I've read many bad reviews about Knights of Ramune, but I've also read a few good reviews. One thing that seems to be in common with all the reviews is that the reviewers which gave this disc a very poor rating also never finished watching it (which is a pet peeve of mine -- don't review something if you didn't watch it fully!)

Taking the reviews into consideration, I ordered this DVD. I haven't had a problem with the menu at all (which also seemed to be common in many of the reviews), except for the odd "scene selection" configuration which seems to follow the format of the VHS tape releases. This problem was mostly an interpretation problem on my part, which I'm sure has confused others as well.

I had a good time watching this short series. But it did have quite a lot of fanservice nudity which did distract from the plot. I also had some problems with the sub where they translated things freely - Planet "T" -> Planet "Tea", "Pi-Qu" -> "PQ", etc. This type of stuff gets to me especially when the text appears in the actual video and it's still subbed wrong. Another thing that bothered me was that PQ's butt looked very blue to me when they referred to it as being "green". Who knows... I don't think that my TV's color is off quite that much.

But enough of the complaints. The video transfer was ok, but nothing to get excited about. It appeared to be the source material and not the actual mpeg compression. There was an actual plot which really didn't make sense until around the 4th episode.

Basically, you have two "Holy-Virgins" who are sent on a quest and get confused. They're not sure if they should follow their morals, or work for their supposed new "Knight" (which they should do by law - It's just what Holy-Virgins do). They first encounter this Knight, Ramune, traveling about the galaxy and kidnapping children for some unknown cause. Ramune also has quite the fleet of female mecha-pilots which make for some interesting battles sequences against some newbie Holy-Virgin mecha-pilots. I'll stop now, so I don't go and ruin what little plot there is.

If you don't mind anime with little plot and excessive nudity to compensate, then give this a rent. It also has some cool mecha designs which is always a plus.

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