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Angel Tales is a variation on the popular formula of multiple magical babes pursuing an unlikely nerd. In this case, the nerd is Goro Mutsumi. As a mysterious fortune teller discerns, he’s never had a girlfriend, has no job, and is two months behind on the rent. “The Goddess” dispatches multiple guardian angels to break his string of bad luck, all of whom are the spirits of pets he once owned: Kurumi (hamster), Ran (parakeet), Tsubasa (goldfish), Tamami (cat), Mika (rabbit), Nana (dog), Akane (fox), and Ayumi (turtle). (Goro apparently kept a small menagerie as a boy.) In their eagerness to repay his former kindness, the angels squabble over who gets to protect him. Goro’s luck doesn’t change, and a mysterious gray-haired man with supernatural powers begins stalking him. This featherweight comedy will appeal primarily to adolescent girls. (Rated 13 and older: minor risque humor and cartoon violence) –Charles Solomon