Burst Angel Box Set with OVA
Burst Angel Box Set with OVA
- In a crime ridden future, the streets of Tokyo are patrolled by RAPT, the organization responsible for maintaining peace & order. In this bleak world the citizenry are legally allowed into carry & wield firearms – but so are the criminals. It is RAPT’s purpose into dispense quick justice on those who would violate or abuse the law. But buried deep underground in secret labs, monsters of unimag
In a crime ridden future, the streets of Tokyo RAPT, the organization responsible for the maintenance of law & order controls. In this bleak world the citizenry are legally allowed into carry & handle firearms. But so are the criminals. It is RAPT’s purpose, quick justice on those who were injured or otherwise never abuse the law. But buried deep underground in secret labs, monsters of unimaginable terror are forged with a new science that their organic cells fused with machine parts into ensure the perfect enforcer in a future without free will. Defense in response into the rising threat, four brave angels responsibility into the defenseless & bring the underground crime syndicates, corrupt, & the lea
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Crazy Burst Angel,
Ok if you like BIG mechs, big gun, big boobs and a lil hint at lesbian action Burst Angel is for you….You meet Jo, a genetically enhanced gunslinger who fights to protect her lover meg from harm. Meg on the other hand has this uncanny knack of getting kidnapped by the bad guys causeing Jo to kill half the town to find her. its pointless yet has a point.
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|A Hodgepodge of Themes and a Taste of the Old West,
Let me start this review by expressing my absolute adulation for Funimation’s Viridian Collections. I was first introduced to these extraordinary anime packs through Blue Gender and made it my priority to attempt to locate as many others as possible. For those who don’t know, Viridian Collections, in Funimation’s own words are the essential titles for any well-rounded DVD collection exploring the pop culture phenomenon known as Japanese animation. To you and I it means a box set containing an entire series, an OVA, and a lot of extras all for the price usually associated with a single season of a given show.
The extras contained within this Viridian Collection could easily fill up my entire critique so I’ll mention a few of the key areas of interest briefly. The set contains a whopping 6 episode commentary tracks with many of the English vocal talents and production, all of the original radio dramas, a Japanese cast interview, CGI artist interview, character designer interview, trailers, alternate opening and closing themes, battle records, textless songs, outtakes, and a Funimation trailer section on each and every disc. If all that weren’t enough, each disc contains a full episode of the bizarre but strangely addictive Funimation property Mr. Stain on Junk Alley. For those of you who have no idea what this is (and that included me before this set), imagine a fully CG rendered show that would fit in pretty well with what we Americans might expect from Pixar, in which a presumably homeless (and shoeless) man, his sweater-wearing cat, and iguana on a leash spend each episode digging through the discarded junk in an alleyway for survival and ensuing high jinks. Sound strange? Oh it is. Take for example the one episode where he finds a pack of crayons that when colored with affect reality or another where starvation begins to tempt him into turning his pet lizard into a meal. In the end you’ll certainly wonder whether drug use played a part in the show’s creation but yet somehow it succeeds on nearly every level (and all this without a single word of dialog ever spoken).
But enough about Mr. Stain, we’re here to talk about Burst Angel right? Language options are standard fair sub and dub which of course means dialog presented in either original Japanese or English dub each in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround. And, like always, the choice to run English subtitles exists for either spoken language option.
The show could best be described as a mix of about a hundred different sociological elements, not the least of which is the spaghetti western theme that you may have gathered from the trailers and box art. Although to be completely honest, except for a few chaps and six-shooter toting women and a giant robot that looks like he’s sporting a cowboy hat atop his massive metal head, there really isn’t much to remind the viewer of the old west. In fact, the show starts things rolling with perhaps the oddest group of protagonists ever assembled and slaps them waist-deep into a conflict with underground crime syndicates, a corrupt government, and just a dash of sci-fi intrigue (like hideous beasts with glowing-brains that exit the skull and attempt to crawl away once the monster is defeated).
Sometimes the formula works, other times not so much. When the show opens the viewer will more than likely fumble through the ensemble not exactly sure what to expect. You know- like is this character important to the overall prose or what about this one here? By the end I can’t say with certainty that the odd dynamic of the good guys ever falls into place. You have many near-naked women to work with; one who takes charge of the group, another young girl who happens to be a computer genius, a bouncy (yet perky) redhead with a knack for getting into trouble, and a red-eyed, silver haired, purple tattooed killing machine who makes it her personal mission to bail the redhead out of trouble in nearly every episode.
There are a few males to speak of, mainly in the form of the giant robot’s hairy mechanic (way too much exposed body presented in the “beach” episode) and a wussy pastry chef-in-training that is brought on to cook for the girls. I suppose part of my own bewilderment comes from the fact that I expected the young cook to play a much bigger role in the grander story arc than he actually does by the end. The first twelve episodes use him as a major focal point of the story then suddenly he gets dropped off like a bad step-kid at the soccer field.
I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to tell you that this is the bizarre story of Meg and Jo (the redhead and killing machine I told you about earlier) and their meteoric rise to mercenary status with a strange, dare I say lesbian love for one another. Perhaps if I had known this going into the program, I would have been less distracted by the frivolous characters and jutting story threads that go…
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