"Director: Hiroaki Goda"

• Ah! My Goddess - Vol. 6 | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ah! My Goddess is the story of a typically reserved engineering student who unwittingly acquires his very own sex goddess after mis-dialing a number for takeout this anime series comes from the long-running manga of the same name. In Ah! My Goddes: Volume 6 Belldandy and Keiichi are caught up in the battle over the Earth's Fate When The Lord of Terror suddenly takes over Urd! The Lord of Terror summons the Demon gate and woe to us all if she opens it! The world will be overrun by demons. The Valkyrie Lind is sent from heaven to execute The Lord of Terror by any means necessary and whatever host body it happens to be using. Belldandy in turn is given the holy flute to summon the mighty Midguard Serpent to fight but The Lord of Terror can jump from one body into another therefore escaping peril. Will she be able to take up arms against her sister Urd or Skuld or even Keiichi? This DVD contains episodes 23 to 26.

• Bubblegum Crisis - Vol. 2 | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• Oh My Goddess! - Vol. 2 - Evergreen Holy Night / For The Love Of Goddess | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Evergreen Holy Night: Keiichi's life seems to be getting back to normal. Or at least as normal as life can be when you live in a temple with 3 goddesses! Yes he does get strange dreams and yes Urd and Skuld are a pain but what the heck - his girlfriend is truly divine! Alas System Bugs are escaping from the Heavens upsetting the balance of the Earthly Plane. Skuld is on the case and soon discovers that whenever Keiichi and Belldandy get close a Bug exhaust port is formed. Thi

• Ah! My Goddess - Vol. 4 | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The days are neber dull at the Morisato household where Skuld is building a robot to protect Belldandy from Keiichi's hesitant advances. Unfortunately when the robot itself falls in love with everyone's favourite goddess it won't let anyone near her at all! Summer break arrives and the gang head to the beach. Urd decides it's time to capitalise on two of her favourite things - swimsuits and love schemes! Keiichi is given a mission: if he can't kiss Belldandy on the moonlit beach he won't be able to spend a blissful eternity with her! Contains episodes 15-18

• Ah! My Goddess - The Movie | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  There's trouble in paradise! Belldandy's mentor Celestin was imprisoned for attempting to overthrow the Goddess system but now he's back! Using a system virus Celestin corrupts the Goddess system and removes all of Belldandy's love for Keiichi! Will Belldandy's love for Keiichi prove to be the key to ruining Celestin's plans or will it be the final ingredient necessary to destroy our reality?

• Ah! My Goddess Flights Of Fancy Series 2 Part 1 | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Episodes 1 - 8 It's been almost a year since the Goddess Belldandy came to live with college student Keiichi Morisato and he's almost gotten up the nerve to kiss her. Unfortunately the encounter with the Lord of Terror damaged some of Yggdrasil's systems and the contract binding Belldandy and Keiichi is among the lost data. The lovebirds can only hope the information can be retrieved before the Almighty One orders Belldandy back to Heaven. Naturally Skuld and Urd try to help but it might be better if they didn't. Then with Christmas at hand Keiichi works himself to the bone to buy a present and the rivalry with Sayoko may have driven Belldandy to drink?! What happens when a Goddess is (literally) drunk with power? Find out what happens next in Ah! My Goddess Season Two.

• The Ultimate Goddess Collection | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £14.83   |  Saving you £15.16 (50.60%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Oh My Goddess! Vol. 1 College freshman Morisato Keiichi gets more than he bargained for when he goes dialing for dinner and gets an unexpected delivery - Belldandy a real live honest to goodness Goddess! Belldandy grants him a wish and Keiichi decides that what he really needs is a girlfriend just like Belldandy! That's when Keiichi remembers that his dorm has a strict rule: NO WOMEN ALLOWED! Can Keiichi and Belldandy find a new place to live? Will everyone buy the story that she's a foreign student? And does Keiichi have the guts to put the moves on a babe who is literally divine? Oh My Goddess! Vol. 2 Keiichi's life seems to be getting back to normal. Or at least as normal as life can be when you live in a temple with 3 goddesses! Yes he does get strange dreams and yes Urd and Skuld are a pain but what the heck - his girlfriend is truly divine! Alas System Bugs are escaping from the Heavens upsetting the balance of the Earthly Plane. Skuld is on the case and soon discovers that whenever Keiichi and Belldandy get close a Bug exhaust port is formed. Things don't improve when Belldandy gets a Recall Notice from the Lord: she has to go back or else! With a goddess for a girlfriend you'd think Keiichi's life would be Heaven. In fact it's beginning to resemble that other otherworldy address for when he tries to even get close to his girl System Bugs escape onto the Earthly Plane and foul up the works. Worse still the Lord has demanded that in just two days Belldandy must return home to Heaven. As the clock ticks away Belldandy must begin to erase herself from Keiichi's life and memory. And Keiichi? He's busy working his fingers to the bone so he can afford to buy a ring worthy of a goddess a ring to fulfill a promise that Keiichi can't remember making! Ah My Goddess! The Movie There's trouble in paradise! Belldandy's mentor Celestin was imprisoned for attempting to overthrow the Goddess system but now he's back! Using a system virus Celestin corrupts the Goddess system and removes all of Belldandy's love for Keiichi! Will Belldandy's love for Keiichi prove to be the key to ruining Celestin's plans or will it be the final ingredient necessary to destroy our reality? (Dir. Hiroaki Goda 2000)

