Product Details

• Actors: Kappei Yamaguchi, Takehito Koyasu, Kyôko Hikami, Junko Iwao, Dave Pettitt
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bandai
• DVD Release Date: August 6, 2002
• Run Time: 125 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000068MA5
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,333 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Betterman - Metamorphosis (Vol. 2)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This 1999 supernatural mecha series plays like an addled mixture of Evangelion, Generator Gawl, and an early Gundam adventure. Keita, Hinoki, Sakura, and the gang continue fighting the creature known as Algernon--sort of. Characters and monsters arrive and depart arbitrarily: near the end of "Aqua," a giant polyp causes a large chunk of the sea floor to rise to the surface; nurses with lengthy talons attack Keita in "Poison," and there's a weird subplot involving living humans in fluid-filled capsules that appear and disappear. Fortunately, the title character shows up just in time to metamorphose into various bizarre forms and fight off the monsters. When he can't make it, Chandy, a mysterious girl with a lizard-familiar that turns into a suit of armor, picks up the slack. It must make sense to somebody. Rated 13 Up: Violence, risqué humor, brief nudity, ethnic stereotypes. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Horror Anime, April 7, 2011

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This review is from: Betterman - Metamorphosis (Vol. 2) (DVD)

I've seen the series before (though not in full), and it used to give me nightmares as a child. To this day I can't eat Udon noodles as a result. If you watch this particular disc you should understand why. I recommend not watching it in the dark unless you like to get really ridiculously freaked out.

5.0 out of 5 stars a little weird but it is cool, March 23, 2003

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"eternalneosolarflare" (almost heaven wv) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Betterman - Metamorphosis (Vol. 2) (DVD)

if you have never seen better man that you should definetely see it. It is one of the most unusal series you may ever see but at the same time it is one of the best it may seem at first that the plot does not flow well but at the end it really comes togther so pick this up (if you dare)j\k