Vandread - Great Expectations (Vol. 3)
As the pirate shipNirvanavisits different worlds, this sci-fi comedy-adventure begins to resemble a mixture ofCrest of the StarsandStar Trek, with the robot 7-Zark-7 fromBattle of the Planetsthrown in. The crew meets Rabat and his ape sidekick on a deserted space station: he introduces the women of theNirvanato cosmetics, beats up Hibiki, and then departs in "Impossible." The people of the water world of Anpathos worship a mysterious "harvester ship" apparently intent on devouring them--until Hibiki and Jura create a crablike mecha to destroy it. A Christmas party--a holiday unknown to Hibiki, Bart, and Duero--coincides with a visit to an ice comet in "White Love."Vandreadoffers some so-so computer-animated space battles, plenty of cleavage shots, and some broad comic moments, but these elements never gel into a coherent story. Rated 13 Up: Violence, risqué humor.--Charles Solomon