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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Geneon [Pioneer]
Salesrank: 70200
Released: November 12, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The slam-bang conclusion of this comedy-adventure pits Shiro against the Dark Gatekeeper, whom he knows as his classmate Kageyama. A psychic who was tormented as a child, Kageyama has grown powerful enough to enslave Invader leaders Baron Akuma and Kaiser Kikai. During the climactic mecha confrontation (which takes place, inevitably, at Tokyo Tower), Kageyama reveals that the Invaders are not aliens but biological experiments that feed on human greed: the increasingly materialistic society of postwar Japan has provided them with the ideal breeding ground. When the Invaders seize AEGIS headquarters, Shiro is the only organization officer free, and his team of teenage psychics rallies around him. He defeats Kageyama before the "Gate of Massacre" is completed and frees Ruriko with some help from the mysterious Yukino, the psychic of the snows, and his late father's inventions. (Rated 13 and older: violence, mild profanity, occasional risqué humor) --Charles Solomon
Gate Keepers - For Tomorrow (Vol. 8) Reviews:
Disappointing End to an Otherwise Enjoyable Story 
2009-08-29 - Firstoff, let me say that I came into Gate Keepers in the wrong way - by first seeing and loving its OAV sequel, GateKeepers 21. Therefore I had certain hopes and expectations for this, the original TV series. Since this final volume retains its likeable cast and excellent overall production values, I felt compelled to give it at least a four-star rating on those merits alone; but its lack of real closure and especially glaring inconsistences with its sequel, set thirty years in the future ( hence the "21" in the title, refering to the new century ), left me cold and unsatisfied.
The three episodes here move swiftly enough to closure - maybe a little too much so for the vastness of the problem to be resolved - with few if any real surprises in plot or character. Reiji Kageyama's background as the main villian of the piece is finally explored adequately; but his eventual end is somewhat muddled and obscure. Fittingly, the Shun - Reiko - Kaoru triangle is also resolved, in a manner apparantly satisfactory to all. Possibly the greatest treat is finally getting to see if the lunkheaded Bancho really possesses the Gate power Shun thinks he does! It all wraps up about as you would expect, but leaving untold almost ALL of the real details behind the invaders; relying on a very few generalizations about their "true" nature that does little or nothing to truly solve the problem. You would think that was so they could continue the story in GateKeepers 21 - but you would largely be wrong!
*SPOILER ALERT!*
Though not really a part of the review of this volume, I'd like to mention the most obvious inconsistinces between the way things stand at its end and the beginning of the sequel. In the 21st Century, the by-now very reduced Japanese Defence Forces of A.E.G.I.S. are LED by the very SAME Reiji Kageyama - how did THIS happen?? ( I at LEAST thought we'd get a glimmer of change or remorse from him in the course of Gate Keepers - but NO! ) The protagonist, a girl who calls herself Ayane Isuzu, is actually the daughter of Shun and ??? ( Quite apparantly NOT Reiko! ) She has inherited his "Ultra Cyclone Chop" as well as an unexplained hate for HIM that he felt for HIS father; but nothing of Reiko's Gate abilities. Physically and emotionally she most resembles Megumi of the original team, making for fascinating speculation regarding the eventual outcome of Megumi's resentment of and "rivalry" with Reiko. At least the invaders are actually explaned and developed perhaps more fully than in the original. Maybe somewhere there exists a manga that explains all this and bridges these formidable gaps!
good stuff 
2004-11-13 - What a wonderful conclusion to this great anime. I feel that the ending was very stereotypical of anime but not too much so. The dialogue is tastful and there is the slightest bit of fan service at the end that wraps everything up. I was slightly disapointed that the ending didn't do a little more with Megumi, but i let it pass when Rurriko and Shun finally let each other know how they felt. It also doesn't do a good job of setting up GK21 but ill get over it. All in all its a great dvd with good action and everything a good anime should have.
