Introduction
During Japan's Taisho Era (1912-1926), a scientist named Ayanokoji developed the Steel Angel - an artificial humanoid with superhuman physical abilities. While the Imperial Army wanted to use the Steel Angel as a new means of modern warfare, Ayanokoji wanted his creation to be a new step in the future of mankind. Thus, he defied orders from the Army and secretly made the Steel Angel codenamed "Kurumi". Then one day, a young boy named Nakahito Kagura snuck into Ayanokoji's house as a dare by his friends and stumbled upon Kurumi's lifeless body. A sudden attack by the Imperial Army shook the house, causing Kurumi to fall on Nakahito. At that moment, their lips met, and Kurumi woke up from "the kiss that started a miracle".
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
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TheCompletionist
Who knew that one simple kiss could bring so much action, affection and chaos in a little man’s life.
This simple premise is a great way of summing up an anime by the name of Steel Angel Kurumi.
Steel angel Kurumi focuses on the story of Nakahito, a young mystic with dormant powers who ends up breaking into a home on a dare from some of his friends and during his adventuring in this abandoned home he comes across an idle Kurumi who accidentally falls over him during a small quake and their lips accidentally meet which activates Kurumi’s maiden heart and Nakahito’s life changes forever when he finds out Kurumi will only obey the person who awakened her with a kiss much to the dismay of Kurumi’s creator, Dr. AyanoKoji
The Japanese imperial army wants to use the steel angels for their ow…
Read at the sourcesomaisbatman
Steel Angel Kurumi is a show I expected to absolutely hate, having watched only because I lost a bet. Now that I'm done with it, I've got some very mixed feelings about the thing.
Story: 5/10
The story is pretty nonsensical and loose. In short, a prepubescent boy accidentally kisses a robot girl, and he travels around with a scientist and some other robot girls on a quest to do...something? It's all very unclear. There's also some secret science/military group out to get them. None of this is particularly exciting or done well. After the show takes itself too seriously for the last few episodes, the ending is a total cop-out.
Art: 5/10
This show is from the turn of the century and also pretty low-budget, and it shows. The backgrounds are bland, the characters look uninspired, and the ani…
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"Everyone here on MAL says how they are going to stop the spread of Moe, they are going to return anime to the GAR days! Let's be honest, you aint gonna do a God Damn thing! However, I'll tell you exactly what I'M going to do. I'm going to buy more Moe and give Japanese studios more of my money. Get the FUCK outta my way its MOE TIME MOTHERFUCKERS!" -average anime fan.
Now that I'm done blatantly ripping off movie quotes, it's time to look at one of the popular late 1990s titles that helped usher in the era of Echii Moe shows! This is Steel Angel Kurumi!
What are all the things that anime critics hate the most? I think the prime candidates would be: Echii anime with pointless nudity, Moe art style, bland male MCs that get hot chicks for no reason, catering to random fetishes, and forced…
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The series was good, but all the melodramatic sleepy whispering that the characters did when they were being dramatic really annoyed me. Up until the last four or five episodes it wasn't so bad and the show was really energetic, but those last four episodes the show seemed to take on a completely different atmosphere. The main boy character became so passively melodramatic that I nearly stopped watching, then to suddenly become overly romantic with the steel angel out of nowhere. It simply didn't fit with the rest of what lead up to that point.
Up until those last four or five episodes I might have given the series an "8" or a "9", but the severe shift in the show brought it down to about a "6".
I just really wish they didn't use that freaking passively sleepy whispering for the melodram…
Read at the sourceVelocityWaffles
I enjoyed this anime for the most part, I don't care if the artwork wasn't that good, what I liked in this anime was the humor and sexual mishaps the main character found himself in. Whats so funny is the main character Nakahito must be only 11 years old and he wakes up this steel angel (who just so happens to be hot) and she adores him and loves him and he doesn't know what to do since he hasn't hit puberty yet. Throughout the series he is dragged along by her as she protects him, tries to get him to kiss her, beats up anyone who comes between them, and usually ends up being a clutz. The pont is if you want to watch an anime where you can just wish you where the main character then you've got it right here, the plot is ok, it advances, but you can tell humor is the main objective here, st…
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I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by Steel Angel Kurumi. Oh, don't get me wrong, it's not a good show by far but it has a real sense of fun around it that still managed to entertain me even after all these years.
The art is bright and colourful, but the designs were what I'd call typically anime. Though I must admit that the costumes for each of the Angels was quite distinct and memorable. The animation was not so hot. Most of it was acceptable, but the fight scenes (where it really counted) were often animated very cheaply. A punch or kick was often done with a still, and a succession of punches was done with repeated cells much of the time. The fights overall were rather poorly choreographed overall, which made them actually rather dull. I was always waiting for the fighting to…
Read at the sourceNaughtyCalibur
A demure, down on his luck character mysteriously activates a beautiful female cyborg and she becomes his faithful servant, but not without a few dark secrets for excess baggage. Sound familiar? I wouldn't doubt it. But is Steel Angel Kurumi just like all of the other robot maid comedies out there? Not quite. You see, Steel Angel Kurumi is actually a story about time travel, and the Steel Angels are much more than just super strong, super fast, super ditsy house maids--they're the only ones who can save the world from mass destruction. This interesting plot arc doesn't come until later in the series, and is probably meant to be some kind of huge story twist, but it's not too shocking if you're able to put 2 and 2 together. Hmm, let's see'it's the Taisho Era and there are super advanced fem…
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