Saber Marionette J - Collection 1

Starring:Megumi Hayashibara, Yuka Imai, Yuri Shiratori, Akiko Hiramatsu, Urara Takano, Kikuko Inoue, YÃ»ko Mizutani, Hikaru Midorikawa, Takehito Koyasu, Nicole Oliver, Maggie Blue O'Hara, Saffron Henderson, Don Brown, Ward Perry, Richard Newman, Paul Dobson, Sam Vincent, Ai Orikasa, Erin Fitzgerald, Scott McNeil
Director: Masami Shimoda
Studio: Bandai
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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This fan-favorite anime TV series, which debuted in Japan in 1996, is a bizarre combination of low-brow double-entendre comedy and truly adventurous science fiction. It unfolds on a distant planet whose human population, sustained by cloning, is entirely male. All the "women" here are lifelike but entirely submissive robots, known as marionettes. The early episodes are fairly conventional, a mix of splashy design elements from the shojo school of anime for girls, and a plot premise lifted from naughty fantasies like Video Girl Ai, which are aimed at horny adolescent males. Here, too, we have a nebbishy teenaged hero, Otaru, fending off the advances of several nubile nonhuman females, a trio of affectionate automatons named Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry. But this fast-paced series gets richer as it goes along, and slapstick elements are sidelined. It emerges that each of the leading nations on this planet, Terra 2, are theme-park retro-re-creations of dimly remembered Old Earth originals. Our Asian heroes live in Japoness, a pastiche of samurai-era Tokyo, while their Euro-Trash archenemies have molded nearby Garlant into a Soviet-style dictatorship. The nine episodes in this gorgeous double-disc package launch a story arc about the rising tensions between Japoness and Garlant, and pivot upon the discovery that Otaru's trio of marionettes may be a promising new breed: they have been outfitted with "maiden circuits" that seem to generate quasi-human emotions. Females with free will would be a scary novelty on Terra 2 and could shake the place to its foundations. Stay tuned! --David Chute
Description
Welcome to Japoness, an all-male society, where the only females are high-performance emotionless androids known as "marionettes". Martial arts students and all-around nice guy, Otaru, accidentally discovers and wakes a marionette named Lime. He soon learns that Lime is very different from other marionettes; she has emotions! After waking two more emotion-filled marionettes, Cherry and Bloodberry - Otaru faces tough challenges ahead of him as he battles the evil Faust and his Sabre Dolls. Can Otaru rise up to the challenge while teaching the marionettes about human emotions? Get ready for the love comedy of the year!

Saber Marionette J - Collection 1
Average customer rating:

An excellent amalgamation of action and romance with a golden touch of self-irony

One of the first anime series I collected...

Sabers Rule!!!!

hehe funny

Without a doubt a fantastic story

Saber Marionette J - Collection 1
Starring: Yuka Imai , Megumi Hayashibara , Yuri Shiratori , Akiko Hiramatsu , and Urara Takano
Director: Masami Shimoda
Manufacturer: Bandai
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2001-01-23

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This fan-favorite anime TV series, which debuted in Japan in 1996, is a bizarre combination of low-brow double-entendre comedy and truly adventurous science fiction. It unfolds on a distant planet whose human population, sustained by cloning, is entirely male. All the "women" here are lifelike but entirely submissive robots, known as marionettes. The early episodes are fairly conventional, a mix of splashy design elements from the shojo school of anime for girls, and a plot premise lifted from naughty fantasies like Video Girl Ai, which are aimed at horny adolescent males. Here, too, we have a nebbishy teenaged hero, Otaru, fending off the advances of several nubile nonhuman females, a trio of affectionate automatons named Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry. But this fast-paced series gets richer as it goes along, and slapstick elements are sidelined. It emerges that each of the leading nations on this planet, Terra 2, are theme-park retro-re-creations of dimly remembered Old Earth originals. Our Asian heroes live in Japoness, a pastiche of samurai-era Tokyo, while their Euro-Trash archenemies have molded nearby Garlant into a Soviet-style dictatorship. The nine episodes in this gorgeous double-disc package launch a story arc about the rising tensions between Japoness and Garlant, and pivot upon the discovery that Otaru's trio of marionettes may be a promising new breed: they have been outfitted with "maiden circuits" that seem to generate quasi-human emotions. Females with free will would be a scary novelty on Terra 2 and could shake the place to its foundations. Stay tuned! --David Chute

Description

Welcome to Japoness, an all-male society, where the only females are high-performance emotionless androids known as "marionettes". Martial arts students and all-around nice guy, Otaru, accidentally discovers and wakes a marionette named Lime. He soon learns that Lime is very different from other marionettes; she has emotions! After waking two more emotion-filled marionettes, Cherry and Bloodberry - Otaru faces tough challenges ahead of him as he battles the evil Faust and his Sabre Dolls. Can Otaru rise up to the challenge while teaching the marionettes about human emotions? Get ready for the love comedy of the year!

