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Summary: A marriage between action, beauty and plot.
Review: Directed by Peter Chung (Aeon Flux). The story is about a prince named Alexander (the Great). The plot is that he is the Devil King said to destroy the world. With excellent battle scenes and unusual fighting tactics, this anime has a flare of its own. With friends, he meets to help him along the way, he sets forth to conquer the world. He rides a legendary horse named Bucephalus. Many people try to kill Alexander in an effort to save the world from total destruction.
This anime is a true work of art. The dubbing is excellent and really brings the characters to life. With an artistic flare, that gives great amounts of detail to each character. The character design might be bizarre with codpieces, detailed faces and other assorted designs but this is what makes this anime so beautiful.
This anime is geared toward and adult audience. There are many gory fight scenes and also contains nudity. The plot is also very deep and requires close attention to understand some of the conversations.
The only draw back is a paradox. The art work that makes this anime so unusual and gorgeous can also discourage people who don't have an open mind about anime styles.
In conclusion, this anime is an action packed, beautiful, work of art.
Rating:
Summary: Worth it, Worth it Worth it
Review: First, this is a must have for any Anime fan.
I love it because it gave me a lot of insperation.
You do get some history leasons, of course the show is a fantasia, but you learn some stuff about Alix, Genaral knowledg,like his father's name, his mother's name, were he was, one thing I did not know, Alix belived he concored the whole world!
Buy it buy it buy it, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSS
P.S Buying the Box set is much cheeper and better than buying each DVD sepretlly.
Rating: 
Summary: Bloated and boring, Greek style.
Review: Goodness, what is up in Peter Chung's head? He tends to make his animated works as confusing as possible. Sure, I was too young to have seen his earlier work, 'Aeon Flux', but I have seen 'Matriculated' from the 'Animatrix' DVD, and let me tell you: it was a psychadelic, woozy, "get-high" experience that left me clueless when pondering about the whole point of the story. With "Reign the Conqueror", having Chung collaborated with some Japanese animation powerhouse to make one huge animated project, I don't understand about this one, either.Here's something I do understand about "Reign." A King and a lustful, snake-fetished woman had a child born by the name of Alexander III, or Alexander the Great, and the woman predicted that her son will be king and rule all of the world. Fast forward to 20 years, and the older Alexander the Great is wiser and understands thoroughly on the art of strategy in warfare. After current events that lead him King of some country, he and his allies set forth to other countries to conquer and be recognize for Alexander's ambition, and to find his true destiny sameforth. At first, I though he was some fictonal being like Hercules, but after minor reference checking, Alexander the Great was actually a real person from the Before Christ era, and that his doing actually influence all greeks of today to see him as an inspiration to their country. If so, then why, in perspective on true events, are there big snakes, huge flying contraptions, visual predictions of a future, blade runner-related world, and such unbelieveable stuff that happened in Alexander's world? I don't get it. Maybe the company that made "Reign" wanted a more "retro"-spective version on Alexander's glorious life, but even so, I find the whole idea improbable. The art on "Reign"...well, it really comes down to whether people likes this kind of style or not. For me, I like Chung's art style, and its there in this series. The way he makes the world like an average 80s comic book is cool, and the characters are interesting in a awkward kind of way, while at the same, having a "keen" fashion sense. If I WERE against the style, I would say the characters are very, very "Klasky Csupo" ugly, and even the most prettiest woman of the series, I doubt many boys would go ga-ga over her, even if she's in full frontial nudity. The audio (voice acting, music, sound effects) is good, too, but curiously, why did Tokyopop suddenly decided to replace the entire cast with different people on the second half of the series? As said, this anime is improbable, and worse, it's slow. I thought watching 'Crest of the Stars' was slow, but this anime is Slow with a capital 'S'. There are some standing action scenes in this title, but there's a lot of discussions that can get on my nerves. I don't mind verbal discussions that deal with planning, development, or ideals on the characters, current battles, or approaching future events, as long as it is balanced to any entertainment like action, but here, there's too much verbal discussions going on, and it becomes a total drag afterwards. Another drag is the amount of name-forgetful characters introduced too soon in this series; I had a hard time keeping up with at least three sub-characters in this series. Going through this nail-biting, lingering pacing of "Reign", I expect some compensation through this patience ordeal, and sadly, it didn't deliver. An anime that's based on a famous conqueror and adding that with the surreal and supernatural, while contributing philosophies may sound cool by first thought, but looking at this, there's too much stuff going on in this series, and in the end, I find it irrelevant and just plain disposable. Sorry, Alex, I rather stay out of this long session of Greek History 101!
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Summary: Absolutely spectacular!
Review: I am a great admireror of Alexander the Great. I know much about his life- both history and lore. I, though, was not absolutely depressed about this anime. You could tell that Peter Chung did not try to make an anime about Alexander the Great, but an artistic expression based on Alexander the Great. ONe thing that often ticks me is when someone trys to make something exactly based on a historical figure, and they end up ignoring history anyways. But Reign was awesome! It took Alexander and put him in a different time and place. The art and creativity of the feature is spectacular. In a way, this anime continues a tradition with Alexander stories. Throughout history, Alexander was written about, but things were changed- facts, settings, times, events, appearances, and even race. This continues that.
