REVIEWS: E - N

EFORA & JILIORA, THE EMBLEM OF GUDE (AP)
The sorceress Efera and warrior princess Jiliora adventure across a fantasy world where magic is the remnant of a war between the gods.  Can this intrepid pair save the young heirs of Grafton from the fate their enemies have planned for them? Can they save themselves from the forces unleashed to stop them? One 45 minute episode.
Fantasy Adventure.

THE ELEMENATORS (AP)
"The scramble for power in the spiritual world has begun.  Weed out the weak.  " In the last conflict Lord Shiki of the Water Clan was put to sleep.  Without his control his daughter Shiohisa went insane and lost control of her Deeper powers.  In order to protect the balance the Earth Clan sealed her away.  But now Lord Shiki is back and is determined to revive his daughter no matter what the cost.  A 49 minute episode.
Supernatural Action.

FAIRY PRINCESS REINE (AP)
The Yumenokata Corporation has invested heavily in the city of Kurakam and plans to develop it as a huge amusement park.  Teenager Go Takarada, regarded by everyone in town (especially his red haired triplet sisters) as a loafer and never do-well, used to laze around reading.  But after finding that old book he's been convinced that there is a treasure somewhere in Kurakama and has been transformed into a very enthusiastic treasure hunter.  Go's life is about to get very, very complicated.  An incredibly cute little fairy has just appeared she has come from an alternate reality in search of the Four Hearts, gemstones that can bring peace to her troubled homeland.  Something that Go would be very interested to hear - now if only the fairy princess could speak Japanese.
Fantasy Comedy.

FAM & IRI: RUIN EXPLORERS (AP)
Once there was a civilisation based on magic however it was destroyed by intercine warfare and now explorers scavenge among its ruins for items of power.  Two such ruin explorers are Fam and Iri who with the aid of a helpful, but very shifty, map seller are soon on the trail of the magic items that can give their owner 'The Power'.  Four 30 minute episodes.
Fantasy.

FIRE TRIPPER (AP)
A girl discovers the power to travel through time to escape a horrific death by burning.  However the time she travels back to is that of the brutal wars for the Shogunate.
Fantasy.

GALAXY FRAULEIN YUNA (AP)
Terror! Destruction! Mass Chaos! And that's just before breakfast! When the wake up call destroys your house, how much worse can the rest of the day get? Yuna, Saviour of the Galaxy, and her friend Yuri, the incredible eating machine are about to find out! The evil Princess Mirage has launched a new plot to destroy Yuna.  After fraudulently informing the Galactic Police that Yuna is trying to take over the galaxy she sends the mysterious Fraulein D to ravage a few cities in Yuna's name just to make sure that GP Officer Misaki will find lots of incriminating evidence.  Meanwhile hench wenches Lucia and Ryka are dispatched to keep Yuna out of the way.  Even with the help of her idol acting sensation Polylina, Yuna and her friends are in for a rough ride...but don't you worry about Yuna! The question is whether the rest of the universe will survive!
Science Fiction, Comedy.

GALL FORCE (AP)
External Story. OAV #1
A war of extermination is being waged between the all-female Solnoid race and the bio-mechanical Paranoid civilization.  Cut off from their fleet the crippled spaceship Starleaf heads towards the planet they were assigned to protect pursued by an enemy squadron.  The crew are unaware that they have been selected to be part of an "experiment".  Science Fiction.
Destruction.  OAV #2
The Solnoid fleet manages to destroy the Paranoid home planet so now the fleets of both races are without planets to return to.  As both fleets gather their strength the Solnoid High Command prepares a trap.  However a small group of Solnoid soldiers are prepared to try and save the new race living on a planet which will be destroyed if the Solnoid plan is to succeed.  Even if they knew of the new race the High Command would not care, for after all in their plan the majority of their own fleet will be destroyed along with the enemy they are pinning.
Stardust War.  OAV #3
The genocidal total war between the Solnoid and Paranoid civilisations is at last coming to an end.  With the deployment of planet-destroying spaceships, all inhabited planets and bases on both sides have now been destroyed.  At the dying Sigma Narse solar system the last remaining starfleets gather for the final battle.  A small band of Solnoid soldiers is determined to try one last appeal for peace and to try and salvage something from the likely extinction of both races.  An one hour episode.
Science Fiction.

GHOST IN THE SHELL (AP)
Set in 21st century Hong Kong where some humans have replaced part or all of their body with cybernetics.  Major Kusanagi who works for a covert Government Department has only her essence or "ghost" in a cybernetic body.  She could quit but only the Government can supply that quality of body and provide the high quality maintenance involved.  She becomes involved in a conflict between Departments when a secret hacker program declares it has evolved into an self aware electronic entity and asks for protection from the Department that created it and is now out to erase any traces of its existence.  Based on Masamune Shirow's series of manga.
Science Fiction.

