Alternative Titles
Tenshi Kinryouku
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Type: OVA
Episodes: 3
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: May 25, 2000 to Aug 25, 2000
Duration:
30 min. per episode Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
L represents licensing company
StatisticsScore: 6.821 (scored by 4440 users)
Ranked: #18862
Popularity: #241
Members: 6,697
Favorites: 53 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisMudou Setsuna, a high school student, loves his sister in a way that he shouldn't. He also struggles from supernatural powers. Angels and demons flocks to him as the day of his awakening draws near -- he is the angel Alexiel, the highest angel which fought against God, reborn.
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Related AnimeAdaptation: Angel Sanctuary
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Both Angel Sanctuary and X are dealing with earth's issue. The story shows a man who's against his own destiny and spends time fighting it. The two characters seem to be egoist at first but make real sacrifices for others.
Winged bishies and apocalyptic theme
fight against destiny and the end of the world
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Quite simply, they both are stories about siblings whom are in love && what they have to go through to prove their love.
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Reviews
| Overall |
9 |
| Story |
10 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Character |
10 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
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Jul 30, 20073 of 3 episodes seen 30 of 38 people found this review helpful Angels are God's messengers that protect humans from danger because they are the good guys. Wrong! Unlike most stories, the bad guys (the daemons) are the good guys in Angel Sanctuary. Some viewers may find this OVA offensive and sacriligious; however, it isn't an insult on Christianity. It's a fictional story reversing the roles for once and isn't meant to be persecuting Christianity; just showing the other side of the coin. There are far more films and television shows using crude humour towar...ds Christianity in North America, which are a million times more offensive than Angel Sanctuary. Putting that aside, the mood for Angel Sanctuary is very dark. It's a gothic drama dealing with the supernatural. It's gory and mature, so younger viewers may not like it.
The animation is very good for the year 2000. It doesn't have any computer graphics but it wasn't necessary: the pencil and ink animation was perfect enough. The low-lights in the hair, also the texture of the hair (pretty much everything about the hair) to characters is very wispy and detailed. Short haired people would be envious of the long, flowy hair that these two-dimensional anime characters possess. There isn't anything bad about the animation other than it's a little out of date. (But not by much)
The sound is simplistic, but sets the mood to the OVA. The music has the dark motif to the OVA, which makes Angel Sanctuary more gothic. Could have used more instruments and a more difficult melody, but the music does what it's supposed to: give the viewer the dramatic feeling.
Although English dubs aren't nearly as bad as many Japanophiles claim, the English dub to Angel Sanctuary was terrible. The acting was alright, the voices were what killed the dub. They sounded way too cartoony for a serious drama that was aimed at a mature audience. Crispin Freeman saved the dub as he showed his genius skills in the role of Rosiel. The voice of Setsuna (Scott Cargle) sounded more like a fourty year old than an older teenager. Watch this OVA in Japanese, it's much better.
The Characters were well developed and didn't have cliche personalities. Sarah's personality is a little too happy, which was the only problem. There is incest in this story line, but Kaori Yuki pulled it off. The incest shows how Setsuna and Sarah struggle to ignore their feelings in a forbidden relationship and not an episode of Jerry Springer. (They know incest is wrong) Like the theme, they are condemned sinners. Without the mood the incest wouldn't work. The bad guys aren't extremely evil as most antagonists are portrayed. Then again, everything is reversed.
Those who are into dark anime aimed at a mature audience would like Angel Sanctuary. It's tragic, but doesn't require a box of Kleenex. (just a couple) The manga has twenty volumes while the OVA has three episodes, meaning the end of the OVA isn't the end of the series. Angel Sanctuary should have been an anime series because the storyline scratches the surface. Also, the OVA hooks you into wanting more. It's a promotion or teaser for the manga. With the exceptional storyline and excellent animation, Angel Sanctuarty is one of the best OVA's made.
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3 |
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Oct 25, 20083 of 3 episodes seen 43 of 65 people found this review helpful Great, another incestuous gay demon supernatural bishounen bishoujo anime. I find myself being redundant if I say 'another stupid anime made from a sub-par manga'.
First off, the story is awful and had some of the worst plot I ever saw. It basically follows one guy perving on his younger sister and then angels trying to destroy the earth since the demons are ironically the good guys.
It pretty much goes like this:
Boy: I wanna bone my sister!!
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Sister: I'm pointless!
Demons: AH, ANGELS!! OMGWTF!
The art was terrible--it looked like every character tripped and fell into Liberace's closet because their colour coordination in their clothes and hair was totally unfabulous.
The characters are stupid. Literally stupid. They have no other drive than to serve as boring plot devices to shake and not stir up forced controversy. I cannot enjoy an anime for being so ridiculous.
What a pile of trash--I would rather be locked in a toilet that can't flush than watch this ever again. read more
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| Story |
6 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
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| Character |
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6 |
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Apr 20, 20083 of 3 episodes seen 11 of 21 people found this review helpful Warning, before you watch this, leave your religion at the door! Homosexual Demons, Kind Demons, Evil Angels, and Incest galor. Not to mention, everyone just wants to kill god. This is basicly the story of a young student named Setsuna Mudo and the trauma he goes through when he discovers that a rebel angel against god lies dormant inside of him. Not only that, but everyone seems to want to pull her out. Sadly, the only problem with this is that he'll die if they succede. You'll see Setsuna Mudo... going through the average highschool pains we all experience, like dating your sister while hiding it from your friends, and murdering that gang member who always beat you up. Well, it may seem pretty controversial and ground breaking with a plot like this, but the story seemed dry and too straight forward. To me it always seemed like Setsuna was just a big crybaby U_U. I felt little emotional attachement. However, in the movie X, I was really disapointed and sad when a character died. Overall, I guess it was a good...well CRAZY...idea with an ok execution. Hmm, it could have been much better. read more
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Opening Theme"Messiah" by Nanase Hikaru
"Messiah" by Yura Yayoi [op]
Ending Theme"Knife of Romance" by PhI
"Knife of Romance" by Satoshi Hirose
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