Hyper Doll - Mew & Mica The Easy Fighters
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It's difficult to tell if this super-heroine adventure is meant as spoof or a real story: the tone is silly and the fragmentary story line makes little sense. Although they appear to be ordinary (if curvaceous) high school students, Mew and Mica are really alien androids, assigned to protect Earth from the monsters summoned by the mysterious Dr. Zaiclit and his henchmen. In "Earth Is in a Bind," he sics a gigantic grasshopper and a jellyfish-octopus on Tokyo, a combination that can be defeated only by the Hyperdolls. In "Peace on Earth," a monster earthworm threatens the planet until Mew and Mica reduce it to so much live bait.
The Hyperdolls aren't particularly endearing characters. The only person who knows their true identity is their classmate Akai, a computer nerd who attempts to keep them focused on their assignment. They respond by making his life miserable--until a hologram of their boss appears (atop a pizza in "Bind") and orders them back to work.
The story starts and stops, with no real beginning, middle, or end, and will appeal only to uncritical anime fans: Hyperdolls makes Tenchi Muyo! sound like Kant's "The Critique of Pure Reason."
Rated for ages 13 and up for nudity, violence, and occasional profanity. --Charles Solomon
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Mew and Mica, two spacey, alien androids, pose as cute high school students to conceal their secret identities as the most undependable dynamic duo ever sent to defend the Earth! From super-sized jelly-fish to Ver Worm (a giant, supposedly intelligent worm), there is no villain too evil, too dastardly or too stupid for the Hyper Dolls to defeat! If they ever stop goofing off and eating on the job, the world would be in safe hands... Maybe.
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Starring: Mayumi Iizuka , Yukana Nogami , Mitsuaki Madono , Seizô Katô , and Megumi Ogata Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer] ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD  Geneon
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ASIN: B00004Y9PV Release Date: 2000-11-21 |
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It's difficult to tell if this super-heroine adventure is meant as spoof or a real story: the tone is silly and the fragmentary story line makes little sense. Although they appear to be ordinary (if curvaceous) high school students, Mew and Mica are really alien androids, assigned to protect Earth from the monsters summoned by the mysterious Dr. Zaiclit and his henchmen. In "Earth Is in a Bind," he sics a gigantic grasshopper and a jellyfish-octopus on Tokyo, a combination that can be defeated only by the Hyperdolls. In "Peace on Earth," a monster earthworm threatens the planet until Mew and Mica reduce it to so much live bait.The Hyperdolls aren't particularly endearing characters. The only person who knows their true identity is their classmate Akai, a computer nerd who attempts to keep them focused on their assignment. They respond by making his life miserable--until a hologram of their boss appears (atop a pizza in "Bind") and orders them back to work.
The story starts and stops, with no real beginning, middle, or end, and will appeal only to uncritical anime fans: Hyperdolls makes Tenchi Muyo! sound like Kant's "The Critique of Pure Reason."
Rated for ages 13 and up for nudity, violence, and occasional profanity. --Charles Solomon
Description
Mew and Mica, two spacey, alien androids, pose as cute high school students to conceal their secret identities as the most undependable dynamic duo ever sent to defend the Earth! From super-sized jelly-fish to Ver Worm (a giant, supposedly intelligent worm), there is no villain too evil, too dastardly or too stupid for the Hyper Dolls to defeat! If they ever stop goofing off and eating on the job, the world would be in safe hands... Maybe.Customer Reviews:
WARNING: You may laugh your head off..........2003-02-12
Also, the dolls don't want anyone eles finding out about their identity, so they make the threat to Akai: "Don't tell anyone, or we'll twist your head off!" I know that probably makes them seem less than heroic, but maybe the author decided he wanted his heroines to have a dark edge to them.
The animation is fair (I've seen much worse-it's better than Poke'mon, at least,) the music score is good, (in the dubbed version, the opening song is also sung in english,) and both the English and Japanese voice actors do a great job of potraying the characters. However, the story kind of drops you off in the middle, and about the only back story you see are some brief imigaes that flash by during the opening song, where we see the hyperdolls coming down to earth. Here is my advise: for anyone who watches this and wants a more complete version of the story, read the manga from Studio Ironcat.
Its better than Pokemon.........2002-04-24
Yes, it is better than Pokemon, but there are some really great Anime series out there (Outlaw Star, Cowboy Beebop) that make Hyperdolls look like the tired animated goop that it is.
Sweet Angels!.......2002-03-05
Modern day action girls.......2001-08-25
The Hyper Dolls have attitude and get into almost more spats with each other dinging each other than with the bad guys who they are there to defend Earth from. Indeed, they can get so wound up in a face-off that they have to be interrupted to do their job; their boss appears usually in the device of some variety of pizza to rein them in.
Their "victim" who knows who they are and cannot tell is a fairly typical boy with a delivery job who sits reading computer magazines in class and is saving for more memory. He get's angry with them when their machinations get him in trouble.
I liked the modern setting; sky scrapers and water them park. Add to that the fireworks festival, and villians who despite being giant insects, jellyfish or earthworms were in their way too human.
Too bad this is the only DVD of the HyperDolls. It starts after the girls have arrived and then ends, when future episodes could cover both ends.
Not much here.......2001-08-11
The low price is deceptive since the DVD contains only the two episodes, choice of English/Japanese language and English subtitles on/off, and nothing else. NOTHING. The animation itself is fairly mediocre. They could have added something to this DVD worthy of watching more than once, but they didn't. Too bad...
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