GHOST SWEEPER MIKAMI (AP)
If you've got a problem who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? No, in Japan you call Ghost Sweeper Mikami.  In the first TV episode they are called in to deal with a haunted hot spring resort hotel.
Supernatural Comedy.

GIANT ROBO (AP)
All that stands in the way of the Big Fire's domination of the world is the International Police Organisation with its specially talented Experts including Daisaku who controls Giant Robo the mightiest robot in the world.  A modern series of seven OAVs with good production values paying tribute to the old style giant robot genre, with several interesting plot developments.
Science Fiction, Adventure.

GOLGO 13: THE PROFESSIONAL (SK)
Golgo 13 is the best assassin in the world. You pay him, and he will do it for you. He shows no remorse, or emotion about his job, that is why he is The Professional. No one knows about his background. And he has never been caught.  Golgo 13 is hired to kill Robert Dawson, son of Oil millionaire Leonard Dawson. Robert is killed while on a huge Yacht, having a party.  Leonard Dawson is so devastated by this that he calls in favors to the US government, about who did this. The government finds out that it is Golgo13. Dawson wants Golgo13 brought down.  Meanwhile, Golgo13 continues on with his job.  He goes to Sicily, and San Francisco.  The FBI tries to stop Golgo13 at all his stops, and they fail.  Dawson asks the FBI to release two Assassins, who are real sickos.  And there is a final confrontation.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  This movie has a lot of language, and a lot of Nudity and sex scenes.  On a scale of one to five I would give it ***
Action, Suspense.
Review by Sayka Komatsu saeyka69@hotmail.com (AP)

GUNDAM 0080: WAR IN THE POCKET (AP)
A six part OAV series.
Over The River And Through The Woods.OAV #4
The crack Cyclops Commando Team of the Jion Empire has infiltrated the space colony of Side-6.  Their mission is to destroy the new Gundam RX-78 Mobile Suit before it can be deployed to front line Federation forces.  Now they plan to infiltrate the base itself disguised as Federation troops while one of the team attacks the base in a Kampfer Mobile Suit.  One 30 minute episode.
Science Fiction.

GUNDAM 0083: STARDUST MEMORIES (AP)
It has been nearly two years since the One-Year war and the Earth Federation attempts to repair the destruction caused during the conflict with the Arch-Duchy of jion.  While the Jion cause lies in ruins there are those who refuse to admit it and who are determined to set the falames of war raging against the Solar system once more.  And the first part of their plan is to steal the latest super weapon, the new Gundam prototype, the GP-02.
Science Fiction.

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 8TH MS PLATOON (AP)
In UC 0065 Professor Minovsky discovered sub atomic particles that absorbed the longer electromagnetic wavelengths With all radio, radar and infra red signals blocked long distance "electronic" warfare became a thing of the past.  With engagement ranges drastically shortened the hydraulic exoskeletons, originally designed for construction work on the space colonies, were developed as Mobile Suits for warfare.  With these Mobile Suits, enlarged to about ten times the size of a man to accommodate the armaments and reaction motors, single combat between two opponents once again became as much a factor as overall strategy and tactics in determining the outcome of a battle.
A Private War.  Episode #1
While on the way to Earth 2nd Lt Shiro Amada foes out to help a Federation GM who has run out of ammo in a fight with a Zion Zaku.  After the mutual destruction of their mecha he and the pilot of the Zaku play a deadly game of hide and seek in the debris of a Federation warship.  Science Fiction.
Gundam in the Jungle.  Episode #2
Anxious to show what he can do as a platoon leader newly arrived 2nd Lt Shiro Amada finds that combat in the jungle is quite different to that in space.  Science Fiction.
Time Limit to Trust.  Episode #3
In order to liberate a village from the Zions 2nd Lt Shiro Amada slips around behind the enemy while the rest of his platoon stages a diversion.  With the diversionary forces coming under increasingly deadly fire he is captured by guerillas, with time running out can he convince them to release him while he still has a platoon left.
Science Fiction.

GUNSMITH CATS (AP)
The adventures of gunsmith and bounty hunter Rally Vincent and her explosives mad friend May Hopkins.  "You little bomb freak", "That's 'bomb specialist' to you dearie.  And if I were you, Miss 'Pistol Packing Momma' I wouldn't talk.  "
The Neutral Zone.  OAV #1
Williams Collins of the ATF manages to persuade Rally to "volunteer" to help in an investigation into gun smuggling that has already seen several ATF agents betrayed and killed.
Swing High.  OAV #2
After disposing of the five ATF guards and the arrested gun smuggler Washington at an ATF safehouse, psychotic Russian killer Radinov sets her sights on her next two targets - Rally and May.
Modern Adventure.

