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Steel Angel Kurumi

 

Anime Review

 

Genre:  Action/Harem/Romantic Comedy

 

Episodes: 24

 

Network: WOWOW

 

Liscensed by:  Madman Entertainment

 

English Network: Anime Network

 

 

At the beginning of each episode a character from the series amply reminds its viewers that they should watch the Anime from a safe distance and turn the brightness down for safety measure.  Whether this is a prank or Steel Angel Kurumi actually cares about its viewers getting seizures due to the high level of color that the seires are drawn, its up to the viewer.  In a time period in Japan, circa 1930s, a scientist creates a trio of mechanical beings he calls Steel Angels, who are powered artificially with their own energy bank known as a Heart, and have a peculiar way of being activated, by means of a kiss.  Whoever activates said androids becomes their master, whom they will obey and protect without question.  Such is the fate off a kid named Nakahito Kagura who stumbles into the scientist's lab inside a seemingly abandoned house and accidentally activates Kurumi for the first time by kissing her.  Kurumi then adopts him as her master without a second thought and even rejects anyone else who tries to tell her an order, including her own creator.

 

As the story progresses, Kurumi faces off other steel angels and mechanical menaces who try to capture her in order to turn her into a weapon by a secret organization that knows about the scientist's project.  Such angels include Saki, who faces Kurumi until defeated, and is kissed by Kurumi herself to become her sister, unknowingly also turning her into a makeshift lover who never reveals her newfound love for Kurumi and is envious of Nakahito for having her, which is something he himself doesn't wish to accept.

 

And then we have Karinka, which is a personal favorite of yours truly.  Petite, small frame, and a volcanic temper who is not afraid to drop the F bomb casually.  She is also the strongest of the three having Two Mach Hearts yet has trouble wondering how Kurumi has beaten her before.  She concludes that the power lays on Nakahito, and also ventures trying to get a kiss from him in order to become stronger.

 

Although there are more Steel Angels than first imagined, they seldom make any appearances save by an OAV that is more like a spinoff that isn't canonical with the entire first series.  Most of the stories involve Kurumi trying hard to become Nakahito's lover true and true, while Saki and Karinka involve for their own reasons.  It is a coin toss on how it has a straight linear story.

 

In the English Dub Kurumi's voice can be either cute or ear piercing when she squeals, which she does a lot.  She can be very annoying for having a simple, childish mind stated in a one track of wanting to be in Nakahito's pants no matter what the cost and confront anyone who even tries to speak with him, turning her into the most jealous Anime character which can be easily be turned down by fans in the fly.

 

The saving grace besides gratuitous fanservice (which again, happens quite a lot and it would be considered an Ecchi by most Anime fans), is that Steel Angel Kurumi has some of the most colorful designs and wondrous eyes I have seen in any other series before, total eye candy which c an be either appreciated or suffer seizures if your eyes cannot stand such vibrant colors.  hence this why the public announcement before every episode starts.

 

Simply put, Steel Angel Kurumi is an eye pleasing work of art with little else on any other part that composes an Anime series.  Fanservice affcionatos may be the ones who would collect it the most.

 

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