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| Compiler 2 (Dub) | 
 enlarge | Buy New: $119.88
Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 74169
Category: Video
Actors: Nikki Anderson (ii), Christine M. Auten, Jessica Calvello, Victor Carsrud, Rozie Curtis
Publisher: Adv Films
Studio: Adv Films
Manufacturer: Adv Films
Label: Adv Films
Format: Animated, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 110 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6305566496
UPC: 702727045431
EAN: 9786305566496
ASIN: 6305566496
Release Date: February 20, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great but incomplete anime show. The first episode is the one really worth watching. August 25, 2005
Here we have the first two episodes of a three-episode O.A.V. mini-series. (The third episode is on a seperate tape.) This is one of the older ADVision tiles that to date still hasn't been released on D.V.D. (Along with MIGHTY SPACE MINERS and MASTER OF MOSQUITON, THE VAMPIRE.) The show bears similarites to movies like TRON, THE TERMINATOR and GODZILLA.
The anime is one of those shows based on a manga, which becomes evident when you start watching it since it's actually incomplete, starting out somewhere in the middle. The story so far: There exists an alternate dimention, a cyberspace world. The leaders of that world have somehow come to see earth as a threat, thinking that we'll contaminate their world. The council sends three "domni-matrixes"-three super-powered babes, or "programs"-to our world to conquer it. They are Compiler, Assembler and Interpreter. However, not long after arriving on earth Compiler and Assembler meet and fall in love with two human brothers, Nachi and Toshi Igarashi. All three domni-matrixes then abandon their mission and opt instead to live with the three brothers peacefully on earth. This, needless to say, outrages the council in the computer world, and they send assassin programs to kill (or "delete") the three domni-matrixes and then fullfill their mission of taking over the earth. However, the two assassins sent to terminate Compiler and her friends have already failed no less than 36 times. (This all has already happened when the show starts and is explained in some opening exposition.) Actually Compiler is the one who does all the real fighting; Interpreter only stops by from time to time to give bits of information, and Assembler isn't really anything more than excess baggage. As for Nachi and Toshi, they're just regular guys, so there's not much they can do.
Anyway, at the beginning of episode 1 the two bungling assassin programs, Bios and Directory are forced by the council to be put into a device referred to as the polarity reversal machine. This changes Bios and Directory from their origonal forms-a couple of muscular men-into two slender, comely women! (For some reason I've always had an attraction to stories where characters are changed into something they really don't want to be, so for me this aspect of the show was the highlight for me.) Anyway, now if Bios and Directory (or, rather, Upload and Download, as their new names are,) want to change back, they must complete the mission of terminating Compiler and the others and then taking over the earth. (Presumably the council felt these two needed some extra motivation to get the job done right.)
The first episode is the really great one, as it has lots of action and comedy when Compiler and company meet Upload and Download and the sparks fly. The battles are largely played for laughs. The dub includes the voices of Kelly Manison (Compiler), Jessica Calvello (Assembler), Hillary Haag (Download) and Brett Weaver (Nachi).
The second episode, alas, is increadibly dull. I haven't watched it in years (didn't really feel compelled to see it more than once,) but I recall it being about Assembler and her relationship with Toshi. There is no action and little or no humor. If you like stories that focus on romantic drama or you decide after seeing episode 1 that you REALLY love Assembler, you'll probably enjoy episode 2.
As mentioned before, there is a third episode on a second tape. To briefly summerize, it is a hell of a lot more interesting than episode 2, but nowhere near as good a episode 1. There is action apleanty, but the humor doesn't quite reach the level as when Compiler is fighting Upload and Download. (Oh, yeah, about that, in episode 3 we see Upload and Download have changed back into Bios and Directory. What the heck?! I thought these two had to kill Compiler and her compatriots and then take over the world to get their manhood back, so their being changed back already doesn't make sense, besides the fact that I like their other forms better.)
Anyway, this is a great show to watch and I highly recomend it.
 What was that? January 23, 2001
This is a real weird video. First off the music is kinda lacking. The action is more like a chessy version of Dragonball Z. The art style *ugh* didn't impress me a bit. The story focuses on two 2-D women from the net, Assembler and Compiler. They're main purpose to destroy the earth. And for a show with bad animation, it manuvers the story into hentai-like show. This makes the show even more hard to bare. This show might be worth a look, but there are so many defects with this show, I can't guaretee your going to like it. I didn't.
compile this January 22, 2001
The first tape has 2 episodes on it both episodes are extremley funny. you dont need to know anything about computers for the show. the first episode has action and bref nudity. the second episode dose not have any action but it is verry funny. i enjoyed watching it.
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