009-1

Analysis : 1 R1 Disk Watched

• Drama : Med
• Action : High
• Comedy : None
• SciFi : High
• Ecchi : Med

What a change from 009 and the other 'cyborg' shows. It's L/R with Ecchi. So far it's pretty good.

An excellent futuristic spy-action series. Super-sexy cybernetic female agents who make James Bond look like an amateur fight against the agents of the Eastern Bloc. 009-1 takes the best parts of Ghost in the Shell and Lupin III, but leaves out the boring parts of GitS and the crappy animation of Lupin, replacing them with sexy action and brilliant visuals. There's a lot of brutal, yet smooth, violence as the girls of Western Bloc's elite "Zero Zero" intelligence organization take care of their enemies. Music is by Taku Iwasaki, who also did the musics for Kenshin OVA and ROD TV.

009-1 is easily the best new series of 2006/2007. Too bad it is not easily available on fansub, but luckily ADV Films are about to release the series on DVD in the US. There are 12 TV-episodes in the series, plus one extra episode released on DVD only in Japan (to be included on ADV's 3rd and last DVD also).