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• Actors: John Stefaniuk, Michael McGhee, Shaun O'Rourke, Ellen Seltz, Peter Woodward
• Directors: Shinji Aramaki
• Writers: Shinji Aramaki
• Producers: Ayamitsu Enokimoto, Hisatoshi Maruyama, Naotaka Yoshida, Shigeo Yanagita, Shuuji Uchiyama
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Central Park Media
• VHS Release Date: February 1, 1995
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6302564387
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #679,708 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Robots and armies and girlfriends, oh my!, March 9, 2001

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Christopher Holland "stomptokyo" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bubblegum Crisis 8 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Back in the mid-1980's, the only way for the average fanboy to get anime was through friends or other such unscrupulous bootleggers. Madox 01: Metal Skin Panic was one of the first such tapes that came into my possession, along with classics like Project A-ko and Area 88. All of these, of course, were in Japanese with no subtitles. But enough with the history lesson: you wanna know about the movie. For early anime, it's actually quite good: a self-contained story (somewhat hackneyed these days) about a boy who comes into possession of a highly advanced robotic exoskeleton through dumb luck. (It literally falls off the back of a truck and into his garage apartment.) Of course, he has a chaste-but-smoldering relationship with a girl, whom he loves. Although he is at first thrilled with his newfound toy, the army soon comes looking for its weapon, sending their resident tank-commanding lunatic who just happens to hate armored suit technology in general. Things look profoundly bad for our hero -- but who is that beautiful woman with the even more advanced Madox suit? Equal parts humor and fighting robot action make this a favorite, even now.