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Oh My Goddess: The Collector's Edition

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I sought this title out for two reasons, one being the fact that I am a big fan of the manga, and two being the fact that "Oh My Goddess" is a pretty popular series. After watching it it is easy to see why. Each episode is incredibly fun to watch, has beautiful artwork, delightful characters, and more.

In "Episode 1: Moonlight and Cherry Blossoms",Keichi Morisato lies alone in his desolate, lonely apartment. Starving, Keichi desperatly trys to find some restaurant that is still open so he can get some takeout. But he never knew a simple desire for food could change his life so abruptantly. For Keichi misdials and finds himself with a different delivery, a wish granting goddess named Belldandy. But when Keichi jokes about Belldandy living with him, Belldandy activates his wish and becomes assigned to stay with him forever.

In "Episode 2: Midsummer Night's Dream" Belldandy and Keichi have been living together pleasantly for five months now. That day, Keichi checks his mail and finds what he believes to be a pornograhic video, Entitled "Sexy sister #2". He eargerly puts it in his VCR. Low and behold, Urd, Belldandys sister, jumps out of the T.V. set and persuades Keichi to seduce Belldandy during Keichi and Belldandys vacation. Keichi makes attempt after attempt but to no avail; he's not brave enough. And so Urd decides to drug Keichi. But Urds plan goes from clever to disasterous. This Episode is my personal favorite; I love the character Urd. She is generally a pretty attractive person, but she's not at all like Belldandy, Personalitie-wise. When Urd gets interested in something, it literally becomes her passion. Urd is very dedicated to spiceing up Belldandy and Keichi's relationship, which results in some of the funniest moments in the "Oh my Goddess" series. I noticed a little racy behavior due to the arrival of Urd, however, some of which might be found objectionable to the parent, but its overall pretty innocent. The climax to this episode was, in my opinion, quite touching.

In "Episode 3: Burning Hearts on the Road" We are introduced to Skuld (I believe it's pronouced like School) who is totally against Keichi and Belldandy being together. Skuld is deeply attached to Belldandy, and wants her to leave Keichi's side and join her in heaven (or wherever Goddess's live). This particular tale has a solid plot and, at times, has delightful tension.

In "Episode 4: Evergreen Holy Night", "Oh My Goddess" becomes much more serious. Melodrama haters need not apply. In this episode, troublesome bugs, which Skuld was meant to elimanate, have arrived on earth. Bug mainly cause Pandemonium to an almost dangerous level, and the only way to get rid of them is for all three of our goddess's are to cease interaction with Keichi (gasp).

"Episode 5: For the Love of Goddess" This is an incredibly tounching episode. Belldandy Belldandy has been confined to her room whenever Keichi is around due to the destructive nature of their getting too close to each other. Soon she will be forced to leave earth. Keichi is saving up money and working all kinds of jobs so that he can buy Belldandy a going-away present: a ring. This Episode is Triumphant as it is teary-eyed.

Ultimatly, "Oh My Goddess" is a charming, above average comedy/romance. Fan's of "Ranma 1/2" or "Tenchi muyo!" with undoubtfully enjoy this anime. Its may not be the most complex, but it should be praised highly for what it is, a very enjoyable anime that remains to be one of sweetest love comedy's to date.

This is a dynamite series. Oh My Goddess is a five-part anime full of wonderful music, beautiful art and warm, human characters. I am a 46 year old father of two teenagers and I own the Japanese language (English subtitled) version of these videos. There are no fighting robots or splashes of blood... just a well engineered romance with many a twist and turn. I enjoy the language and the energy that went into the making of this anime. Also... check the internet. Search for the characters in this story: Belldandy, Urd, Skuldo, Keichi. You will discover the huge following of fans behind "Oh My Goddess". You might also like the animes "Tenchi Muyo" and "You're Under Arrest". Fun characters, excellent quality... Good stuff!

Second DVD concluding the five part OVA series. Contains the last two episodes, 4 and 5, which are the longest episodes of the series. This is done by AnimEigo so you will known this DVD will be done right.

Episode 4: Evergreen Holy Night Keiichi's life finally seems to be getting back to normal (or at least as normal as life gets when you live in a temple with 3 goddesses!). Yes, he does get strange dreams, and yes, Urd and Skuld are a pain, but what the heck - his girlfriend is truly divine! Alas, System Bugs are escaping from the Heavens, upsetting the balance of the Earthly Plane.

Skuld gets on the case, and soon discovers that whenever Belldandy and Keiichi get close, a Bug Exhaust Port is formed. Until the problem is solved, Belldandy and Keiichi can't be together. Then Belldandy gets a Notice of Recall from the Lord. She has to go back to the Heavens, or else!

