Product Details

• Actors: Carrie Savage, Megan Harvey
• Directors: Patrick Seitz
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Funimation
• DVD Release Date: September 23, 2008
• Run Time: 400 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001CSPHNE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,130 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Funimation Prod Inc Release Date: 09/23/2008

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars kamichu, September 22, 2008

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Herbert Kinder "Herb the Librarian" (Midwest USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kamichu Box Set (DVD)

Saw this last year on Youtube. Animation is very well done,
especially the accurate landscape shots. This a a very cute
slice of life anime with inventive fantasy elements woven in. Yurie's school life is complicated by her two girlfriends attempts to benefit from her new godly status, and Yurie's tentative romantic pursuit of a clueless male
classmate whose first love is calligraphy. A very sweet and
original anime, highly recommended for those tired of mechas, swordfights, and ecchi stuff.

Herb the Librarian

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars STRONG EXCITING ACTION - BUT ..., September 10, 2011

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Mike Silverman (Milford, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blassreiter: The Complete Box Set (DVD)

Due to its complexity, Blassreiter is not an easy series to watch. You have to be very sharply focused on the unfolding drama in order to understand the story. Good guys become bad guys, and bad guys become good guys very quickly during the course of the episodes and the explanations are subtle for these changes. The line between good and evil become blurred, but if you stay focused and follow the story carefully it's very entertaining and fascinating conceptually. This series contains one of the best combinations of computer generated animation and sophisticated hand-drawn animation that I've seen in quite a while. The basic concept is that attacks by dangerous powerful beings known as Amalgams are causing destruction and death as they invade cities and towns. Amalgams are genetically enhanced human beings who have been forced into an advanced evolutionary stage by artificial means. Normally, Amalgam is a word that defines a mixture of metal alloys tempered with mercury in such a way as to make it liquid or solid according to external temperature. This is fitting, since in the series Amalgams can change between their advanced form, and thier normal human form when the situations become hot or cold..., so to speak. Eventually it becomes clear that there are different types of Amalgams. There are good and bad, those who want to reshape the world according to their own rules, and those who want to save and preserve the world to follow its own destiny. As the series progresses the complexity of the characters develops and the series grows dramatically. I recommend this series, but you do have to be attentive to the rapidly changing plot or you may find yourself confused quickly. The disks performed perfectly, the color , the sound, the video quality was all excellent.

- Mike Silverman

26 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superior, but cavity inducing!, September 26, 2008

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Scott Martin Gavin "yukicat1" (Klamath Falls, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kamichu Box Set (DVD)

I bought my first Pioneer (Geneon) product back when Pioneer laser discs were nearly the only way to find anime translated into English. Tenchi Muyo was the anime that had me hooked. I was saddened but not surprised when Geneon left the US market, because none of its later offerings, including later Tenchi series, were as good a Pioneer's first offering. I was very pleased to discover Kamichu as one of Geneon's final offerings, and this turned out to be the best anime series the company ever offered. No fights. No giant robots. No sex. No gore. No whacky space aliens. Just three Japanese junior high girls who try to cope when one of them announces that she, inexplicably, has become a god in the Shinto sense. This is a very sweet story, so sweet it may induce cavities or a diabetic coma. The animation is among the best cell animation I have ever seen, with no shortcuts taken, and no mismatching computer animation jammed in here and there. The voice acting, on both the Japanese and English tracks are among the best i have ever heard, and is age appropriate to the characters. If you want family-friendly anime, or a anime series to introduce your lady friend to your anime hobby, this may be the series for you. If all of Pioneer - Geneon's offerings had been the quality of Kamichu, the company might not have found it necessary to leave the U.S. Market. Short, Sweet, and among the very best!