Wolf's Rain:Recollection Vol 4

Rating:
Summary: Feeling totally ripped off!
Review: Absolutely no excuse for this DVD except to rip off fans of this anime. Save your money and avoid Volume 4!

Rating:
Summary: emminently skippable
Review: Add me to the folks who thought this would continue the storyline and were disappointed. There's really no reason to get this one unless you just want to own them all. All of the footage is cut from older episodes with a few extra bits of dialogue added.

Wish I'd checked for reviews before picking it up.

Rating:
Summary: Let's start the class action suit!
Review: I finished the DVD in 5 min. Bandai, this is a total disgrace. I can undestand if we are in Japan and the production is running slow on the weekly program and these episode are padded in. Or 1-2 episodes are used to add more info with recap. But to inlude these in the US release is just shameful! IF YOU ALREADY OWN DISC 1-3 (I assume you do, otherwise you would not be interested in this one?), save your money and proceed to disc 5!

Rating:
Summary: RIP-OFF REMEMBRANCE
Review: I know the title of this volume of Wolf's Rain is "Recollections", but Bandai has went a little overboard. I expect at least one or two episodes in an anime series to be a recap but here we have an ENTIRE DVD, 4 EPISODES of recycled material from past shows!!!! There is nothing new here. Even the infamous last 2 episodes of Evangelion didn't go so far as this and they were running out of money. What is the excuse here? To pay 20$ for an entire dvd of stuff I've already seen. It's almost like they were making one of those awful anime movies where an entire 26 episode series is squeezed into 2 hours. There should have been a warning on the dvd box that there is no new material contained in it. It makes me want to write to Bandai and demand my money back. If you have been following Wolf's Rain since the first volume, definately skip this volume. You'll be wasting your money.

I would recommend Miami Guns Episode 2, which parodies recap shows by having one after only one episode of the show.

Rating:
Summary: An apt name for a disappointing DVD.
Review: I rented this with high expectations but ended up stopping it halfway through. I had no idea that the disc would be a complete recap of the previous action. Thus my hopes for a new plot twist or perhaps some explanations for many of the mysteries in the series were dashed.

Don't get me wrong - I love this series. The artwork is fantastic and the soundtrack inspired (thank god for Yoko Kanno - she is hands down my favorite anime composer today). But there is so much to be explored in this story! I'm very disappointed that Studio Bones wasted 4 hours of critical plot development time to a recap. Perhaps it was money related - I don't know the details. What I do know is that as a fan of this series, I wish that these episodes could have been used to develop the story rather than just throwing in old animation.

Bottom line: If you've not watched any of the previous episodes, you could get this DVD and catch up on the story in only 4 episodes as opposed to 12. But who'd want to?


Rating:
Summary: Rip Off
Review: No new material, just a recap of things already seen. A complete waste of money. Interestingly, the description on the back was exactly the same as vol.2 . Maybe they were trying to send a warning. If you can find a way to get your money back, do so.

Rating:
Summary: If it looks and smells like...it probably is.
Review: Signs that you are about to make a bad purchase. 1 star is the highest rating. I of course didn't read anything. I saw the show on Cartoon Network and immediately ran to Best Buy to purchase every DVD available in the series. Funny thing is, there was a gap in the display where volume 4 would've been. I shuffled through the box covers and found a 4th different cover. Finding no other volumes I took to register took the dvds home, only to find out I had purchased volume 1,2,3,and 5???? watched 1-3 immediatley. Can't break continuity, must proceed to another store to buy volume 4. Get to store and hmm...Volume 4 Recollections???? Okay maybe they have 1 recap episode, it happens. Get home look at back of box. This is the same description on volume 2??? And my soul was consumed as I broke the seal rendering the disc completely unreturnable and discovered the awful truth that THIS WAS A 4 EPISODE RECAP OF THE PREVIOUS 14 EPISODES. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OWW OWWW AAAAAARRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Release the hounds of hell on the ones responsible for this abomination. The show is great. If you want to be cheap just buy this disc instead of the first three, though you will lose the soul of the story. You have been forwarned.

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Summary: LAME!!!! I'm so glad i borrowed my friends copy
Review: So i finish disc 3, pop in disc 4 ready for more action...suddenly i'm watching disc 1 again. except disc 1 is in its case.
there was no reason to even have this so called recollection disc. real lame now i gotta wait for disc 5 to arrive in the mail.

Rating:
Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: This is a great anime series but if you have the first 3 disc then there is absolutley no reason to purchase this dvd. I only wish that there had been some type of warning on the cover that this was a recap dvd. I give this dvd 1 star because I feel ripped off!

Rating:
Summary: Skip this Disk!!
Review: Unless you are one of those people (like me) who run out and buy every disk of a series you like right when it comes out, please just save your money. This disk is a complete dissapointment, and I'm sorry that I spent money on it. I waited and waited to get it only to find out that it's entirely flashbacks! I can understand one recap episode to sum things up, but four? No, thank you. It won't stop me from getting the next one though, it's a fantastic series, i just hope that there's new stuff on the next disk ^_^