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Amazing Nurse Nanako - Memories of You (Vol. 1) Actor: Amazing Nurse Nanako Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Animated Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 75 minutes Studio: Pioneer Video Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2002-10-08 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 14 Average rating: 3.0 "It's just mean." I'm open to a lot of things but I don't enjoy watching a character getting physically and emotionally abused. I bought this DVD knowing full well that it would be chalk full of fan service. In fact there's very little fan service. Poor Nanako is sobbing through most of the show, she's an emotional wreck and after you see the way she's treated you'll know why. The character design is poor, the abusive doctor is the only creative looking character. The credits are more amusing then the show itself. I'm tempted to watch more in the hopes that the doctor and his house guest get killed violently for their behavior. I don't recommend it to anyone, and I'll likely sell it eventually. "Yawn." I won't bother to criticize "Nanako" for being sexist; a sexist anime could very easily be funny, or exciting, or interesting. Unfortunately, "Nanako" is not that hypothetically amusing, thrilling, engrossing sexist anime, but an incredibly dull sexist anime. The jokes (mostly tired slapstick showing how stupid Nanako is or how bad a cook she is, or scenes of Nanako's boss angrily beating her or Nanako screaming in fear when confronted by aliens or wild animals) are not funny, the action really drags, and the plot almost seems non-existant. (Perhaps it picks up in the later episodes; this disk has two episodes.) As for the art, Nanako herself is sort of charming, but the other character designs are as forgettable as the bland personalities affixed to them. "Nanako" has a real problem with tone; mostly, it is supposed to be a comedy, I suppose, but the violence can be very graphic, and there are overtones of X-Files/Evangelion "secret government experiments involving aliens" which don't fit in very well with the endless scenes of Nanako's breasts bouncing as she falls down. The best part of the disk are the episode closing credits in which we see Nanako doing various exercizes; Nanako is a nice drawing stuck in a terrible lemon of an anime. "Great Nurse Nanako" This was a great anime. The show was really funny and I think that any one should buy it because it simply is the best. "Not so amazing..." Amazing Nurse Nanako is not so amazing anime. Graphics, music, and storyline are not very compelling. Characters -- while unique -- have some real problems. Nanako is a collection of unappealing sexist stereotypes, and Dr. Kyoji affection is verbally abusive. The other characters...I have no idea how they fit in. It is all rather poorly done. "ok plot, somewhat funny, and well drawn if not animated" While I can see why people may not like A.N.N. very much, I found it to be watchable. It is pretty funny and has asomewhat interesting (if yet unrevealed) plot, cool music, funny characters, and some pretty decent art (if not animation). However, it is obvious this title is geared mainly at male audiences.In the first episode there is some almost-ultraviolence, and in the second their is some nudity. That may not sound so bad, but I have to tell you that every scene that features Nanako has fan service. If your 14 or up, I recomend this to you. But parents, this one's not for the kiddies.