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Tenshi ni Narumon! - Invisible Girl
by Luis Reyes  
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Overall: 8.0
Dispel and Silky leak into the narrative core of this series, promising a departure from the saccharine wackiness that prevails in the series at the moment. And a development with Natsumi surfaces to lend poetic weight to the show's premise. Director Nishikiori Hiroshi continues to dazzle with creativity and, though the story may sag a little, the pace, style and shape of the piece makes watching it more than worth it.

Story/Character Development: 8.0
Dispel, Silky, Natsumi and Sarah elbow out the rest of the cast, which hardly rises above increasingly more elaborate slapstick routines and playing into caricature.

Art/Animation: 9.0
Beautiful and fluid. The toy box design of the Tenshi world at once offers something new and ridicules anime standards of design. However, sometimes the designers become overzealous with their creation and allow the design to puff out over the story. However some of Hiroshi's sequences, such as a diving sequence in episode 6, evince some genuine inventiveness.

Acting/Translation: 7.0
Adequate job, the dub keeps pace with the first volume.

MPAA Equivalent: PG
Completely innocent except for the fact that Dispel and Silky have a disturbing, co-dependent relationship and Sarah pops up completely naked.

Format: VHS


X-Factors

Angel Genetics: 7.0
If Natsumi's brother is an angel, does that mean she's an angel as well. Or is angel just a state of mind like being white trash?

Voluminous Cheeks Factor: 0.0
It's rather fortunate that Noelle's cheeks are so expansive because she could hold so much in them.



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