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Summary: FABULOUS
Review: What can be said about such a good Anime besides what I just said? The artwork is AMAZING, the characters have beautiful personalities, and it was amazingly gripping.Definitely something for Evangelion fans especially, but not just that. Ranma fans, Rayearth fans, Tenchi fans, it's all good! Everyone will love this!
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Summary: I THINK IT WAS THE MOST ******* MOVE EVER MADE!
Review: I GAVE THE MOVE FIVE STARS BEACAUS OF THE GREAT ACTION AND STORY
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Summary: Wonderful story, great animation, great voice overs
Review: The story is complex enough to keep you watching instead of just another "guys with guns shooting each other" movie. The characters switch from bad guy to good guy constantly so it will keep you guessing until the end. Also, the voice overs suitted the characters in almost all instances, which is great since I hate subtitles.
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Summary: An All-Time Great for Anime Viewers!!!
Review: i saw this movie on tv a while back, and it was on during a weekly broadcasting of anime movies.... this movie tops my lists up there with the big ones: Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Venus Wars, Vamp. Hunter D..... so if it's that good, ya gotta see it! TRUST me, it's SWEET!
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Summary: Animation is fantastic , A great action movie , A must see !
Review: Iv'e seen this movie at least 5 times and it never loses interest
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Summary: Gren...why?!
Review: Well this is a pretty good anime. Characters I rate a 10+ (Gren made it go up by 3 points) plot is 10 and overall I rate 10+ (Gren made it go up by 1+ *hehe*) this is something I just had to have. END
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Summary: Overview
Review: One of the best Japanime movies ever created, Iria :Zeiram the Animation is about a female bounty hunter apprenticed to her beloved brother, Gren. While on a mission with Gren's boss, Bob, they incounter an indestructable monster called Zeiram. The monster was under study to harness its power and create a weapon of mass destruction. Zeiram breaks free and goes around assimilating people to stay alive. Bob and Iria barely escape, but Zeiram assimilates Gren. Iria vows to kill the murderer of Gren and does so with the help of Kay, Fujikoro, and Bob, who had been trapped in a computer when his human body died. A great set of movies and one you should see. END
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Summary: recommended
Review: perfect 10. aliens, monsters, weapons, a young bounty hunter girl, and the song is cool.
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Summary: Great story, beautiful animation, but not much else there
Review: As I implied in my title, Iria - Zeiram has a great plot and good animation, however the action scenes, which were many, weren't all that good, especially considering the animation media. This isn't an Akira, but it isn't a Metropolis, either, there is enough excitement to keep you on the edge of your seat, but it isn't all that exciting, unlike the superb action scenes in Akira.
I don't know if this is the same DVD set I have, but if it is, here is a warning. This appears to have been done as a six part series, made for TV. Each episode had opening credits, closing credits, and a preview of the next episode. This works fine if you're going to be spreading your show over a number of weeks in a TV format, but the DVD I have decided to leave everything in. This means that you have to pick up the remote every 25 min or so and skip ahead past the pointless repetative credits and previews.
The movie concerns the adventures of young Iria, the apprentice bounty hunter, who follows her brother, Gren, on a mission to save the passangers and cargo of a space freighter taken hostage. When they arrive on the ship, they find that the hostage taker is, in fact, the cargo, an alien monster called Zeiram. There are many stories surrounding Zeiram, most describing him as an unkillable butcher. This takes you to the end of the first episode, beyond which the series picks up speed and propels you to the let down of an ending.
The set is a bit expensive, but for anime enthusiasts, it's worth the money.
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Summary: Hungering for Some Action?
Review: I could be mistaken, but I think I've found the holy grail of anime sci-fi action. But what makes for a good sci-fi action show? In my experience, it a combination of a likable character, excellent fight choreography, a sweet soundtrack, cool weapons and gadgets, atmosphere, and action, action, action.
First of all, this OVA has some of the slickest presentation I've ever seen in an anime. The opening, the closing, the music, the way the shots are composed...10 out of 10. The animation and artwork are also absolutely top-notch. Looking at the backgrounds in this show made me think of some of the awesome concept art we sometimes see in the opening or closing of a show but almost never in the actual show. How to describe the style? It's a bit like the very best art in Outlaw Star, but kicked up a notch. Everything has a kind of oriental/Star Wars Episode IV style to it (from people wearing old battle armor with cloaks over them to cities and transportation that looks like it's made of stuff found in a futuristic junk-yard).
As far as characters go, the main one in this show is mighty cool. Iria wears ceramic-looking body armor, carries a cool looking gun, and has more gadgets for fighting than you can shake a light-saber at. Of course if you are into sci-fi gadgetry there are also the speeder-type transports that can jump into hyper-space, personal energy shields, and the holographic fighting simulators (and we're just getting started). Cool stuff.
The fights in this show are great. Some people might get tired of seeing our hero fight the same villain for hours, but personally I loved it. The fights just get more and more intense, as the horrible creature called Zeiram simply refuses to die. During her fights with the monster, Iria will do all kinds of martial-arts moves, fire weapons until they run out of ammo and grab another one only to keep blasting, dodging, running, and doing all kinds acrobatics. Very slick.
Of course Iria herself is also an extremely likable person, and as we slowly learn more and more about her and how she came to be a hunter we come to care about her more and more. Iria may be tough-as-nails, and cool-as-ice, but in the end she's still a girl with a little bit of growing up to do, and she's not out to prove anything or hurt anyone, just to destroy the monster that threatens to kill everyone it comes close to. Iria is now officially one of my favorite anime heroes.
Really, the pacing of this anime is fantastic. It starts out at fast, and the tension just keeps building until by the end of the final episode we just know that either Iria or the monster is going to die. The desperation in the battle is palpable, and the viewer is on the edge of their seat. I love this anime. If you like action, you probably will too.
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