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Summary: First class Entertainment
Review: When I first bought this DVD, I had high hopes for it. And it met them. Aside from viewing the movie in 5.1 English or 2.0 Japanese, there is also commentary with the directors in Japanese with English subtitles. Seeing the commentary really helped me understand certain scenes like with Shiro and that girl. The DVD aslo contains a promotional short for the film (which is kinda like a promo for Space Oddessy), a deleted scene (which is just a scene where Shiro and a friend of his sit together on a car talking) and a musical conceptual art video. Theres also Manga previews, blah, blah. One of the neat things about this DVD is that inside the case is a little reading on the directors and how the movie was made. Can you believe it took 800 million yen to make the movie? And I couldn't believe it took over 3000 artists to help animate it. The only down fall is that this 2 hour movie only has 10 chapter stops. Even Princess Mononoke had more than that. But still, Honneamise is a great film. I'd recommend it for adults and teens since there are some mature themes in it. A must-have for any anime fan or anyone who likes films. I'll close by quoting Roger Ebert's statement on the film."A visual sensational 2 hour extravaganza"
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Summary: Worse than a VHS
Review: This DVD is a scandal. One of the greatest anime ever made, and Manga gives us one of the poorest video transfer ever on DVD. The edge enhancement is visible to the point of being grotesque, the picture is unstable and not even soft but blurry. I'll spare you the details on the print defects, which are, to say the least, numerous. Even the LD was better. You'd be all well inspired to boycott this DVD and buy the Japanese edition instead. I'll think thrice from now before I buy any title from Manga.
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Summary: Epic Adventure
Review: This movie is about a planet parallel to our own in a sense. This is the reason why the film is so great. The world has so many intricate details that are only slightly different from our own. If you look at their telphones, cars, planes. The film suggests that we could have had manned space flight before jet engines in planes. All of these intricate details make this a wonderful world to watch by itself but with the story intertwined with all of this eyecandy you can't help but love this film. The story is not the greatest product I have ever seen in my life, but it is uses a decent character to use as a vehicle throught the film. The main character is someone who you can empathize with. The other characters in this film are also interesting enough but all together you have an epic film. I can tell you one thing, there will never be a non-animated film with as much detail to a parrallel world and the small differences.
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Summary: Absolutely Great !
Review: Wings of Honeamise is an awesome movie. Video quality is of course important but seriously the visuals of the DVD aren't all that bad, you can still watch and enjoy this movie. The picture is kind of blurry and fuzzy if you choose to notice it, and the screen flickers at times... I'll just say this, this movie I would watch through a telescope at 3 miles with no audio what so ever, except the music. The world portrayed in the movie is so authentic... it's like a mixture of 40's and 60's war planes with a touch of the nineties ( yeah it's 2001 now but it still feels like the nineties :P ) I can't fully explain it so I'll just let you decide. If you are not as mad a fan as me don't buy this version if you have any doubts (wait for a re-release if there ever is one) but if you absolutely adore this movie, get it now, it is very watchable :) It could have been a better transfer to DVD but it's not as bad as said by previous reviewers.
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Summary: Breath taking
Review: The great climax of the film is the end. If you watch this for anything, do it for the ending. It is sheerly, breath taking. I sat at the edge of my seat waiting, watching, listening. A wonderful and awesome experience. The spiritual journey of Shiro is helped along by the loveable and 'head in the clouds' Riqunni, who challenges him to take control of his life and study their world's holy writings amidst the growing fame and publicity of the Royal Space Force. Amid the rag tag band of scientists and soldiers is an underlying intrigue of political and national underhandedness, plotting counter to the welfare of the RSF and their country. Let me sum by simply telling you rent this, buy it. I cannot guarantee you'll love it but I hope you could at least appreciate it for the splendid visuals and story and character interaction and the quieting, poignant ending. A wonderful movie, beautiful and awesome in execution. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Great film, horrid transfer
Review: As far as I can tell, the main problem with this DVD is that they generated it from a VIDEO master, instead of film. Everything the other reviewers said about motion artifacts is true. When anything moves, raster lines appear. I have the Laser Disc and it is fantastic. Truly fantastic. Even VHS copies look better than this DVD. I'm going to talk to the vendor because Amazon shouldn't have to eat this dog.
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Summary: Oh, my...something is wrong
Review: I am a relative newcomer to DVDs, but of the two dozen or so that I've seen (both animated and normal movies). This is the only DVD that has made me sit straight up and say out loud, "Something is wrong." The video transfer is terrible and it is very noticeable whenever anything moves. Maybe it has to do with the age of the film (the animation is about 15 years old), but the videotape version is superior in terms of quality picture. The sound is average and the extras are nice, but watching the film itself is unpleasant and it's hard to visually sift through the distortion.
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Summary: exellent film but very bad DVD
Review: "This DVD is broke. I can live with the fact that Manga had a bad master, but the fact that this DVD was authored out-of-spec really bothers me. This is a VERY amateur mistake and can be relatively easily corrected. Let me say this a little more clearly -- "THIS DISC IS DEFECTIVE." It is just as defective as the missing subs in BGC or the out-of-phase audio problem with the Slayers box set. Sure, there are some setups out there that will mask the problem (ie: HDTVs won't introduce the ghosting issues because the image doesn't have to be resized) but the simple fact remains that this disc should probably be recalled, remastered and reissued."....
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Summary: Poor, no TERRIBLE DVD (ps. great film)
Review: This is another great film sent screaming completely down the drain hole thanks to the fellas (and lasses, of course) at Manga Entertainment. One would think that after their 'attempts' at encoding the two Patlabor movies, things would improve, but...*sigh* Unless you happen to have STATE-of-the-art video correction equipment (and even that won't help in most cases here), you're going to be left with picture compression artifacts and an awful lot of scan lines... I don't just refer to occasional compression blotches you see on most anime DVDs or artifacts you spot when viewing frame-by-frame BUT ENTIRE SEQUENCES where the animation is composed of just portions of shimmering scanlines. Just to round it off, the dreaded layer change is back(!). NOW, I know Manga is on less than a portion of the budget of major Hollywood studios and I can (almost) forgive the fact they haven't obtained the best source material (which, by the way, I think was from laserdisc. LD source! For a DVD!?), but these are problems which could have been fixed by L-O-O-K-I-N-G at the encoded footage before mastering. ARE THEY THAT BLIND THAT THEY CANNOT SEE THEIR MISTAKES (sorry, I'm venting my anger at Manga), especially giving the time they take to release their discs. This is most certainly the worst DVD to have come from Manga. Considering they have the rights to Evangelion Movie and X (two movies equally as excellent was WoH), I must say I'm not looking forward. FRANKLY, i'm annoyed (#*##@#* to be more accurate). DO NOT BUY this DVD and complain to Manga.
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Summary: Two years of delay for THIS ?
Review: Honneamise no Tsubasa is a superb show in itself. Sadly, you have to be aware that this DVD doesn't give it justice at all. The commentary track is a great addition, but the anamorphic transfert is *so bad* compared to the Japanese release (not to mention the lack of the new Japanese DD 5.1 track) that it's a shame from Manga to have made us waiting for two years and gratified us with such a poor video output. Boycott this until they put some new effort into it !
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