Product Details

• Directors: Hiroshi Negishi
• Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
• DVD Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004TJG6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #74,178 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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Despite the series title, Nanako Shichigusa is not a nurse, but the maid of Dr. Kyoji Ogami, an internationally noted surgeon and bio-engineer. She's also a klutz--wherever she goes, she breaks dishes, incinerates meals, slips, trips, and falls. Of course, her real function is sex object. She wears short skirts that hike up to show her panties and low-cut tops that accentuate her constantly jiggling cleavage. She frequently loses even these minimal garments, always when an audience is present. Dr. Ogami is often verbally and physically abusive and insists on her following a grueling athletic training regimen. For some reason she adores him.

Ogami is also involved in a top-secret bio-medical program involving "Green," an alien creature with three strands of DNA in its cells. The experiments are supervised by the Pentagon and the Vatican (!), and Ogami has to fend off the interference of a crotchety general and a frosty papal emissary. The slapstick sexual comedy fails to mesh with the sinister intrigue, and Nanakofeels like two ill-matched series imperfectly edited together. However fans of anime jiggle shows aren't likely to worry about plot nuances.

Rated for ages 16 and up for nudity, sexual situations, and violence. --Charles Solomon

Product Description

From the mind of the world's most brilliant scientist, comes the most powerful weapon of the 21st Century... Then again, maybe not. My name is Dr. Kyoji Ogami, the world's leading surgeon, scientist and bio-engineer. The young lady that you see here is Nanako Shichigusa. She works for me as a nurse, housekeeper and addle-minded troublemaker. But despite Nanako's flaws, she is about to become the subject of my greatest experiment. Her simple brain will be removed and transplanted into the body of my ultimate cybernetic combat robot, the Venus 2000!!! But that's only if we can survive a vast worldwide conspiracy that starts with the U.S. military and continues throughout the highest levels of the world's major powers. Do they just want me for my brilliant intellect, or is there something else that they desire? Could it possibly by Nanako? But, what could they want with a brainless girl like her? I'm sorry... I meant to say "soon to be brainless" ... once the operation is complete. Ha ha ha ha ha......!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Can we say "fanservice"?, August 1, 2000

By	Jamie Patchin (Everett, WA USA) - See all my reviews

Amazing is right. No, not the plot! No! Not the artwork, either! Amazing refers to the physics-defying properties of Nanako's chest. This disc introduces us to the overly-endowed Nanako, our heroine, and her life as a "nurse". She jiggles. She bounces. She falls down, and lands so that her assets are displayed to their fullest potential.
If you're looking for harmless fanservice, hooboy, have you found it. The problem is, this disc contains the first 2 OAVS of a 6 OAV series, and as such is all set-up for the overall plot. So, the actual content isn't that enthralling. We meet the characters. We learn little bits about them. We see where Nanako works. We learn little bits about that. While not by any means a bad start, this is just the start. It's interesting, it's funny, and it's full of animated female flesh, but it's not enthralling or entrancing.
On the technical side, this disc is great. The picture is clear, the packaging is well done, and the sound is as best as can be expected from the standard mix. The menu is also deserving of note, for the rather amusing animation. The are somewhat limited, but the Nanakotronic music video was pretty amusing.
This disc isn't for everyone, and isn't one that will be considered by any means a classic. On the other hand, it's not a waste of your time to watch, and it holds much promise for the rest of the series. If you have the time and money, at least check it out.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Yawn., May 9, 2001

By	Mitchell Glodek (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I won't bother to criticize "Nanako" for being sexist; a sexist anime could very easily be funny, or exciting, or interesting. Unfortunately, "Nanako" is not that hypothetically amusing, thrilling, engrossing sexist anime, but an incredibly dull sexist anime. The jokes (mostly tired slapstick showing how stupid Nanako is or how bad a cook she is, or scenes of Nanako's boss angrily beating her or Nanako screaming in fear when confronted by aliens or wild animals) are not funny, the action really drags, and the plot almost seems non-existant. (Perhaps it picks up in the later episodes; this disk has two episodes.) As for the art, Nanako herself is sort of charming, but the other character designs are as forgettable as the bland personalities affixed to them.

"Nanako" has a real problem with tone; mostly, it is supposed to be a comedy, I suppose, but the violence can be very graphic, and there are overtones of X-Files/Evangelion "secret government experiments involving aliens" which don't fit in very well with the endless scenes of Nanako's breasts bouncing as she falls down.

The best part of the disk are the episode closing credits in which we see Nanako doing various exercizes; Nanako is a nice drawing stuck in a terrible lemon of an anime.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You were expecting shakespeare? *thwack!*, August 14, 2000

By A Customer

I first saw a preview for Nanako Kaitai Shinsho (Amazing Nurse Nanako) on my region 2 Sol Bianca DVD imports back in March. The preview is the same one included as an extra on this DVD. No scene was without Nanako's ample breasts jiggling about. If you want to slam Nanako for this, you really need to think before you buy movies next time. While very silly and fluffy, this first DVD is all set up for the real story to come later. And like Battle Atheletes, Nanako vacillates between being slapstick silly and drop dead serious. And while not at good and Battle Athletes, is still a lot of fun to watch. This disc includes the first two of six total episodes.