HYPER DOLL (AP)
Mew and Mica are new cute high school students who also just happen to be aliens.  They are actually androids from outer space who after coming to earth to capture a monster were ordered to stay and preserve peace on the planet.  When giant jellyfish and locust monsters invade Tokyo the super heroines go into action.
Science Fiction, Comedy.

HYPER POLICE (AP)
In the future the world is inhabited by humans, beasts and halfbreeds.  Law and Order is kept by the police and various bounty hunter 'companies'.  Cat-girl Natsuki has just joined one of these companies.  As a young rookie she has been partnered with the werewolf Batanen a veteran bounty hunter.  Incidentally isn't it fortunate that werewolves have such good recuperate abilities.  Five 25 minute episodes.
Science Fiction.

ICZER-3 (AP)
Years ago Iczer-1 defeated the evil forces of Big Gold and saving Earth from her monstrous army.  But the battle was far from over as many of Big Gold's progeny were still at large in the galaxy.  Iczer-1 has finally tracked the last, and most powerful, of Big Gold's children - Neos Gold.  After a bloody stalemate Neos Gold and Iczer-1 withdraw to heal their wounds and regroup for what will have to be their final battle.  But Neos Gold doesn't play fair and sends her lieutenants to invade Earth to force Iczer-1 to war.  Earth's fate suddenly depends on Iczer-1's younger sister, Iczer-3, who must protect the planet until Iczer-1 can regain her strength.  So now the untried Iczer-3, with the aid of the single surviving Earth spacecruiser and Nagisa the descendant of Iczer-1's original partner, is thrust into battle with some of the most bizarre adversaries imaginable.  But don't count her out - what she lacks in experience she makes up for in all out enthusiasm.
Introducing Iczer-3 "Leave Earth To Me!".  OAV #1
Neos Gold smashes the earth Defense Forces "But don't worry, I won't destroy the earth entirely.  You earthlings are my precious lures for Iczer-1".  Meanwhile back at a military base on the moon Fiber's marionettes menace Nagisa "You're the last toys I've got.  I'm going to play with you until you die".  Things look grim until Iczer-3 decides she wants to play too.
Bugs, Bugs and Giant Bugs! Get'em with Iczer-Robo! OAV #2
Having escaped from the moon base the spacecruiser Queen Fuji is forced down in an area under Insect's control.  Insect considers herself the 'greatest warrior' of Neos Gold's Big Four since she has demolished 23 planets and is confident that unlike Fiber she cannot fail.
Wild Auntie! Love's Double Attack! OAV #3
The beast woman Bigro, who can merge minds with her giant animal like monster is the next challenge for Iczer-3 and the crew of the Queen Fuji.
Oh No! Two Of Me? The Super Rival, Atros.  OAV #4
Neos has utilised the Iczerio energy she stole from Iczer-Robo to create Atros, and exact copy of Iczer-3, to be her nemesis.
Big Trouble! Here Comes My Scary Older Sister, Iczer-2.  OAV #5
Iczer-3 has her hands full dealing with Atros, Golem the leader of the Big Four, and the newly revived Iczer-2.
Wow! Incredible! Stupendous! Final Battle of the Iczers.  OAV #6
As Nagisa and her friends prepare for the final desperate assault on Neos Gold's fortress, Iczer-1 is forced into a rematch she never wanted.  The saga of the Iczers concludes in an epic struggle of violence and sacrifice, as Neos Gold reveals her new, terrifying form and the World edges closer to absolute destruction.
Science Fiction.

IRIA - Zeiram, the Animation. (AP)
Zeiram - the most dangerous life form in the galaxy.  The Tedan Tippedai Corporation secretly attempted to bring in Zeiram to be used as the basis of a powerful new bioweapon but now it is loose.  Iria an apprentice bounty hunter uncovers this information when stalking the monster to avenge her brother - evidence that certain parties would rather have silenced.  Now Iria must expose the silent conspiracy and stop the virtually unstoppable monster before any more innocent people are massacred.  Six 30 minute episodes.
Science Fiction.

JO JO'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE (AP)
Based on the tarot and with arcane and magical arts in equal measure this six part OAV series is concerned with the intense and bloody rivalry between Dio Brando and the current inheritor of the Jo Jo nickname.  Can Jo Jo and his companions locate Dio Brando in time, if so can they work out what his stand 'The World' really is, and if they do how can they or indeed anyone oppose it?
Modern Fantasy Action.