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“Three-part OAV where schoolgirls pilot mecha "Battle Skippers" to fight rival club's evil schemes, based on Tomy toy line.”
Battle Skipper
美少女遊撃隊バトルスキッパー
5.44
13,191 rank · 3,040 viewers · 1 favorites
Comedy
Sci-Fi
Mecha
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Synopsis
Three-part OAV where schoolgirls pilot mecha "Battle Skippers" to fight rival club's evil schemes, based on Tomy toy line.
Despite the title, this is not a feature but the three-part OAV Battle Skipper (1995), which Takashi Watanabe directed before going on to Slayers. When the members of the Etiquette Club at St. Ignacio's School for Girls go down the tubes--literally--they acquire the skimpy outfits they wear to pilot the unfortunately named BSs or Battle Skippers, state-of-the-art military mecha. As "Extars," the Etiquette Club members fight to eliminate evil from the world, which means the bizarre schemes of Sayaka, the nasty, super-rich president of the rival Debutante Club, and her flunky, Todo. The series was created to promote a line of robot toys from Tomy, and viewers who are willing to accept high school girls' quarrels escalating into battles involving satellite weaponry may enjoy these silly adventures. (Source: AniDB)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 4 sampled reviews
4.3
/10
What 4 viewers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 4
mode 4
σ 0.43
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.43 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.25
Running avg · Jul 2010 → Oct 2019
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 4 “The art captures a solid 90s aesthetic, and the soundtrack provides decent, mood-setting tunes that make the experience worth an hour and a half of my time. However, the story is essentially...”
- 4 “The art and music are decent, and the second episode offers some genuinely exciting action sequences. However, the show suffers from shallow, unrealistic characters, a generic corporate war plot,...”
- 5 “While the music is tolerable and the characters possess minor quirks, there is little else to appreciate in this series. The experience is marred by a lack of original plot, poor production values,...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 25%
Long · 50%
Watch Order & Related
A self-contained story.
No sequels, spin-offs or alternate tellings — Battle Skipper begins and ends here.
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- Format 3 × 27′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 21m all episodes
- Aired Aug 1995 – Dec 1995
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-1387 catalog
Produced by
- Tokyo Kids Producer
- Victor Entertainment Producer
Licensed by
- Central Park Media Licensor