Episode 5: For the Love of Goddess You'd think with a goddess as a girlfriend, Keiichi's life would be Heaven, but the fact is, it's coming to resemble the other after-life address. If he even gets close to Belldandy, Bugs escape onto the Earthly Plane and foul up the works. Worse, the Lord has slapped her with a Recall Notice.

In two days, she has to relocate home to Heaven. As the clock ticks down, Belldandy must begin to erase herself from Keiichi's life and memory. And Keiichi? He's working his fingers to the bone so he can buy a ring for Belldandy. A ring that will fulfill a promise... a promise he doesn't remember making!

Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.

So what makes 'Oh My Goddess: The Collector's Edition' so special?

REMASTERED VIDEO QUALITY!

Thats right for the first time ever Animeigo have released the remastered version of 'Oh My Goddess'. The original release which was split over 2 dvds had very medicore quality with rainbowing, dot crawl and too much brightness.

Now for the first time you can see Belldandy and her friends the way they were meant to look. Colours now actually look saturated opposed to the washed out look of the previous dvd release.


Conclusion - Even if you bought the original dvd releases, you owe to yourself to upgrade and to see the huge difference in video quality.

Please allow me to apologize in advance for the length of this review, I got just a little carried away with my description.

When I finished the Uresei Yatsura manga, (please look it up)I was at a loss. What could possibly entertain me after I ran out of Lum? The answer came when I was flipping through a catalog of animes. It said something to the effect that if Uresei Yatsura is zany, the word for Oh My Goddess is sweet. The reference to UY was enough to catch my interest, so I bought volume one of Oh My Goddess. The result: an instant favorite! When a college student named Kaechi Morisato (sp?)accidentally dials "The Goddess HelpLine" while trying to order food to be delivered, he orders much more than he bargained for! The Goddess Belldandy, a kind, attractive, open minded Goddess grants Kaechi his heart's desire, but the rules say she can only grant one wish. Kaechi's wish: Since Goddesess don't really exist and this is most likely a joke, he'll take Belldandy as his wish! She will be his girlfriend forever! Belldandy is very pleased to inform Kaechi that his wish is approved, and thus begins this wonderful adventure! My younger brother sat down to watch this with me and immediately raved about how well drawn the characters were. "Finally, someone knows how to draw people!" He told me. I personally fell in love with the music. The characters are more realistic than in other animes, and thus easier to understand and become attached to. Plus the movie is completely innocent, with almost no unsuitable scenes! I say almost because there is one brief daydream featuring a semi-unclad Belldandy, but unless you're looking for it, nothing shows. If you are new to anime, or want to interest a friend, this is the one to begin with. I would give it more than five stars if I were able to!

The bad thing about the "Oh My Goddess" OAV series was that there were only five episodes created. Having been introduced to all of the major players, these final two episodes have much less humor and take a much more serious nature. Belldandy and Keiichi can no long come into close proximatey of each other as disasterous results happen due to system malfunctions. To make matters worse, Belldandy is being recalled to heaven to handle the situation. Keiichi now only has three days to buy Belldandy a ring and keep a promise he doesn't even remember.

Storywise, get the tissues ready! Call me a sap, but I litterally could feel the pain of separation from a loved one as the story progressed. Belldandy can't see Keiichi except from an extreme distance and so knits him a sweater -- a gift of her love since she will be forced to erase herself from his mind as well as remove the evidence she was even there. Keiichi works every possible job he can find just to get enough money to buy Belldandy an expensive ring -- a sacrafice of self to show his love. It is very sweet, touching, and romantic.

The DVD has the same extras as the first one. There is the audio commentary by the English voice actors which serves as humor but little else. I would have liked some more thoughts on when they were in the studio and coming up with script changes, but instead we get a lot of jokes to cover the serious, sad situation of the story going on. For filler, we have the main theme played without the credits and all five closing scense with song minus credits.

While liberties are taken with the English script, the English dub is very good. The English subtitles are even better if you are a purist in wanting to know what the Japanese are saying. It's not perfect, but of all the official subtitling I've seen, AnimeIgo really tries hard to do it right!

Bottom line: Fans of "Love Hina" or even "Hand Maid May" or other romantic-comedy shows will really enjoy this DVD!

Oh, My Goddess or Ah, Megami-sama is a cute and endearing series which is a nice break from the repetitive bloodshed, giants robots, and transforming school girls. Don't get me wrong I love those shows to but this is a nice break away from that.

This is the story of a boy who is calling for take out, dials the wrong number, reaches the great beyond, and contacts a goddess who gets bound to him by the powers that be. The whole story revolves around their love and the problems that having a goddess in the house can present.

This is the ultimate masculine fulfilment series. Sort of like 'I dream of Jeanie only not as problematic'. The characters are very endearing, the music is brilliant, the animation is so beautifully done you will wish you were a part of the series. I highly suggest this for anyone. It's a beautiful romance film with a lot of chuckles in between.

