review: Denshin Mamotte Shugogetten TV (r0) review

[treatment]

This is a region-0/hk-bootleg dvd-review. The anime hasn't been licensed in Region-1. It's currently $30 for 3-discs/22-episodes. Some shops sell it up to $40 (not worth $40). There are several bootleg-versions of this show. My copy is of MI (Manga). You'll be better off getting it from the fansub-circuit.

Scores:

-- Art

[*] A : A pretty good updated tenchi-esque character art here.

-- Video

[*] A : Colors are bright and vivid. Animation-level is standard.

here's a snapshot of Shao-rin:

-- Audio

[*] A : good stereo mix

-- Voice-acting

[*] B : pretty standard tenchi-esque vocals. Ruan's vocal is Ayeka of Tenchi.

-- Subtitles

[*] B+ : Fansub-quality, with some occassional very minor spelling-typos here and there in some episodes. Grammar structure was pretty good for the most part in the early episodes of disc-1. Then it gets engrish-heavy in the last episode (the ruann cat-training episode) of disc-1. Disc-2 seems to start off with good grammar-subs again.

-- Story and Presentation

[*] B- : The story is about some variation of the Genie-myth. Very kid-friendly fantasy comedy. A little boring in the earlier episodes. No fan-service.

-- Verdict:

[*] B

: This is a variation of the Genie-myth/story. You guys seen the 60's live-action sitcom I Dream of Jenie, right? Basically the same stuff, but set in the anime-standard high-school setting.

Tasuke's dad sent him some Chinese artifacts that contain the moon-spirit and sun-spirit guardians. You got Shaorin as the moon-spirit and Ruan as the sun-spirit competing to be their master's, high-schooler Tasuke, only guardian and have his favor. Shao-rin becomes a student and Ruan becomes a teacher. They pretty much trash the high-school building (again and again) with their fights. The series drags along in the earlier episodes and really doesn't get interesting until Izumo (pretty boy adult shinto priest) got interested in Shao-rin. Ruan's an adult, too, btw. Tasuke's two buddies have crushes on Shao-rin and Ruan, respectively.

I haven't finished all of this series, yet. I'm a little dis-interested with it at the moment.

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Edited September 30, 2003 by treatment