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bronia
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Super Gals!!!! Oh my gosh, did I and do I ever love that show! I don't know if I'm up to rewatching it, but Aya was always my favourite. <3 I remember running home from school so I could watch a few episodes before I started homework. I just really liked that show, one of the few 52 episode shows that held my attention to the end and made me sad to see it end.
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EricJ2
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Shibuya-mallrat culture was a big thing in 90's J-culture at the time--the idea of Ran doing all her thinking on the Hachi statue was iconic and heretical at the same time--but so many of the stories centered around teen-girl PSA lessons of Ran keeping her friends out of one of the many pitfalls to being a 90's Tokyo schoolgirl (remember, paid Kogal-ing can lead to trouble!) had some fans calling it "the Shibuya 'Fat Albert'." Still, a fun watch back in the early DVD days, and one of the better girl-theme OP's to take your brain hostage before Lucky Star came along. 
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wmderemer
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I always liked Aya the best, too! *high-fives* And I got into the show due to Ep 1 being released on a Newtype USA disc, and I will admit I love the dub...partly because Ran (in the first thing I ever heard Luci Christian in) loves to call people dumbasses when appropriate, and I like the No-BS attitude that showed... [and yes, I admit to loving the much-derided, profanity-filled Stephen Foster directed dub of Steel Angel Kurumi, too...] Speaking of the dub, I thought Kim Prause did an awesome job as Aya in one of her relatively few anime credits, and I wish I could get her autogtraph on my season 1, volume 1 DVD cover to go along with Luci "Ran" Christian, Chris "Rei" Patton & Greg "2nd Place" Ayers... |
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CCTakato
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I always wanted to watch Super Gals back in the day ever since I first saw a trailer for it on the uncut ADV Sailor Moon DVD boxsets but I never got around to checking it out. I wish it was available streaming somewhere which would make it easier to watch. This seems like the type of show Crunchyroll would love to have.
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MarshalBanana
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Why in the world did they go with the title of Super Gals! It sounds like the title of a trashy OVA you would see in the mid 90s.Gokudo looks like an enjoyable show, I wish it would of gotten a UK release.
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Touma
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Because these gals are super, and "GALS" by itself seems rather dull and unattractive to me. I originally liked Super GALS! enough to buy all of the singles of the first season as Right Stuf released them. I think that I eventually watched the whole season three times, and some of the early episodes six or seven times. I then bought the collection for the second season. I watched all of it but the lack of a dub killed my enthusiasm for the show and I have never watched any of it again. Even to me it seems ridiculous to not watch the first season again because the second season is not dubbed, but that is how I feel. |
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Fronzel
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The original manga is, in fact, called just "GALS!" If it needs to be said, "gal" denotes the Japanese youth-culture phenomenon gyaru rather than just slang for a teenage girl or young woman. |
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Tenchi
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I suppose the inspiration is 1990s, and the GALS! manga did start right at the end of 1998, but, just to be pedantic, the Super GALS! anime itself is from 2001-2002.
I enjoyed it overall but it does have a real jump-the-shark moment with the episode with Mami Honda's robot guard dog. I'm a fan of many shows' much-maligned filler episodes (with classic Sailor Moon, most of my favourite episodes were filler episodes) but that particular episode was a bit too filler-tastic even for my tastes, a moment roughly on par with that scene in Marmalade Boy where Yuu Matsura wrestled the horse.
The full Japanese title of the anime is Chou GALS! Kotobuki Ran, which translates to Super GALS! Ran Kotobuki. I suppose it was chosen to distinguish itself as the manga's title, just plain GALS!, was kind of generic. |
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John Thacker
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Their business model is "at a lower price, we wouldn't sell enough extra discs to make more profit than at our current prices; we would especially lose money for our corporate parent to reverse importation. We license our shows widely to all sorts of streaming services (note that Aniplex shows were always on both Crunchy and Funi, as well as elsewhere) so there's lots of exposure and opportunity to see it." It seems to work for them. |
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myfairx
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Oh this brings back memories. I actually catch up Super Gals quite late, only after encountering Gals Circle dorama (which silliness comparable to Super Gals!). However I still listen to the OP and ED song.. very very catchy OP and equally good ED.
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TsukasaElkKite
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You can rip Netflix DVDs?! How?! |
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Zalis116
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TsukasaElkKite
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Point taken. |
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