The first three episodes of the "Oh! My Goddess" OVA series are included in Volume 1 of this two volume DVD set. "Oh! My Goddess" is an irrepressibly cute series, marginally Tenchi-esque, in that our hero, Keiichi Morisato, is a young man who comes to live with some mischievous young women that are not from earth. That said, the writers do an excellent job in this series of making it not exactly like Tenchi, giving each of the main characters, Keiichi, his sister Megumi, and the three goddesses, Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld, their own distinct personalities. Even though it is only a five episode series, the characters are developed well enough to make them interesting and appealing.

"Oh! My Goddess" begins with Keiichi, a college freshman at Nekomi Tech, made to do the grunt-work in his all-male dorm, taking phone messages for his 'sempai,' which I assume means the upperclassmen. Unfortunately, they've left him no food. He desperately starts calling for takeout, only to find that all the takeout places are either closed or not delivering. In a moment of classic comic anime serendipity, Keiichi wants food so badly that his desire triggers an unintentioned call to the Goddess Helpline. Before he knows what's happening, a lovely goddess, Belldandy, appears in the dorm, telling an incredulous and shy Keiichi that he can have one wish. He decides in yet another classic moment, that he wants Belldandy to be his girlfriend forever.

Kicked out of the dorm for having a girl on the premises, Keiichi and Belldandy come to live in a deserted shrine, where they are shortly joined by Kei's little sister, Megumi. Over the next two episodes, this little group is joined by two of Belldandy's sisters, the hypererotically charged older sister Urd, and the mechanically genius, but lonely younger sister Skuld. A great deal of the comedy in this first volume of "Oh! My Goddess" comes from Keiichi's repeated attempts to overcome his shyness and make a move on the wonderfully magnanimous Belldandy.

This first DVD contains the first three episodes, "Moonlight and Cherry Blossoms," which introduces the lead couple, "Midsummer Night's Dream," in which five months after Kei and Belldandy move in together, Urd tries her best to force them to hook up, and "Burning Hearts on the Road," where Skuld joins the cast, in the midst of a drag race competition at Nekomi Tech. These are all excellent episodes. The characters play well off of each other, and the stories in these first three episodes are charming and cute. Belldandy is a terrific character, as are Keiichi's two bulked up, often drunk, sempai in the Auto Club, who are great minor characters. The fact that the major social organization in the series (and later in the movie) is an Auto Club, and that they all go to a technical college is just a great touch.

The English voice actors do a good job interpreting the characters, but having watched it in Japanese with English subtitles, I tend to like the Japanese dialogue better. The extras on this DVD include a slide show of cells and drawings from the series, and a clever 'dub your own DVD' feature, which is basically the episodes without dialogue. Volume 1 of the "Oh! My Goddess" DVD set is certainly worth watching and owning.

This is the box set of Ah My Goddess season 1, consisting 6 DVDs. Each DVD has been released with seperate names previously. Vol 1: Always forever, Vol 2: Love plus one..... Vol 5: In your eyes, Vol 6 Last dance. In Japan, AMG season 2 was broadcasted in spring and summer 2006. In US, the season 2 is not released yet (so far Dec. 2006). There are also 3 related versions of Ah (Oh) my Goddess series, which share the same characters but diverging storylines. Ah My Goddess Movie is 1 DVD, standing alone with somewhat serious storyline and good music. Oh My Goddess OVA is 2 or 3 DVDs (different for release times) with the same 5 episodes. This OMG OVA is the first production of Goddess series actually. The Adventures of Mini Goddess is comic version of the series consisting 4 DVDs with 7~9 minut short episodes.

With this set of episodes the series starts to shine again.

Volume 4, like volume 3, has four episodes rather then five. That's okay. There are a lot of the typical plots that you would expect in this type of anime. Yet these episode depend less on slapstick humor and more on character. Keiichi is less of a klutz, a little surer of himself.

In episode 15 we are introduced to Banpai, a robot built by Skuld to help Belldandy around the temple and to protect Belldandy from harm. Naturally Banpai falls in love with Belldandy and tries to protect her from Keiichi.

In episode 16 Mara, the evil demon, calls up a bad luck demon. The two try to use bad luck on Keiichi and make Belldandy angry with him. Mara also possesses Megumi, Keiichi's sister, also in an effort to interfere with the two heroes.

In episode 17 Keiichi shows more of his caring side. He and the goddesses try to help Hasegawa, a fellow Motor Club member, overcome her fears and race a go cart.

In episode 18 The goddesses and Keiichi vacation at the seashore. Keiichi believes he has to kiss Belldandy under the moonlight if they are to stay together forever. Urd is trying to help the two get together, and Skuld is trying to split them apart.

There's some computer generated animation in the seashore episode. Even though it's identifiable as CGI it's subtle, and lends the scenes some depth.

This is a fun series. The characters don't embarrass the viewer by behaving stupidly. All in all it leaves you with a good feeling.