In spite of being the fetishized lead of an overloaded story ending on a cliffhanger, Miss Noguchi – the paragon of self-reliance – is one of the most intriguing heroines on this list.Ī few more girls with (heavy) guns come with Mamoru Oshii’s self-reflexive and delightfully silly annex to the acclaimed SF-drama “Avalon”. Following the radiation incident involving her daddy, Monaka’s double life becomes even more complicated and dangerous, as she has to deal with a real monster from the ISS. Now and then, she lies on the school roof and watches the sky, thinking about her father Orudo who works on the International Space Station and sends her cool birthday presents, such as a bracelet made of rocks from Mars.īeing motherless, she has to stay at her uncle’s house, but doesn’t want him “to keep paying for her living expenses and tuition”, so she accepts a part-time job as a waitress in a shady diner-bar.īut, that’s not all – after hours, she turns into a ruthless pro-assassin-vigilante called “Angel of Death”, because her calling card is a flurry of white feathers. Bound by revenge and guided by maternal instincts, she defies gravity and changes her hair and clothes’ colors according to her mood and/or situation, on the thorny road to final victory.ĭuring the day, Monaka Noguchi (voiced by Marina Inoue) is a nerdy and clumsy schoolgirl, doing her best to get excellent grades, listening to some squeaky J-pop and chatting about boys with her friends. The victimized-and-misanthropic-tough-girl cover is blown with the appearance of a special boy, Six (Cameron Bright), who reignites her desire for a family which she lost to the disease. As luck would have it, she converts with only a mild sensitivity to light and, after the escape from a forced life of a guinea pig, turns into a seemingly coldblooded operative of the resistance movement. Its main character, Violet Song Jat Shariff, is a former subject of degrading experiments and one of the insurgent “hemophages” – the humans infected by a virus which causes vampire-like symptoms. Beginning with “My name is…” as that other guilty pleasure also starring Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil), “Ultraviolet” is hated by many critics and viewers alike, but it does hold a special place in some hearts, as this very entry proves.Ĭombining anime, comic book, video game and music video aesthetics, it introduces several fictional rule-of-cool technologies and concepts, from fake language to dimensional compression, and presents an advanced version of Gun Kata from Kurt Wimmer’s previous film “Equilibrium”.
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