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Rating:
PG-13 U.S.
Distribution Rights: none Genres: Action, Comedy, Shounen
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All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku Dash (OVA) Alternate Title: Super Cat Girl Nuku Nuku 2
Description: The continued adventures of
an android cat girl, her weird family, and the damage
she causes when her body continuously proves itself more
powerful than her brain. |
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Reviewer #1: Clyde Adams
III Episodes reviewed: Banno Bunka
Nekomusume (Raw Japanese) |
Grade: 91%
(A-) |
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This
is a very good comedy series, a worthy successor to the first
OVA series, highly recommended. The art, production values,
and character designs are very good, although not quite up to
the standard set by the first series, in my opinion.
The life and world of cat-girl-robot Nuku-Nuku continues to
develop. She takes on more responsibility, gets a waitress job
to pay for damages she caused, attracts admirers, finds she
has a kindred being and would-be deadly rival (another robot),
and finally sets out on a life-or-death mission into space!
She gets into all the comic troubles that can be expected when
you have an inexperienced cat's brain in a super-powerful
robotic body. Nuku-Nuku's admirers look a lot like Lum's Guard
from Urusei Yatsura; a protective gang of infatuated young
men.
The paramilitary office ladies, Arisa and Kyoko, are back
seeking revenge against Nuku-Nuku, with automatic weapons,
catnip, or whatever it takes. But their boss Akiko, the main
threat before, now often finds herself on Nuku-Nuku's side.
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Reviewer #2: Zac
Bertschy Episodes reviewed: 1-4,
subtitled |
Grade: 78%
(C+) |
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Nuku-Nuku
DASH! seems to have been made soley for fans of the
original series. Not being a fan of the original series, I
didn't care much for Nuku Nuku DASH!. I've seen the
original Nuku-Nuku OVA series — why would I want to see
the same thing again, with slightly worse animation and
changed character designs?
This OVA series does do a few things the first one didn't.
It ages the characters a little bit, and puts them into
different situations, so Nuku-Nuku's gimmicky personality can
interact appropriately. Therein lies the real problem with
this series. Once you can predict what Nuku will do next,
which isn't very hard, the show becomes instantly boring. You
can call everything that will happen in an episode just by
reading it's title. Nuku chases mice around. Nuku gets
distracted at an inopportune moment. Yawn. You've seen it
once, you've seen it a million times. The animation quality
has, of course, dropped a level, although for a modern OVA
series, this one doesn't look bad at all. The character
designs seem to have been remade with washed out colors in
mind. This series looks very old, like it's been left out in
the sun for too long. Nuku-Nuku now has yellow hair, which
doesn't really suit her character at all and ends up looking
very pale and washed out compared to the first OVA. The music
is passable as typical anime fare, sounding a lot like the
score to Saber Marionette J, which I suppose is similar
enough to this series. It's not all bad, though. Nuku fans
will be in heaven, as will otaku who love catgirls. Nuku-Nuku
is arguably the most cattish of the catgirls in anime today,
and those with an affinity for the breed will find nothing to
complain about here. Newcomers, however, probably won't be
impressed with this, and would be better off discovering the
original series for themselves first.
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