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List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $35.99 You Save: $3.99 Features • Animated • Color • Dolby • Special Edition • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 05 November, 2005 DVD Release : 23 March, 2006 |
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IGPX, Vol. 1 (Special Edition) description The Japanese-American co-production IPGX: Immortal Grand Prix began as a series of five-minute interstitials and was later expanded to a half-hour program. In 2049, the world's most popular sport is IPGX, a mixture of Roller Derby and Evangelion: Three pilots in mecha suits race and fight on a special 60-mile track at speeds of up ... review details |
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| IGPX (Immortal Grand Prix) is a huge international accomplishment. It's proof that the world is expanding, that Americans in particular are expanding, and that the tolerance for anime is increasing. Toonami and Production I.G. teamed up to make Toonami's first original anime, and there can't be any better team to have done this. Toonami has been doing everything in their power for years to spread the anime craze in the United States, and they are one of the top reasons why anime is what it is today. Production I.G., one of the top studios in Japan, the producers of Ghost in the Shell, GitS: Stand Alone Complex, GitS: Innocence, Blood and the future Blood+, as well as having contributed to Kill Bill V. 1, have as good a resume as can be found.
IGPX ranks well in terms of quality right alongside some of those series and movies stated earlier. The animation here is fluid, so fluid in fact that a couple of times I thought I was watching a real live person. The CG mixes well with the 2D animation, and no studio I thought has ever done it as well as Gonzo, but IGPX is one example of doing it just as well if not better. Toonami and Bandai played its part as well by providing some of the absolute best voice-actors possible, including Michelle Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment, and Mark Hamill, not to mention those veteran anime voices that can be found in all the top Americanized anime, Spike's voice-actor for one; I only wish I could remember his name. The story itself centers around a young IGPX team known as Team Satomi, whose sponsor of the same name seems to be the only person to keep the immature heads together. At the opening of the first episode, the team is qualifying for IG1, the top league in the IGPX circuits. Yet the teams immaturity constantly threatens to break them apart. Rarely are the three team members (and one bench warmer) together without getting into a fight. I wish I had seen more of the series to say more good things about it, but maybe that's a good thing, to prevent spoilers. I will say that this anime should be watched, and bought, by all true anime fans out there. It may be one of those "mainstream" animes, but it's a very important anime, as it perhaps hints at a bright future for American and Japanese animation. I highly recommend this DVD. It shouldn't be missed. (Like my reviews for "Hikaru No Go," "Gankutsuou," and "Ghost Stories," this review is based off of the first episode of IGPX) |
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