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Adventures of Mini Goddess Volume 1 
Details
Director: Yasuhiro Matsumara
Catalogue Number: MVD2047
Certificate: PG
Date Released: February 7th 2005
Screen: 4:3
Languages: Japanese; English
Subtitles: English
Duration: 100 minutes
Synopsis
Super Small = Super Quiet
Whenever Keiichi leaves the house, Belldandy, Urd and Skuld shrink themselves
to play with the other residents of the area - including their clueless
rat sidekick, Gan. Whether it's a battle against Gan-zilla or adventures
in kitchen appliance romances, the goddess adventures are dangerously
funny!
Contains Episodes:
1. Let's Tell a Firtune
2. Secret Treasure in the Attic, Part I
3. Secret Treasure in the Attic, Part II
4. Let's Fly in the Sky
5. Let's Fly into Space
6. Slimming down! Go!
7. Gabria, the Giant Monster - The Birth
8. Gabria, the Giant Monster - The Final Battle
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Mysterious Can of Food
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Secret of the Diamond
11. Gabria, the Gant Monster - The Strike Back
12. Let's Play Baseball
Gan-Chan: Although frequently the butt of the goddesses jokes and the victim of their mistakes. Gan the rat persists in his absolute devotion to Belldandy and never questions whether Urd and Skuld may be dangerous for his health.
Extras
- Full colour Art Gallery
- Trailers
Cover
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To view the whole cover... click here
Review
A light-hearted spin-off series to the Oh! My Goddess series and feature-length film, Adventures of Mini Goddess tells the story of what happens to goddesses Belldandy, Urd and Skuld while Keichi is away. Befriending a resident rat by the name of Gan-Chan, they shrink themselves to a few inches in height and proceed to have, quite literally, mini adventures.
For those who have not yet seen anything of Oh! My Goddess (myself included), it is good to know that the short episodes of Adventures of Mini Goddess can be viewed perfectly well as a stand-alone series. Fans of Belldandy in particular may be a little disappointed that she does not have the main focus of most of the storylines but Gan-Chan steals many a scene with his comedic misadventures, often due to the mischief of the goddesses themselves. The best way of describing the twelve episodes (the high number makes up for the short running time of the individual episodes) is ‘cute’: the mini versions of Urd, Skuld and Belldandy are endearing and there are numerous laughs, all of which being innocent and harmless. The storylines are also surprisingly imaginative, including the marriage between Gan and a kettle, an amusing baseball match goddess-style and three witty parodies of the classic Godzilla films, in which Gan mutates into a mould-monster after eating something he shouldn’t have.
Those of us who are into more serious anime may find their adventures a little tame, but existing O!MG fans are a lot more likely to enjoy the escapades of the hapless rat Gan and his heaven-sent friends. The extras give some MVM trailers, a Belldandy background biography (another bonus for those of us unfamiliar with the characters) and picture gallery. The end theme tune is also very catchy, again in an innocent and cutesy J-pop kind of way.
Martin Butler (Anime UK News)