Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesJapanese: 機動天使エンジェリックレイヤー English: Battle Doll Angelic Layer German: Angelic Layer French: Angelic Layer More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 26 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Apr 1, 2001 to Sep 23, 2001 Premiered: Spring 2001 Broadcast: Sundays at 17:20 (JST) Producers: Dentsu, TV Tokyo Music Licensors: ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks Studios: Bones Source: Manga Genres: Award Winning, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi Theme: Strategy Game Demographic: Shounen Duration: 24 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 7.261 (scored by 29,536 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #29992 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #2960 Members: 60,253 Favorites: 311 Available AtResourcesStreaming PlatformsMay be unavailable in your region. |
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Dec 13, 2008 Retro8bit Recommended If I were to describe this anime in one sentence, it would be: "Pokemon with Battle Dolls!" Story: 6/10 Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 4, 2009 vavoysh Mixed Feelings Title: Angelic Layer Plot Summary: Suzuhara Misaki moves to Tokyo city in order to attend school and for a hope that she will see her mother, who left 7 years previous to work in Tokyo. After exiting the station, she sees on a big screen two people fighting. However, these are not people - rather they are Angels, which are dolls controlled by a Deus. These dolls are custom made, and they fight in Angelic Layer, which is the name of the sport. She is told all this by the scientist Icchan, who walked up to her and started telling her this ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 11, 2009 Dorcas_Aurelia Recommended CLAMP decides to take the standard shonen fighting tournament setup and retools it into a series for girls. Partly it does this by making the tournament a fighter between customizable dolls, and making most of the competitors young females. Like most tournament shows, the themes of doing your best and friendship pervade the experience. A doll used in the Angelic Fights is usually treated by her (or rarely, his) owner (deus) as though it were a dear friend, with concerned cries going out when they are injured. Unlike most competition shows, however, Angelic Layer isn't treated as the be-all-end-all of life. Characters who take it ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 2, 2009 Kittypride16 Recommended In my view, Angelic Layer is an anime that is often overlooked by most anime viewers in the community. I feel bad for it because is it actually a very nice and peaceful show. If you are looking for gore and darkness it is definately not for you. However if you are looking for something that is light and funny, without a buttload of romance this is perfect. Although it my seem childish at first within the first 4 episodes you will be hooked. In Angelic Layer, the girl connects with her feelings and with her past through these dolls which she controls.I not only ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 30, 2019 TakaCode Mixed Feelings I have a strong soft spot for kid tournament anime. Ever since I was a kid intrigued, watching kid tournament anime thanks to it's flashy fights base on set project as well seeing set strong fighter fight set strong fighter in a match. Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 12, 2021 ironsakura32 Recommended Story: A young girls moves to Tokyo to live with her aunt, and on the way gets involved in a new sport that is gripping the nation. This journey chronicles her journey through this new world that she has discovered. I personally enjoyed the story, especially the ending. Animation: Animation is nice. To me the style fits what this anime is supposed to be. Sound: The music is nice, I enjoy both the opening and closing themes. The Japanese voice acting is done very well. I have not heard the dub, so i can't say ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 12, 2009 sakurakiss5 Recommended To tell you the truth, I was skeptical of this anime when I first started watching it. I found it from an anime mix AMV I saw on Youtube. I think that "battle" animes are usually boring and repetitive, but Angelic Layer wasn't. It had in depth fighting for every battle, and no two fights were the same. It also had a very nice twist at the end which was really cute! The characters were really thought out, too. Athough Misaki was the typical cute main character, I think that Tamayo was a really good character. And Icchan's personality was great. =) Read more Open Gift Report
May 21, 2008 anon8599 Recommended I saw this anime recently, and I must say the story was alright, but It's kind of boring if the main character always wins, and you know who will win as soon as fight starts. I'm not going to bother writing what this anime is about since you can read that in the summary at the top of this page. The art was alright, CLAMP is well-known, and has "ok" art in my opinion, its not the best out there, but not bad. Also, this show is NOT widescreen, so that kind of disappointed me a little, but that doesn't really have ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 31, 2009 Koolag1 Recommended The story line is simply sublime although I would of expected Misaki Suzuhara to be more annoyed with her mum at the end but this would have been an expected reaction. I like the idea of using medical research to create a game to gains fund and improve the technology this story line alone makes this worth it. However at the end I wanted to know did Misaki mother diced to marry Ichiro? I don't think any good Anime collection should be without this show, maybe I just like the stuff the guys & girls at Bones put out. If you have not seen this ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 5, 2015 CabernetRose Recommended I'd have to say that it's a good thing I force myself to finish anime, even if I am clearly not enjoying it in the beginning. Personally, I felt the first 10-15 episodes were very hard to watch - mostly because the three recurring girls were the characters I found most annoying. And sure, I ended up sympathising with two of them, but that didn't make them any less annoying at the end. I greatly enjoyed the other characters, however. Perhaps the three girls are good enough