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Brain Powered - Birth (Collection 1) | 
| Director: Yoshiyuki Tomino
Actors: Shiho Nagoshi, Lisa Ann Beley, Haruko Takahgi, Alaina Burnett, Jennifer Copping
Studio: Bandai
Category: DVD
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 146478
Format: Animated, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 225 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.6
UPC: 669198142093
EAN: 0669198142093
ASIN: B000065AYQ
Release Date: May 21, 2002
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
This 1998 mecha series plays like cross between Evangelion and an early Gundam adventure, but without the better attributes of either. In a post-apocalyptic world, UN forces headquartered on the battle-survival ship Novis Nova are in conflict with the staff of Orphan. An enormous underwater structure that was once an intergalactic ship, Orphan is being prepared for launch, although sending it into space will destroy the remaining life on Earth--and spare its crew. All these machinations hinge on the "organic machines": giant mecha suits that are either "Grand Chers" or "Brain Powereds," although the distinction between the two is never made clear. Both types of suits are somehow born from mysterious spinning plates. When a plate lands in a half-ruined city, Hime Utsumiya forms an instant psychic bond with the newborn machine and begins piloting it. She forms a different sort of bond with Yuu Isami, the son of the founders of Orphan. He defies them, defects, and pursues a standard quarrelsome romance with Hime. Although there are numerous raids, mecha battles, explosions, plots, counterplots, and revelations, the story doesn't really go anywhere. The main characters are essentially in the same place in episode 9 as they were in episode 2. The mecha designs are squat and clunky (the pilots enter through the robot's crotch), the characters uninteresting. Many otaku praise Yoko Kanno's lush, aria-laced score, but it's about all Brain Powered has going for it. Rated 13 Up: Violence, brief nudity, minor profanity, ethnic stereotypes. --Charles Solomon
Description
Hime, a seemingly normal girl, has her life forever changed when she witnesses the birth of an antibody (a type of mecha) and becomes its pilot. A new life full of danger, excitement and intrigue awaits. But is that what she wants? Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino ("Gundam") and animated by Sunrise ("Cowboy Bebop," "Macross Plus"). A two DVD set with over 3.5 hours of content.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A decent anime series...but the real gem is the soundtrack November 4, 2005
Ronnie Clay (Winnsboro, Louisiana)
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Brain Powered is an okay animated series with some strange turns of plot (it seems a matter of course that mecha appear in the series - though it doesn't make too much sense :P). It certianly isn't a Marcoss or Gundam ripoff, but it isn't entirly successful in shaking off the giant robots wars so common in anime.
The soundtrack is really good, its been done none other than the famed, Yoko Kanno. Kanno really hits another one out of the park with this one.
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