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| Angelic Layer - The Complete Collection | 
 enlarge | Director: Nishikiori Hiroshi
Actors: Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuri Shiratori, Jun Fukuyama, Ayako Kawasumi, A. Jacob Gragard
Studio: Adv Films
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 46852
Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 5
Running Time: 650
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DALBX2D
UPC: 702727131622
EAN: 0702727131622
ASIN: B000ADKWN2
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New in shrinkwrap, licensed release! I stand behind all of my items, all are new, factory sealed, and guaranteed.
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Description
From Shojo manga superstars Clamp comes an anime classic. 12 year old Misaki builds her own Angel, a robot competitor for the hit arcade game Angelic Layer. She soon begins winning battles where will and determination count far more than size and strenth. It's a heartwarming story with a message-and a great low price collection!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 Highly enjoyable series January 1, 2009
Let me start by saying I haven't read the Manga so this review is based only on the video.
I purchased this anime because of the lack of selection on the shelves in the stores. I had expected the series to be a fighting series like Voltron where there really is no story.
Delightfully, this is not the case. Yes, the series is about fighting more and more difficult opponents (notice that I didn't use the word enemies). What it stresses, but kinda of preachy, is having fun and doing your best. It is not abouting trashing your Pvp opponent but to use the battleground as another form of playing.
It is highly enjoyable and entertaining. What pushes it to 5 stars instead of 4 is that it nicely wraps up a story about a girl finally reuniting with her mother and how Angelic Layer evolved to became to be the centerpiece of this meeting.
angelic layer December 2, 2008
I believe that once in awhile you find a series whither TV or anime that stays with you. Angelic layer is a heart warming look into the dreams and emotions of a 12 yr old girl who truly misses her mom. You will laugh with masaki you will cry with masaki and you will be there right along with her every step of the way.
Cute, fun anime - plenty of action! November 21, 2008
This is a really funny anime series about a girl who has not seen her mother since Kindergarten and has moved to Tokyo to live with her aunt. She sees a White Angel fighting a battle on a big screen at the train station and a stranger in a white lab coat encourages her to get involved in Angelic Layer, a game where robotic dolls fight each other in battle. She takes his advice, with funny, romantic and mysterious results. This is a very entertaining series, particularly if you like comic anime. If you're new to anime, it's a light hearted introduction, and if you've watched a lot, it's a refreshing break from some of the more serious anime out there. I will watch this one again, so definitely worth the money.
 Angelic Layer - Spreading the frosting a little too thin November 11, 2008
The Angelic Layer anime is based on a very short manga series by Clamp. The story centers on the adventures of Misaki-chan, a tiny school girl, who learns to play a game called Angelic Layer, where contestants fight using mind control helmets to make their "angels" - little robotic dolls, move inside a special arena. The manga series is one of Clamp's better offerings, this anime series is not. My first complaint is that the animation is only second rate, reminding me of anime like Robotech, rather than more modern anime like "Kamichu" or "Lucky Star". The character models only faintly resemble their manga characters. The animators cannot decide how big or small to make Misaki-chan, in some stories she is the same size as her classmates, while in others she is only slightly smaller, not a good foot or so shorter like in the manga. Because of this, all her angst over being "tiny" - her driving force for excelling at Angelic Layer - is lost. Because the manga was so short, the producers of the anime had to spread the story out to make 26 episodes. Characters and angel fights not in the manga are introduced, and, like in a Dragonball Z story, a battle that only took minutes in the manga is often spread across two or three episodes. My biggest complaint is that in adding so much stuff, they changed essential parts of the original story. Instead of being painfully shy, Misaki-chan's mother is disabled and ashamed to meet her daughter because of her disability. The boy-girl relationships end up different than in the manga, too, for no apparent reason that I can see other than it appears that the producers and writers painted themselves into a corner with some of the filler stories. This is not a bad anime, it is just not great, and if you haven't read the manga, you will probably like the anime just fine. It is one of Clamps most "G" rated offerings, with the strange "boy meets robot sexuality" of Chobits and without all the same sex pairings as in Card Captor Sakura.
A Pretty Good Anime For Everyone And Also A Good Storyline As Well July 27, 2008
I usually don't buy these kind of anime since I feel there more for the younger kids than anything else so for whatever reason I did end up getting this one and am very surprised at how good this series really was. The main story follows on small mechanized toy fighting robots called angels that people can use in tournaments called Angelic Layer the robots fight one another in these tournaments and the winner advances to the next round the prize is to be the Angelic Layer champion of certain cities. Enter Misaki Suzuhara(Voiced By Atsuko Enomoto/Jessica Boone) who arrives in Tokyo to live with her aunt and study at a bigger and better school discovers the sport of Angelic Layer and after getting some basic advice and equipment know how from a crafty and weird scientist by the name of Ichiro "Icchan" Mihara(Voiced By Masaya ONOSAKA/Andy McAvin)
begins playing in the angelic layer tournaments. Misaki's other wish for coming to Tokyo is to try and find her missing mother and as you watch the series you will both find out who her mother is and why she felt she had to leave her daughter at the time. The series is for the most part light-hearted with a touch of romance both for the adults and the kids in the anime. The series will of course remind you a little of Pokeman or Card Captors but it's still a very entertaining,cute,and heart-warming series that should not be pushed aside by the more dramatic mecha anime show fans these fans might just be surprised just as I was. Like a lot of the complete box sets the extras aren't much just some trailers and text-less intro/ending songs the video is standard format with 5.1 English audio or 2.0 Japanese audio and both Japanese and English voice actors did a terrific job with this show. I say get this while you can because I'm not sure if anyone else knows but sadly ADV films has lost a lot of contract titles that they had in their production to Funimation so
hopefully ADV films can make a comeback from this if not a lot of these sets might be harder to find...
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