Category: action, mecha Type: oav  |
Iczer RebornAlso known as: Adventure! Iczer 3 Summary: > Although Iczer 1 had managed to defeat Big Gold, she is now destined to fight the various spawn of the great evil. This time it is Neos Gold. During a head on confrontation both of them are left nearly powerless and need time to recover before battling again. In the meantime Neos Gold decides to take over the earth with her spawn to taunt Iczer 1. In her helpless state, Iczer 1 can do nothing for the Earth, so her younger sister Iczer 3 is sent instead. But while Iczer 3 is powerful, she's inexperienced and quite naive. But as Iczer 3 dispatches the minions of Gold, each one of them is harder and harder to defeat. It certainly doesn't seem like Iczer 3 will be able to defeat Gold by herself, but then again perhaps her partner Nagisa is the key to focusing the energy of Iczer 3. The fate of the Earth and the universe lays in her hands. Thoughts: > Originally released as Adventure! Iczer 3, this series has been re-released as Iczer Reborn. Although this is the second installment of the Iczer franchise, it has a very different feel compared to Iczer 1. It was also released as a 3 tape VHS set, but more recently released all under 1 DVD. This series is a very much an 80s mecha anime, in a similar vein to Tekkaman. The Iczer franchise goes something like this. You have this race called Cthuwulf. Their home-world was destroyed and now they are in search of a new one. They were taken over by Big Gold who is quite evil. The Cthuwulf created the Iczers, super android chicks that are very powerful. Iczers seem to like Japanese girls named Nagisa, especially to use them as co-pilots for their prized super-mecha: Iczer Robo. The Gold family of evil beings likes to visit the Earth from time to time to nearly destroy all of humanity. Iczers and the Gold family don't like each other. So anyway Iczer 3 (as a character) is rather annoying. Actually so is Nagisa and a lot of other characters in this series. As for plot lines, there isn't much to the majority of the series. Each episode goes from one fight to the next, and that's about it. So I'll tell you why I actually like this series. Iczer 3 is all out annoying. So is Nagisa, and pretty much everyone else save Iczer 1 who I'm sort of indifferent about. Then there is the coolest character ever in the history of anime: Iczer 2. You see Iczer 1 was created by the Cthwulf to be the protectors of the galaxy and such, but when the Cthuwulf turned evil Iczer 1 became a pain in the ass. So Iczer 2 was created for the sole purpose of destroying Iczer 1. Neos Gold resurrects Iczer 2 to deal with the annoying Iczer 3, and Iczer 1. However Neos Gold tries to direct Iczer 2 to do "trivial" things like killing Iczer 3. Iczer 2 goes along with some of it but makes it known she has NO loyalties and will stop at nothing to destroy Iczer 1. It's that sort of bad-assness that I truly love ^^. As such I'm willing to forgo many of the dumb aspects to see more of Iczer 2. With the release in one disk, I can now easily fast forward through the bad parts as well.
Simply put this installment of the Iczer series doesn't have much to go on as far as recommendations go, so I guess I'll just say I don't recommend it. It's tough to say with my own personal bias, since Iczer 2 is hands down my favorite anime character of all time, making this series worth it to me. That's pretty crazy though, so I'm not going to tell people to follow my example in insanity =P Screen Caps: > 
reviewed by archen in 1997 |
