Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Science Fiction - Director: Hiroyuki Yamaga - Original Language: Japanese - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Ayako Kawasumi, Fujiko Takimoto
Advantages: Curiously sophisticated story and psychologically telling examination of violence - and girls with guns, too Disadvantages: Nothing, really.
. And having read the book you can understand why. But I'll say no more on that.
Certainly, it is a superior piece of television, regardless of origin; Yuki Kajiura's music perfectly matches the mood of the series; sometimes pulsating, often melancholy, it adds that extra element of class.
My only comment: do not watch this in an English dub but subtitled. As usually, the dub is pretty average and somehow American accents just don't work for me in anime (not that English ones do either, for that matter!). Stick to the original.
As for extras there's but a few. Clean opening and closing sequences (which is worth it for watching the fabulous opening credits); production sketches; Japanese promos and the obligatory trailers. There's an easter egg in there somewhere but it tells you all about that on the web somewhere.
When I first ...
Advantages: kids like it Disadvantages: is nothing compared to the original
The new cartoon format of 'Mr Bean' is all in all a complete let down. I got very excited when I heard that a cartoon mr bean was coming out. I had expected it to be along the lines of the classic comedy sitcom sketches by Rowan Atkinson, but it's nothing like it one bit. The modern artwork tries to make Mr Bean look appealing to the younger generation and completely destroys his unique clumsy geek image.
The DVD consists of one disc and features eight animatedepisodes each lasting about 15 minutes including: 1. Camping (mr bean decides to go camping for a holiday treat, however as usual with mr bean, things go wrong. He makes a security guard angry, he tent colapses and ends up creating more trouble by trying to fix everything and geting even with the secuirty guard).
2. Chocks Away -in this episode Mr Bean takes to building ...
Advantages: An easy to watch, compelling and uplifting series Disadvantages: A lack of action and adventure means it's not for everyone
Fruits Basket Vol. 1
Intro
Fruits Basket is a comedy/drama/romance anime show (Japanese cartoon) aimed at teenage girls. The series is 26 episodes long, split over 3 DVDs. Volume 1, "A Great Transformation", contains episodes 1-8. The DVD features the show in the original Japanese with subtitles, or dubbed in English.
Fruits Basket is based upon a manga series (Japanese comic books), also translated into English. The manga series is ongoing (currently around volume 10+ in English). The DVDs cover the first 7 or so mangas.
The DVDs start from scratch and there is no need to read the manga to understand the plot.
Synopsis
Fruits Basket follows the life of optimistic heroine Tohru Honda, a high school girl who lost her only living parent, her mother Kyoko, to a car accident a year before the start of the anime.
It ...
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Product details
Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Classification
15 years and over
Production Year
2002
Running Time
1 hour 40 minutes
Video Category
Anime
Country Of Origin
Japan
Plot
Emergency food supply, Menchi, escapes Excel to enjoy an exciting adventure on the road. Excel and Hyatt become teachers to learn about education. Their neighbours help a detective crack a case and finally, Excel and Hyatt recap the show so far in a special 'Year End' episode.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
ADV FILMS; ARVATO SERVICES
Release date
22/09/2003
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
DEX 003
Barcode
0702727023729
Languages
Main Language
Japanese
Dubbed Language
English
Subtitle Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
AD Vid Notes, Find The Mint, Menchi Recipes, Production Sketches, ADV Previews, Interview With Shinichi Watanabe
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 English Japanese
Animated
Animated
DVD Description
Billed as "the ultimate parody of anime," EXCEL SAGA certainly goes out of its way to parody every convention of the genre it can. From the cloying J-pop opening, it's clear that this series' sole aim is to be a good-natured farce, one that revolves around a main character who, on the surface is not much different from any other anime heroine. However, the key difference between Excel and all those who preceded her is that Excel is completely and utterly insane and considers it her goal to conquer the city of F. These episodes find Excel and Hyatt once again trying to take over the city of F in a rather foolish manner as they invoke the secret ideological agency of ACROSS.
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