Customer Reviews:

An excellent amalgamation of action and romance with a golden touch of self-irony.......2006-04-17

All my previous attempts at watching anime were a failure, but one of my friends persuaded me to take just a brief glance at the first episode of Saber Marionette J. Since then, I have been completely enthralled. The series is a pleasant mixture of romance and grave events going on in the background - to be unleashed upon the whole of Terra II in the end. But the thing that distinguishes the series from the average is the catching self-irony, which protects the anime from becoming kitsch. This hilarious humour is much more evident in the first episodes - as the great, complex events slowly unfold, the story gets darker and ever more melodramatic. In fact, it is arguable whether it was a good decision to give it a completely happy ending, after the things that happen (well, at least this way it was possible to continue the series with Saber Marionette J to X). The Japanese voice-actors are great (it is interesting that the main male character Mamiya Otaru is being dubbed by an actress), as well as the animation. The whole series is full with mild erotic content - rather to add to the humorous side of the story than to be serious. The characters are complex and filled-out, though after a while they inevitably start to become increasingly predictable. And that leads to the only attribute of the series I didn't approve of: as the plot progresses, some scenes get soaked up with melodrama, almost to the point of distastefulness. Nevertheless, this is not very bothering, because the unfolding plot and the morale that shines through compensate for it. I would recommend Saber Marionette J to anyone craving for some romance, humour and action, arranged in an enjoyable and consistent way. All in all, the whole series is just very touching. A must-have for old anime-fans, too, though they have probably seen it.

One of the first anime series I collected..........2005-02-26

This was one of the first and, frankly, still one of the best. Tenchi Muyo, Hellsing, Trigun, Love Hina and the rest are good. But Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry was my first love among the anime series. The extras with the music videos, hidden easter egg with the interviews, the humor and sometimes touching scenes made the episodes in this set of discs and the other two collections PERFECT. The interaction between the characters and the complex plot, with the stand alone episodes, make it worth the price and open the door to the other series of the Saber Marionette universe. While the other stories set in the same setting are fun, this is the superior of them all. And I happen to be a fan of Tiger! Hubba-hubba!

Sabers Rule!!!!.......2002-07-11

Saber Marionette is definetely one of the best anime out there, if not the best. Loveable Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry really bring out anime, not to mention Otaru! Anyway, to anyone, I really recommend you buy this fantastic anime! I love you Otaru!

hehe funny.......2002-06-23

I heard really good stuff about this series and I had wanted to purchase it for a long time. I ended up having really high expectations for it, aghhh I tried so hard not to do that, you're just asking to be dissapointed. Lucky for me, I was not let down. Man, this show is hilarious. The first couple episodes, I admit, started out kinda lame. I didn't really like the first marionette he found, Lime. By the third episode tho' I was just like "I LUUUUUV this series". The other robot girls he finds are way cooler than the first and the main character is actually pretty cool himself. That's right, unlike every other anime I can think of where dorky guy that isn't great with girls, is suddenly surrounded by ones that adore him, this guy actually seems worthy of them. He's drawn pretty cute and doesn't have a total doormat personality (tho' he does stand by the typical indecisiveness with his girls, the "i love them all" theory).
I also like his english dubbed voice. Yuck, It sounds like a woman is doing his voice in the japanese version, darn it and I'm just too lazy to find out if it is or not for sure. But anyway it sounds like it and I can't picture him being manly when he sounds so feminine. So that's why I like the dub, it's pretty good. The japanese is awesome too tho', the voice actresses doing Lime and Cherry are really admirable.

So anyway, it takes a couple episodes to get into but this is a great series. All right!, and it come with nine episodes, that's more than enough to get hooked. I greatly recommmend everyone give this show a try. My only regret is now I gotta scrounge up another 90 bucks so I can buy the last two collections ^.^

