Rating: 
Summary: Esperaba mas epica, aunque es una hermosa historia
Review: Hola, acabo de ver ambos OVA's de Maetel Legend, definitivamente han querido unir los universos de Queen Millenia, Galaxy Express 999 y Queen Emeraldas, en este "play" juntando a las tres protagonistas y "resolviendo" un misterio hasta ahora escondido para todos los fans de Matsumoto, la relacion entre Maetel y Yayoi Yukino, y en menos relevancia la relacion entre Maetel y Emeraldas.
La idea esta bien planteada pero es inconsistente con algunos hechos que pasaron en las series originales.1er Hecho : Yayoi Yukino muere salvando la tierra.
2do Hecho : Emeraldas era terricola.
3er Hecho : La edad de Maetel (pues ella era clonada una y otra vez y segun Galaxy Express 999, su cuerpo original esta congelado en Pluton y cada vez q puede va y lo visita) Creo que la idea de comenzar de 0 no ha dejado a los fans con un sabor agridulce. En la nueva historia Maetel y Emeraldas son ahora hermanas gemelas y Yayoi su madre, la historia comienza al parecer a finales del siglo XXX, pues ambas son adolescentes, pero si comienza en el siglo XXX, Yayoi Yukino tiene mas de 1000 años???. Los nuevos dibujos no me gustaron, prefiero los dibujos de la pelicula Arcadia of my Youth que es superior en trama y argumento y eso que es de 1981, no deberion hacer este OVA de una manera tan light y pasando por alto muchos de los misterios que encerraban a estos personajes, para convertirlas en familia.
Rating:
Summary: Esperaba mas epica, aunque es una hermosa historia
Review: Hola, acabo de ver ambos OVA's de Maetel Legend, definitivamente han querido unir los universos de Queen Millenia, Galaxy Express 999 y Queen Emeraldas, en este "play" juntando a las tres protagonistas y "resolviendo" un misterio hasta ahora escondido para todos los fans de Matsumoto, la relacion entre Maetel y Yayoi Yukino, y en menos relevancia la relacion entre Maetel y Emeraldas.
La idea esta bien planteada pero es inconsistente con algunos hechos que pasaron en las series originales. 1er Hecho : Yayoi Yukino muere salvando la tierra.
2do Hecho : Emeraldas era terricola.
3er Hecho : La edad de Maetel (pues ella era clonada una y otra vez y segun Galaxy Express 999, su cuerpo original esta congelado en Pluton y cada vez q puede va y lo visita) Creo que la idea de comenzar de 0 no ha dejado a los fans con un sabor agridulce. En la nueva historia Maetel y Emeraldas son ahora hermanas gemelas y Yayoi su madre, la historia comienza al parecer a finales del siglo XXX, pues ambas son adolescentes, pero si comienza en el siglo XXX, Yayoi Yukino tiene mas de 1000 años???. Los nuevos dibujos no me gustaron, prefiero los dibujos de la pelicula Arcadia of my Youth que es superior en trama y argumento y eso que es de 1981, no deberion hacer este OVA de una manera tan light y pasando por alto muchos de los misterios que encerraban a estos personajes, para convertirlas en familia.
Rating: 
Summary: The origins of the Matsumotoverse
Review: I saw "Maetel Legend" on a region 2 DVD, and I am happy to see it's US release. Matsumoto Leiji is one of the greats of Japanese animation, and it is nice to see more of his work appearing in the US. (Aside from Star Blazers, of course!) Matsumoto fills his universe with deep and mysterious characters, none more mysterious than Maetel. This 2-part series tells the origin of Maetel, the pirate queen Emeraldas, and the strange machine world from which they come. The planet La Metale drifts slowly towards a permanent ice age. Queen Promescium, along with her advisor Hard Gear, pushes the planet towards a solution that will guaranty immortality. She orders all the population to submit to the process of fully mechanizing the planet. Maetel and Emeraldas resist. Hard Gear and his new mechanized army decide that it is not there choice. Drama ensues. It is hard to see "Maetel Legend" as a stand alone. It really is a prequel to "Galaxy Express 999" which is currently unavailable. It does introduce some of the characters who appear in "Harlock Saga" and "Queen Emeraldas" and works well on that level. An unfortunate draw back is the unnecessary combination of computer animation with cel animation. This is clearly a director that wants to embrace the new technology but doesn't really know how. All of Matsumoto's recent releases have this failing. All in all, I enjoyed "Maetel Legend" enough to buy it. It is not the greatest of Matsumoto's work (That would be "Galaxy Express 999" or "Arcadia of my Youth") but it is good enough.
Rating: 
Summary: DISGUSTING
Review: If you are the "GE 999" fan (I am) - your impression about the Matsumoto's universe will be poisoned.
