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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie [2001]

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starring: Aoi Tada, Gara Takashima, Norio Wakamoto, Miki Nagasawa, Tsutomu Tareki
directed by: Shinichirô Watanabe

October 13, 2003
A superb movie. You really have to know the story of the series, or else you'll get confused with the characters, but the series is great too.

Of course, this being Cowboy Bebop, the music in the movie is STUNNING. The opening credits song is simply awesome.

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Colorful [2003]

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starring: Koki Tanaka, Sawako Agawa, Kanako Magara, Asuka Komayu, Yuki Kageyama
directed by: Shun Nakahara

October 20, 2003
Anime is often quite strange, particularly, I suspect, to the Western viewer. If you're looking for a fine example of this then look no further than the utterly bonkers, 'Colorful'. It consists of several short segments loosely joined together by repeating characters and situations, all of them devoted to making fun of the male obsession of catching a glimpse of the hidden delights of female underwear. Resolutely PC viewers may be appalled at this, but bear in mind that it is the male of the species that always comes out worse in these short films, while the females are uniformly portrayed as charming, innocent, intelligent, slightly bemused, or just plain sexy. For a start they are lovingly rendered, whereas the males are deliberately badly drawn, and ... Read More:

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Ghost In The Shell [1995]

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starring: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka, Tamio Ôki, Iemasa Kayumi, Kôichi Yamadera
directed by: Mamoru Oshii

September 22, 2003
`Ghost in the Shell' and `Akira' are often hailed as something of a turning point for Japanese Animated film - it's grown up, articulate, deep.

When you watch this DVD, if it's the first time you've seen the film then much of what you see feels familiar. And that's not surprising considering this has embedded itself deep into film culture - take the opening credits for example and you'll see the direct influence on American thought-provoker - the Matrix.

This film presents concepts which take some thinking about to fully understand, definitely a film to be watched twice. This feels more like a live action film than anime, and that's not all down to the beautifully detailed artwork, it's due to the realistic feel of the story. It's ... Read More:

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DragonBall Z: Season Five (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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starring: Sean Schemmel, Chris R Sabat, Daemon Clarke, Eric Vale

May 27, 2008
a great season,+ for anyone who doesnt no these boxsets are all multi-regin and work on anything, dont rlly know wat dat guy sayin bout being incomplete ?, only bad thing is how weak they make the androids look in this season, it starts with trunks & gohan finding trunk's timemachine wich cell stole of trunks in the future to come to the past to absorb androids 17 & 18,piccollo,16 & tien give cell a bit of a challenge, eventully cell becomes complete with some help by vegeta, love the music (us version) when cell becomes perfect, cell easilly defeats accended vegeta, and trunks is to slow after they both came out of time chamber, finishes with cell aranging the cell games, while goku & gohan in da time chamber, cant wait for season 6

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Pokemon 4Ever

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starring: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart (III), Madeleine Blaustein, Ikue Ootani
directed by: Jim Malone, Kunihiko Yuyama

October 20, 2003
I got this movie for my birthday, and I watched it about three times over. If you haven't seen the movie, then this is the story.
A young boy (who is actually a young Prof. Oak) ventures into the forest where Celebi lurks. He doesn't know this, but when a Scyther and Houndoom catches Celebi, the boy (named Sammy) saves the Celebi. It travels to the future and they meet Ash, Brock and Misty and Pikachu, but Celebi has already fled. They find the afraid Celebi in a small cave, but Sammy takes it and Celebi takes a great liking to Sammy and Ash. When Celebi grows weak, they bathe it in the Lake of Life.
A serious Team Rocket member possesses a ball called a 'Dark Ball' which catches the Pokemon and turns it evil. It catches Celebi, and the Rocket commands ... Read More:

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Pokemon The Movie 2000

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starring: Veronica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Madeleine Blaustein, Eric Stuart (III), Ikue Ootani
directed by: Michael Haigney, Kunihiko Yuyama

May 14, 2001
I definately think, that out of all the Pokemon movies (and there are dissapointingly a lot of them which cheapens the whole franchise) Pokemon The Movie 2000 is one of, if not the best. It's only competator is obviously the first movie which cannot be surpassed by any of the others. The plot is very typical and uninspired but when I first watched this so many years ago, it inspired me. Pokemon has always managed to inspire me and it still does now. I JUST bought the movie again after not seeing it for many many years and I enjoyed it just the same if not more. I think this movie gets the balance right between the new Pokemon that are starting to creep into the Pokemon world and the old ones we love so much. There's great humor delivered by our favorite Team Rocket ... Read More:

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DragonBall Z: Season Three (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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starring: Sean Schemmel, Linda Young, Chris R Sabat, Stephanie Nadonly, Sonny Strait
directed by: Daisuke Nishio

September 18, 2007
This is it: The 33 Episode long Frieza Saga, featuring Piccolo's return, Vegeta realising he is not the legendary "Super" Saiyan and Gohan coming of age, as well as tons of fighting against the seemingly invincible Frieza. The action takes place place on distant planet Namek, which is now almost devoid of life, due to events in Series Two but there are lots of scenes of King Kai's Planet with Tien, Yamcha and co (moreso than Season two happily) and Earth.

This is a very good saga, there are some great fights spread across the first two Discs as well as tons of characterisation with Vegeta. It falters slightly in Disc 3 which is 6 episodes of Frieza VS Goku, it doesn't get interesting until he begins to form the Spirit Bomb. Disc 4 sees the Spirit Bomb make ... Read More:

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Pokemon Chronicles - Vol. 4 (Bumper Special)

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by: Pokémon Chronicles

March 31, 2008
This is it: The 33 Episode long Frieza Saga, featuring Piccolo's return, Vegeta realising he is not the legendary "Super" Saiyan and Gohan coming of age, as well as tons of fighting against the seemingly invincible Frieza. The action takes place place on distant planet Namek, which is now almost devoid of life, due to events in Series Two but there are lots of scenes of King Kai's Planet with Tien, Yamcha and co (moreso than Season two happily) and Earth.

This is a very good saga, there are some great fights spread across the first two Discs as well as tons of characterisation with Vegeta. It falters slightly in Disc 3 which is 6 episodes of Frieza VS Goku, it doesn't get interesting until he begins to form the Spirit Bomb. Disc 4 sees the Spirit Bomb make ... Read More:

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Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow [2007]

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directed by: Hayato Date

December 24, 2007
This DVD sees the release of the first of several Naruto full length motion pictures which takes place either right before episode 101 of the TV series or right after it.
Plot-wise, the Naruto movie is pretty simple. Naruto and his team are given their new mission - to guard Yukie Fujikaze; a famous big screen actress while she is filming in the land of snow. However, there is more to this mission than is expected as the hidden leaf ninja's go up against rogue ninjas who want to kidnap the actress for their own devices. Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi face off with these rogue ninjas to protect Yukie and to save the land of snow.
So what we get is the fantastic ninja action that we love for the series, along with some new jutsus as well.
It is evident ... Read More:

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

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from: Manga Home Entertainment

December 08, 2008
I've been seen it since a long time ago, repeated many times watching it, and everytime ended with tears.
So how fantastic it is to see the UK version is going to be released!I wanna buy it, but who can tell me, is the language actually Japanese or English? I see the description written `Japanese' but the preview movie in English. If anyone can tell me , thanks in advance
Anyway, GO and WATCH it!