Vandread: V4 Pressure (ep.11-13) [DVD]

Features

• Type: DVD
• Studio: Geneon (Pioneer)
• Language(s): english, japanese
• Subtitle(s): english
• Director(s): Hiroyuki Yokoyama, Kazuki Tsunoda, Ken'ichi Takeshita, Makoto Bessho, Masato Ujibe, Seiji Mizushima, Shigeru Ueda, Shin'ichi Tôkairin
• Actor(s): Tony Oliver, Mari Devon, Dan Lorge, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Yumi Kakazu, Julie Maddalena, Fumiko Orikasa, Yu Asakawa, Catherine Battistone, Beau Billingslea

The Last Stand! Halfway home, the women finally get fed up and decide to thr ow the men in the brig. Hibiki flees with his Vanguard and discovers a fleet of spaceship s with both men women working together in harmony! Hibiki's initial surprise is replaced by admiration, however, when the Alien fleet overwhelms and annihilates them. Adrift in s pace, Hibiki is rescued by Rabat, who takes Hibiki to the Nirvana, where the women promptl y throw both of them in jail. Can the women defeat the Aliens without the men, or will be forced to depend on each other for survival? In these final episodes, misunderstandings lead the female crew of the pirate ship Nirvana to jail the three male refugees. Hibiki flees in his mecha suit and encounters a fleet where men and women work comfortably together. He joins them in a fight against the aliens--really Earthlings--who "harvest" people from other planets for their body parts. After seeing his new friends killed in battle, Hibiki returns to the Nirvana--whose location has been sold to the Harvesters by the venal Rabat. Naturally, the ensuing conflict requires everyone to work together to defeat the common enemy, but the series ends on a semi-cliffhanger that suggests a sequel was planned. The simultaneous attraction and misunderstanding between the sexes that forms the theme of this series offers rich material, but the filmmakers fritter it away on silly subplots. Rated 13 Up: Violence, risqué humor. --Charles Solomon