galaxy Police who have accidentally sent in an amature blond catastrophe magnet called Mihoshi to planet earth. The irregular gathering of space celebrities attracts Kagato a highly dangerous space criminal who has single handedly destroyed entire solar systems.He unveils some hidden truths to Tenchi's family line and kidnaps Ryoko which disrupts the finely balanced peace which has somehow come about in Tenchi's home. Episodes include: 1. Ryoko Resurrected 2. Here Comes Ayeka! 3. Hello Ryo-ohki! 4. Mihoshi Falls To The Land Of Stars 5. Kagato Attacks! The plot is described by many as a samurai space opera soap as it involves romance, comedy, tragedy, philosophy and deep space sword and space ship battles over the power of Juriai's trees... Read review

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