Ah! My Goddess - The Movie

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Summary: this proves once again that love triumphs over all obsticles
Review: This is an excellent dvd. Its a movie to the tv series "Oh! My Goddess". I have to disagree with what most of the reveiws say about not having to watch the series to know whats going on. I've never seen the series and there were a few things I didn't understand. I wasn't completely lost but it probably would have helped to watch the series first.
I don't want to ruin the story so I'll be very general. One of the goddesses looses her memories and while struggling to get them back has to help save the earth. The art is amazing and it comes with a pencil board (I'm not exactly sure what its for but it looks nice). The case is shiny cardboard and has a normal dvd case inside it. It also show the first episode of mini goddess. Its pretty funny and if you like Urd you'll be happy because she kinda stars in it.
As great as I thought this was, I wouldn't recomend it to everyone. Its a romantic comedy (with about 8 parts romance, 1.5 parts comedy, and .5 action). Basically, if you like romantic anime, get it. If you like more action, go for DBZ.

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Summary: This is great anime plain and simple.
Review: I haven't seen alot of anime or manga but I have seen enough to know what is good and whats not. This was a great anime movie, I bought it because my friends were saying it was cool but I never watched it, but I'm glad I bought it. If you want a good movie buy this.

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Summary: it was amazing
Review: This was an amazing DVD. The animation was beautiful (As always) It was better than the series. You could imagine the whole world.

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Summary: Perfect, Simply Perfect
Review: First off, I have to say, in my opinion, that this movie is simply perfect. The plot of the movie itself, isn't at all boring. It's very fast pased and twists and turns. The animation it top par, plus it also is combined with some very good looked 3D GCI type effects (mainly used in the scenes dealing with the "Goddess Network"). The story is a very simple plot, that has a lots of twists, and is completely unexpected. Even if you've read all of the Manga, and seen the OAV, you will still want to get this movie! The best part is however, that you don't even need to see the OAV's or read the Manga! The movie is very self-explanitory, however it does help to at least see the OAV to know what's going on, and where everyone is at the beginning of the movie!

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Summary: The best I've seen
Review: I thought this was the movie. I loved the animation, and how the story was place in order. Though some of it was quit confousing. Watching made me change my idea on it. At first I thought it was going to be a boring one, but after watching the movie I went on the net to look for the series. One word of advice, watch the series before the movie so you know how Belldandy and Keiichi meet. It will be alot less confouseing. But overall, I loved it; and this is about the only one I love. So if your into fantasy and some action get this movie.

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Summary: Great!
Review: I first saw this when it was first shown in the America EVER at the anime expo. Even there were no subtitles or dubbing I still loved it (my japanese speaking friend filled me in as it went on) but I loved it at the time and I still love it now. I love the racing and the story, of course being an avid Ah My Goddess reader. You'd have to see it to believe it! Anyway if you are an Ah My Goddess fan, you HAVE to see it!!! ^^

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Summary: A pretty film and nice boil-down of the manga's themes
Review: In 'Ah! My Goddess: The Movie,' the world is threatened by a god who wishes to create a reality where no mortals have to suffer. He forces an unwitting Belldandy--a goddess who has been bound through love to Japanese college student Keiichi--to serve as the main vehicle of his plot.

The movie features all the characters from the long-running comic book and graphic novel series (published in America by Dark Horse Comics and translated as "Oh My Goddess!"), including recent additions to the cast such as Belldandy's rival, the goddess Peorth and the various angels tied to Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld. In many cases, the film assumes that the viewer knows who these characters are, which in my mind is its main flaw. While readers of the graphic novels and comic books can be somewhat up-to-date--as of this writing, "The Fourth Goddess" where Peorth first appears has been released, but the Whirlwind motor company that's referred in the film to will still be an unknown if one only reads them and not the monthly issues--and there are a host of characters that will remain mysterious to those who may be coming to this film from the other animated episodes alone. If the filmmakers had weeded down the cast a bit, there would have been time to provide brief introductions to everyone and the film would have been better for it.

