When the 5 richest and most powerful girls at an exclusive private high school are sent and death threat they decide to take matters into their own hands and bring divine retribution to their would be assailants. Using their collective resources and skills they show the terrorists that they messed with the wrong girls.
This is a middle of the road OAV from the mid 90's that was actually pretty funny and made me wish they had kicked out a few more episodes. Unfortunately there is only this one 30 minute show and nothing more. I'm surprised that nothing more was ever generated from this, especially a manga. Perhaps it wasn't time yet. The show would be considered moe by today's standards but existed before that phenomenon took hold of the industry. This also came out before the rampant use of characters that look like under age girls. If it would have come out in the past 5 years it would have been pushed on us relentlessly and probably wouldn't have been as entertaining as it was. Though, it's been almost 15 years since I last watched it and I wonder if it would remain as entertaining and enjoyable now as it was in the 90's. A part of my brain tells me it wouldn't. Styalisticaly it is a product of its era, the time of 'big eyes little mouth'. I did enjoy this quirky romp though and it represents the style of absurdity from that time period...absurdity which also gave us Nuku Nuku and Golden Boy. This is where I also learned that Japans variant of America's 911 emergency call system is...119.
This was released pretty quickly in North America and a DVD variant was released in 2005. You may still be able to find copies of it but a quick search of YouTube provides you with the horrible ADV English dub...which goes to prove that dubbing in general in anime has gotten better, if only the production side of it.
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