Without a doubt a fantastic story.......2002-06-15

I already seen the whole series on video tape.And I watched so much that I had to get it on DVD, because the tapes were getting worn. When I first saw it, it grabbed my attention as to how adorable Lime was. And as the other marionettes Cherry and Bloodberry showed up the story got only more interesting and fun. I am in my twenties I must admit and since I was a kid I watched alot of the old animes, but when I saw this one I was thrust back into the whole anime scene. It is one of those stories that hasn't been told like any other, it has comedy and heart-break and alot of suspense, with twists of emotion with the characters, that make you feel like you were right there with them, and wish that you could be a part of it. Not many stories I see where I feel sorry for the villians as much as the heroes, but as the story goes on you come to like all the characters, even the very one minded and irreversibly annoying Mitsurugi Hanagata. if you are a anime fan and have not seen this let alone heard of it you must give this one a shot, I still remember the first time I saw it and I always smile when I watch it since. This has to be one of the best and most unique stories ever told, please don't hesitate to get it. The only thing that I was worried about was that the next set of stories wouldn't match up to the first season. But I was wrong, but that is another review for another time. I really hope that this helped you, and I apologize that I didn't go into more detail but when you get it ( yes I am confident with that ) you will be glad that I didn't, and didn't ruin all the suspense for you. This is definately one for the ages.

Saber Marionette J Again - Plasmatic Crisis Collection (Vols 1-3)

Average customer rating:

Nice edition, and special features
They're BACK!
saber fans
Saber Marionette Rules!
A nice link between two great series

Saber Marionette J Again - Plasmatic Crisis Collection (Vols 1-3)
Starring: Julie Maddalena , Bridget Hoffman , Mary Elizabeth McGlynn , Lia Sargent , and Wendee Lee
Manufacturer: Bandai
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Release Date: 2002-01-08

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This six-part OVA serves as a bridge between Saber Marionette J (1995) and Saber Marionette J to X (1998). It repeats the weirdly sexist setup from the earlier series: decidedly female-looking robots called Marionettes take the place of women on Terra II. The first three episodes play as a sort of domestic comedy, with Faust sending his three Marionettes, Tiger, Panther, and Luchs, to learn about domesticity from Otaru's crew of Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry. In the woods, Lime meets the mysterious and powerful Marionette Marine, who joins their household. The story darkens in the second trio of episodes, as a once-every-80,000-years "Plasma Storm" threatens to destroy Terra II. The dangers are increased via a weird subplot in which the nasty president of New Texas tries to capture Marine using "liquid metal" cyborgs lifted from Terminator 2. Much of J Again plays like a very un-PC cross between Tenchi and Slayers. The Marionettes all love Otaru and desire only to please him, although it's not clear why. Unlike Tenchi or Akito in Nadesico, Otaru never displays the good heart or hidden powers that would make him worth all the bother. The series offers lots of "fan service" jiggle shots, and there's a running gag involving Hanagata, a gay guy who makes passes at Otaru, only to get punched out by him--all of which will probably delight many adolescent boys, the obvious audience for the discs. Suggested for ages 13 and up: Sexual humor, violence, partial nudity, alcohol use, mild profanity. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews:

Nice edition, and special features.......2007-07-03

Nice edition, This is the OVA, after the first part Saber Marionette J. It has Textless openings and ending, and an art gallery. Nice images, 2 DVDs and a guide.

They're BACK!.......2005-02-26

Right when you thought things would calm down, a series of events shake things up. First, Faust sends Tiger,Panther and Luchs to Otaru, Lime, Cherry and Bloodberry for help. It's hoped that Lorelei can repair Tiger and the other Dolls can learn manners from Otaru. Second, a new Marionette appears, Marine, who seems to dislike men and has no memory of her past.
Third, there seems to be a danger greater than the Marionettes have ever faced before. A danger that threatens the whole planet and even with Faust's help they may not defeat it.
Great link between J an J-X. And Wendee Lee is Luchs' English voice. YEAH!

saber fans.......2003-01-04

if you like girls this is it, if you like androids this is it, If you like laughs and love this is it, otaru,lime,cherry and bloodberry are the best anime that ever existed for family and friends. Totaly recommend this for adolecents ages 10-100 this is my personal rating and dads and moms this is the best gift for your sons and daughters that are growing and need sexual education and attention. This will unlock your children shyness and bring more confidence thanks to lime and her other saber marionette friends.

Saber Marionette Rules!.......2002-07-11

Saber Marionette is a top-notch anime! This fits with the first 3 DVDs, and is absolutely wonderful. The new marionette Marine has brought a new person into my site 'The Goddess of Anime'. I recommend this DVD whole heartedly.

A nice link between two great series.......2002-05-09

I've always liked these series since I watched them on TV. I was amazed on how addictive they can be.

This Program 26 is a very good link between series and a "must see" to understand the first episodes of Saber Marionette J to X. It's a new story that explains how Tiger got up and was repaired. The character design is very similar to the J to X series, the same fresh and younger look.

If you liked Saber Marionette J as much as I did you'll surely enjoy watching this one.

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