characters that they evoke an emotion in me - annoyance? Maybe. Who knows. I also felt that they ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 23, 2009 Y0DNA91 Recommended Angelic Layer: When it first started out, the story gets you hooked with dolls battling one another in an in-zone layer. i thought that was pretty cool and the fight scenes were well done resembling the same styles used in cardcaptor sakura. as the series went on, the anticipation started getting me impatient and later on too long of a wait, only referring to battle scenes. and the entrance to the layer took up some time, much of like the sailor scouts transforming or using their powers. i would've liked to see the story develop deeper in some way. the episodes with all the waits and pauses ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 23, 2014 Kotori_Sonoda Recommended Angelic Layer was one of the anime I watched growing up. I enjoyed the series. The battles were fun to watch and definitely enjoyable. The rivals all have some kind of special ability which makes every fight unique. However the damage is not consistent, sometimes a punch or kick takes out half the life bar, and other times it does barely a scratch (sometimes I think they should have gotten rid ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 22, 2009 kemikoaka Recommended The anime, Angelic Layer, isn't recognized very often. Among us otakus and maybe the older audience may be able to recognize it. The story is very lighthearted and predictable at moments but its cute to watch if you want to watch something similar to yugioh but with girls and fighting dolls. It is not filled with too much romance but it does have some shoujo elements put to it and, if this encourages you even more, the anime is a CLAMP work which makes it almost automatically good. Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 1, 2010 Vivisection Mixed Feelings I guess really what this series is trying to spell out, is that anyone - no matter what gender, race, physical appearance or disability - can achieve what they want, when you can put your mind to it. STORY: What was mentioned above applies to everyone. It's brilliant to come across an anime series that has morals and such within it (and/or role model characters), that can be used in our everyday life. Apart from that the storyline is fairly bland. This has a tournament theme to it, so expect something along the lines of Pokemon and Beyblade. Also expect predictability. I think we can all ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 13, 2009 Solivonyx Mixed Feelings Angelic Layer is an anime for a younger crowd, with enough in it to keep the little ones happy, but not enough to be satisfactory to those that have become adults. Story 4/10 Aside from a brilliant setup, the plot of Angelic Layer is a failure. The concept is plausible, clever and very interesting in theory. The delivery however, left me extremely disappointed. The main emotion wrench in this anime is caused by such a stupid reason, I felt scorn and disbelief when i was supposed to be happy and cornily crying. I really don't mind corny moments that make sense, but to have a corny ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 13, 2009 MajorTom Recommended This is a pretty decent show, having a coherent plot and interesting (yet still mostly stereotypical) characters. There are some scenes that are very sappy, but being a show aimed squarely at girls this is somewhat forgivable. Yet I was saying 'stop trying to make me cry, dammit, it's not that tragic! (sniff)' at several points. Yeah, I'm a big softie. The show manages to meld a couple sub plots involving the supporting cast that not only get good treatment, but are resolved in a satisfactory manner as well. On the supporting cast, outside of a couple minor characters whose only purpose is to further Misaki, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 19, 2011 SuperSamos Mixed Feelings Preliminary (21/26 eps) [I dropped this show when i figured that no new rivals and angels will appear. Tell me if there's anything really entertaining after 21 ep.] This show was sort of entertaining, especially in its second half, after they modyfied the battle arena. In supokon-like animes like this one of the most interesting points is meeting new rivals with amazing skills and cool look; and also watching the protagonist become more and more skillful. So, here we get all of it. Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 8, 2009 Aeroku Recommended I first found pictures from CLAMP's anime Angelic Layer when looking for random anime angel pictures, and right from the start it was hard to resist the concept of the angels. I couldn't help but think from episode one, where Misaki gets an Angel, that I would kill to get one myself. The costume designs, particularly of her doll Hikaru and that of the others she fights, are really appealing. It'd be so cool to get an angel make it look however you want, then fight on the layer. The plot of the anime is relatively good, although it mainly follows Misaki's fighting progress. ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 26, 2012 SakuraHughes Recommended Angelic Layer is created by CLAMP, which is pretty well known and I have seen, Card Captor Sakura, Chobits, Magic Knight Rayearth and Tsubasa Chronicles, so I guess I'm pretty much used to their work. After watching those animes, the romance here lacked extremely. The first anime I watched, CCS, I was so in love with it for years. And the romance was amazing, compared to this - - the ending pretty much sucked. Unless your a fan for family reunions - which im not - you'll love it. Story: 8/10 Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 12, 2023 PixelB Not Recommended Preliminary (6/26 eps) Angelic Layer has a decent premise but ultimately fails to do anything with it. I'm all for battle anime about a sport where you control essentially, an avatar. The problem is the lack of any description of any fights. For a battle show, good fights make or break it since that is the only focus of the show. Yet, despite this focus on fights, the fights do not seem very exciting. While the show tries to create a sense of tension in the air when fighting, there are not enough descriptors, monologues, or commentary on the fights. Since it is a show about fighting, you would ... Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
