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Summary: Somebody please kill the American voice actors!
Review: A wonderful adaptation of the original manga. The animation, music and the English translation make this a worthwhile buy... unfortunately the change in the character names, animation and voice actors in the latest part are quite a let down. It's also a shame that it's unfinished. Still, this DVD set is worth buying just for the initial parts produced by Manga Entertainment UK.
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Summary: Somebody please kill the American voice actors!
Review: A wonderful adaptation of the original manga. The animation, music and the English translation make this a worthwhile buy... unfortunately the change in the character names, animation and voice actors in the latest part are quite a let down. It's also a shame that it's unfinished. Still, this DVD set is worth buying just for the initial parts produced by Manga Entertainment UK.
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Summary: I loved this series.
Review: Actually there are more than 4 episodes to the story. I think there are 2-4 more. I don't think they were ever released in the United States though because this series wasn't that popular over here. The voice acting is pretty good though and I love the song at the end too.
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Summary: Ending hanging, very disappointing.
Review: Fortunately I rented this title, I didn't buy it. The ending was left hanging after the return of Androgoras in Disc B. What happened next is left to your own imagination. Is there a third disc? Or did the writers just felt tired of the story and gave up?
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Summary: Another epic without ending
Review: Heroic Legend of Arslan is one of my favarite story. I read the books several times and I even bought a DVD player this Christmas just to view this anime. Overall, it's well made anime. The production did a great job on putting the original story into anime. BUT, why,why, US Manga skipped the last part. The real ending! If you don't know the original story, the anime itself looks loose, ill-plotted.
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Summary: This was really great!
Review: I came across this movie by accident on the internet and boy am I glad! I really loved this movie. The story line had me glued to my seat! The charactors were well thought out and presented. Arslan the Prince who must gather a army to free his kingdom of the religious , bloodthirsty Lusitanians. Others are gathered together to fight to save their land some old friends some new.The only thing that went wrong was the name changing and the legitimacy of his crown plot was completely disregared in the later part of the stories. There are even websites about this movie that I found informative. I think this is a good movie to watch in fact I think I'll just go and watch it again!
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Summary: Z z z z z z z z
Review: I could only make it to the beginning of Part 3 before I fell asleep. I really *wanted* to like Heroic Legend of Arslan, but it just didn't do it for me. The animation is very simple, there's little or no character development, and nothing important or exciting ever really seems to happen. I *did* like the Persian look to the whole thing, and some of the music was pleasant enough. I'm sure Arslan will be entertaining enough for some people, but I was pretty well bored by the end of Part One.
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Summary: Mixed feelings.
Review: I had wanted to see The Heroic Legend of Prince Arislan/Arslan for a long time after seeing the trailers. The animation is simply presented (often the backgrounds are simplified or non-existant) while still beautiful. The character design is lovely, although admittedly they lack any serious depth -- probably because the cast is so large. The sudden decisions to change not only the spelling of all proper nouns but all of the voice casting for the last parts were tragic and pointless ones. The American voice cast stinks in comparison to the British casting of earlier parts. As a classic and enjoyable piece of anime, it's still worth having, but be wary of a disappointing finale for the reasons above, and lack of closure.
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Summary: Beware of Problem !!!
Review: I just wanted to mention that there could be a little problem to get beyond chapter 5.4. There seems to be a problem with this DVD that renders a complete VOB file (1gig) unusable for any DVD-Player (any I have seen so far). But I managed to view it anyway (ever heard of dod-speedripper... illegal, but working).FOR DUMMIES : 1/4 of the 2nd DVD is unreadable.... I hope that the producer has discovered this mistake. And now for the Movie : It's really worth buying, a great epic adventure with a little fantasy.
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Summary: Parts missing?
Review: I remember renting this movie years ago from my local video store. I recently rented the two disc DVD set from Netflix and I am a little confused...
The first disc is as I remember it, but once I got to the second disc I only saw half what was originally released and than a longer "episode" that I had never seen before and did not fit in to the story thus far. According to the very first episode of "Arlsan" His father the king DIED in prison of an illness shortly after his talk with Silvermask / Hermes.. Yet in the last part of Arslan, he is alive and well and comes back to take back his kingdom.
I don't understand how they could make such a horrible mistake in the story. Also there is a part missing, in *I THINK* part three there is a scene where silvermask meets a Blind princess on the road, there is some sort of back sotry with them, that never gets explained... but thats not the only part where we see the princess, I CLEARLY remember at least a 5-10 minute scene that goes in to more detail with the blind princess where she meets up with Arlsan and his people. There is a whole episode missing that was VERY good that belongs between the last two episodes.. its BEFORE they changed the actors for the voice overs and BEFORE they started changing the characters names.. In fact if I remember correctly the character of Gieve( changed to gebo(sp)) left in the "Missing" episode to explore and get away from the rules,etc. But in the last episode on these discs he is gone, with no explaination, where we find him confronting silvermask/hermes, with no explaination and than returning to Arlsan.
I know that was confusing, but I hope it showed just what I think abiout this set, I am VERY disappointed that an entire episode is missing, one that a fan would enjoy and that was with the original voice cast and names. I am also very dissapointed that what seems to be the last epsiode in this series does not follow what every other episode in the series has told us.. you CAN NOT just revive a character that has died and have him take over the country!
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