Galaxy Angels Z - Back for Seconds (Vol. 1)

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Summary: I WASN'T LAUGHING
Review: I really enjoyed the first 4 Galaxy Angel dvds, and I went into this second season, Galaxy Angel Z, with a positive attitude. I was in for disappointment. Once again, our hapless heroines are commanded to seek out the Lost Technology, still not knowing exactly what it looks like or what its function is. The only thing that we know about it is that it's very dangerous. For example in one episode on this dvd, Milfuelle accidentally eats some of it because the technology looks like chestnuts, and then she grows into a giant right out of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.

The setups for the episodes are funny in themselves but the scripts were not written well enough to capitalize on them. For example, in "Memory Rally Chop Suey", Ranpha and Milfuelle enter into a gameshow modeled on Extreme Elimination Challenge, all the while being harassed by an abusive robot, but it never goes anywhere. It could have been really funny, but this volume stops at amusing. The biggest loser of the disk has to be the last episode in which Mint and Vanilla crash on a planet and are unable to communicate back to the other Angels. I mean, come on, Vanilla is the funniest character on the show, and you can't make her shine?! The whole planet is enshrouded in fog, and all the people in the city they enter seem like dead spirits. The episode ends so badly that you don't know if it will be continued on the next dvd or whether there was supposed to be a punchline that was missed. All in all, volume 1 of Z was subpar compared to the first series. I might try the next volume, but if it's not any better I guess I'll say goodbye to the Angels.

I would highly recommend the first series, simply titled Galaxy Angel. I would also recommend Miami Guns, a series similar in execution, but funnier. And Nuku Nuku.