Bishoujo Yuugekitai Battle Skipper (Battle Skipper)

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Synonyms: Battle Skipper School, Lightning Attacker Exstars Battle Skipper

Japanese: 美少女遊撃隊バトルスキッパー

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 3

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Aug 23, 1995 to Dec 16, 1995

Producers: Tokyo Kids, Victor Entertainment

Licensors: Central Park Media

Studios: Artmic

Source: Original

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi

Theme: Mecha

Duration: 27 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.67¹ (scored by 945 users)

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Ranked: #11194²

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Popularity: #10614

Members: 2,480

Favorites: 1

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Despite the title, this is not a feature but the three-part OAV Battle Skipper (1995), which Takashi Watanabe directed before going on to Slayers.

When the members of the Etiquette Club at St. Ignacio's School for Girls go down the tubes--literally--they acquire the skimpy outfits they wear to pilot the unfortunately named BSs or Battle Skippers, state-of-the-art military mecha. As "Extars," the Etiquette Club members fight to eliminate evil from the world, which means the bizarre schemes of Sayaka, the nasty, super-rich president of the rival Debutante Club, and her flunky, Todo.

The series was created to promote a line of robot toys from Tomy, and viewers who are willing to accept high school girls' quarrels escalating into battles involving satellite weaponry may enjoy these silly adventures.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Ayanokouji, Reika

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Inoue, Kikuko
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Izaki, Kanami

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Shiratori, Yuri
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Sakaki, Shihoko

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Miyamura, Yuko
Japanese

Shibusawa, Rie

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Niiyama, Shiho
Japanese

Tachibana, Saori

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Nishimura, Chinami
Japanese

Kitaouji, Sayaka

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Orikasa, Ai
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Matsushita, Yukihiro

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Watanabe, Takashi

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Kamata, Hidemi

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Inoue, Kikuko

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	1: "Real Dream" by Yarei Yasui (eps 1)
	2: "Game Over" by Yarei Yasui (eps 2)
	3: "Kanashii Tenshi ni Nacchau ne" by Kikuko Inoue and Shiho Niiyama (eps 3)

Reviews

Aug 15, 2012

irish5ive

Mixed Feelings

The premise of the OVA series was simple. Girls use mecha battle bots against other evil mecha battle bots and come up victorious. Yippie!!! But I guess there was a little more to it then that.

The story revolves around three freshman girls who are torn between joining two elite clubs. One club is the Debutante Club, the other, the Ettiquette Club. While the entire school population decides to try and join the Debutante's, these three girls go against the grain and join the Ettiquette Club. Un-be-known to them however, the new club they enrolled in is just a front. ...

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Oct 14, 2019

MrYujufudan

Not Recommended

Watched as battle skipper the movie, dubbed, US Manga Corps. VHS: It cut toy commercials in between episodes for the battle skipper toy line. I know it was also released in individual volumes, but I don't have those.

I fail to see the point of an OVA that advertises children's toys to teenagers. I guess with a $100 price tag I wouldn't expect many kids to have the money for the product, so maybe it was meant to be targeted at teens. Honestly I'm not sure, I don't know much about what teenagers would have been into back in mid 90s Japan. ...

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Aug 16, 2017

ktulu007

Not Recommended

Bishoujo Yuugekitai Battle Skipper is a mecha comedy from the mid 90s. It was brought to us by Artmic. If you haven't heard of them, it's not a surprise. They've worked with AIC on a couple anime I've reviewed, Bubblegum Crisis & AD Police. They've also worked with Tatsunoko on some anime I've never seen. This will be the first time I've seen something that they were the sole driving force for and I don't know if that's a good thing. But, let's give it a chance and take a look.

Story:

We open with a secondary school girl in the shower because... class killed ... the writer's goldfish. She gets dressed and talks with her minion about a group of “Extars” who are piloting their BS's and causing problems. The showering scene totally adds a lot to this plot point and wasn't gratuitous at all. We then join two different girls as they run to their first day at school. They see some upper classmen arrive and move to orientation where we find out that the débutante club is the most powerful force in the school and everyone wants to join for the connections. Our heroines, Shihoko & Saori, decide to join the etiquette club instead because Shihoko is immediately attracted to the vice-president, Rie. They're joined by another girl, Kanami, who admires the president, Reika. They decide to break into the club at night because... they think there might be Friendship is Magic DVDs that they can watch or, maybe, the reasons are just really flimsy. It's one of those. They accidentally stumble onto a hidden basement and find themselves inside their own BSs. The three of them join Reika and Rie as Extars in order to combat ne'er do wells.

The major problem with this OVA is the humour. Most of the time it comes across as an excuse for lazy writing. Why is the Extars' super advanced hidden base easily accessed by anyone? It's a comedy, don't worry about it. How do the antagonists break in? Comedy. If our heroines are trying to fight in secret why do they throw that out the window in order to fight hand to hand, especially when they could handle the ruffians with their armoured tank suits? It's a comedy, they don't have to explain it. The more ordinary jokes barely register as jokes. To use an example, when Shihoko and Saori arrive Shihoko refers to her initial meetings with both Reika & Rie as fateful. It's supposed to be funny because she falls in love easily. And no, the comedy never elevates above that.

The writing is, in general, just very lazy. The plot points are heavily telegraphed and clichéd. At one point we see our antagonist's minion rescue Saori from familiar looking thugs. I wonder where that's going to go? It couldn't possibly be a set up to get close to her for nefarious purposes. That would just be crazy. At another point we see our heroines come under heavy fire by a mobile fortress. I wonder if the one that got left behind is going to come to their rescue with their own mobile fortress that was introduced near the end of the previous episode? It's almost like our script writer, Kamata Hidemi, had no passion for the project whatsoever and just rushed through the script over a couple hours.

Characters:

The characters are pretty dull. Saori is the kind of clumsy protagonist who stands up for her friends. Shihoko falls in love easily and needs to be protected. Kanami is good at everything but gets a more supporting role because otherwise she'd be even more noticeably a Mary Sue. Rie is the kind of abrasive one who likes to fight. Reika is the motherly one who looks out for the others. And our antagonist wants to rule the world because... she's rich? It's rather like the script writing. Very low effort and reliant on the generic.

Art:

Frankly, I've seen stronger artwork and animation from several other 90s anime. This is another arena where Battle Skipper just seems to lack any real effort. The action sequences are pretty weak, with an over-reliance on motion blur and with machines that shoot each other kind of slowly. The character designs are kind of dull as well. Shihoko has random circles in her hair that don't seem to be attached and that she leaves in when she sleeps because... she doesn't want to actually get dressed in the morning. She'd rather just let her hair get tangled in the ruddy things. But don't worry, not looking even close to good doesn't stop them from throwing in random fan-service of the school girls. Because Kamata has a grudge against class and refuses to have anything to do with it.

Sound:

The acting is passable. It's not good nor is it bad. They did get some talented actresses like Orikasa Ai, Niiyama Shiho, Inoue Kikuko & Shiratori Yuri but the characters are, unfortunately, too under-written for them to show their abilities. The music is similarly mediocre.

Ho-yay:

The les-yay of this series is largely limited to Shihoko's one-sided crushes. Although Kanami may also have a thing for Reika.

Final Thoughts:

That's Bishoujo Yuugekitai Battle Skipper. I don't think anyone involved was actually invested in the project. It feels like cheaply produced shlock that no one really wanted to be involved with but, hey, it's a pay cheque. I wouldn't call it a terrible or even a bad OVA. It's mostly just kind of stupid and innocuous. My final rating is going to be a 4/10. Next week I'll look at Shuumatsu no Izetta.

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