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Ah! My Goddess - Season 1 Complete Collection

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This set includes all 6 discs from season 1. It's the same thing as the preimium box set except all the discs come in one case instead of 6, and it's alot less expenisve to buy this way.

As for the show, its very good. I'm surprised more people don't know about this anime because its one of the best ive ever seen.

Back in the nineties, all fans of the Ah! My Goddess manga had was a short, very condensed five-episode OVA series. It was lovely, of course, and we would watch and love every second of it. And yet, there was a thirst that the short OVA couldn't quench (and neither could the excellent 2000 Ah! My Goddess film, even if it is still the single best piece of Ah! My Goddess media ever released): we knew this series deserved to be made into a TV series. Back then, the odds of this happening seemed slim. Thankfully, we were wrong.

The TV series is everything we'd hoped for and more. This wasn't a rushed 13-episode project that'd only develop things slightly more than the previous OVA. This was (and is) a major, high-quality project. The series neither follows the manga completely faithfully nor veers off in some unknown direction: it takes the basic flow and material provided by the manga and fashions itself as its own creature.

As far as the series goes:

Visual: A fairly high-quality level of animation is maintained. The visual aspects of the film are maintained, so this and the film don't look that terribly different.

Audio: Thankfully, unlike the OVA with its dinky BG music and simplistic J-POP, we get quite a few good tunes with this series. The first season opening is an excellent, Celtic-ish piece of soft rock. The ending is a cute, and, dare I say, slightly country-ish tune. The background music is not spectacular, but it accomplishes its job and, again, it is a far sight better than what was provided in the OVA.

Extras: Sparse extras. Very little. Extras-fanatics will be disappointed; for people like me who merely want the show, though, this won't be a problem.

All in All, a great show at a very affordable price. Highly recommended!

If you've never seen any Ah! My Goddess, though, try to get your hands on the OVA first. If you like the OVA, you'll love the series.

ONE POINT OF CAUTION

The five stars above are for the show itself. I advise against keeping your DVDs in the case. The way it is designed makes it very tough to get the DVDs out. I've never had troubles with any of my other DVDs, but I actually snapped one of the discs in this collection trying to get it out, and had to order a new individual copy of that disc! Get the set for the price, and then find some jewel cases or case-books to keep the discs in.

I was a fan of "Oh My Goddess!" manga when it was under Dark Horse, I read it for year and years and years, I loved it!

When I saw that they where releasing an anime, ooh I was excited! But, a little worried, as I wasn't a huge fan of the "Oh My Goddess" movie.

When I netflixed this, wow! I loved it! Oooh it was great! It had all the little story bits they left out in the American manga that where in the Japanese manga, PLUS lots of new stuff! the voice acting is great, just what I would expect the characters to sound like! Even the english dub is good, and honestly I hate watching anime when its not in its original language, so that coming from me says alot.

I had to buy it right away! Now I'm eagerly awaiting season 2 to come out, come on whats taking them so long! haha.

Its fun, light, great fun for all ages. Well, maybe not really young kids, but teens and up hehe ~.^ due to suggestive content, nothing graphic or anything though!

This show is great and I love it, very true to the original manga, I'm very pleased with this. Any OMG fan will love it! And if you like light, funny, story with morals, full of lovable characters, and beautiful animation, give it a shot! I bet you'll love it too!

Oh and there are no boys getting nose bleeds and falling down or angry women punching them through windows into the next county. hehe. ^^ come on, all you anime fans, you know what I'm talking about hehe. ^^

I saw a few episodes of this on t.v. a few months ago and it looked very entertaining similar to the series Ai Yori Aoshi with a more magical twist and I am definitely glad to have gotten this set. The story has the main character Keiichi Morisato a young male college student who seems to have the worst luck with money and women and because of his money problems lives in the auto club dorm rooms. Than after a accidental phone call mistake he's connected to the goddesses hot line where he meets Belldandy a young goddess who tells him he gets one wish, and his wish turns out having Belldandy staying on earth at his side. In no way is there anything to adult in this series it's actually pretty light-hearted with most of the romantic scenes so don't worry about younger kids watching this show. Along the series Belldandy's two other sisters Urd and Skuld come to earth and later stay there. The series has a mix of romance and humor but again don't worry to much about violence in the series the harshest you'll probably see is when two of the series characters are punished for their conniving ways and trying to get between Belldandy and Keiichi. The series is widescreen format with clear and sharp picture quality so no need to worry about the picture. The audio is also great the dubbed and subbed voice actors did a great job for their characters on the show. Now I'm just waiting to get the second season set of this great show to complete my collection, so to anime fans if you like Ai Yori Aoshi or Ranma 1/2 animes this series is a great selection for your library...

