The animation is of highest quality, and really does equal the manga in detail and style. And it's in glorious color. The characters are all so cool! Keichii is such a decent guy, Belldandy is truly a goddess, Urd oozes sex appeal, Skuld is innocently funny, and you even feel sorry for the "bad" guys. This is really a feel-good movie. Everybody cares about each other and love is a real big theme. I love it. It's my only Anime movie DVD, actually - because it deserves to be bought and watched on DVD. Don't dare watch it with worse quality than VHS. I mean it. You'll lose too much.
And I'm unfamiliar of the Japanese concept of Heaven, but this show mixes witchcraft, magic, Norse mythology, computer technology and the tradtional Christian belief of Angels. It's never explained why/how each "goddess" has an Angel alter-ego growing out of her back. However, the concept of a technologically driven Heaven is rather interesting (it looks like the White Room from Matrix Reloaded). But this movie is also loaded with a lot of Star Trek Voyager type technobabble. "The LMT is down to 12%!!!"The last third of the movie is where the real action is and it's stunning to watch -- a real end-of-the-world battle. Action fans should skip ahead or risk being bored to tears. But I found the romance to be trite, teenage, and treacly.
