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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: WEA DVD EAN: 9781578004300 Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC ISBN: 1578004306 Item Dimensions: Label: Software Sculptures Languages: Manufacturer: Software Sculptures MPN: 436080 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Software Sculptures Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 19, 2000 Running Time: 85 minutes Studio: Software Sculptures Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Editorial Review: Product Description: In this wacky fantasy and giant robot adventure a teenaged girl named Maze wakes up with amnesia in a world of magic. Luckily Maze has gained incredible powers! Not so luckily she's developed a strange problem: every night she transforms into a lecherous man!System Requirements:Running Time: 85 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM UPC: 795243608020 Manufacturer No: 436080 Amazon.com: This two-part OAV (original animation video) attempts to mix a sword-and-sorcery adventure with slapstick sexual comedy, but the elements fail to gel into a coherent story or tone. The title character is a voluptuous woman by day, but a lecherous male by night--a premise no stranger than Ranma 1/2, but the filmmakers fail to use it as effectively. The battles orchestrated by the villainous Gorgeous and his sinister brother are too violent for the broad comedy that follows and vice versa. Lina and Nahga jiggle their way through fights, but they don't shed blood or kill people. Much of the supposed comedy reflects the disparity between attitudes toward sex in America and Japan. When Maze in her male form attempts to rape Mix, the Princess of Babylon, it may play as comic in Japan, but American viewers will find it off-putting. Similarly, having Randy, the wee fairy, take up residence in Maze's cleavage presents a little too much gratuitous nudity. In the bonus Maze TV series episode, the title character is a modern college student who is somehow transported to the Forest of Panon. Her house falls on the demi-human pursuing Mill, like Dorothy landing on the Wicked Witch. The ensuing adventures are a lot tamer, but not appreciably more coherent. "Parental discretion advised." Episodes include: 1. "Bold and Wonderful Challenger," 2. "Bold and Radical Adventure," 3. "A Stranger Lost in Random Space." Suitable for ages 18 up: nudity, attempted rape, sexual humor, sexual situations, suggestions of lesbianism, profanity, violence. --Charles Solomon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A damn good reason to fear Japan...Don't get me wrong, I love anime. I love most of Japanese culture...but DVDs like the MAZE OAV make me glad that I'm as far away from there as possible, assuming the creators live there as opposed to living with Jimmy Hoffa and the aliens on the planet Zarkon. I had seen (and reviewed) the original Maze TV series, but one good thing about TV; you have to have standards. ..., Maze tries to mix a D&D type fantasy with a sexual comedy. Let me expound upon that by saying that the results are at best ... Read More Rating: - Just awful!Could only watch the first few minutes before going into 8x fast forward and it still was moving too slow! This one looks like it targets an audience of about the 3rd to 5th grade level in Japan. Animation is very poor (very little movement, very choppy), the dialog is incredibly simple, the situations and story are very standard, and the dub is awful! Very young children may not know better and may enjoy it, but there are some deliberate overtones of sexuality and pre-pubescent female emfatuation ... Read More Rating:  - It was rather....OK.I wasn't expecting too much from this anime, so I came in with an open mind. For the Maze series, the OAV's came before the TV series and thus with the OAV, you see situations that are more for adults and the TV series, things are toned down for the children who come home in the afternoons in Japan. With that out of the way, the series was interesting and it did keep my interest. It's not a superb anime but it was entertaining. The anime though is not as sharp as other OAV's that came out ... Read More Rating: - Ouch...I have to say, of all the anime I've seen, this was the worst. It should deffinatly have a higher age rating. I would never let a 13 year old watch this. Its just got too much graffic nudity. The plot wasn't that great, and it didn't make a whole lot of sense. However, there were parts that weren't bad, and some might enjoy it. By at your own risk. Rating:  - Slapstick anime at it's bestIf you don't mind lots of nudity and fan service in your anime this is the right one for you. This movie is really more of a teaser to the television series. Something more to wet your appetite than anything else. The characters are already developed and their special skills already learned. On the other hand the comedy is out there. They make so much fun of themselves it's ridiculous. Lots of fun!! |
