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Battle Athletes Go 
Actors : Rio Natsuki, Tomoko Kawakami, Akiko Yajima, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Akemi Okamura
Director : Kazuhiro Ozawa
Studio : Geneon [Pioneer]
by Geneon [Pioneer]
Release Date : 1998-12-29
Publisher : Geneon [Pioneer]
Availability : This Item is currently Not Available
EAN : 0013023027336
UPC : 013023027336
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 10 reviews)
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Description |
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Welcome to the United Systems Sports Academy (USSA), where the elite from around the solar system come to hone their athletic prowess with the technically enhanced training facilities and renowned coaching staff. For many, the grueling, full contact competition against humanity's strongest and most ambitious athletes is the beginning of a dream to become the next Tomoe Midou, the first Battle Athletes Competition winner, and most famous of all sports champions. However, Akari Kanzaki, Tomoe's daughter, the trials and it's scheming students provide a path of self discovery and a chance to step our from her mother's shadow. Contains OAV Episodes 5 & 6. |
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The adventures of teenage girl athletes have been standard fare in manga since the late '60s, with anime following. Battle Athletes is based on a video game set in the year 4999. Promising girls are sent to a special satellite to train to compete for the coveted title of "Cosmic Beauty," a contest that grew out of the settlement of an interplanetary war 1,000 years earlier. The daughter of a former winner, 16-year-old Akari Kanzaki arrives at the satellite hoping to match her mother's performance. "Chronicle Beginning" sets up Akari and the major supporting characters. Akari is assigned to a team with Kris, a confident, spiritual girl from a back-to-nature commune on the moon, and the terminally shy and whiny Anna. Tanya, an ebullient, food-obsessed African girl, lends comic relief and the icy Mylandah supplies heavy-handed villainy. Training begins in earnest in "Oath Entrant," as the girls compete in zero gravity lacrosse matches: Kris plays skillfully, Mylandah cheats, Tanya hollers, Anna snivels. Akari, who's new to the game, is frustrated by her poor showing but eventually learns the importance of teamwork, patience, and friendship. These lessons mix rah-rah innocence with cutthroat competitiveness and suggestions of lesbianism. Despite the presence of genial headmaster Grant Oldman, the girls get very little formal training. They compete against each other and the high-tech machinery, but the animation is too limited to convey running and the other athletic feats convincingly. --Charles Solomon |
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Battle Athletes the entire series |
The art work was excellent as well as the sound quality. The story arc held together quite well but did slow in some parts.
Over all quite enjoyable. I will be playing it again whenever I would like light, feel good entertainment.
This is what I purchase movies and books for, entertainment. |
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Wierd little anime... But oh, so cute! |
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I had heard of Battle Athletes Toshoyden before, (Original Japanese name) way back in 1996,but have never seen it. I have to say it was well worth the wait, although I found it a bit wierd for them to be using a Saturn IV launch vehicle in the 50th century. My only disapointment was that the discs only contain a meazly 2 episodes per disc. This could have been a much better series if they had crammed all 6 episodes onto one disc. This would have been a little more {money}, but far less of a waste. If nothing else, I reccomend these discs for the beauty of the anime alone. I found a lot of Star Trek , The Outer Limits, and a whole lot of Tenchi in here. All and all, a great little anime! |
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great anime, however.... |
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I've already seen all of Battle Athletes Victory. It's very good. In my title when I say "however" I am saying that because if you're looking to buy this DVD, I think you should be aware that this specific DVD isn't the first in the series. Actually, im not completely sure, but all the info about this DVD leads me to conclude that this contains episodes from later on in the series. It starts where Akari has ALREADY entered the University Sattellite. The beginning of the entire series however, starts off at a training school in Antarctica. So... I recommend this series yes, but I also strongly recommend that you watch it from the beginning... |
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Why did I buy this? |
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It was cheep & looked cute. I thought at least I would enjoy the animation if nothing else, but it was really a lot better than I was expecting! It looks so much like Tenchi (hair, clothes, setting, etc.) that that's what I thought I'd get. (I love Tenchi, too, of course) But the atmosphere is totaly different. Hmmmmm... can't really think of a series it reminds me of right off. It just has a really realistic, inspirational feel...It's really easy to get into how Akari feels about getting to University Satilite. She's excited & determined, even when she gets a bit of a shock, learning she's not as great as she thought, at the beginning. All the charicters are cool & original. For the most part they are too cute & awesome to hate. (because that happens too much! Poor Amelia... Poor Usagi... Poor Mia... weeeeell, Miaka's pushing it, but I like her, too.) None of them are the wimpy kind, anyway (they get bashed most) but they can't be, not if they got into US. Sorry, I just had to emphisize how well designed the characters are. They make the story great. The only one I don't liek is the B!tchy second year she meets in the first ep. XP but it's good to have bad guys, or how do you have heros. Oh, & another thing is, I didn't get bored. Not at all. I get bored easily, too. Still wavering? Get this anime. I'm telling you, you'll love it... |
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Battle Athletes-- good stuff! |
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When I first watched this DVD (...), I instantly connected with it! This is an anime for middle-, highschool girls who like to have a good laugh with friends while watching a pumped-up action-y type anime that's lighthearted. Warning: makes you want to go outside and start exercising! It's all about these girls besting each other to become the greatest athlete. You really identify with all the characters-- my friends and I all chose our favorite people and argued about who was best/right/cute etc. Really fun, very good for a sleepover series and for your bf so you can watch together! WARNING: I wouldn't watch if you are offended by "gay" jokes, nudity, a weird lesbian type relationship with these people, and a perverted headmaster. This is definitly not the mindboggling deep type, but it's cute and fun! Buy immediatlely! |
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