- Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language: English, Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Sma Distribution
- Release Date: Nov 11 2003
- Run Time: 100 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00009Y3VH
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #62,047 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Product Description
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Najica Hiragi, the heroine of this 2001 broadcast series, is a world-famous perfumer--and a top-flight secret agent who fights assassins, kidnappers, and androids. Although she already has a battery of Batman/Honey West-style gadgets, Najica gets the ultimate mechanical device in the second episode: Lila, an android "Humaritt." Lila is extraordinarily powerful, but childish naive, like Chi in Chobits. However, she learns fast and is soon dispatching villains at Najica's side. Their sci-fi adventures are flimsy at best, but they include lots of "fan service" visuals. Whether the characters are fighting a gun battle, lying unconscious, driving a car, walking through a door, or clobbering someone with a karate chop, director Katsuhiko Nishijima frames the shot to reveal their panties and/or cleavage. Hormonal adolescents are the only audience likely to find Najica entertaining. (Rated 17 and older: violence, nudity, alcohol use, sexual situations, including suggested lesbianism) --Charles Solomon
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Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
Sexy and Very Exciting!!
April 1 2004
Format:DVD
NBT is a like James Bond, only there's a really sexy female instead of an English man. Najica is a super spy for the government when she's not working as the President of the most successful perfume company in the world. The animation is very sexy with gorgeous females in skimpy clothing in every scene and the action scenes are magnificant. This is a very ecchi anime with each episode like a rollercoaster ride. Najica's humanoid partner Lila is much like the character Chii from Chobits: ignorant at the beginning of the series, but she goes through a lot of character development until the end. This anime is pure eye candy. It's not meant to be a philisophical anime like Evangelion or .hack//sign. Instead, it's much like Cowboy Bebop in that Najica must find and retrieve a line of missing humanoids who are usually causing trouble in the world.
Bottom line: This anime will keep you VERY happy for a few hours!!
James Bond if he was a girl?
Mar 5 2004
Format:DVD
First off, this is good work. The art is good, the voices selected for the English subtitles are all veterans, and the action is cool. I love the sci-fi setting of Earth in the future, with androids (called Humaritts), orbiting space weapons that have been around for 30 years and cities sinking into the sea. Yet, while this might sound like a dark future there is no sign of social decay or crowds of homeless people living on the street. Sure, there are terrorists and criminals, but there is also beauty and perfume!
The idea that secret agent Najica Hiragi is a perfumier by day seems almost original and really added to the humor. A cosmetic empire as a front! Sure, maybe they took a lot from James Bond or Noir, and maybe there is A LOT of fan service. So what? It if funny, sexy and I enjoyed it.
The DVD's extras are nice too. Previews, of course, as well as sketches and commentary for one of the episodes by the two main female voice actresses.
At 100 minutes, with only four episodes, I would suggest getting it new or used. It's that good.
PS - There seems to be nothing going on between the two main female characters, sorry. I know what it looks like on the first DVD's cover, but that's just to hook you too.
The idea that secret agent Najica Hiragi is a perfumier by day seems almost original and really added to the humor. A cosmetic empire as a front! Sure, maybe they took a lot from James Bond or Noir, and maybe there is A LOT of fan service. So what? It if funny, sexy and I enjoyed it.
The DVD's extras are nice too. Previews, of course, as well as sketches and commentary for one of the episodes by the two main female voice actresses.
At 100 minutes, with only four episodes, I would suggest getting it new or used. It's that good.
PS - There seems to be nothing going on between the two main female characters, sorry. I know what it looks like on the first DVD's cover, but that's just to hook you too.
Anime's Definitive James Bond
Oct 9 2003
Format:DVD
Ok I have to admit it. This is fun. Najica is full of action and excitement, and the characters grow on you. Like other reviews have said, this isn't high-art. It's an action flick, with literally so many gratuitous underwear shots it is almost comical. We're talking 1 a minute here during the slow parts...
But silly fanservice underwear shots aside, there are hours of enjoyable James-Bond style action here. And this series has all the style, panache and glitz of any Bond film you will ever find.
So, if you feel like watching a female agent and her cyborg teammate fire an RPG from the hood of a sleek red car at the evil agent's oil-slick-producing mercedes this is the DVD for you. You can do better, sure, but check it out this agent has explosives hidden in her earrings....
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