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Never-the-less! I LOVED the first DVD, it's so CUTE how they meet!! ^O^. And how he's so taken aback by her approaches, and scared...poor little guy. (*eyes glaze over.* I'd love a girl to be like that on me..) But, enough with MY wants. The kid, Nakahito, really just wants to chill, and by chilling, I mean to become a mystic, like his elder brother. Too bad for HIM, he's got a destiny to fulfill!

I suggest you rent it first, then see if you like it. I suggest you get them all, because, like me, you'll wanna watch them over and over again, just to takein the cuteness!...but the subtitles are straight translations from japanese, so if you didn't hear something, and look at the subtitle, it won't be the same. -.-. Just informing you...damn american writers..

Cute, funny, and warm
Steel Angel Kurumi is another entrant in the boy surrounded by girls genre of anime. Here, the girls are robot women, and the era is 1920s Japan. The robots, then, are technological wonders, unexplained on this disc, but apparently the great mystery of the show.

The setup is fairly simple: 11 year-old boy sneaks into a mansion and wakes up a female robot who calls him master and falls in love with him. The Japanese army (and eventually everyone else in the world) wants the robot and its creator, and both comedic hijinks and fighting action ensue. This show works: it's funny when it wants to be, it's always gorgeous to look at, and it moves at a good clip. For once, the age rating on this show is probably too high: it's marked 17+, apparently because of the occasional bare-breasted robot (before she gets activated). That level of nudity certainly is here--but it's both tame and brief. Any other issues would involve the boy getting overwhelmed by Kurumi's affections (hugs, typically), but these are more cute than anything else.

I'd like to stop there and give Kurumi 5 stars, but I can't. The first problem is that, in the English dub, the translator decided to fling about a whole load of swearing at the start of the first episode. In most shows, I wouldn't care, but Kurumi deserved better than that--the coarse language is entirely at odds with the cuteness and warmth of the show. (Fortunately, it only scars that first episode.) Second, Kurumi is part of the half-length episode trend in Japan recently: each episode is roughly 15 minutes. There are only 6 episodes on this disc, so you're not getting a particularly good value. The show IS worth it, but I wish we could get more for our money.

Excellent anime, though could have been better.
I thought this anime was cool because it has high-tech combat girls in it. Its kinda like a more suttle version of Ghost In The Shell minus the plilosophical meaning. I like how Kurumi and Saki can obliterate anything just as long as their owner tells them too. I love this show but I could have done without the J-pop theme track at the beginning of each episode and I didn't care for the moments of seeing Kurumi and Saki in those tiny simple-drawing forms with weird faces. Now if Kurumi and Saki toated AK-47s and wore military fatigues then Kurumi would be perfect. You should watch it if you like anime with cybergirls minus the girlpower.