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DearS - 1st Contact (Vol. 1) | 
 enlarge | Actor: Dear S First Contact
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Category: DVD
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 22462
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 160 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PLDD12505D
UPC: 013023250598
EAN: 0013023250598
ASIN: B0008191V0
Release Date: August 2, 2005
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Product Description
Studio: Geneon Entertainment Release Date: 08/02/2005
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Based on the manga by Peach Pit, the 2004 broadcast series DearS is a fan-service program in the tradition of Chobits and Steel Angel Kurumi. DearS, a race of voluptuous aliens whose spaceship crashed into Tokyo Bay, have become Japanese citizens. They're about to start living with ordinary families, when alien Ren appears and attaches herself to Takeya, a nerdy high school student. Ren declares that Takeya is her Master and she lives only to please him. Predictable contretemps ensue, with Ren failing to grasp the concept of wearing clothes and arousing the dark suspicions of Takeya's nosy neighbor Neneko. The appearance of DearS exchange student Miu and the arrival of the horribly cute cat-girl Nia, who's out to capture Ren, add to the complications, if not the fun. Virtually every joke and story element in DearS has been used many times before. (Rated 16 and older: nudity, risqué humor) --Charles Solomon
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 Sadly, one of the worst goddess type anime March 26, 2007
Kevin Ho
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The story is your typical loser guy meets goddess. The premise of the story starts out very exciting then it just became a very very shallow story about DearS being nothing but a bunch of boring alien slaves.
Takeya the main guy is so obnoxious he acts like he's 10 yrs old boy rather than a high school student. Many typical boy resists sexual temptation scenes and rejecting sexual advances from a hot girl. Not believable at all.
The story progression is quite boring and lacking of any serious plot.
It takes on a bit of flavor from Chobits, Urusei Yatsura, and other animes.
Definitely a rental.
 Oh my Dear!!!! July 8, 2006
Sephiroth (Riverside, AL USA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I haven't seen this yet but from what have heared i must say they shouldn't have named it dears they should have named it the perfect wives cause that's what they could be.
 Cute, but not very original April 28, 2006
Edward Swing (Laurel, MD USA)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Here we have a story where a teenage boy finds a beautiful female, who is mostly a blank slate. The girl therefore decides to live with and serve the boy, subjecting him to various awkward situations. Since the girl is also incredibly beautiful, sexual innuendos (and fan service) abound.
Chobits, er I mean Steel Angel Kurumi..., Elfen Lied..., no wait... DearS - that's it, is a tale where Takeya finds Ren, a DearS. The DearS are aliens, who apparently crashed on earth about a year before the series starts. The DearS are evidently bred/conditioned/engineered to be a slave race, though this isn't immediately obvious. The DearS are (of course) all incredibly beautiful, and have superhuman abilities.
The plot is pretty typical for this genre of anime. Ren joins Takeya at school (inciting classmates' jealosy), a rival DearS also shows up, Takeya's female childhood friend helps Takeya deal with Ren's naivety, etc. There's even a young catgirl DearS making a token appearance.
Ren spends most of the first disc without a good grasp of clothing, giving the show its chunk of (mostly teasing) Fan Service. One of the teachers is also overly fond of sexual innuendo, much to the annoyance of her students.
One of the few distinguishing traits of this series is that Takeya ISN'T attracted to Ren. In fact he finds her annoying, and suspects the DearS to be an alien invasion. Of course, most of the rest of the school treat Ren like a celebrity.
In short, the first disc is similar to quite a few other series out there. I haven't found a lot of original ideas in this series, and the characters seem recycled. I picked up the first disc, but I'll probably rent or wait for the boxed set to see the rest of the show.
 entertaining anime series with fan service October 21, 2005
eau (USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
An alien exchange student themed show in which a high school student Ikuhara Takeya met a girl from an alien species called DearS who crashed their spaceship in Tokyo Bay a year ago. This theme is the perfect setup for romance, comedy and fan service. You can tell it has tons of fan service just from the reversible cover of the DVD. Nevertheness, this show is quite entertaining.
The volume 1 of DearS is plagued with an authoring mistake - the English language track is mono. Geneon has set up an exchange program with the Right Stuff International Inc. You just have to send the defective disc in and they will replace it with a corrected one.
Aliens Exchange Students? September 6, 2005
Derik I. Bradford
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
DearS is a show that through me for a loop. I read the first chapter in a manga sampler, and the review for it made it sound like "Alien Nation". A spaceship of alien slaves crash lands on Earth and the country they landed in "Japan" adopts them in to their society. The country sets up an exchange program, where Families take care of these beautiful alien visitors as they go to school to learn more about our Planet. The aliens are given the name DearS, which means "beloved friend", and one high-school student Named Takeya ends up taking care of a girl named Rin. This story sounds innocent enough right. Wrong!
In the first episode we find out Takeya's teacher is a Nymph and more or less forces her students to read the Erotica she wrights out loud in class. She also acts inappropriately in class as they're reading. Rin, who arrived 1 year after the other DearS, has no understanding of anything. Our languages, our cultures, when and when not to wear clothing (Your not suppose to wear your school uniform in the Shower.) is naked in most of the show.
Whether you like shows like this or not, its got a certain charm in a "Girls Bravo" sort of way. I'd recommend this show to any "Girls Bravo" fans and not to Parents who want to buy their kids a Cartoon.
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