Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]

During a couple of episodes towards the end of the show, it becomes what I envisioned it to be from looking at the Blu-Ray package. A group of powerful girls battling it out. The girl's are goddesses of different countries and they have two forms. That of your usual human girl and the powerful goddess form that they can turn into. Most of the time during the series they are in their human form where they are extremely cute. They also tend to have the usual normal confrontations. The show is rated TV-14 and mostly because of a lot of humor that pushes it up to the top of that rating. There are a group of different endings provided that have a range of emotions. Some of them are intentionally bad and it's fun how they present those. It's a high quality production that is just plain fun!("ANIME: Storytelling at its best")

This Anime Series features Neptune and the other girls of Neptunia trying to get along and have peace between the gaming box type Lands. Each of them represent a Land based off real Consoles, Nintendo, Xbox and the likes.This anime was based off the Games, I never got the games as of yet. But the games and this Anime series all have great graphics, and Loads of Fan Service such as Armor that breaks off, and situations that are more adult oriented.This whole anime series from the very start is nothing but beautiful Moe based art that leaves you wanting more. Even with all the Fan Service directed at boys, I recommend anyone to watch this if they want to see what it would be like for Friends to live in a video game. Lots of Trouble, Danger and even more so Adventure. And their sisters get involved too so its lots of family fun for everyone. As the older sisters get into trouble its up to the younger ones to Power Up their CPU selves and Save their Sisters from potential Destruction from the evil Arfoire.Join Purple Heart aka Neptune, and her friends on this Delightful Bluray Anime Series. Only thing that could make this better is a Sequal or 2.

I love the Neptunia games, it is quite seriously my all time favorite video game franchise. This cartoon is a fun reflection of the characters in the games and I really enjoyed it. The animation is good, the English voices are lively, and the situations the CPUs and their sisters get put in can range from hysterical to heartrending. If you already know and like these characters, it's a special treat to see them fully animated and dealing with other scenarios separate from the games' plots.However, if you haven't played the first three games (Hyperdimension Neptunia, Mk2, and V) you may not be able to take as much away from it. It's a really fun anime, but it does feel tailored to appeal more to fans of the games as opposed to casual viewers. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just something to keep in mind.Also, if you're planning on playing the games, go ahead an get this for later, but don't watch it before finishing Hyperneptunia V (the 3rd and arguably best game of the series), as it'll spoil some of the best parts of that game's story.

First, let's look at the technical side of Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation. So, the only thing truly wrong with this set is the volume drops that occur whenever scenes change or any loud sound happens.It doesn't matter if you use the DVD or Blu-ray disks, the volume drops to nothing when a scene changes or when there is a loud noise in the show and slowly comes back up thanks to overzealous use of Dolby noise reduction. An excellent example is when the opening credits start. the music is considered "noise" and muffles it, when the vocals kick in the Dolby noise reduction gradually increases the volume and reaches normal by the middle of the second verse! By the way, it is not my set up, I tried it on three different systems with all kinds of tweaks to the audio settings. This is what happens when stupid people make DVDs and I hope they got fired. Since they are tone deaf, they should get a job in an atrillary testing factory. I never liked Dolby noise reduction anyway. It's really good for cassette tape hiss but is there any real reason it exists on modern digitally recorded audio? Okay enough of that rant. The DVDs look okay, Blu-ray disks are better.Now let's review the series itself. Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation is an attempt to smash about 24 episodes of content into 13 episodes. There's a good plot here, but much of it is not fleshed out enough to make it truly compelling. You want to care but so much is missing that it makes more emotional scenes or climaxes to plot points fall flat. The game series this is based on is a visual novel and RPG combination hybrid. That makes the Animation look shallow in comparison. It would be like playing two of the game's and skipping all the unvoiced cutscenes and only watching the ends of boss battles and just the FMVs. Now it sounds like I hate the show, but you're wrong. I love it for what it is, as I am a huge Neptunia fan, but it is a bit of a disappointment coming from the game series. Persona 4 The Animation is the perfect example of how to do things right. So good you don't need to play the game, but compelling you to reconnect your dusty old PS2 to the TV after watching an episode. Again, Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation is not a bad series, but it isn't the best. Definitely worth a watch, and at under $20 for the full series, it is well worth the money. I still give it a score of 8/10 because I am a fan, but a more realistic score would be 7.5/10 for those unfamiliar to Neptunia and are just looking for another anime series to watch. Still better than the bulk of anime out there though.