All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku

This zany, over-the-top OAV from 1992 set a pattern for numerous anime properties. Elementary school student Ryunosuke is unhappy about his parents' divorce. His father is a nutty inventor, his mother is the president of Mishima Heavy Industries, and their quarrels achieve levels of destruction that eclipse
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i0 . Ryu's father creates Nuku Nuku by transplanting the brain of a kitten into the body of his NK 1124 android, producing a well-intentioned but dangerously maladroit supergirl. Although Nuku Nuku tries hard to please everyone, she doesn't demean herself, the way the title character does in
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i0 . At one point, Ryu wants his parents to live together, so Nuku Nuku sets up a little fake apartment for them--in one room of the vast Mishima mansion. The six episodes are all slapstick and silliness, but curiously endearing. (Rated 12 and older: brief nudity and risqu'e9 humor, cartoon violence, tobacco use)
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upc: 0702727006128
title: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
theatricalDate: 06-01-2000
stars: Jason Konopisos
Kira Vincent-Davis
Chad Townsend
Chris Patton
Kaytha Coker
Vic Mignogna
Ken Wiatrek
Michael Hale (IV)
Dorothea Exis
Stanley Thomas (II)
Allison Keith
Jessica Boone
Cynthia Martinez (II)
Chris Hawley
David Williams (VI)
Megumi Hayashibara
Akira Kamiya
Brett Weaver
Oye Gowboo
Matt Williams
purchase date: 09-11-2004
publisher: Adv Films
published: 11-02-2003
price: $29.98
net Rating: 4.5
MPAA Rating: NR
minutes: 150
last lookup time: 187947376
genre: ADV Films
fullTitle: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
features: Animated
Color
NTSC
1.33:1
director: Yoshio Ishida
currentValue: $10.97
created: 121720760
country: us
aspect: DVD
asin: B00007JZO3