Anime: 6 Angels

PREFACE
The first minutes of the series were really promising. Terrorists, high-tech weapons, conspiracy to destroy the world, sexy SWAT girls to the rescue… You name it! But, it quickly bogged down to a typical b-movie boring adventure.

THE STAFF
- The animation was done by a petty studion named Arcturus, which also happens to be their only fully animated work as well. Meh, they clearly lack the budget to do anything significant.
- The director of the show is Kobayashi Makoto, a nobody whose only other work is the equally horrible Ice ovas. Clearly a guy the majority of us won’t even notice if he dies.

PRODUCTION VALUES
- The artwork is flashy, based on models of awesome meckas, kick-ass weapons and sexy women. But in the end they are just nice ideas based on the norm of most sci-fi titles. It also sucks big time as the robots and the characters move out of balance on many occasions, like they are not walking on the ground or simply don’t move along with it (a typical problem when you work with many separate layers of animation and pay no attansion to physics).
- The 3D models are done very good, but they move unrealistically most of the time and have rather crude lightning/shadowing effects (because of the low budget, I presume).
- We also have the eternally present problem that all amateur series have: The characters all look the same! Cookie cutter! Same body-type, same eye-type, same way of moving… Takes away the feeling of individuality and uniqueness; but at least the original mold is sexy enough to look at.
- Mediocre voice acting and forgettable music themes and sound effects. I find nothing to say.

SCRIPT
Bad guy ecologist-like terrorists take control of a base. Anti-terrorist army attacks to stop them. Good guy chicks bust open some noses. Villains reveal their plan to destroy the world with radiation and then repopulate it with radiation-proof artificial beings. A few speeches about the girls’ bodies, their pasts and the future of the planet are given and then we have the final battle… That’s pretty much, it.
- It’s straightforward, clichéd, and doesn’t really make you worried about the ecology of our planet.
- Its small duration made it predictable and impossible to have any twists, despite the attempt to focus on multiple characters.
- The plot moves way too fast. No time to appreciate what you are offered. Half the time alone is wasted on pointless battles and ecchi.
- Maybe it makes sense if you are still 10 years old. If not, it is as real as the things you see when you are stoned.
- It ends in a pretty obvious way; nothing you won’t expect to see from the start. But at least it HAS an ending.

CAST
- Completely carton characters. Most characters don’t have a personality and exist only as cannon fodder for the battles and ecchi for our pleasure. Others, who do, die anti-climactically towards the end by their own ally (a rushed solution for not leaving loose ends in the story).
- There are a few attempts at trying to give them a backdrop story but the result is simply lame. There is simply no time for that!
- Other than the leading girls who look sexy, no one else has a strong presence in the story.
- All the characters end as they begin (excluding those who were killed, of course).

LEGACY
There is nothing original or likeable enough in this title, in order to deserve a second try. Its only reason for existence is for the die-hard collectors who will put it in a dusty shelf and leave it there for good. You may like its art concept and sexy girls, but you will forget pretty quickly all the rest.

SUGGESTION LIST
Gunslinger Girls
Ghost In The Shell
Battle Angel Alita