The animation quality is very good, taking advantage of both traditional and computer animation to convey the strange power of the film's supernatural beings who live by the addage "sufficiently advanced technology is equal to magic"; in the "Ah! My Goddess" universe, reality is maintained by a super-computer running incredibly advanced programs, and all supernatural beings are, basically, "remote terminals." The animators have remained true to creator Kosuke Fujishima's character designs and mix of cartoony and hyper-realistic art, and the characters of the film seem very much grounded in a world not far removed from our own. The result is a very attractive-looking film that captures the look of Fujishima's comic art very nicely.

The English-language dubbing is better than average, but I think the casting could have been better. Belldandy is entirely too whiny and Urd isn't husky/assertive enough from how they should sound based on their portrayals in the comic.

Story-wise, the film also captures the feel of the comic quite nicely, with the real plot revolving around Belldandy and Keiichi's love once again surviving supernatural challenges and emerging reconfirmed and even stronger than before. (No, that's not really a spoiler; anyone who has even passing familiarity with "Oh My Goddess" and romantic films of this nature go in expecting a happy ending.) Unfortunately, the story fails to successfully revolve all of its subplots and themes by the time the film is over. The chief of these is the race that the NIT Motorclub is preparing for during the film. It's there to underscore the fact that Keiichi and Belldandy are the perfect couple, and it should have been returned to at the end. (Eliminating some of the characters who don't play any role in the story but who are just there because they're part of the graphic novels might have given the tme needed to properly wrap up the film's loose elements.)

The flaws of this film balance its good parts, hence the Three Stars (an average rating). I recommend it highly to fans of romantic comedies and the "Oh My Goddess!" series... but I do so warning you that it is far from a perfect work.

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Summary: New to me, but I loved it!!!
Review: I'm an anime fan, but I'd never seen anything but a picture or two of the main characters for this series. I was just looking for something different to buy on DVD, so I grabbed this. What a lucky find!
The animation was incredibly well-done. In some ways, nearly on-par with Princess Mononoke. And in some other ways (computer animation), exceeding it. It was incredibly good. The plot was engrossing, and well thought out. Not overly-predictable. The characters were complex, but I was able to follow along with it and understand more about them as it went on. They don't "dumb it down" for the newbies like myself, though. It's subtle. I hope to see more of this series soon. The only thing I might have benefited from would be reading the DVD insert, which gives a paragraph of background info on the main characters. And one of the cuter features was an episode of "Mini-G" in the Extras section. It looks like Pioneer will be releasing more of these episodes on DVD. I'll have to get those, too.
Great movie, self-contained story. Good choice!

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Summary: Hmmm...
Review: Well, it's a fairly competent job (Although the copy protection was HORRIBLE for anyone who still uses their VCR to pipe their DVD player to their TV...)...The dubbing, was, as usual, craptastic. Especially the Mini-goddess dub...it was even more pathetic than the half-hearted attempt at the movie voiceover.

As for the movie itself, you'll find it's the same old plot used in the manga (about 20 times...)... Keichii gets taken over by a powerful spirit, damn, who saw that coming?

Anyway, if you don't have anything else to buy, then yeah, go for it. Otherwise, buy yourself a real movie.

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Summary: Please Read My Review :)
Review: The "oh my goddess" series and the "ah my goddess" (dont worry the "ah" and "oh" in the names refer to the same series) movie are one of the best "Romantic Comedies" out on the market. It has everything you could ever want from this genre of anime, it will give you the chance to run through the full spectrum of your emotions. While whatching the movie, when the credits rolled at the end, i found my self just sitting on my chair just stairing in aww (ohh yeah by the way the music in the movie epecially the ending theme song IS AWESOME). I highly recomend this movie to any one who loved the "oh my goddess series." The only thing that bohtered me a little was that they changed most of the voices, which isnt bad it actually added to the fealing that time had advanced (three years to be excact). SO PLEASE WATCH THIS ANIME, YOU WONT REGRET IT.