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"The lighting itself is mine to command!"
This is incredible. I actually have to keep this tape in the
fridge to stop it from going off. It's cheesier than the room
next to the onion store in a crisp factory and was made to tie in
with a range of robot toys produced by Tomy (the Battle Skippers of
the title).
On their first day at Saint Ignacio's, an exclusive girl's school
run by a gaggle of harassed nuns, Saori & Shihoko meet bespectacled
modest genius Kanami and the three join the Etiquette club, which
is run by two seniors, Reika & Rie. The Etiquette club are the
miniscule rivals of the Debutante club, run by hyper -rich Sayaka,
who has built clubhouse larger than the school and commutes daily
from her orbital home by private space shuttle.
Unbeknownst to anyone (naturally) the Etiquette club are also a crime-fighting
team calling themselves the Exstars, who use their highly advanced
battle skippers to - er - battle against evil corporations. Like the
one Sayaka's family owns for example. The three newest members discover
this secret and join the fight.
The design is lovely, the animation reasonable, and whilst a couple
of the voice actors quite obviously can't be bothered with the cliched
script, the rest have the time of their lives hamming it up. Multiple
transformations, silly introductory dances... the most incredible
thing is that 
it's played straight.
Repeated viewing proves that this is not a Pretty Sammy, a send up
of the whole Sentai genre, but it more-or-less succeeds in being one
anyway. The only problem is that Kiseki released the first episode
(of three) and then went dormant. Hopefully they'll get round to releasing
the rest now they've woken up again, because this, despite the cheese,
has a huge
amount of charm.
7/10
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Cheesy team anime featuring leotard clad heroines? Giant combining
mechs? Dangaioh has the lot guv, and is yours if you can find it -
it may be out of print, but its one of the Ed's favourites!