No important mysteries are revealed. And what's revealed - doesn't fit the original GE 999 story (or simply made me sick)! It seemed to me that all characters have been americanised. Yes, Maetel and Emeraldas are shown as regular american-like teens. (even without turning the english speech on :) The film is dull, the only emotional scene of Queen Millenia loosing her humanity is shown maaany times the same way and so on... The author had nothing to tell us. Verdict: it's not for general audience (2 boring), even not for schoolgirls (violence). And of course, it's not for fans (I tell U!). Suitable for those of Matsumoto's fans who are tired of life - this will give them strenght to commit the suicide.
Rating:
Summary: The origins of the Matsumotoverse
Review: Matsumoto fills his universe with deep and mysterious characters, none more mysterious than Maetel. This 2-part series tells the origin of Maetel, the pirate queen Emeraldas, and the strange machine world from which they come. The planet La Metale drifts slowly towards a permanent ice age. Queen Promescium, along with her advisor Hard Gear, pushes the planet towards a solution that will guaranty immortality. She orders all the population to submit to the process of fully mechanizing the planet. Maetel and Emeraldas resist. Hard Gear and his new mechanized army decide that it is not there choice. Drama ensues. It is hard to see "Maetel Legend" as a stand alone. It really is a prequel to "Galaxy Express 999" which is currently unavailable. It does introduce some of the characters who appear in "Harlock Saga" and "Queen Emeraldas" and works well on that level. An unfortunate draw back is the unnecessary combination of computer animation with cel animation. This is clearly a director that wants to embrace the new technology but doesn't really know how. All of Matsumoto's recent releases have this failing. It is also a bit hard to see Maetel and Emeraldes looking so...cute. Cute is one thing Matsumoto doesn't do very well. Beautiful, sure, but cute... All in all, I enjoyed "Maetel Legend" enough to buy it. It is not the greatest of Matsumoto's work (That would be "Galaxy Express 999" or "Arcadia of my Youth") but it is good enough.
Rating:
Summary: great ! ..... well,almost
Review: This 2-episode OVA is actually the beginning chapter to 3 of Leji Matsumoto's creations: GALAXY EXPRESS 999, QUEEN EMERALDAS, and 1000 YEAR QUEEN(which some old anime TV watchers might remember as CAPTAIN HARLOCK AND THE QUEEN OF 1000 YEARS from 1985). We see a younger Maetel and her sister Emeraldas who live on a planet residing on the other part of the sun, slightly parallel to Earth. They are the princesses of this world called La Matelle. Their mother, the queen, has undegone the mechanization process which all the people on their planet are going over as La Matelle is slowing dying out due to inexposure from the sub causing it to become a icy wasteland. Maetel and Emeraldas fight to stop this, but their mother ultimately succumbs to her machine half, and now sets forth to turn all humanioids into machines as part of the Mechanical Empire. Emeraldas and Maetel escape on the Galaxy Express 999 which is a spacebound train that goes to all planets in the universe. This leads into several of the other "Lejiverse" titles like CAPTAIN HARLOCK and HARLOCK SAGA. As far as comparing MAETEL LEGEND to some of the other Lejiverse titles that have come out in the last few years like DNA SIGHTS 999.9, the animation is very tame, and the story drags on at least 30 minutes longer than it needed to. The whole thing could have been wrapped up in one single 60 minute episode as their are alot of flashbacks and scenes with reused footage. But if your a big fan of Harlock, Emeraldas, and the other Matsumoto anime titles, you should see this one in order to know the beginning of it all.
Rating:
Summary: only for Matsumoto/Galaxy Express 999 fans
Review: This DVD is a really nice transfer, where the animation is very sharp and crisp. However, for a casual anime fan, this is a rather slow moving story. If you're a fan of the Galaxy Express 999 or Captain Harlock, you'll enjoy this tale about Maetel and Emeraldas as teenagers, which is really two 45-minute OAVs put together on this DVD. Somewhat barebones DVD, just some character profiles, some brief notes on Leiji Matsumoto, a hokey trivia game, and some trailers to other CPM titles. Unless you're a die-hard Matsumoto fan, I'd recommend renting this before buying it.
Rating: 
Summary: Companion
Review: This is a good companion to the Harlock Saga and the Galaxy Express 999 series. The story is typical Matsumoto fare but its a fun series to get into even as short as it is. Its for fans of Matsumoto.
Rating:
Summary: great ! ..... well,almost
Review: this movie is basically an introduction to the anime hit Galaxy Express999.its a nice movie unfortunetley,it was made many years after GE999 which makes it pointless to watch now.
Thats all i can say
Rating:
Summary: Must know Galaxy Express 999 and the other
Review: This would be great story to solve all mysteries of Leiji's
charactors, however it is not good film for who watch Leiji's work first time. Less beauty in drawing and poor script.
Honestly I was little disappointed. Still, for Leiji fan, this is one of must to have item :)
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