Product Details

• Actors: Kira Burke, Nicole D'Incecco, Tamara Farias, Kikuko Inoue, Paul McGrane
• Directors: Takashi Watanabe
• Writers: Hidemi Kamata, Takashi Kobayashi, Tomy
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Us Manga Corps Video
• VHS Release Date: August 6, 2002
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304060173
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #539,456 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Despite the title, this is not a feature but the three-part OAV Battle Skipper (1995), which Takashi Watanabe directed before going on to Slayers. When the members of the Etiquette Club at St. Ignacio's School for Girls go down the tubes--literally--they acquire the skimpy outfits they wear to pilot the unfortunately named BSs or Battle Skippers--state-of-the-art military mecha. As "Extars," the Etiquette Club members fight to eliminate evil from the world, which means the bizarre schemes of Sayaka, the nasty, super-rich president of the rival Debutante Club, and her flunky, Todo. The series was created to promote a line of robot toys from Tomy, and viewers who are willing to accept high school girls' quarrels escalating into battles involving satellite weaponry may enjoy these silly adventures. But to describe them as "slight" is flattery. Unrated; suitable for ages 14 and up: Nudity, violence, violence against women. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Movie? I don't think so., December 12, 1999

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Cooan Ayakashi (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle Skipper: The Movie [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This wasn't a movie... it was the 3 eps rolled into one tape. It kind of sucked that way too, seeing as I already owned the first two tapes. But otherwise, I love the series... it's just too bad they had to rip you off this way.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring beyond all belief..., September 27, 2004

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Strategos "The Guardian of Time" (In Space above Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Battle Skipper - The Movie (DVD)

It's hard sometimes to describe what exactly it is that makes a show lousy. Is it mediocre dialog? Lackluster action sequences? Lifeless and uninteresting characters? So-so animation? Or how about a incredibly unoriginal clique-ridden (slapped together)plot that puts you to sleep? In other words, this anime is just plain bad, and there's nothing really to redeem it from that status. No compelling characters, no cool designs, no great music, nothing. Save your money and skip this one. There's better stuff out there.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Silly Schoolgirl Superheros, July 10, 2000

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Joseph L. Elkhorne (Mulgrave, Victoria AUSTRALIA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle Skipper 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Sayaka, president of the Debutante Club at St. Ignatio high school, intends to rule the world. She is so cute and soooooo bad.

Unfortunately for her, Reika and Rie, the two officers [and initially, the only members] of the Etiquette club, have the power to thwart her plans -- the Battle Skipper combat vehicles developed by her grandfather.

This anime is a comedy, however, with heaps of action and destruction thrown in -- along with "magical girl" transformations, power suits, armored vehicles, mechas, and conspiracy.

As silly as Project A-ko and just as much fun as the superhero parody "Moldiver", it may not break new ground but is loads of fun, nonetheless.

Attractive character designs and a colorful animation style make this one definitely eye candy. There's even a hint of a Sohryuden dragon, in my mind anyway, in a cameo role. And Sayaka's toady, Todou [heh] is such an inept bungler.

Saori, one of the new students who joins the Etiquette Club, sports the weirdest hair style perhaps in all anime. LOL. The other characters have their own quirks, including the Artificial Intellegence of the Battle Skipper vehicles.

My only disappointment is that the series consists of only 3 videos.