Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• 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: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: June 6, 2006
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ENUKT4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,282 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Guu s extraordinarily annoying abilities are driving Har insane. However when disaster strikes and a monster threatens strange alien powers are suddenly a welcome sight. But not even she can save the doctor from the village hag s private examination. Let the insanity begin!Episodes:1. Angry Yamada2. A Black Big Hard Shining Stinking Freaky Voiced Monster3. Love Love Ojii-san4. BeachpicDVD Extras:- Includes Jungle News Insert Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Artist: HARE + GUU UPC: 828311121098

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I NEED GUU, June 27, 2006

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Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hare + Guu, Vol. 3 (DVD)

There's a murderous creature roaming the jungle attacking villagers indiscriminately....and no, it's not Guu, although she does nibble on some swimmer's feet this volume. Hare gets more than a little scared when his mom goes missing, thinking she has become the monsters latest victim! He rashly goes off on his own to look for her, with Guu in tow. To relax after that encounter, Hare wants to relax with a peaceful day of fishing, but Guu wants to do it too, and ends up using her mouth to suck up whales, giant squids, and other various specimens from different oceans around the world. She has also sucked up a suicidal woman named Yamada, who had tried to drown herself after an emotional relationship ended. It's up to Hare to convince her that his life has been more miserable and that she shouldn't kill herself! In the third episode on the disk, a strange woman barber who can sees spirits arrives in the village and claims the perverted slimebucket school doctor, Clive, is her reincarnated husband, and she wants to bust a move on him. That would normally be acceptable to Clive but the barber is butt-ugly! The last episode is that proverbial anime staple, the beach episode, where all the girls in the show dress in skimpy bikinis and the male characters drool over them. A problem occurs when Hare and his mom fall asleep on a float and drift out to sea, and are surrounded by hungry sharks. Guu might be the only one who can save them!

Hare+Guu is a strange little show, but once you get used to that strangeness, it really grows on you. You really begin to love these characters. There is a moment in one of these episodes when we get a glimpse that Guu is more than she seems and it's really intriguing. The comedy is over the top, but there are also dashes of real drama. Even though the character of Yamada plays a lot of laughs, her episode also becomes a study in carrying on and not letting the past overwhelm you. Or when Hare calls out to Guu for help when the sharks are circling, you realize that he relies on her more than he would ever admit, and yes, even cares about her. It's pretty heartwarming stuff when you think about it. I think this show will continue to increase in quality throughout its run.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Short and sweet review, October 14, 2006

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H. Hagopian (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hare + Guu, Vol. 3 (DVD)

These 4 episodes in this volume of Hare+Guu, are my favorite so far. This set of episodes is like one of those sampler platters that have some of everything in them. I'll just do a small list of the high points of each episode:

Episode 8 - A very interesting and serious taste of revelation about Guu (one we've been waiting for, for a long time now).
Episode 9 - A new character, not as good as the doctor, but there are some very funny scenes between the new character and Hare. Another high point is the unbelievably funny battle that Guu has with one of the guys from the school.
Episode 10 - The high point, by far, is the short dream sequence that the doctor has about the new character. The dream is a reaction to his fear that the new character may get ahold of him in a not so pleasant way.
Episode 11 - This episode has no particular high point, but is just overall Guu madness funny.

For those of you interested in the voice actors on the English dub, I'd have to say that for the first new character (from Episode 9), I was not too impressed with the voice acting. I guess that's because that character itself doesn't look like it would have a unique or even interesting voice. I do have to say though that the new character from episode 11 has the perfect voice, it is exactly what I would have imagined. Kudos to the voice actor and the person who hired him/her.

Like the other volumes, this DVD also has the English Recording Outtakes, Translation and Cultural Notes, a Production Gallery and a few more goodies.

Definetely a worthy volume in your collection.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Character = Good Idea, October 8, 2006

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H. Hagopian (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hare + Guu, Vol. 2 (DVD)

I'll try and be 'straight to the point' about this review, if you want my opinion on the series itself (which I think is hilarious), I'd check out my review on the first volume.

I'd like to point out three different things about this volume, 2 good and 1 bad. The first point, is that this set of episodes is actually funnier than the previous volume (which was already funny as it was). The second point (the bad one...), is that as funny as these episodes were, we were only given 3 episodes in this volume as opposed to 4 in the previous one. I guess the producers thought that since these were so funny, it would be appropriate to take an episode away...

Anyway, the final point I was going to make about this volume, is that they have introduced a new character (on the cover, its the white haired person on the right). This character was a great idea, fits into the show perfectly and is probably one of my favorite characters (somewhere in my Top 2). The character keeps the show from getting repetitive and pointless (which would have surely happened if they continued simply doing random stuff), this character's intro into the series gives the series more of a direction than before and Hare+Guu begins to have more of an overall point. Another pro about the character is that the english voice actor is as good as the rest of the cast. All this and I still havent mentioned how much fun it is to see this interesting character interact with all the other characters already established on the show.

If you've bought the first one, or are thinking about buying the series, and even though there is one less episode than before, I'd definetely recommend this.