Jinki:Extend: Volume 1

Review Date: 2007 June 24 17:15

Reviewed by: Spike

Released by: ADV Films UK

Age Rating: 12

Region: 2 - UK

Volume 1 of 3

Length: 125 minutes

Subtitles: English

Audio: English 5.1 Surround
Japanese 2.0 Stereo

Summary

At first, you would think that Aoba Tsuzaki lead a fairly normal life living with her grandmother and spending her spare time building model robots. That is of course until her grandmother dies and she is left out in the cold on the streets, and she's kidnapped by a particularly unconvincing transvestite!

She escapes only to find a real-life version of one of the robot toys she builds, and is accidentally taken on a wild ride into battle! It turns out that she has unwittingly been drafted into an organisation called Angel, an organisation that uses these robot Jinki to fight off a race of ancient Jinki that seem to be terrorising some southern area of the world called La Grand Sabana. Action, intrigue and suspense abound in one totally hectic series!

Review

The pace of Jinki:Extend is almost impossible to judge, as it moves from introverted reflection to fast-paced action to silly humour at the drop of a hat, much in the way that our old friend Full Metal Panic was fond of doing. The main plot consists of the two main pilots of the Jinki, the cool and logical Roihei Ogawara and his hot-headed son Gento and their battles with the ancient Jinki. Along side this are thrown in sub-plots that not only involve the now popular estranged parent and secret society paradigms, but also the occasional mysterious stranger that likes the tops of tall structures and could be friend or foe.