• Bubblegum Crisis | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• Ah! My Goddess - Flights Of Fancy Vol.2 | DVD | (05/07/2010) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (52.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Episodes 9 - 16 It's been almost a year since the Goddess Belldandy came to live with college student Keiichi Morisato and he's almost gotten up the nerve to kiss her. Unfortunately the encounter with the Lord of Terror damaged some of Yggdrasil's systems and the contract binding Belldandy and Keiichi is among the lost data. The lovebirds can only hope the information can be retrieved before the Almighty One orders Belldandy back to Heaven. Naturally Skuld and Urd try to help but it might be better if they didn't. Then with Christmas at hand Keiichi works himself to the bone to buy a present and the rivalry with Sayoko may have driven Belldandy to drink?! What happens when a Goddess is (literally) drunk with power? Find out what happens next in Ah! My Goddess Season Two.

• Oh My Goddess! - Vol. 1 | DVD | (14/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.38

  Fujishima Kyousuke's Oh My Goddess is--as both animated film and the Manga comic book original--one of the most cutely romantic things in Japanese popular culture. In this first volume, the lonely student Morisato, desperate to get some takeaway food, finds himself connected to the Goddess Hotline and is visited by the angelically beautiful Belldandy, who offers him a wish. Assuming this to be a joke by his fellow students, he wishes that she stay with him forever. In the event, their relationship is tender and most of the comedy derives from brief intermissions when true love fails to run smooth, partly because of visits from her highly sexualised sister Urd and petulant baby sister Skuld. There is an odd picture here of Japanese student life--highly authoritarian dormitories and a playboy culture in which the motorcycle mechanic Morisato is constantly exploited by affluent biker chums--but there is an underlying sweet-naturedness to the three episodes here "Moonlight and Cherry Blossoms", "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Burning Hearts on the Road" that is remarkably attractive in its sugary way. --Roz Kaveney

• Ah! My Goddess - Vol. 3 | DVD | (18/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of a typically reserved engineering student who unwittingly acquires his very own sex goddess after mis-dialing a number for takeout this anime series comes from the long-running manga of the same name. In Ah! My Goddess: Vol 3 Keiichi must deal not only with Belldandy's drama but also with that of her sisters. Skuld Belldandy's younger sister might possibly be the worst of the bunch as she's constantly hogging Belldandy for herself. Making matters even more complicated are The Campus Queen and her devilish pal Mara. This release contains episodes 6 through 10.

• Ah! My Goddess - Series 2 | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keiichi's life with Belldandy becomes a little more complicated with the introduction of Megumi Keiichi's little sister. She wants to help Belldandy get closer to her brother and ends up sending them on a romantic date. Unfortunately Keiichi's wish has thrown a few bugs into Heaven's computer and the System Force crashes! Belldandy's older sister Urd comes down from On High to fix the problem but she decides it would be more fun to fix Keiichi instead. What will happen when she convinces Keiichi that the only way to fix the system is for him to kiss Belldandy?

• Ah! My Goddess Vol 5 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ah! My Goddess is a story of a typically reserved engineering student who unwittingly acquires his very own sex goddess after mis-dialing a number for takeout this anime series comes from the long-running manga of the same name. For those dwelling within the Morisato household it is a turbulent time filled with many changes in Ah! My Goddess: Volume 5. First Belldandy has a sudden change of attitude going from perfectly innocent to the perfect opposite. A tragic little magic accident gives Keiichi's gender a change of its own. Changes are in store for Urd when she walks away from her job in an attempt to save her sister's life. She is punished by having her powers revoked and she must unleash the Devil in Miss Urd to get them back. This DVD contains episodes 19 to 22.

• Bubblegum Crisis, Vol. 3 | DVD | (16/02/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• Bubblegum Crisis, Vol. 2 | DVD | (16/02/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.94

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney

• Bubblegum Crisis, Vol. 1 | DVD | (16/02/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.94

  The second instalment of the popular Japanese anime, Bubblegum Crisis 2 contains the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of the eight original videos. In a devastated high-tech Tokyo of a Blade Runner-ish future, four beautiful women disguised by their heavily armed exoskeletons protect society from killer androids and from an ambitious corporation that tries to take over the world, while also having complicated personal lives. The cute teenager NeNe always has a crush on someone or other; flighty Linna has to fit her superhero life into a busy social schedule; and Priss has her career as a rock singer as well as a habit of feeling emotional. Only the austere Sylia is entirely in control of her life--so much so that she needs the others for a bit of productive chaos. In the episodes included they deal with a mysterious car that is riding down motorcyclists, help a tragic android who is vampirising citizens to feed a damaged friend and cope with attempts by an evil conspirator to frame them for mass mayhem. The stories rely rather too heavily on extended sequences of fast bikes and car racing, or mechanised bodysuits and big robots tearing each other apart, but the plotting can be subtle and the emotional scenes tense and fraught. Someone trying to get a sense of anime's strengths and weaknesses could do a lot worse than start here. On the DVD: the disc is presented in a visual aspect ratio of 1.33:1 and has a very loud Dolby Digital 2.0 soundtrack which presents every screech of tortured metal vehemently and every pounding anthem in the slightly pompous score. There are no extras apart from a very extended documentation of the credits. --Roz Kaveney