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It's difficult to tell if this super-heroine adventure is meant as spoof or a real story: the tone is silly and the fragmentary story line makes little sense. Although they appear to be ordinary (if curvaceous) high school students, Mew and Mica are really alien androids, assigned to protect Earth from the monsters summoned by the mysterious Dr. Zaiclit and his henchmen. In "Earth Is in a Bind," he sics a gigantic grasshopper and a jellyfish-octopus on Tokyo, a combination that can be defeated only by the Hyperdolls. In "Peace on Earth," a monster earthworm threatens the planet until Mew and Mica reduce it to so much live bait. The Hyperdolls aren't particularly endearing characters. The only person who knows their true identity is their classmate Akai, a computer nerd who attempts to keep them focused on their assignment. They respond by making his life miserable--until a hologram of their boss appears (atop a pizza in "Bind") and orders them back to work. The story starts and stops, with no real beginning, middle, or end, and will appeal only to uncritical anime fans: Hyperdolls makes Tenchi Muyo! sound like Kant's "The Critique of Pure Reason." Rated for ages 13 and up for nudity, violence, and occasional profanity. --Charles Solomon
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