Android Kikaider - The Animation Perfect Collection

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Summary: Cliched!
Review: I'm sorry if I offended anybody, but this is awful. The plot of android kikiader revolves around an android named jiro aka kikaider, and his struggle against Dr. Gill and his own awakening humanity. Jiro was given a 'gemini circut' which allows him to act/be? human-like. If this was the first ever show to exploit this idea, then it would be brilliant, however it is now so overused in sci-fi that it is practically it's own genre. For the protagonist we have jiro, a run of the mill android with a need to be human, so we have a bunch of other characters that feel sorry for him. One scene involves kikaider sitting in a park, looking at a girl, kikaider looks at the girl playing, and somehow wishes he could feel hapiness(how is he supposed to do that?). So he runs away from all the other characters, only to find that the 'love' him and wish he was human. I could not bear to watch more than a few episodes of this, being that it is so sappy and cliched it is not even worth watching. However the show does have good points in it's animation quality, which is quite good, however otherwise stay away from this.

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Summary: Android Kikaider, the Series
Review: The genius robotics professor Dr. Komyoji has created Kikaider, a humanoid robot gifted with a 'conscience circuit' enabling Kikaider to simulate real emotions and distingusih between right and wrong.

"Jiro", as he is called by Dr. Komyoji's children Mitsuko and Masaru, finds himself struggling to protect Mitsuko and Masaru from the evil Dr. Gill and his androids, and also to understand his own conflicted emotions. Is the conscience circuit a blessing or a curse?

Kikaider, in my own view, is a must own to all anime lovers. It is indeed a depressing series, but it does have its moments where the scenes are thoughtful and heart-warming. Kikaider's basic storyline is that of Pinnochio, though it is based more off of the story than rather retold.

The series starts off with the beginning of Pinnochio, and then develops on its own from there, telling about a scientist who makes an android used to fight evil, while the android tries to figure out his emotions, and whether he is a 'good robot', a 'bad robot', or even just a 'mad machine'.

"Jiro", otherwise known as Kikaider to the evil forces, struggles to find his existance, and why he feels the way he does. Yet the more he finds out, the more he wants to become human - and find out why he feels differently than those that are human.

The DVD itself has very few features, but it does have a gallery where you can look at screen shots that are taken throughout the series, such as action shots, and poses that the characters are in. Also, the perfect box set also has four episodes after it - the series of Kikaider 01.

If you like robots and very good plots, then this is an EXCELLENT anime for you to own.