Voogie's Angel
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Actor: Voogies AngelDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-07-31
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Anime Works
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Movie Review: "Voogie, when the time comes, we'll die together."
Summary: 4 Stars
Sometime in the distant future--New Western Calendar Year 202, to be precise--a ruthless race of alien beings commonly referred to as The Space Emigrants (SE for short) unleashes a devastating attack on Planet Earth. The SE's unfathomably evil ultimate goal is to eradicate all human life. One hundred years after the catastrophic invasion, a remnant of the human species survives in a mobile city at the bottom of the ocean, while the earth's surface is ruled by a maniacal fiend called Master Teddy--who appears to be either a very young boy, or a female. Whatever Teddy is, he or she can strike fear into the cold hearts of underlings like Captain Cougar and the green-haired Lieutenant Burst simply by dropping a wineglass on the floor. "I want all that I find a nuisance to vanish just like that glass," explains the soft-voiced Teddy in a threatening tone. To accomplish Teddy's foul ambition to wipe out what's left of mankind, Captain Cougar has severed the humans' supply lines in hopes that the resulting shortage of life's necessities will force them to raise the Ocean Bottom Mobile City to the surface, where it can easily be obliterated by the SE's awesome Hypercannon.
Humankind's last hope against the diabolical machinations of the Space Emigrants is a team of scantily-clad biomechanically-engineered cyborg babes known as Voogie's Angel. Exactly why this candy-colored girl group is called Voogie's Angel is unclear. One of the Angels is named Voogie, but the actual commander of the team is a mysterious shadowy figure by the name of Dr. Crimt, and Crimt's orders are delivered directly to the imperturbable purple-haired Angel called Midi. Hence, one could argue that `Crimt's Angel(s)' or `Midi's Angel(s)' would be a more accurate appellation. Nevertheless, the sea-dwelling Earthlings' destiny rests in the Angels' lovely hands. Trouble is, Rebecca the leggy gunfighter seems to be the only member of the fab five who's actually capable of destroying enemy mechas without destroying everything else in the process. The annoyingly immature and intolerably whiney Merrybell stubbornly refuses to train for battle...furthermore, she has a bad habit of accidentally removing the pins from Rebecca's hand grenades. The crafty Shiori is a stitch diva who spends most of her time knitting sweaters when she should be practicing her Psycho Barrier projections. The hotheaded and occasionally gluttonous Voogie watches too much TV and often smashes through walls while trying to imitate the moves of the Lone Wolf Samurai with her blue light saber. And Midi just equipped the Angels' KITT-like talking air/sea vehicle, Mr. Strikemyer, with a Dimension Blaster that's only capable of firing one shot, and a ridiculously powerful new engine that makes it nearly impossible for Voogie to pilot the ship without crashing. Can these ditzy super heroines succeed in reclaiming Earth's surface from the merciless Space Emigrants, thereby saving the human race from certain extinction in less than three years? Well, anything's possible in anime.
Voogie's Angel is a stylishly animated three-episode OVA that seems like it should've been a much longer series. The first half is as upbeat and fun as the peppy opening song, "Motto Motto Radical Fight," with a generous helping of comedy mixed in with the apocalyptic plotline. Then, halfway through the second episode, the story takes a violent and dramatic turn. The gripping third act focuses on the Angels' former lives, years before their cybernetic transformations. This emotional conclusion to the short saga is exceptionally well done, but kind of disturbing at the same time. Finally, the ending is abrupt and open to interpretation.
This release from Anime Works includes all three half-hour-long episodes ("The Angel's Assault," "The Angel's Tears," and "The Angel's Past") on one bargain-priced disc...with no extras. Voogie's Angel is highly recommended to anime fans who like to ponder the familiar and always intriguing question of what it means to be human, as well as to fans of Masami Obari.
"Before we know it, time suddenly passes by...so there's no turning back."
Summary of Voogie's Angel
In the year 2020, Earth was overtaken by alien life forms. Humankind barely survived by re-treating to undersea colonies. One hundred years later, the survivors prepare to retake earth in a bid for a brighter tomorrow. To this end, the Angel Project fields a team of cybernetically enhanced female soldiers. They're Earth's guardian angels.Animation DVD Video
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