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Exclusive review: Inu-Yasha:
Rumiko Takahashi's (Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku, Mermaid Tales) new hit TV series in Japan
  Rating: PG-13
  U.S. Distribution Rights: ADV Films
  Genre: Sci-Fi


Plastic Little: The Adventures of Captain Tita (OVA)

Description:    The citizens of the space colony Yietta are finally about to pay off their debts to the Federation and become an independent colony. Unfortunately, there are those who would rather not let control of the planet slip through their fingers, especially when there are military projects which exploit Yietta's resources... Enter Tita, 17 year old owner/captain of the Cha-Cha Maru. Together with her ragtag crew, Tita specializes in capturing and selling Yietta's exotic life forms for the intergalactic pet store market. Through a series of accidental meetings and plain bad luck, Tita finds herself at the very core of a sinister plot to deprive the people of Yietta of all their hard won gains. By rescuing Elysse, a 16 year old girl whose father was involved in the development of a terrible new weapon, from a group of military plotters, Tita puts the lives of herself and her crew in mortal peril...

Overall Grade: 84% (B)

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  Reviewer: Clyde Adams III
  Episodes reviewed: OVA one-shot; subtitled
Grade: 84% (B)
   Plastic Little is a very beautiful, lightweight, entertaining science fiction adventure, recommended. The best reason to watch this is the great art, not only character art, but fabulous landscapes, vistas, and machinery. The very talented hand of artist Satoshi Urushihara, who did the character design and wrote the screenplay for Plastic Little, has had an impact on anime elsewhere. He drew the original manga, and did the character design for, Legend of Lemnear, and Bubblegum Crisis episode 8, "Double Vision," but it is in Plastic Little that his gorgeous painting style is most painstakingly and effectively translated to anime. Urushihara shows off one of his specialties by including gratuitous scenes where beautiful female characters are nude or topless.

Although, the characterization and plot are very shallow and the basic premise of the plot is so old it creaks: brilliant, eccentric scientist with a beautiful daughter, makes a momentous discovery that would be disastrous in the wrong hands, the dramatic moments and confrontations are well-handled, visually and viscerally, and the music is effective.



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