Battle Athletes Victory, Vol. 7: The Last Dance
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The broadcast version of the adventures of champion athlete/Cosmo Beauty winner Akari reach their conclusion in these episodes. The Nerilians, the evil aliens mentioned at the beginning of the series, suddenly arrive. This gang of interstellar warriors challenges the inhabitants of other planets to athletic contests, then enslaves them when they lose. Headmaster Grant Oldham persuades Akari to reenter competition to save the Earth; together they recruit the other Cosmo Beauty competitors--Ichan, Jessie, Kris, Lahrrie, Mylandah, Tanya--to form a special team, with Mr. Miracle as their trainer.
Although the Nerilians are half-human, half-machine hybrids, the Earth girls hold their own in the initial events. The plot takes a decidedly weird turn when the aliens bring Akari's mother, legendary Cosmo Beauty Tomoe Midoh, back from the dead--as a 17-year-old! Akari must face her mother in the final race, the 4,000-meter relay. Naturally, she comes from behind to win the day for humanity.
With her racing days behind her, Akari settles into life on Earth with a reborn mother her own age and Mr. Miracle, who turns out to be her father, Daizaemon Kanzaki. His morning newspaper announces the mysterious disappearance of Oldham, so a sequel may already be in works. (Ages 13 and older, due to minor violence and suggestions of lesbian relationships) --Charles Solomon
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Cosmo Beauty Showdown! Lahrri's mechanized training method gives her a perfectly consistent performance which is quite the opposite of Mylandah's method of unleashing her awesome rage. However, both of them enjoy a comfortable lead over Akari and Chris in the semi-finals. Fortunately, Chris reminds Akari to relax and to try harder, so they renew their efforts. With this new confidence, their skills improve drastically and they experience a resurgence! The winners will face the final event - the 100 meter dash. Who will claim the final crown?
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Battle Athletes Victory, Vol. 7: The Last Dance
Starring: Rio Natsuki , Aya Hisakawa , Ai Orikasa , Nobuo Hida , and Julie Maddalena Director: Katsuhito Akiyama Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer] ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD  Battle Athletes
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ASIN: B00001PE5L Release Date: 1999-11-09 |
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The broadcast version of the adventures of champion athlete/Cosmo Beauty winner Akari reach their conclusion in these episodes. The Nerilians, the evil aliens mentioned at the beginning of the series, suddenly arrive. This gang of interstellar warriors challenges the inhabitants of other planets to athletic contests, then enslaves them when they lose. Headmaster Grant Oldham persuades Akari to reenter competition to save the Earth; together they recruit the other Cosmo Beauty competitors--Ichan, Jessie, Kris, Lahrrie, Mylandah, Tanya--to form a special team, with Mr. Miracle as their trainer.Although the Nerilians are half-human, half-machine hybrids, the Earth girls hold their own in the initial events. The plot takes a decidedly weird turn when the aliens bring Akari's mother, legendary Cosmo Beauty Tomoe Midoh, back from the dead--as a 17-year-old! Akari must face her mother in the final race, the 4,000-meter relay. Naturally, she comes from behind to win the day for humanity.
With her racing days behind her, Akari settles into life on Earth with a reborn mother her own age and Mr. Miracle, who turns out to be her father, Daizaemon Kanzaki. His morning newspaper announces the mysterious disappearance of Oldham, so a sequel may already be in works. (Ages 13 and older, due to minor violence and suggestions of lesbian relationships) --Charles Solomon
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Cosmo Beauty Showdown! Lahrri's mechanized training method gives her a perfectly consistent performance which is quite the opposite of Mylandah's method of unleashing her awesome rage. However, both of them enjoy a comfortable lead over Akari and Chris in the semi-finals. Fortunately, Chris reminds Akari to relax and to try harder, so they renew their efforts. With this new confidence, their skills improve drastically and they experience a resurgence! The winners will face the final event - the 100 meter dash. Who will claim the final crown?Customer Reviews:
Cosmo Beauty Finally Crowned.......2005-10-27
Surprising end to a fun and heart warming series..........2000-09-08
Well worth the money.......2000-09-07
As expected, there were no surprises with the audio on this disc. The stereo soundtrack sounds clean and clear throughout on the Japanese side and some spot checking on the English track didn't reveal anything odd there. The majority of the dialogue and sounds end up coming through my center channel, but there is one sequence where there is a great throw to the rear speakers that really surprised me. A solid disc in the audio department.
The final cover to the series is definitely a great one, with Tomoe Midoh gracing it. This series has been fortunate in having some great artwork to draw from the Japanese releases and have produced some very eyecatching (if not spoilerish) covers. The back contains the usual amount of good and useful information as well as a listing of all the episodes on the disc and their episode number. Definitely the way TV series discs should be done.
The only downside to this release, other than the lack of openings and endings, is the menu system that is just very sluggish on anything other than a really good DVD-ROM drive. The language selection is very good though in that it leaves the selected options in a different color so you know exactly what you're going to end up with. Otherwise, this menu is pretty much identicle to the previous releases.
This final disc is very hard to review in terms of content, as practically everything about it is a spoiler based on the last disc. Since it contains the last four episodes, there's more oppurtunity to clean up the outstanding minor plots in addition to the one glaring big plot as revealed in volume seven. There's a lot of truly great writing and moments in this disc.
This is one of those series that you hope keeps up the same pace it started with and never stops. All eight volumes are a treasure and contain some of the tightest anime writing and plotting that's up there with Vision of Escaflowne and Neon Genesis Evangelion. The characters are all very fleshed out and in these final episodes, what has gone before isn't betrayed at all, but rather built upon and provides some truly great moments from just about every character.
Fans of the first seven volumes will be amazed by what transpires within. It's been a wild ride and I'm sad to see it's over. Battle Athletes Victory is a world I'm definitely going to revisit many times in the years to come.
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