Product Details

• Actors: Nobutoshi Kanna, Jay Hickman, Shinichirô Miki, Tsutomu Kashiwakura, Hideyuki Hori
• Directors: Seiji Mizushima
• Writers: Fumihiko Shimo, Hidefumi Kimura, Manabu Ishikawa
• Producers: Hiroyuki Burikawa, John Ledford, Kenji Yoshida, Masaru Nakamura
• Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• 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: Section 23
• DVD Release Date: March 27, 2001
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000055ZL5
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,147 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Generator Gawl - Secrets and Lies (Vol. 3)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

As the title suggests, all the characters in this excellent sci-fi series are concealing something: the three adventurers from the future, the mysterious biologist Takuma Nakasa, the deadly Ryuko Saito--even the innocent Natsume may not be all that she seems. Many of these secrets are revealed in the linked flashbacks of "Future Tense." Ryo and Koji are not innocent students, but scientists who were deeply involved in the research that transformed Gawl into a Generator, a human capable of metamorphosing into a fantastic monster. When Ryo inadvertently discovered that evil secrets underlay the research program and their entire society, the trio left 2145 for the near future (2007), hoping to stop the experiments that produced those evils. They haven't had much luck: Gawl may be an exceptionally powerful Generator, but Saito's monsters are taxing even his strength, perhaps fatally. Not realizing that the future of humanity is at stake, Masami plays Nancy Drew and complicates matters further. Many anime adventures have dealt with the paradoxes posed by altering the past to prevent an undesirable future, but few have done so as deftly as Gawl. Director Seiji Mizushima continues to build suspense through each episode, balancing the comic attraction between Gawl and Masami with hard-hitting action sequences. Unrated; suitable for ages 10 and up; occasional risqué humor and some violence, restricted to monster versus monster. --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Underated series, April 8, 2001

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"pmoore1037" (Overland Park, Kansas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Generator Gawl - Secrets and Lies (Vol. 3) (DVD)

Generator Gawl has all the makings of a great series. It is a perfect blend of comedy, drama, romence, action, and intrigue. Most of all though you began to care more and more about the characters involved. In Generator Gawl Vol. 3 Secrets and Lies, the viewer learns more and more about Gawl and his friends, plus there is some great forshadowing. Overall this volume got me looking forward to the fourth and finall Generator Gawl, Out of Time. My only complaint is if your an avid animation fan you need to buy the DVD because the diffenrence between the dubbed version and subtitle version is vast. Instead of changing a line here and there, the people who did the dubbed version pretty much changed all the dialogue. One can watch both the dubbed and the subtitle and feel like its totally 2 diffent movies.

5.0 out of 5 stars SEROUSLY ADDICTING!, July 11, 2001

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Robert Campbell (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Generator Gawl - Secrets and Lies (Vol. 3) (DVD)

I bought the series on a whim as I was intrigued by the body armor. I was pleasently surprised that this one snags you much in the way Evangelion does. Slapstick comedy at the beginning and then once snared.. the storyline reveals the true line involved. A must see, and with a very good opening theme song... I recommend this to all. It has elements of GUYVER, EVANGELION and the same humor as NADESICO.