Agent Aika: Anime Legends by Bandai Entertainment

a female hero who has legs and knows how to use them,... kinda.What Austin Powers did for 007 this movies does to the anime "Daphne in the Brilliant Blue". Its not super futuristic and no mecha okay. There is a beautiful woman and her beautiful assistant who "fumble" around for a few episodes. Think Austin Powers as a really hot chick, in a miniskirt, fighting evil gangs of women, also in miniskirts. The movie isnt set in some new futuristic fantasy world. Its a real classic 007 spoof with Super Russian jets and an American "can do" attitude.No one gets their head blown up. It just fun.I watched Austin Powers because its funny but cringed when the scenes of the "Fat Bastard" came on, with no shirt. (gross) Agent Aika has awesome "fan service/ecchi" that might make some squares "wag their finger" in disapproval but I "tip my hat" to the "Spies Like Us" jokes and the moronic plots to take over the world, with a female hero who has legs and knows how to use them,... kinda.Its refreshing to see a "secret agent" spoof with such glamorous women tripping, falling and get tangled up in some very cool plots. Some big guns but very little violence.Yes, if u are squeamish about seeing beautiful women dressed in skin tight, supermodel outfits acting clumsy then this is not the DVD for you.But if you are a fan of super models in miniskirts who talk like they know what they are doing (Like Austin Powers) and do it all in high heels then this DVD is a must.just my humble opinion.

Aika and Rion are salvagers. The world is mostly under water after a natural disaster devastated the planet. Many treasures lie beneath the sea. One day, Aika and Rion get a request to find an item called The Lagu. The Lagu has immense power that can be used for many different purposes. Before they can retrieve it, another group takes the Lagu and is planning on using it to recreate the earthquake that nearly wiped out humanity. It's up to Aika, Rion, and their friends to stop the world destruction plot of Rudolph and Nena Hargen.This anime has a lot of good and bad thing going on. The animation and character designs aren't too bad, for an older anime. The story is intense and relatively interesting, but not great. The voice actors and soundtrack are pretty bad. This is one of the worst English dubs I've ever heard. There is a tons of nudity and fan service. I think that a lot of time that could have been spent on story was wasted on nudity and panty shots. Not that those things are bad, I just think that they took up too much time in this series. While the story is is ok, it is very generic, and not all that thought out.This anime is light years away from being a 5 star series. I can't believe that it got any 5 star votes at all. The only thing that Aika has a lot of is nudity. You can give the fan service element 5 stars if you want to. The voice acting and soundtrack are 1 star for sure. The story is 3 stars, and the animation is 4 stars. Keep in mind that this is older (1997), so things have improved a lot since then. Averaging the good and bad together, I can't see giving this more than 3 or 3.5 stars. Any more than that is misleading.I can't recommend buying this anime before you see it first. I've definitely seen worse, but this is not high quality at all. If you are in to the secret agent thing, you'll probably enjoy it more than most. Even if you do buy it before watching, you're not out a lot of money if you don't like it. Personally, I think it's pretty average. You should probably watch this before you buy it. Just to make certain that you are gonna like it.

Has the usual Aika panty show, okay dub and good video. My only complaint was the 27 minute Japanese intro with subtitles that is just a promo ad on the second disk. I included a list of episodes from both this and "Final Battle":Agent Aika Collection Disk 1Trial 1 Beautifuk AgentTrail 2 Naked MissionTrail 3 Take Off PositionTrail 4 A Flower Blooming in Space Disk 2Trail 4.5 Agent Aika's Special Trial << AD/Promo Treasure 1-Textless opening theme Silent City ~Aika! Treasure 2-Textless ending theme More Natural-Special Version Treasure 3-Aika the Movie/Imaginary Version Treasure 4-TV CM Treasure 5-Silent City ~Aika! Special Music Clip Moving Part 3 (20:46) (25:00) Aika's 2nd SeasonTrail 5 The Golden Delmo Operation 26:00Trail 6 Delmo Operation: White SilverTrail 7 Decisive Break-In: Delmo BaseAgent Aika - Final BattleTrail 5 1-Golden Delmo 2-Not GoodTrail 6 3-White Silver 4-BingoTrail 7 5-Delmo Base 6-RevengeFinal Battle is just disk-2 of the Collection BUT does not have translation only subtitles;best to get just this Aika Collection set!! LOL

I like every thing in this anime.

This was a quick and fun show that I decided to buy for nostalgia. The action and animation is great but the story is very simple. They probably wanted to get to the point with added gratuity. It also gets very lame towards the second half, as if they were forced to extend the story after the main plot ended, along with introducing an astoundingly useless character.The sound mixing if poorly done and too dynamic in its volume range. Some scenes are quiet and hard to hear while others blast out of nowhere, making it hard to watch at times without often adjusting the volume. But the main issue with this anime has to be the American voice acting; it is horrifically awful and possibly on the top 10 list of the worst anime voice acting ever. At least Aika is done fairly well, but the other characters will all at some point annoy you out of your skin. Not only do most voices not fit the characters, the voices rarely ever portray the correct mood or emotion of their respective characters.The show was mildly entertaining but I don't think I'll give it a second watch.

Très bon DVD. Reçu dans les temps prévus.

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