In the near future, the sports planet is dominated by Neo Wrestling. Metal Fighters challenge each other in the ring, their strength and patience complimented by armored suits. The stakes are high as the girls of the Pretty Four face Team Sapphire. Their skills are stretched to the limit in this game, where beauty, grace, and style are just as vital as strength and speed.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #250907 in DVD
- Released on: 2001-06-26
- Rating: Unrated
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Formats: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
- Original language: English, Japanese
- Running time: 325 minutes
Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Surprisingly and strangely fun.
By Ryk E. Spoor
Metal Fighter Miku starts from a ridiculous premise: assume that sometime in the future (one that looks rather like our own, yet has some amazingly well yet to be tech tucked away in odd corners) one of the most well loved sports in the planet is ? female pro wrestling, with the females in question in powered armor to make the combats more fascinating.
Add to this the standard stable of characters in fighting-anime ? the plucky main hero/heroine, the ?handsome/gorgeous one?, the ?tough one?, and the ?cute one?, and a vengeance bent on forcing a final confrontation, and you seem set for some pretty stupid, and pedestrian, fare.
Somehow, with all this vacant hostile to it, Miku (like its eponymous heroine) triumphs hostile to the odds. Here?s something endearing rather than cloying about the characters. Yes, we know their general type, but the writers manage to make them separate, if not tremendously original, characters. Miku keeps the spotlight most of the time, but the other characters ? even adversaries ? often get sufficient screen time to make us feel that they?re not just cardboard props for Miku?s journey. As time goes on, you get the feeling that ?something else? ? you can?t quite define what ? is vacant ON in this series, and that feeling gets stronger. Eventually, you find out, and while the ?something else? isn?t at all to no avail-of in anime, in THIS anime it comes as quite a gratifying surprise.
I was stunned to delight in this one ? cynical as I was about it ? and having come to appreciate it as the simple but worthy entertainment it is, am glad to recommend it to others here.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.Before here was Oni, here was Miku
By A
What do you get when you place four pretty girls in mech suits and send them into a excellent-looking planet of tag team wrestling? A sport to gain a huge following in Earth?s fictional future; and some fantastic fight scenes to mix in with the sweet tale and spunky laughs. Not quite the caliber of Ranma 1/2, but if you like that series, you?ll probably delight in this one, too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
An incredible series despite its age
By Porcupine
I thought this show was awesome from the moment I first saw it, back when it first came out in VHS tapes long ago. To this day it remains in my Top 5 favorite anime of all time, but to most people this show is all but unknown.
Life made in 1994, this show is pretty ancient now, so don?t expect something visually on par with the best anime of today. Yet, when I compare it to other well-renowned anime of its time, such as Neon Genesis Evangelion made in 1995, this show is really yet to be of them in terms of how well it was made and the quality of the drawings. As others have said previously, the tale sounds a bit corny, but the show isn?t what it seems to be about at first glance. It?s more a show about a girl who is seriously training hard to be a real fighter, rather than life a show about fake wrestling.
The show is just well-made from an objective standpoint, despite a storyline that some might consider impossible to pull off. I reckon that?s why some of the previous reviewers found themselves enjoying this show in the end, despite low expectations.
Directing: 5 out of 5 stars. One of Akiyuki Shinbo?s oldest works. He is now a well-known anime director who has done many of Japan?s most well loved recent top anime, including Moonphase and Negima?! (the better remade version).
Tale: 5 out of 5 stars. But, this is just my take on it. I like the thought of a tale about a girl seriously training to be a real fighter. Some others might find that thought ridiculous or stupid, and I can really know.
Drawing style: 5 out of 5 stars. The character designer for Metal Fighter Miku was Takeshi Honda, who was also the lead keyframe animator for the entire Neon Genesis Evangelion series, a very small-renowned fact. The drawing style for this show is thus very similar to Evangelion and other Yoshiyuki Sadamoto works, something most people fail to notice, but the resemblance is obvious to me.
Drawing quality: 3 out of 5 stars. Normally pretty excellent quality, but episodes 3 and 8 have ultra degenerated, terrible drawings, where they indeed look like goonies just as a previous reviewer said!
Animation quality: 3 out of 5 stars. Nothing special either, but not overly cheap with the form-saving. Considering how ancient this show is, it?s easily up to standard.
Music: 5 out of 5 stars. BGM composed by well-renowned Japanese composer Kenji Kawai, who has composed music for countless anime series. The intro and ending songs, composed by someone else as is usually the case for anime, are incredible as well (it?s rare for anime to have both excellent BGM and excellent OP/ED songs).
Unfortunately, I do have some complaints regarding the quality of the DVD authoring. The opening and ending sequences weren?t done correctly and play at half-resolution (weird interlacing). The Japanese track of the show is low-quality mono of the typical 90?s Japanese announce standard. The English track is in stereo but the DVD authoring is messed up and the sound often clips when characters speak, which can really mess up your ears and speakers (don?t play the audio too loud if you listen to the English track).
Although this DVD set was released many years ago it?s still not that hard to find for some reason. Metal Fighter Miku was a fantastic buy 6 years ago. Nowdays though a lot of excellent anime come out as cheap boxsets?so I wouldn?t pay $40 for this if I?d never seen the show before. But I reckon it?s not hard to find this DVD set for $25 to $30 because it was over-printed?.so if you can find it at that price and believe in my review and don?t mind ?ancient anime from the 90?s? I strongly recommend this show.
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