Galaxy Angel Volume 1: What's Cooking? (DVD) - Anime Reviews


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Galaxy Angel Volume 1:

What's Cooking? (DVD)

How does one describe Galaxy Angel? It’s a show that’s been on in Japan for three insane seasons where absolutely anything can happen and usually does.

The team consists of five people and two support staff members. Milfeulle Sakuraba (the beautiful idiot… the kind of person who causes the rest of team countless trauma but always manages to avoid any trouble; oh and she likes to make desserts for everybody), Ranpha Framboise (the hot-blooded and headed martial artist who is horribly boy-crazy), Forte Stollen (the older gun freak who isn’t a good person to cross), Mint Blancmanche (the rich youngster who is a cosplay fanatic), and Vanilla (the religious nut whose religion is too strange to explain) form the team while the Commander (usually the straight man, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not nuts) and Normad help in their own ways. The team is responsible for collecting and safeguarding “Lost Technology” which is discovered all over the galaxy. The Lost Technology usually does something weird and you’ll be sure that the Galaxy Angel team will be part of the cause.

Episode 01: Resort-style Angel Preparation

Forte and Ranpha are told to find a cat on a planet surface… except every cat on the surface of the planet looks the same… and there are a lot of cats. It’s a good introductory episode where you get to see how Forte and Ranpha meet the force of luck that is Milfeulle.

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Episode 02: Gamble Milfeulle Sauce

Forte and Ranpha get into trouble at a casino after racking up a sizeable debt and end up trying to work off their losses by becoming professional wrestlers. They fortunately run into Milfeulle who turns a single coin into a sizeable fortune and Milfeulle officially joins the team.

Episode 03: Vanilla Flavored Asteroid Trash Stir-Fry

The Galaxy Angel team is sent out to scour through

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a pile of garbage in space after being tipped off to the presence of Lost Technology which turns out to be a sentient missile who is chatty, depressed, and suicidal. The missile, whose full name is too long to list here, is shortened to Normad, is accidentally activated by Milfeulle and the whole base comes under threat. After defusing the situation, the team removes Normad’s consciousness and places it into a stuffed animal that Vanilla carries around (and now the strangest relationship ever begins – the excessive Normad’s expressive love of the quiet or unaffected Vanilla).

Episode 04: Assorted Angel Fruits Shipped Direct

The team is deployed to provide security for a contractor whose life is in danger. Through a series of assassination attempts, the team is being tested but for what purpose? Odds are, it’s stupid.

Episode 05: Pirate-style School Memory Terrine

Milfeulle and Ranpha take a mission where they agree to return a gentleman’s elementary school ID back to his old school in a restricted area. Milfeulle agree to the mission when she see how the memory of how he forgot to return it made him upset. Once at the old school site, the girls are chased by a series of robots who attack them relentlessly.

Episode 06: Forte’s Ruinous Stew and a Dash of Trouble

Forte, Milfeulle, and Normad are sent to examine the surface of a planet which once was home to an extinct civilization to find Lost Technology remnants. As usual, Milfeulle comes across an egg from which a mouse is born. This mouse is subsequently adopted by Milfeulle to the chagrin of Forte (who is both allergic and terrified of mice). Milfeulle’s pet holds a dark secret, it’s actually a bioweapon which grows to over 30 feet tall and is capable of shooting a laser from its mouth… this one is going to be hard to explain.

Episode 07: Fun Park Specialties with Chicken Mint Compote

Mint, Vanilla, and Milfeulle are deployed to investigate a series of kidnappings that have been happening at an amusement park. To best watch the children, Mint devises a plan to have the team wear costumes to lower their profiles (or is it that Mint just can’t help the opportunity to cosplay?). The team eventually sees the kidnappers and chases after them. The episode climaxes with a chase involving two kidnappers, a child, a rooster, a plant, and a rolling rocket… insanity.

Galaxy Angel is the surprising blend of really cool CG scenes with brightly colored anime and is brought to life with a hilarious voice acting group. I’m extremely happy that Bandai brought Galaxy Angel over, this is one of my favorite shows to watch and I only hope that the series is successful enough to bring over all seasons of this show.

- Tazman

(March 27, 2004)

“I'd like to wish you the best of luck Brak, but I have to go down to the Bat-cave and see what Alfred wants.”

- Father (The Brak Show)