R.O.D.: Yomiko Readman - The Paper [DVD]

came on time..case was little bang up..but is a old anime..disc was ok..still had a CEX STICKER ON..

Read or Die is an anime I've always wanted to watch and managed to finally buy. While there are only 3 episodes on it, the action and animation make up for it.Yomiko Readman looks like your average teacher, but in truth, she is a secret agent for the British Library known as "The Paper". Gifted with unique power over paper, she completes missions assigned to her by fellow agent, Joker. Her latest mission finds her going head to head with famous historical figures, but what could their motives be?A unique anime with non-stop action and a protagonist you can't help but root for.

This is a most nice story of story writer, Hideyuki Kurata, so much good entertainment story.Unfortunately, it is hard to get this package as an old one.However watch this, you will not stop it at the end of this story.Nice spy action with special power women and guys.So much funny story and speedy action is great.

Great DVD.Received quick.

love this film!

"Read or Die" is basically full of what is best about anime: gorgeous animation, plenty of action and a good story. A thoroughly entertaining hour and a half in the company of "The Paper", "Miss Deep" and Drake.Recommended for all anime fans.

This exemplifies many of the qualities that good anime should possess. It is just so hard to imagine something like this being produced by any Western studio. Although fundamentally dissimilar, it shares that idiosyncratic approach to characterization, storyline and attention to detail shared by the best anime, such as most of the Ghibli productions, or Cowboy Bebop for example. The artwork and animation is excellent, and in fact all the fundamentals are of high quality. The bizarre storyline gives it much opportunity for humour, which is subtly exploited, and the characters are unusual but believable, even when they are unrealistic. In fact, even the minor characters have personalities, aided once again by superb attention to detail. Sadly, as far as I am concerned, it appears that the series did not last long, possibly because its good qualities were not appreciated by mainstream anime audiences. Perhaps in Japan it enjoyed greater longevity. Certainly most of it is a long way from the derivative blood and horror formulae which characterize much of the anime which is most successful in the West - although I am not implying that all such anime is bad, by any means. This short series does have plenty of action, but it revolves around such unusual situations, often featuring strangely archaic yet arcane technology reminiscent of Steamboy, that it does not give one the same impression as more common approaches, and is thus, perhaps, more easily overlooked. The very fact that the main character has a `super-hero' style power which involves the manipulation of paper, speaks volumes about the attitude which pervades this series. I wish there were more like it. Long live the British Library Special Engineer Force.

Read Or Die is a competently produced animé with nice artwork and a reasonable soundtrack, problem is it is all a bit silly. Set in some sort of parallel universe where the British empire still exists and its main arm of espionage and enforcement is the nuclear submarine equipped British Library. This unlikely semi steam punk organization employs the super powered ditz Yomiko Readman aka agent "The paper" who can do all sorts of highly impossible things with paper. Yet it's just as well we can rely on our unlikely heroine as the world is under attack by a bunch of villains who are all cackling super powered clones of long dead characters from history. All of whom are intent in killing off millions and trashing as much of the world as possible. Including poor Otto Lilienthal who has changed from an early twentieth century glider pioneer to a blank eyed, power crazed, grenade flinging loony with a rocket propelled variable geometry wing super plane. None of which does him any good as he's brought to his sticky end by two girls in a gigantic paper dart,Silly ? Yes.Fun ? Again yes but it could have been so much better.

Ce DVD contient quelques OAV de pure action! On a pas le temps de s'endormir avec ses "soeurs" contrôlant le papier de façon particulière. Le tout sous forme d'enquête, avec des références à des personnages célèbres (Beethoven, etc.)Ne passez pas à côté de cette merveille, sachant que ces OAV s'autosuffisent, c-à-d qu'ils ont une fin, pas besoin d'acheter l'éventuelle série qui est sortie plus tard.Seul point négatif? Un peu trop court, on en redemanderait :-)

Die animationen sind der hammer, die story ist abgefahren , die Charaktere ebenfalls. Die dvd hat wie schon die von Ghost in the shell sehr viele Trailer und zudem noch ein O&A mit den entwicklern und ein charakterguide. Insgesamt ist die dvd mehr als nur empfehlendswert. Ich sage wenn jemand meint das er ein Anime-Fan oder sogar ein Otaku sei, dann muss er sich die dvd kaufen. kann er nicht so gut englisch kauft er sich ein Wörterbuch und übersetzt jedes Wort einzeln. Denn es lohnt sich!

Un très très très bon anime. Pour toute personnes désirant un anime plein d'action et d'étrange, je vous le conseil. Seul petit bémol: le sous titrage passe mal sur un lecteur BD: ça fait pas très propre.

Pour les fans de la série ROD TV, ces OAV sont un plus inimaginable. Ceux-ci se placent en premier lieu dans l'histoire et permettent de comprendre l'intrigue de la série. Il juste dommage de ne pas trouver d'édition collector pour ces OAV mais une version en vostfr est déjà bien très bien donc je vous recommande ce DVD.