Holy ghost of Martha Streisand...... -_-;;; Video-- (5/5) The video's quality can compare to that of Macross: Do You Remember Love, and Trigun: Perfect Collection. (That's good, BTW.) Audio-- (4/5) Pretty amazing actually. The audio is good, but it still tends to be a little jerky, here and there. Subtitltes-- (0/5) -_- This makes me cry three oceans and a river. Content-- (5/5) Sadly enough, this is my favorite anime of all time. The fact that these discs are of such poor quality makes me cry. Please, if you plan on viewing AS, please, oh, PLEASE buy the R1s... -_-

Holy Engrish, Batman! As if the series itself weren't convoluted enough, here comes the HK disc, boasting some of the most incomprehensible dialogue you're ever bound to wimper through. I've seen some dogs in my day, but woof woof! This one takes the cake (and eats it too). Garbage, pure and simple. Nevertheless, it's pretty garbage. The A/V work is stellar and once again, you could always just sit back and look at the pretty images. Then again, considering there's a R1 release that's head and shoulders above this travesty, why would one want to subject themselves to that sort of silly torture? As for the series itself, well, it's my brother's favorite anime of all time. For all his homophobic devices, he sure does dig that Yangst stuff. Remind me to let him watch Weiâ Kreuz and see if I can finally break the little turd with that. Gwa, hah, hah...

Angel Sanctuary is a long running Manga series in Japan that has been crammed into 3 breakneck speed OVAs. The show features some kickass art and great animation, along with a fitting and, occasionally, haunting soundtrack. The story itself is abrupt and very fast moving (haven't they learned? long manga in less than 2 hours is BAD.) yet oddly entertaining from what I could understand (more on this later). The show on a whole is extremely entertaining and comes highly recommended - especially for those who won't jump to conclusions and can accept an open ending (like more OVAs, it tells a small part of the greater Manga story, but as such - is nothing more than a few issues animated - moves briskly but doesn't have a complete or even partial ending.) but still a HIGHLY recommended show. Video: This disc is a beaut. Many, MANY, region 1 discs i've seen haven't even looked this good - everything is very sharp with minimal rainbowing and very bold color, there are no real complaints to be had (note: screenshots are severely downsampled for numerous reasons.) This is a dark, gothic-style (sort of...) show and much of it is dark, by this I mean - there is a lot of dark coloring/black, which is usually when artifacting is the most prevelant, but they were NOT present in this disc, I was quite impressed to say the least. Audio: Excellent soundtrack, great voice acting, and a clear quality. There is nothing - that i've noticed - wrong w/ this disc as far as audio goes. Subtitles: Well, two out of three ain't bad. Okay, yes, yes it is. The subs on this disc are really bad, it's as if the subbers went to world.altavista.com, and ran the Japanese -> English translator on the disc. While not the worst subs i've seen (yes, i'm afraid there are worse cases of engrish out there), they suck royally. The only thing that surprised me about the subs, was that it didn't say "Indeed." after every sentence, that definitly shows progress as far as HKDVDs go. The show is understandable with these subs, but they pass by the screen too quickly many times (split second speed) and are often mispelled, and of course, plauged with horrendous grammar. Overall: Very nice A/V overshadowed by atrocious subs. Damn shame. Get the R1.

Well first a warning, this 3 part OVA goes nowhere. Its based off a long running manga and this series of OVA's has no conclusion and most of it is left unanswered. Video- pretty good, nothing spectacular but quite good. The show is very bright and uses digital animation techniques which can be ugly at times to some. Think Sol Bianca. Video quality has no real problems here. Audio - Same as video, no glitches or problems, all good. Subs - What subs? The subs on this are horrible, just dreadful. Even when I saw the R1 that made so much more sense. Some of the mumbo jumbo and religious talk gets to be to much for the HK subbers here and its a total mess. You can semi understand it but most of the main plot is a jumbled mess of strange nothings.