Product Details

• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Section 23
• DVD Release Date: August 2, 2005
• Run Time: 300 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A2UBY8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,216 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

As one of the world's top perfume designers, Najica Hiiragi works with her trusty assistant Kirala to develop the Day Series perfumes for CRI Cosmetics. When not jet-setting around the world. Najica tools around neo-Tokyo in a bright red convertible. Men love her. Women want to be her. But Najica has another job, secret agent for the CRI Intelligence Organization. Najica's life gets complicated when she rescues a young girl, Lila from the clutches of a depraved socialite and her machine-gun wielding maids. But Lila is no ordinary girl; she's a Humaritt, an android and she is Najica's new partner! Together, Najica and Lila take on the underworld, expose underwear and discover if Humanritts can learn the meaning of life!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Najica: The Female Bond Of Anime, December 20, 2005

By 

Jackie Almasy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Najica Blitz Tactics: Complete Collection (DVD)

Upon first picking up Najica: Blitz Tatics, I was very skeptic to pick it up. I had heard of all the panty shots, excessive lesbian situations, and repetition of the episodes. Still though, I bought it solely on the expectation of it being a one time show and it forever gathering dust among my anime collection. I was actually very surprised by the anime.

Focusing on Najica Hiragi, a majorly successful representative of a perfume manufacturing company, she has the undercover job working for a secretive firm. How she recieves her missions: a single red rose.

The series begins with a recovery mission as you get you first look into what the anime series is like and how the characters are protrayed. You cannot help but like Najica. Her goodwill nature and cheeky way of dealing with sexual references to her being a female spy either gets your grinning or laughing your head off. During the anime, she is portrayed as a genuinly strong willed and independant woman.

Soon, you get introduced to Leila. As the true nature of her being is exposed, Najica is forced to come to terms with what love and independance really is. Throughout the anime, every episode takes on the message of independant thinking and if machines can honestly make a life for themselves without a master.

Much like Steven Speilberg's "A.I.", Najica Blitz Tatics confronts it in a much more fun and spy way. While the series could of been taken much more seriously, it is a fun addition to your anime collection. Just be sure you do not have any teens under the age of 16 watch it if they are squirmy with sexual situations and lesbian encounters.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining for a Single Viewing, July 14, 2010

By 

M. Zveris - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Najica Blitz Tactics: Complete Collection (DVD)

This may be a review where the title says it all. Najica Blitz tactics is by no means a terrible, awful, horrible, or painful anime to sit through but it certainly may not be something you want to pick up and take home to put on the shelf. I will gladly state that this is an amusing anime that can be watched once without any grief and you won't feel as if you have wasted your time. It is first and foremost the epitome of a fan service anime which isn't necessarily bad if you're not bothered by that. In fact if you are looking for a fan service heavy anime that has some plot and decent character design this may end up being a four star series in your opinion.

There is action in Najica, quite a bit of it. Every episode has at least ten (and often more) individuals who end up getting their "just desserts" which leads to the viewer getting just the right view of their panties. This ends up becoming incredibly comedic, I found myself paying more attention to the inventive ways that the artists managed to find positions for characters to fall over so that we can see up their skirt. This adds to the entertainment factor greatly.

That out of the way, Najica Blitz tactics isn't without plot and could have been a fabulous anime if there had been more time put into that end of the series. It starts out very promisingly but it is very clear later in the series with the constant repitition of storyline that someone, somewhere, forgot where this was all going. That doesn't make it horrid, it can just be annoying.

The start of the series, with the fact that Najica is not just a fantastic perfume creator but a secret agent is intriguing. The storyline between Lila and Najica is at times very touching and while it isn't distinct (see series like Burst Angel: The Complete Collection (includes OVA) [Blu-ray] for women/girls in close, caring situations) it is refreshing. As the storyline progresses - as stated - this begins to fall away into the fan service action that you can expect in this series. That is the real shame of this show, because it could have incorporated both and been a comedic, touching, and intriguing anime. The characters are rather well developed for the sort of series that Najica Blitz Tactics is, the soundtrack is pretty good though it can become repititious as well, and the artwork isn't bad at all.

I do believe you won't be wasting your time watching this show if you approach it from the angle of Saturday morning Cartoons. It's amusing, hilarious at times, has some emotional value, some thought provoking moments, and if nothing else can provide boredom replay value. It certainly isn't something I would suggest you invest in if it isn't on sale, but it isn't a series to toss in the bin.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great show despite the obvious "fanservice", June 22, 2010

By 

R. Chuang (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Najica Blitz Tactics: Complete Collection (DVD)

If you can get over the very obvious "fanservice" (after all, the show is produced by the same studio that did "Agent Aika," a show with even MORE fanservice than Najica Blitz Tactics), you immediately notice how surprisingly _good_ the storytelling is, especially how Najica warmed to using Lila as a partner over the series.

In sum total, it's actually got better storytelling than the vast majority of anime series I've seen in the recent past. And it helps that there's really great jazz score to heighten the sense of action in this series, given it the feel more appropriate to a good spy movie. How come most modern anime producers can't come up with such smartly-written shows?