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Summary: A rushed ending to a pretty good series...
Review: Outlaw Star is good fantasy/sci-fi, it also has some comedy in it. Collection 3 contains two discs and the last eight episodes. It deals with all the loose ends that were accumulated through-out the series. Though the ending was rushed it did leave closure, but at the same time they left room to make a sequal, should they choose too.I gave it 3 out of 5 stars because it was rushed compared to the earlier episodes. The animation wasn't all that good, but it wasn't bad. The story, however, was excellent. This is a good series for fans that want a good blend of just about everything.
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Summary: Hot Springs Planet Tenrei!
Review: The last of the DVDs for Outlaw Star is just as good as the first two. This DVD features "Hot Springs Planet Tenrei" which wasn't shown on CN, something to do with a little thing called nudity. I'm convinced that "Hot Springs Planet Tenrei" was written by someone who was drunk and horny. It's the funniest espiode in the series.
Hot Springs Planet Tenrei marks the last of the funny espiodes and starts with the serious ones. I like Melfina's song in English (yes, I do watch it in English, got a problem with that??)
The ending to Outlaw Star is a trip. I enjoyed the series and hoping they might come out with futher adventures of Gene Starwind, the girl magnet of the universe.
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Summary: Hot Springs Planet Tenrei!
Review: The last of the DVDs for Outlaw Star is just as good as the first two. This DVD features "Hot Springs Planet Tenrei" which wasn't shown on CN, something to do with a little thing called nudity. I'm convinced that "Hot Springs Planet Tenrei" was written by someone who was drunk and horny. It's the funniest espiode in the series.
Hot Springs Planet Tenrei marks the last of the funny espiodes and starts with the serious ones. I like Melfina's song in English (yes, I do watch it in English, got a problem with that??)
The ending to Outlaw Star is a trip. I enjoyed the series and hoping they might come out with futher adventures of Gene Starwind, the girl magnet of the universe.
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Summary: An Above-Average Ending to a Below-Average Series
Review: There are a certain number of quirks and foibles one has to endure if anime is going to hold your interest. 'Outlaw Star' has pretty much all of them. First, there is the team of heros, so exceptionally diverse you'd think they were each written by different people. This problem is reflected in the villains who, (true to anime style) are each more bizarre and dangerous than the last. The problem is that its almost impossible to tell a coherent story with this setup, as Suzuka demonstrates in one of the final episodes. Second, there is the problem with the TV-series setup itself. Apparently there is a law somewhere that requires a certain number of 'filler' episodes that have nothing to do with the central plotline. Sometimes the writers really struggle to connect these episodes to the central plot. In several episodes the audience has no idea why the characters are where they are. One episode in particular seems to serve no purpose other than provide a link to 'Outlaw Star's' spinoff series. And finally there's the fact that every Anime series lags heavily in the beginning before becoming good at the end. The series that best serves as an example of this is 'Evangelion,' which becomes downright pathetic in the middle of the series before becoming beautifully brilliant at the end. That's pretty much the bottom line for 'Outlaw Star.' Despite a rough beginning and a miserable middle, the ending is genuinely satisfying, enough to make up for all its quirks. If you have the patience to make it all the way to the last disc, you will be richly rewarded. There is some genuinely cool stuff to be found here. Jim is the star of an excellent episode. Melfina and Harry MacDougal continue to steal the show, leaving the entire rest of the cast behind as their bizarre drama takes off. The prison planet episode was also very good. I suspect more scientific research went into this one episode than the entire rest of the series. One of the 'filler' episodes, involving a tourist resort, seems pointless but (unlike the rest of the show) it is genuinely funny, with a vein of humor so strange, wacky, and downright hilarious it's worthy of Douglas Adams. The Anten Seven get some good scenes, but mostly they are the mismatched and mostly asinine villain team we've come to expect from the anime genre. As I mentioned before, towards the end Suzuka becomes the subject of a pointless subplot that seems to be inserted only to drag the ending out a bit longer. But these stumbles are made up for by the sheer beauty of the Galactic Leyline and the drama between Gene, Melfina, Harry. Like most anime, this series becomes very strange at the end, but it is strange in a good way. Unlike 'Evangelion,' the ending is odd enough to make you think, but not so bizarre that it's rendered incomprehensible. Taken together, the series is only average. It has as many awful moments as it has brilliant ones. It's one of the foibles of anime that the brilliant ones have to be stuck at the end. If you were less-than-satisfied with the rest of the series, you can be assured that the final episodes are well worth your time and money.
