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series directed by Makoto Kobayashi, with scripts by Yasushi Hirano and story, layouts, and original concepts by

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Background

Production began in 2000 with an original release expectation for January 2001. Character design was by Hiromi Kato and mechanical design was by Makoto Kobayashi. There are 6 chapters of uneven duration, originally released on the

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as separate episodes, and the total running time is 100 minutes.

Synopsis

The movie is set in the near-future in a large underground

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at a former

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known as Neo Purgatory, where the characters of Maki ( Fumiko Orikasa), Naomi ( Michiko Neya), Doris ( Akemi Okamura), Marilyn (

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), and Katherine (

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) make up an all-female

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outfit called the "Guard of Rose" and acting as a guard patrol. The prisoners, many of whom are mutated by the ambient radiation, are left to their own devices, but a criminal known as Donn Canyon ( Takeshi Watabe) and his family take control of the prison and

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upon the world by gaining control of the American orbital

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platform and vowing the "purify the world with radiation" in a

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. After an abortive attempt by the

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militaries to assault the prison, the Guard of Rose is tasked with infiltrating and defeating the Canyon family to preserve

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Cast

* Fumiko Orikasa as Maki Aoba * Michiko Neya as Naomi Jones * Akemi Okamura as Doris Nicholas *

as Marilyn Moreau *

as Katherine Hook * Takeshi Watabe as Donn G Canyon *

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as Akira Canyon *

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as Ed Canyon * Bunkoh Ogata as Terry Canyon * Akira Ishida as J C *

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as Link * Banjou Ginga as Giga *

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as Tereshkova * Katsumi Chou as

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* Katsuhiro Kitagawa as

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as Mike *

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as Angel *

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as First Lieutenant * Tadahisa Saizen as Tower operator *

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as Boy * Hirotoku Miyata as Leader of U.S. Personnel

Critical reception

''T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews'' felt that director Kobayashi Makoto and scriptwriter Akimoto Yasushi failed in their efforts to create a viewable film. Among the film's attributes that were panned were the background music sounding "eerily similar to the background of the '' Care Bears Movie'', ethereal and fluffy and jarring and likely the result of a five-year-old banging on a synthesizer," the casting of Mamiya Kurumi as the mecha mascot, Link, who reminding the reviewer of

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"but with a squeaky Japanese woman's voice," and otherwise talented actresses playing the voices of the Guard of Rose being "uniformly mediocre and less interesting than the girls of the ''

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''", and character designs being bad and characterizations worse. The reviewer ended his enumeration of multiple flaws by stating (

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) "This really IS the worst anime I've ever seen. ''6 Angels'' has all the elements that could have made a great movie, except for the greatness."

References

External links

* *{{ann, anime, 896 2002 anime films Anime with original screenplays Action anime and manga 2001 anime ONAs Films set in Utah Fiction set in 2026 Japanese science fiction action films Science fiction anime and manga Yasushi Akimoto Japanese animated science fiction films