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Summary: An artsy thirteen episode original
Review: Reign the Conqueror is one of my all-time favorites. It's art style, story and music make it a good by for anime fans looking for something a little less repetitive and of a better quality than the avrage anime series. With original and interesting characters this short but content packed series is a great idea for people looking for something different, even withing anime. I recommend that you try this one out.
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Summary: Visually and Intellectually Entertaining
Review: The style of this highly stylized vision of the life of Alexander the Great is wonderfully seductive. I put it in the same catagory with Julie Taymor's "Titus". It does have an homo-erotic element to it, but that's just another thing that makes this work of art so interesting. It is part history and part fantasy. If you can suspend disbelief and focus on the plot elements you will be richly rewarded.
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Summary: Visually and Intellectually Entertaining
Review: The style of this highly stylized vision of the life of Alexander the Great is wonderfully seductive. I put it in the same catagory with Julie Taymor's "Titus". It does have an homo-erotic element to it, but that's just another thing that makes this work of art so interesting. It is part history and part fantasy. If you can suspend disbelief and focus on the plot elements you will be richly rewarded.
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Summary: reign reigns supreme
Review: this is one of the best dvd sets in the world short of trigun ad rurouni kenshin. it has everything that an anime should have. it has a great storyline about alexander the great. it would apeal to everyone. it has violence. it has historic battles. this is an anime that anyone should get.
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Summary: Art does not have be rational...
Review: Yes, Reign has many, many inaccuracies. But isn't that to be expected, in a work of FICTION? Doesn't the box warn you that this is a 20th century Sci-Fi spin on the true story of Alexander the Great? And after all the research I've done since seeing this series, I can tell you most of the inaccuracies were interentional, and probably could not have been executed without knowing what actually did happen, and in great detail. I'm rather convinced that it is not intended to be an alltogether accurate interpretation of the story of Alexander.I was originally drawn to this series because I love Peter Chung's art style, having been addicted to Aeon Flux during its run on MTV. I'm actually rather fond of the naked leg look. I'd like to point out that the characters are wearing cod pieces, not thongs. Also, keep in mind that in ancient Greece armor did show a lot of skin. And Alexander's (battle) armor looks plenty Greek to me, by the way. In fact, if this were an accurate adaption we'd be seeing a lot more man skin than we already are. As I was doing research, I was amazed at how much of what was real and really happened was changed and apadted. Ever chracter in the series was based a real person, though their roles might have been changed. Even Cassandra, who wasn't a real person, was at least based on a real figure (one of Alexander's generals, Cassander, though he was not any relation to Aristotle). I quite frankly think that Alexander's personality could not be more accurately expressed. They did an encredible job portraying who he was, and what drove him. I also liked how they used his mother's very real claim that he was indeed of divine blood, that Zeus was his father, taking it one step further and turning it into a prophecy of destruction. And I think that was far cooler way from Philip to loose his eye than in some battle. I'd like to mention, as well, that there was, indeed a Pythagorian cult. No, they weren't freaky supernatural assassins bent on destroying Alexander, but they did exist. Frankly, I love this series, and am a bit disappointed to see no sign of an American release of the theatrical movie. I recommend this title, though not to the squeemish or immature. Latent (and historically accurate) homoerotic themes, violence (though not exceedingly gory), some "curtousy" breasts (I'm not explaining that term- those familiar with anime should know what it means), and a plot that adults can barely understand are just some of the "no kiddies" signs. :)
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