Catgirl Nuku Nuku VHS-Video

Wild and frenetic battle of the sexes that is obviously meant for a male audience, but stays light enough for the ladies too. Now, I know there are some inherently sexist messages strewn throughout this show, but I honestly can't bring myself to care. Nuku-Nuku is a delight, another spin on the usual Hayashibara innocent-sex-kitten-on-steroids role as the guardian of the little boy in the the center of his parents' grandiose custody battle. His smothering businesswoman mother and her henchgirls have a particular fondness for using heavy artillery to prove their points. His scientist father, and Nuku-Nuku's beloved creator, is the wiser of the two parents, and prefers to undermine his ex-wife's schemes on the defensive.

The story works because we realize that the feuding couple really do love each other. Both just have to grow up enough live with each other first. And though the mother is generally shown to be in the wrong, the father could certainly use a push in the right direction too. This isn't dwelt on very heavily in the show, as this is a comedy after all, and the focus often strays to kitty-brained Nuku-Nuku's cheerfully destructive adventures as she deals with a combustive rival, a waitressing job, and other tangents. Animation is dynamic and detailed, about what we'd expect from an OAV. No real ending, but is followed by a reputedly vastly inferior TV series and two other OAVs.