Product Details

• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: Japanese, English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
• Run Time: 300 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001F2U70A
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #39,117 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Insurrection will not be tolerated! And to prove the point, the government has set a big, bad bomb to blast Graceland right out of the sky! To make matters worse, the King is dead. However, before Pirate King Bruce died, he hid billions in stolen loot on the doomed planet. Now, the galaxy's most infamous criminal a mystery man known only as "Mister", has busted out of the slammer to get his hands on the booty before it's too late! Along with King Bruce's daughter and his band of misfit Coyotes, Mister sidesteps government goons, dodges a hottie investigator who's on his trail and fends off a dozen android Lolitas who are programmed to kill, kill, KILL! Bullets, blades, bombs, beauty and boobs: if it's capable of destruction or distraction, it's fair game in this chilling, thrilling, killing, blood-spilling first volume of Coyote Ragtime Show!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Only 12 episodes, but you'll be on the edge of your seat the entire way!, May 25, 2009

By	maskedgamer - See all my reviews

I'll start by saying that I watched this anime on a whim. I hadn't head much about it, and what I did hear about it didn't make it seem worth the time. I finaly got the opportunity to check it out, and boy am I glad. Coyote Ragtime show is a serious action anime. It's like Oceans Eleven meets Cowboy Bebop meets Point Break. There is action every single step of the way. There are only 12 episodes in the series but they feel like they are an hour long each because so much happens in one episode. The story mainly focuses on a bandit named Mister and his quest to find the treasure of his long time friend.

The twist of the story is that he is a bandit seeking treasure, but this treasure he is after is really the inheritance that was left behind for the daughter of his late friend that whom was left to his care. Throughout the story you get to see that there is honor amongst these theives and that they value the bonds they share over the loot that they steal.

The anime artwork is excellent, and for the most part the characters have been portrayed very well. The plot is what makes coyote ragtime worth watching. In this anime you don't have the typical cop chase scenario. In this one it's a gang of bandits running from an overly obsessive federal agent, and a mad woman with her army of soldiers and android assasins. It's not so much a 12 episode gun chase seen, when you get to look at each character and the relationships they have with one another. My only problem with the anime is that it doesn't show much the motives behind the villian "Mother". She commands an endless army of troopers and android assasins, but you know little about where she came from or why she is doing what she does. She really is a mystery to the end. That was the biggest issue I had with the anime. Other than that it was a great series to watch. Mostly the Coyote gang get into impossible situations and your always asking yourself "how are they going to overcome this" as you sit through all 12 episodes. I really reccomend this if your looking for a good action anime. It's short, but for the action and story its well worth it!

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Entertaining And Action-Filled Sci-Fi Anime, December 30, 2008

By	Rich "xman" (CA) - See all my reviews

If you've seen Outlaw star than you'll probably like this series as well short as it was. The series follows the adventure of a group of pirates known as Coyotes. The characters are Mister(An old time space pirate known throughout the galaxy for pulling off amazing capers), Franca Dockley(The young daughter of the most famous pirate who was known as Pirate King Bruce but was betrayed and killed by someone he knew), Katana(The Coyote's pilot and technician), Bishop(An intelligent hacker), and along the way the coyote's team up with another friend of Pirate King Bruce Swamp Gordon(A former pirate now turned angelic preacher). Also in the series you have two females one a federal agent and her naive helper trying to track down and arrest the coyotes, and than you have the main villain Madame Marciano who has a dark past with Mister and has a horrendous amount of hate for Mister and was the one who killed Pirate King Bruce. What also gave the series a lot of action were the twelve android sisters who are named after the months of the year as well who have unwavering devotion and loyalty to their "Mother Marciano". The series is mostly about trying to find the money that the pirate king stole from the galaxy bank and trying to get to it first, of course there are a few side story-plots as well but you'll probably won't really care to much for those as you're going to be more interested in the confrontation between Mister and Madame Marciano. The video is clear and sharp which you expect for recent animes and the voice cast for the Japanese/English cast did a superb job. The series is only twelve episodes and for the price a little iffy but if you like sci-fi action animes this one won't disappoint....

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Start, Ends in a Whimper, December 1, 2008

By	E. Lacerna "nicknamesbestupid" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let's start off by saying that the first episode of this show was absolutely brilliant. It had everything: an engaging setting, intriguing plot, intelligent (if slightly gluttonous) protagonist, spunky sidekick, and killer robot maids. The animation was wonderfully done, and the story's pace was smooth and quick. By the time the first episode ended, I was SALIVATING for more.

... and then, I watched the second episode. Everything fell apart after that.

The worst mistake the show made, in my opinion, was switching protagonists from the space detective Angelica to the space pirate/bandit/whatever Mister. If they had stuck with the former, then the show would have stayed in the wonderful sort of cat-and-mouse chase that the first episode pulled off so well. It would have been like a Lupin III, but in space. Instead, we get a show whose main cast (Mister and his band of merry cayote-outlaws) spending the entire series trying WAY too hard to be the Cowboy Bebop gang. After the brilliant first episode, the cast stops being smart, the plotlines veer off to somewhere between "irritatingly cliche" and "boring as hell," and the villains just get plain irksome.

If you have the money to spare, I suppose this set is worth it just to watch the great first episode, as well as seeing the Twelve Sisters in action. It's quite unfortunate, since it showed so much promise in the beginning.