ANGELIC LAYER

Released in 2001 as an anime TV series with 26 series and a manga from 1999 to 2001 with 5 volumes.

The series was created by CLAMP the same group that created a number of anime series which i have seen and will be watching, some of them are Magic Knight Rayearth, Magic Knight Rayearth OVA, XXX Holic, Card Captor Sakura series, X, Tsubasa Chronicles.

So this series will also feature characters who has similar features in appearances and attitudes just like the main doll Hikaru who looks like Hikaru Shidou one of the main girls in MKR series.

Before the time of the Gundam Build series which includes Gunpla Builders Beginning G, Gunpla Build Fighters, Gunpla Build Fighters Try and the current Gunpla Build Divers. This series came out with a similar idea although this one use dolls which enters a battle field similar to the plavsky particle battle field. But the fighters toss their dolls in the field as shown in the intro above. Unlike in the Gunpla Builders and Gunpla Build Divers the players place the gunpla on a platform and the system scans the gunpla to create a VR version while in the Gunpla Build Fighters and Try series the gunpla are made to move with an energy called the plavsky particles.

Here in Angelic Layer the dolls move with a technology which I cannot recall if it was ever explained except that the players wear a goggles and their brain waves are being transmitted into the doll via the battle field and they move by use of the players will to move their bodies.

I got hooked on watching this series since during that time I was still looking for an anime that triggers my interest which later ends up to "it all depends on the story if it interests me as well as the fanservice so it depends". Also another reason why i got hooked with this series was because it was made by CLAMP.

This series is also similar to another older anime titled Super Doll Licca which also has dolls which moves by magic and oh yeah the dolls grow from doll size to human size too. I will also review this later on.

Back to Angelic Layer, the series centers on a young girl named Misaki Suzuhara who later got hooked in playing Angelic Layer after seeing a live broadcast of a match which she at first thought were real women fighting until two kids told Misaki that the ones fighting are just dolls and the real women were controlling the dolls.

Misaki was later dragged by a weird guy and persuaded to start to get into Angelic Layer and she ends up spending her money including her supposed train money to get to her aunt's place where she will be staying since her mother is somewhere in Tokyo working.

The series is really great from start to end considering that the series seems to actually target young female audience but it also caught my attentions.

The series entirety is one of the best i have watched ever since i started getting hooked to anime and i would recommend this to anyone asking which anime they could watch.

So I won't be spoiling this article for the sake of those I would be recommending this and for those who will be watching this later on.

Highly recommended for any anime viewers.

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