Sci-fi "save the world" plots are always fun, but there are no real outstanding features to this one, discounting the brainpower it takes to make sense of the plot.

Logistical problems plague this story. Kusanagi poses the biggest problem with a motivation that changes without any apparent reason. Starting off wanting to kill Momiji so that he can be free from Aragami control, he inexplicably changes his mind and decides to protect her again … but still fight the Aragami … who have enslaved him?

The characters, all pulled from a bag of stock personalities, lack strong back stories to provide them with motivation and originality.

Plain color tones and tepidly shadowed surfaces cause the animation to remain flat throughout the film.

There are no blaring translation problems. Only the theme song and catch phrase for the episodes do not translate well. The lyrics are in English, but their juxtaposition does not make sense.

A frivolous extra five minute bit, called Omake Theater, is added after each volume of "Blue Seed." This tape's Omake Theater, "The Man Who Watches Kushinada," pokes fun at the men in "Blue Seed" by transforming Kusanagi and Kunakita into perverts. Ultimately, the silliness literally explodes as the women enter and blow them up with guns, exclaiming that this episode has nothing to do with the real story.

For sexual references and open depiction of sexual situations in Omake Theater's "The Man Who Watches Kushinada."

Killer plants were just waiting to be brought back. It has been too long since "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" and "Little Shop of Horrors."

The song advises to "take it easy dangerous night." Too bad, because there is always more action when dangerous nights move ahead at full steam.

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