Super Gals Volume 5: It's Okay to Have a Change of Heart - Sequential Tart
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- Karen Maeda
- 11/01/04
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"you can feel good about buying as well as watching."
"Super Gals is getting interesting again."
Super Gals! Volume 5
Reviews may contain information that could be considered 'spoilers'. Readers should proceed at their own risk.:
What's up now, Super Gals?
Super Gals is getting interesting again. This DVD contains Episodes 19-22. In the first episode of this, we focus and Miyu and Yamata and how their relationship has managed to survive to the day of their two year anniversary. The big question of the episode is on Yamata's mind: should he kiss his 2 year girlfriend for the first time? I'm 1/2 Japanese and I still don't understand why us Japanese people are so weird!
On the flipside of the episode: Ran doesn't have any money as usual, so she decides to get a job. Tatsakichi, her boyfriend, thinks that she is trying to get money to get him a birthday present. Of course she isn't, she's getting money for clothes for herself and slacking while she's doing it.
The next episode focuses on Mami Honda and how she feels about her relationship with Ran and the rest of the Gals. All her life she's been trained to be the best at anything she does, and Ran causes issues with her because that is all of Ran's motivation as well. Mami's long lost lover who is rich and refined comes to visit Mami after 10 years of being in the USA. Mami spends the whole episode trying to go to classy places to outclass Ran and is foiled because Ran and the Gals end up in the same places. In the last scene, Mami and her future boyfriend get caught in an alley with a mean gang. Ran finds them and starts to fight the gang so Mami and her friend can run. Mami realizes she is friends with Ran and helps her fight the gang to Koichi's dismay. She walks off by herself realizing that she's a true Gal.
In #21, the Gals to go the big record store where Otohata DJs at. Aya saw him with another girl while he was spinning and Aya is slowly giving up hope of him. Ran gives her a pep talk about liking herself and telling men what she wants. Ran, meanwhile, is skipping out on her summer break homework. She gives her teacher a lot of lies about how she doesn't have her homework done.
Luckily for her, this is the month that the class Olympics is being held. Her teacher has never had a class that has won the Olympics. Ran figures out she can make a deal with her summer teacher to win the summer sports, he'll forget about the homework. Ran lies to the class and tells them that their beloved teacher is ill and that they should win the sports for him. Eventually, of course the class find it out, but luckily for Ran, the class won.
Aya gets to talk to Otohata and they talk about relationships. Aya and Otohata hang out finally at the end of the episode, but unfortunately for them, they don't get anywhere in talking.
Episode 22: There is a culture fest that the girls manage to get tickets to because Otohata is in charge of the music for it. The two junior detectives are following them. Boy #2 keeps getting attacked by girls who have crushes on him and realizes he is a hot commodity and that girls really like him. Yamata gives the two junior detectives a job of making sure Miyu is ok because he's worried about her with all the other guys in the festival. The place has a lot of events and a lot of food. Ran takes charge and makes #2 buy everything for her.
Aya confesses her love for Otohata and they reach an agreement this time. There is a contest for the local festival queen. Mami Honda is once again on the scene, and even though she realizes that she is friends with Ran, they still complete. They end with a day long Para Para dance contest and no one wins. Miyu leaves in the middles of the contest to go find Yamata. She finds him outside the festival looking for her. He tells her he's worried about her wandering around the all boys school festival.
It seems like all is well in the crazy world of Super Gals in this DVD. The girls have boys who like them, Mami Honda is competing with Ran, Aya and Otohata are together kinda, and they are still the top dogs of Shibuya.
I'm never quite sure if some of the characters are coming or going. I do have to admit that I'm not happy with how Ran interacts with people and that I hope some of the younger viewers are aware that she's not always right in how to treat people. I am curious to see how the relationships continue between the characters and who they become.
On the flipside on the actual product: ADV puts out great anime DVDs. The menus are easy to go through. They have special features. The dub/sub system works well. The voice actors for the English dub are not agonizingly annoying. Inside the DVD is a cool poster you can hang in your locker or on you wall. They send out a high quality product that you can feel good about buying as well as watching.
Posted on Monday, November 01, 2004 (Archive on Wednesday, December 01, 2004)