Rating: 
Summary: My response - "eh. its ok"
Review: I fell in love with Aeon Flux (a series that Peter Chung (character designer) had previously worked on). I thoguht Reign would be just as good as or better than Aeon, but I was wrong. Reign is a nice series. Great animation and character designs(^_^ Peter Chung) but the story and plot are not that great. :\
I would give it a 3 out of 5 stars. I think its more like a 2.5 stars though. :\
Rating: 
Summary: Terrible
Review: I'm an anime freak. I know about these things... So I'll rate this. Its terrible. The art is badly done. Their lips, eyebrows, and other facial features are square with thick lines making the characters humanity questionable when they're face fills the screen. Alexander the great looks like a woman...
It manages to twist HISTORICAL EVENTS to fill the plot of an unentertaining anime... Here are some basic things I'd like to point out. Alexander the great looks like a woman, not a feminine man, a woman.
Alexander the great wears a platemail tank top, as well as a thong. In fact, a large number of the men in the anime wear thongs.
Aristotle, a PHIOLOSOPHER dresses as a clown.
Plato, the great philosopher, is portrayed as a great wizard.
Diogenes, is two feet tall and lives in a barrel.
Followers of Pathoragas (A mathmatician) Are asassins, who are in a cult obsessed with numbers. Worse, they have powers involving triangles. Other Wonderful (Sarcasm) additions incude: Persian elephants shoot fire out of their trunks, opposing forces have large HOVER TANKS. Please, do NOT buy this anime. Its terrible.
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Summary: This is just one's opnion.
Review: I'm just one lone person. This is only a opnion. No more. But I gotta be honest, I never liked this series. Its alright if you do, go ahead and buy it.
But be warned, if you've never seen this series, rent it first. Who knows? You may like it, you may hate it, you may already hate it or love it.
But me, I'm sorry to say this but......this is, in my opnion, the worst anime I have ever seen. I tried to wacth it, I really did.
When it premired on my tv, I wacthed one episode. I didnt like it, but then I saw a second episode. Know it may have been my imagination, but the second was worst than the first. The same thing happened when I atempted to wacth a third episode. Sorry, but it seemed worse than before.
I know alot of people are gonna get mad at me when they see this review. Some wont. But alot will. I hate negative reviews too, honestly, this is my first review which recieved under four stars.
I've only seen three episodes, and they were all edited though.
But despite this, I know that if a series is good, it can be edited and still be worth wacthing.
I felt it wasnt dramatic when it tried, I felt it wasnt horrofic when it tried, I felt it wasnt romantic when it tried.
So yea, I dont like the series. But just because I don't why wouldnt you? Try it out, see what you think, but if you wacth the shows I've seen, and agree with my other reviews, than wacth out.
So, I'm sorry to all you fans out there. I really am. I hate these negative reviews....but I just dont like this series. So well, Im gonna go wacth an anime now.
But I'm telling ya, it isnt going to be "Reign The Conquer."
Rating: 
Summary: No history lesson from me!
Review: If you want a history lesson on Alexander the Great, Masedonia, the Greek empire, etc. don't watch this anime. Read a book. However, if you want to watch an interesting anime about a real life person, with a new take on the people, places and events in his life, then Reign is for you! I really like this anime, even though I already had some knowledge about Alexander the Great and knew that a lot of what was going on in the series was incorrect. It didn't bother me that things were changed. (That's simply the case in anime. And people deal with it. I mean, Cowboy Bebop's authors didn't have the theories involved in hyperspace completely accurate, but you don't see anyone saying not to watch the series because the physics are wrong!) I really recommend this as an anime for any anime fan. Like I said though, don't go looking for a history lesson here. Just sit back and enjoy it!
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Summary: No history lesson from me!
Review: If you want a history lesson on Alexander the Great, Masedonia, the Greek empire, etc. don't watch this anime. Read a book. However, if you want to watch an interesting anime about a real life person, with a new take on the people, places and events in his life, then Reign is for you! I really like this anime, even though I already had some knowledge about Alexander the Great and knew that a lot of what was going on in the series was incorrect. It didn't bother me that things were changed. (That's simply the case in anime. And people deal with it. I mean, Cowboy Bebop's authors didn't have the theories involved in hyperspace completely accurate, but you don't see anyone saying not to watch the series because the physics are wrong!) I really recommend this as an anime for any anime fan. Like I said though, don't go looking for a history lesson here. Just sit back and enjoy it!
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Summary: Good, but not genius
Review: Peter chung has a love-hate relationship with most fans, and this is no exception. Be warned, this is not a historical essay but it is just fun to watch. The fact that it is a sci-fi/historical(is that possible????) story means that it will not sit well with some. This anime takes the life of alexander the great, but gives it a mecha( for non-anime fans mecha = big robots)/shounen(for non anime fans-anime for boys)/scifi touch, and spins it with drama along with some good battle scenes. Reign is a good break from typical shounen anime, and carries it's ideas out well. However, some of the characters aren't well developed, and sometimes the philosphical references are ill-explained. Reign also has some major flaws in the art&animation, being that it would seem that corners were cut during battle scenes(they have a habit of using the same cavalry charging scene every time) and some times the characters are drawn poorly. The character designs are not standard in anime, being that there is no big eyes, huge heads, shiny hair or little tear drops. Instead the characters in reign are thin and angular(fyi, everybody wears a thong in this show :( ). Overall, it's an above avarge anime with good ideas, but it dosen't reach its full potential.
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