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Rating: 
Summary: Reasonable Casual Entertainment
Review: *** THE WEATHERING CONTINENT: Reasonable Casual Entertainment* In the swords-and-sorcery adventure THE WEATHERING CONTINENT, we meet a
group of three wanderers: the mercenary Bois, an easy-going scarred warrior
of few words; the mage Tieh, an elegant creature of indeterminate sex; and
Lakushi, a boyish girl who has left her dying town and is trying to find
her way in the outer world. That outer world is an inhospitable place,
a land that was once great and prosperous but has now become an
increasingly lifeless desert. The story is straightforward: the three
find a city of the dead and become involved in a fight with bandits who
wish to plunder it. THE WEATHERING CONTINENT is a watchable piece, with good (if not impressive)
production values, a reasonably entertaining (if not particularly memorable)
script, and engaging heroes. I found it fair casual entertainment, which was
all I was looking for, and an anime fan should find it at least as
entertaining, though I would hesitate to recommend it to any non-anime fan
unless they were simply interested in sampling a fairly representative piece
of anime. I would add that this item is only about an hour long, but that's
OK since the plot really wouldn't have supported a much longer item.
Rating: 
Summary: Too Short and Overpriced
Review: O.k. I gotta admit, I stupidly bought this from another company without comparing details first at Amazon, if I'd done so I would've saved myself {money}... this movie was listed as 125 minutes and not the correct 60 minutes as listed here. Secondly, this DVD is overpriced for what you get. There's been a trend by anime distributors in the U.S. of late to try and release titles with less and less content, one example being Utena. This practice should be discouraged by boycotting. I wont buy anything that runs for less than 100 minutes unless its of top quality (ie. Steel Angel Kurumi). Anyway down to business. The actual title runs for 54 minutes and 40 seconds, not the 60 minutes listed on the cover. Extras are almost non existent, you get:
The original Japanese trailer (45 seconds)
The original Japanese closing (3 minutes)
Trailers for 4 Media Blasters titles: 12 Kingdoms (this looks great!), Samurai Deeper Kyo, YS 2 and Iria.
The actual DVD cover is one of the best I've seen, that's what made me buy it after reading the advertising blurb.
The transfer is of average quality with quite a bit of grain. Not too bad considering its age I guess. The brightness is set wayyyyyy too high, I had to set my setting to 12 out of 100 on my Sony TV. The story itself is quite interesting but way too short, 3 adventurers, a warrior, priest and rogue, become trapped in Azec Sistra, the City of the Dead on the island of Atlantis. Those who enter are cursed never to return. Maybe this was meant to be a pilot movie at one stage ? The original copyright is listed as 1992. The dubbed English closing has some sort of Celtic music while the longer Japanese ending has a woman singing to Japanese (?) music, and speaking of which, I loved the music, very atmospheric. Anyway, 2 stars for being too short, overpriced, minimum extras and an average transfer.
If you like anime with fantasy settings (or AD&D like) I'd recommend: The Complete Shamanic Princess, Castle in the Sky, Magic Knight Rayearth, Princess Mononoke, Rune Soldier or (though not true anime) Fire and Ice, and Scourge of Worlds.
Rating: 
Summary: silly and boring
Review: The story of this Anime is so contrived that you are just beginning to try and figure it out around the 50 minute mark. The only problem is - it's over 2 seconds later!!! Save yourself the (almost) hour, and skip this boring excuse for a movie.
Rating:
Summary: silly and boring
Review: The story of this Anime is so contrived that you are just beginning to try and figure it out around the 50 minute mark. The only problem is - it's over 2 seconds later!!! Save yourself the (almost) hour, and skip this boring excuse for a movie.
Rating: 
Summary: A Pleased Viewer
Review: Well, yes, the movie was too short for my liking, but the animation was definately good. The characters weren't given a proper introduction. The reason behind it is simple and understandable though. It was made as an insert to a manga series. I haven't read the manga series, but I'd like to. Tieh's spells were awesome to watch being preformed, Bois and Lakeshi's fighting scenes were cool, and learning about Lakeshi's past and disturbing(for her) memories was interesting. Although the movie was short, it wasn't completely non-understandable. Another review said that you finally understand it about 50mins in and 2secs later it's over. Well, it's true, but it didn't take away from anything. It's better if you don't try to think about what you'd like to know during the movie(save it for when it's over) and focus on just what's in the story. Focus on the story they give you about Azec Sistra.
In short, this was an interesting and thought-provoking anime movie. For some more information, you can view this site.
http://www.phenixsol.com/Miko/WC/index.html
Enjoy the movie!
Rating:
Summary: A Pleased Viewer
Review: Well, yes, the movie was too short for my liking, but the animation was definately good. The characters weren't given a proper introduction. The reason behind it is simple and understandable though. It was made as an insert to a manga series. I haven't read the manga series, but I'd like to. Tieh's spells were awesome to watch being preformed, Bois and Lakeshi's fighting scenes were cool, and learning about Lakeshi's past and disturbing(for her) memories was interesting. Although the movie was short, it wasn't completely non-understandable. Another review said that you finally understand it about 50mins in and 2secs later it's over. Well, it's true, but it didn't take away from anything. It's better if you don't try to think about what you'd like to know during the movie(save it for when it's over) and focus on just what's in the story. Focus on the story they give you about Azec Sistra.
In short, this was an interesting and thought-provoking anime movie. For some more information, you can view this site.
http://www.phenixsol.com/Miko/WC/index.html
Enjoy the movie!
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