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Summary: A quality tale of sword & sorcery
Review: This is a tale of a young deposed ruler's quest to regain his rightful crown by collecting a rebel army to oppose the evil warlords and wizard who betrayed his father. OK, that's not original, but this is well-executed. The animation is well done in distinctive colors that give it a special beauty, especially the almost pure pastels of the city and palace. Several memoralable characters enliven the tale with crisp dialog and distinctive personalities.The movie sequel, not quite as good, and a direct to video (OVA) followup story are (at this writing) not available on DVD, only VHS.
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Summary: REALLY, really good!
Review: This is definately movie quality. Excellent plot and cool characters. Definate development of the characters, unlike some anime. Engrossing story! Quality translation of dialogue!
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Summary: outstanding
Review: This is one of the few (very few) story that keeps you drawn into the story. most of the time I get bored with videos/DVD by the four watch, but this is just like a book you can't put down.
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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: This movie starts out awesome, and definetly resembles Record of Lodoss. Great Story, great characters, but the ending was so disappointing that I asked for my money back. If you love a good ending this movie is not for you. Rent it if you can.
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Summary: Anime itself is incomplete unless you read original story
Review: To fully understand the anime version, you gotta read original story. However, as far as I know, there is no English translation of the story; I read Japanese original, because I have Japanese proficiency. Original novel is one of my favorites, but anime isn't.
The anime version is very(and way too much) summarized version of original story(which hasn't been concluded yet; damn, it took 8 years for release of 10th volume from 9th volume), and the anime was ceased halfway of original story.
(Comment to reviewer below: Arslan's father King didn't die at the point. Fade-out doesn't always mean death of character.)
Anime itself is featured by beautiful arts and musics, but storyline is a bit perfunctory to appeal to those who haven't read original.
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