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Summary: Not for little peepz
Review: this collecrion is good but not for children. Seeing a naked chick in a tube is considered explecit conduct. ( i got that from the back of a blockbuster box)
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Summary: This DVD Rules
Review: This DVD is the best of all of the Outlaw Star DVDs. It has the best quality, the best extras(cover galleries, 2 textless endings, trailers, and more)and screaming cat-women. What more could an Outlaw Star fan ask for you say? Well I'll tell ya what! This review! Episode 19: Law and Lawlessness is based around Gene and Jim being mistaken for pirates by an Angel Links(see Angel Links) security force. After Melfina takes some files from a pirate their battling she discorvers a plan to attack the security forces from the inside. Now besides dealing with Velairia and Duuz, two security force members, they have to save all of the people inside the base! The next episode, Cats and Girls and Spaceships, is based around Jim's first love Hamnyo, an Anten Seven pirate. While blindly fighting each other in grappler combat, is Jim's first love at stake? Episode 21: Grave of The Dragon, the crew of the Outlaw Star goes to a mysterious planet with clues to the Galactic Leyline. Unfortunatly Ron and Harry Macdougall follow them and it winds up as a big battle. Will they save Melfina from Harry? The next episode, Gravity Jailbrake, Gene goes into a jail where nobody's ever come out alive. The catch is he goes in as a prisinor! On many false chares, he's brought in all because of Gwen Khan shutting down Mel and giving him no choice but to find the prisinor with the coordinates to the Galactic Leyline. Episode 23: Hot Springs Planet Tenrei, is about the crew going to the Planet of Tenrei to search out wizards who can give them caster shells to help at the leyline. The only problem is that two of the wizards(Ark and Hadul)of the three want Gene to get some dirty footage of the third female wizard, who just happens to live ontop of Mount Nyotai, where men are banned! And only on this condition will he get any caster shells! Episode 24:Cutting the Galactic Leyline is based around Melfina attempting to navigate the Outlaw Star through the outer defenses of the Galactic Leyline while Gene fights off all sorts of pirates, and once their almost there, who would show up but Ron, Harry, Hazanko, and the Anten Seven! After that, Maze of Despair, is about trying to get to Melfina first through a maze for the sole purpose of getting ones wish granted, which will prove to be tough while fighting the Antens and an enraged Ron. The final episode, Return to Space, as everyone makes it to the "trophy room" nobody wants to give up Melfina and when Hazanko and Gene both fire(Hazanko's magic, and Gene's caster) both the blasts react killing everyone in the room, and now that Hazanko's wish for power has been granted Gene and Melfina need to get back to the real world and kill the now mutated Hazanko/Tobigera Geomancer. Watch this surprising conclusion on Outlaw Star Collection 3 DVD! I highly recomend it!
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Summary: A great ending to a great series
Review: This episode marks the end of the great title, the outlaw star, and in a way is the beginning of somethign greater. Besides episode 23, which was unusually high in slapstick, the entire DVD set was action packed, and awesome. If you liked the first two, you won't be disappointed by the conclusion.
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Summary: A great ending to a great series
Review: This episode marks the end of the great title, the outlaw star, and in a way is the beginning of somethign greater. Besides episode 23, which was unusually high in slapstick, the entire DVD set was action packed, and awesome. If you liked the first two, you won't be disappointed by the conclusion.
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Summary: Outlaw Star (a must for Anime fans)
Review: This Review Can be seen for the Outlaw Star Dvd collection 1-3. I am writing a review for the WHOLE series. Outlaw Star tells the tale of Gene Starwind and Jim Hawking. Who inevitably end up leaving there home planet and getting caught up in a race for the Galactic Layline. On there way they will meet lots of friends and enemies such as Melfina, the McDougal Bros., Aisha Clan Clan of the Ctarl Ctarl, Sazukie Twilight and a whole bunch more in this action series from bandai that keeps you laughing while it delivers great action. What is the Galactic Layline? Well people say that at the Galatic Layline can be found a great treasure. But if you wanna know more you'll have to get the dvd's (or the tapes). Outlaw Star can also be seen on the Cartoon Networks Toonami (although they cut a bit). Anyway I hope this review was helpful. Be sure to check out my review of the Outlaw Star spinoff, Angel Links.
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Summary: Conclusion of the series, but predictable ending.
Review: We see the end of the series, the fates of the McDougall Brothers, the Pirates and the crew of the Outlaw Star, and an explaination of the Galatic Leyline. The ending was kind of awkward and predictable, but at least it left an opening for a second series. Also for the fans, we see some new Caster shells for Jean. These Grappler Ships still don't appeal to me, they look weird.
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