A friend of mine introduced me to anime, and knowing that I hated ultra-violent series that are so popular amongst anime fans, recommended Ah! My Goddess instead. The series starts off incredibly slowly - the very first episode is entirely Keichii-centric. The pace picks up a little when Belldandy shows up. But the series really begins to take off when Belldandy's sisters - Urd and Skuld show up. It's about then that the series settles into a familiar formula - Urd tries to persuade Keichii to put the moves on Belldandy, Skuld tries to stop them, hilarity (and numerous explosions) ensues. It's a simplistic formula, but the characters have so much charm to them that it actually works very well.

I have some minor caveats, which I think are particularly relevant to new viewers. Firstly, the series does take awhile to get up to speed and establish the characters, so be patient because the multi-episode wait is worth it. Secondly, for those used to female protaganists like Buffy Sommers, Belldandy is a major throwback to the 1950's. The character of Belldandy is most successful when she is interacting with other characters - particularly Urd and Skuld. When the focus was on Belldandy herself, the pace slowed down for me somewhat.

Apart from that, this is a reasonably good series.

This will be a short review since it's 5:30 AM and my memories of the first season aren't very fresh due to me having completed it a few weeks back. I suddenly felt like expressing my opinion about the series before my memories become too fuzzy, so...

The story is simple: A guy (Keiichi) with bad luck has bad things happen to him constantly, a Goddess (Belldandy) takes pity on him, allowing him to have 1 wish and the guy rather bizarrely requests that the Goddess stays with him forever. From that point onwards the other main characters are slowly introduced, including characters such as Skuld; a young Goddess who wants all Belldandy's attention, and lots of comedy follows.

Ah! My Goddess (AMG) is what I've come to call a 'circular series', and by that I mean it's the type that goes around in a seemingly endless circle of comedy episodes that advance the plot very slowly if at all. But, thankfully, that isn't a bad thing in the case of this series - The main characters are all likeable, the relationship between a wimp (Keiichi) and doormatt (Belldandy) is as entertaining as it is cute and the series clearly had a fairly high budget. You'll end up glad that Ah! My Goddess is the type of series that will continue until the money stops coming.

AMG is a show that just about anyone from either gender should enjoy. It isn't a series for the sort of people who can't enjoy anything without blood and guts but I find it hard to imagine anyone else disliking it. If you want an easy to watch or a 'girlfriend friendly series' that's almost guaranteed to make time pass in an enjoyable manner then this most certainly is it.

I've moved onto the 2nd season (although I've put it on hold for the moment) and I still enjoy watching it just as much as I did when I started. I highly recommend continuing the series with that once you get through the first season - It's a direct continuation of what you'll by then know is a high quality series.

I've heard about this series in the past but never thought about reading/watching it until I rented it randomly from Netflix. After watching the series, I was blown away by how good the series was. I bought the DVDs shortly after finishing the rented versions. The US production company did an excellent job with the English dubbing of this series (and I greatly thank them for keeping the same English cast for season 2). I can't think of any negative points about the series itself.

The one problem I did run into with this item was the sub-par construction of DVD case. The first one I received from Amazon had 1 DVD cracked in half. After ordering a replacement, the DVDs were all in good condition but some plastic pieces that are supposed to hold the DVDs in place were broken off. I ended up removing all the DVDs from the case and storing them in my own DVD cases.

A friend lent this to me.. I can't wait for the other Seasons. She knows I am into "real" movies (not Anime) and have been watching a lot of dark movies, lots of blood killing ewtc.. She turned me onto this.. and I AM HOOKED.. it is great.. the english dub IMHO is wonderful!

I am going to get the complete set.
Jim

This is terrific series for any anime fan. Though most would toss this into a 'harem' classification with scarcely a thought, there is very rarely a moment where any of the female characters compete directly or indirectly for the male lead's affection. While all the characters involved have their own motivations, this does let the main romance, the actual focus of the series, develop well with the plot. The good music and light, clean animation also accenuates the series light and innocent tone. A good buy.

Thank you for the item love the move love the show's looking to bay more of them win i git the chance