A cheesecake-filled fantasy-adventure, The Ambition of Oda Nobuna takes its cues from the real-life long-running video game franchise Nobunaga's Ambition, centering on historic contests for power in feudal Japan. Yoshiharu Sagara, your average horny teen male game player, mysteriously falls into the game's Sengoku-era universe, with one crucial difference: the formidable, formerly male protagonists in the rising Oda clan entourage are now super-cute female warriors. With his insider game moxie—as well as his enthusiasm for serving a bunch of nubile, if ferocious, hotties—the lad is brought along as the women's lackey, advisor, diplomat, and willing pawn in the quest to make calculated personal and political alliances while subduing rival warlords en route to conquering the shogunate in Kyoto. Along the way, Yoshiharu occasionally gets to grope a breast. While this saga sometimes feels like a rambunctious mélange of mock-Japanese history, sword-and-sorcery intrigue, battlefield spectacle, bushido drama, and competitive cookery (?!), at other times it's all blades and cleavage. YA-oriented collections should be aware of scattered profanity and coy sensuality. Presenting all 12 episodes from 2012 in separate dual-language DVD and Blu-ray editions, rated TV-14, this is a strong optional purchase. (C. Cassady)
The Ambition of Oda Nobuna: Complete Collection
(2012) 300 min. DVD: 3 discs, $59.98; Blu-ray: 2 discs, $69.98. Sentai Filmworks (avail. from most distributors). Volume 30, Issue 2
The Ambition of Oda Nobuna: Complete Collection
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