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A vast Japanese franchise from [Broccoli] ([Nyo]!), a surprising amount of which is good.

The computer games and the manga attempt to have some semblance of a plot; the anime makes no such mistakes, dispensing with both plot and any semblance of continuity in favour of simple hyperactive comedy (though not as hyperactive as DigiCharat, in the sense that a smelting furnace is not as hot as the sun).

The premise of the anime consists of the Angel Squadron, a group of five female military fighter pilots set up to locate and retrieve the Lost Technology of a bygone age. This LostTechnology? tends to consist of whatever's needed to make the writers' strange ideas for the week happen, and ranges from womanizing smart missiles and galaxy-destroying monsters to magic wands and chocolate liquers that turn people into children. Meanwhile, the Angel Squadron themselves are the kind of people you wouldn't want to trust with anything more dangerous than string, let alone Lost Technology. On a good day, they might be found robbing from banks and giving the money to the poor (more out of boredom than any sense of altruism). On a bad day, they might be found concocting elaborate schemes to kill fellow squad members following a dispute over who ate the last piece of cheesecake.

A brief idea of the characters:


Two other characters are probably worthy of mention:



98 fifteen-minute episodes have aired on Japanese TV to date, around 80 of which have been fansubbed (as of late 2003). Bandai hold the rights to the first series, and will start releasing it on DVD in March '04; Broccoli Books are expecting to start releasing the manga in english at the same time. No-one seems to have any intention of translating the computer games (which are a mixture of squad-based tactics, RTS and DatingSim, as you might expect). More manga and a third computer game are expected at some point, and a fifth tv series is probably not out of the question; popular series never die, after all.



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(Not to be confused with GalaxyAngels.)

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