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• Actors: Megumi Hayashibara, Fumi Hirano, Jūrōta Kosugi, Mami Koyama, Tomoko Maruo
• Directors: Junichi Watanabe
• Writers: Muneo Kubo, Yuichi Sasamoto
• Producers: John O'Donnell, Stephanie Shalofsky
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Us Manga Corps Video
• VHS Release Date: September 26, 2000
• Run Time: 150 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 630395314X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #444,756 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars interestin concept that should have been developed futher, October 19, 2005

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Ronnie Clay "R.C." (Winnsboro, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ariel (DVD)

Central Park Media released this on videotape around 1996 but it is actually a 1989 anime based on a novel. In Japan these novels are mostly text with a few illustrations and many anime shows are based on such novels. The concept here is "girls who pilot a giant robot that looks like a woman." The story is a comedy and seems aimed at a very young audience. Therefore, there is zero character development. Kazumi is the enthusiastic high school girl, Aya is overly serious prep-school girl and Mia is the reluctant leader/university student. Their job is to protect the Earth from attack by the Gedo Corporation. These aliens rely on monsters-of-the week for world conquest rather than conventional armies so the Ariel robot is the perfect counter.