Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragon - Collection 2 (2015/Sentai Filmworks Blu-ray)

Picture: A Sound: B+ Extras: B Episodes: B+

Angelise was fallen princess. Stripped of her rank and her nobility, she was forced to fight on the front lines as a slave soldier as a Para-mail Rider. However, it is only on the frontlines does Ange learn the truth, how unfair the world is where the elite thrive on the weak. She discovers the Empire continues their 'rule'/'peaceful' existence by secretly enslaving humans and dragons forcing them to hunt and harvest dragon hearts power their kingdom in Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragon - Collection 2 (2015).

Ange was once a princess, but then she became a slave, then the pilot of Villkiss, a powerful dimensional Para-mail mecha. She is forced to fight and die on the frontlines against the mysterious dragons that attack their kingdom. Ange encounters Embryo and discovers that both mankind and dragon has been controlled and manipulated by him. Embryo not only controls military power, but is also able to brain wash other people's mind through pain and their ultimate fantasies. Time and time again, Ange is both humiliated and humbled by the girls of the para-mail squadron and by the dragon girls as she now fights along side those she once considered beneath her and her enemies.

This was a fan-serviced filled anime, filled with girls, action and mecha. In the end, it is about how the greatest enemy isn't from outside but from within. That pride, jealousy, greed and envy can turn the purest of hearts into evil, worthy of the debut season.

The 1080p 1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image transfers on each episode is once again, spectacular and at the top of the list of Sentai's best Blu-ray releases to date, while the DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 2.0 lossless Stereo with Pro Logic-like surrounds is good in its English version, but yet again that much better in its Japanese version. Extras include clean opening and closing animations, Cross Ange Talk Show, Music Videos, Japanese Commercials, and trailers.

Episodes this time are....

Arzenal Burns - As Arzenal comes under attack, Ange fights on Villkiss the mysterious Embryo appears.

Ange and Tusk - Ange and Tusk gets transported 500 years in the future.

Another Earth - Ange discovers the dragons are humans from the future/parallel dimension.

Resonating Front Lines - Ange and Salamandine compete in free-for-all sports competition.

Dark Angel of Destruction - The Dragons launch a counter attack, but instead found them ambushed.

Conclusive Ocean - Ange is reunited with the survivors of Arzenal, but will they forge an alliance with the Dragons?

The Tuner of Time - Ange gets caught by Embryo and gets tempted by his fantasy world.

God's Proposal - Ange learns Embryo plans to merge both worlds and become God, but only after he destroys everything to remake the world.

The Survivors - Ange makes her break to escape ...just as her rescuers come to save her and all hell breaks loose.

Necessary - As both sides lick their wounds, Ange finds herself on the island where she met Tusk.

Distorting World - The final battle begins as an all out assault begins on the Empire.

Eve of Destruction - The countdown to the end of the world has begun, will Ange and her friends be able to stop it in time?

Beyond Time - Ange and company must defeat Embryo one final time in his last pocket dimension.

- Ricky Chiang