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Summary: Make Room for the Next Big Thing in Anime!!
Review: Here is the final volume in the beautiful and superbly executed Pretear series. As someone who owns the entire Pretear series, I can honestly tell you that the hype surrounding it is all true. Pretear is a strong character-driven story with adorable humour and real heart that not only makes sense, but is captivating and exciting as well. If you are looking for non-stop action (mecha or martial arts) then you need to look elsewhere. Pretear combines elements from the fairy tale "Snow White" with a wonderful, innovative story idea. Combine that with the exquisite animation, beautiful character and costume designs, excellent voice acting (In english anyway. I haven't watched the Japanese dub yet.)and interviews with the english voice actors (spread out over all 4 volumes) and you have a classic work of anime.
In volume four of Pretear, the final showdown between Himeno and the Leafe Knights against Takakko, the Princess of disaster, will be settled once and for all. Himeno's step-sister, Mawata, is being held captive inside the evil Tree of Fenril. The tree feeds off of Mawata's deep feelings of despair, and uses that power to drain the world's Leafe (energy). Himeno, her family and the Leafe Knights must hurry to rescue Mawata from the tree, and ultimately save the world from destruction.
The entire Pretear series really struck a cord with me, because of the emotion involved. It showed us how anyone, even someone as outgoing as Himeno, can feel alone and sad once in awhile and that we all have someone out there who cares for us. I think that everyone can relate to something as basic and essential to human life as love. And if you can, then you will fall in love with the Pretear series. Pretear does a superb job of exploring the vulnerability of the human heart, and it does so with a grace and beauty that will be seldom seen again in anime...or anywhere else.
The Pretear series is fantastic. For once, believe the hype surrounding this anime and you too will fall in love with Pretear.
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Summary: i love this movie
Review: i believe this is going to be another good movie because i really like the other ones but the kool thing would be if himeno and the princess of disaster would to trade places that be really kool dont you think well i hope this would be to my enjoyment as well
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Summary: Happily ever after, of course...
Review: I can't say that I was very pleased with the ending of Pretear. I guess they had to end it the way they did. (Think Sailor Moon long, drawn-out happily ever after, even if impossible...kind of a combination of the 1st and 5th series endings, for the Sailor Moon fans out there) And perhaps I'm too much of a cynic to enjoy a happily ever after ending. But to me, it just felt...empty.
Perhaps it was the fact that in the first 10 episodes Pretear blew the competition (in it's genre, at least) away that I was hoping for something a little more original. Perhaps is is the fact that disc 3 ended on such a cliffhanger that I was hoping for a little bit more resolution in the story line, as well as a little bit more action.
All I know is my own opinion. And my opinion is that while Pretear still remains one of the greatest magical girl anime ever, the ending fell a little flat. It seemed like all the character development we saw over the course of the first 10 episodes was forgotten. And I swear, I could hear the cheesy American-ized Sailor Moon music (when she fights Queen Beryl) during the entire disc.
If you've already gotten this far, you'll want the final episodes. But be warned, it may not be as fulfilling as you hoped.
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Summary: Pretear Vol. 4
Review: Pretear Himeno Awayuki and the Leafe Knights are doing their best to defeat Takako, Princess of Disaster, and her demon hordes. However, Takako has transformed Mawata into the Puppet of Darkness, the power source for the Great Tree of Fenril, which will destroy the Earth! To prevent the apocalypse, Himeno and the Knights must rescue Mawata and stop the Princess of Disaster once and for all. Will Himeno's love for her family, friends and the Knights be enough to save the world? Or will the power of evil vanquish love? Don't miss the amazing final installment of Pretear!
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Summary: Pretear Vol. 4
Review: Pretear Himeno Awayuki and the Leafe Knights are doing their best to defeat Takako, Princess of Disaster, and her demon hordes. However, Takako has transformed Mawata into the Puppet of Darkness, the power source for the Great Tree of Fenril, which will destroy the Earth! To prevent the apocalypse, Himeno and the Knights must rescue Mawata and stop the Princess of Disaster once and for all. Will Himeno's love for her family, friends and the Knights be enough to save the world? Or will the power of evil vanquish love? Don't miss the amazing final installment of Pretear!
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Summary: A stunning end to the series
Review: This disc contains a stunning end to a very sweet series. The art is consistantly good and the plot contains just enough sugar to satisfy. The extras are about in par with those on the other discs (that is to say, they aren't particularly fabulous) the english subtitles occasionally overlap the action in the last episode as the translated song lyrics create quite a subtitle pile up, and most of the action is happening low on the screen anyway. The english dubbing is pretty good. The voice acting is consistant and believable (for the most part). I would definately reccomend the entire series.
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Summary: A stunning end to the series
Review: This disc contains a stunning end to a very sweet series. The art is consistantly good and the plot contains just enough sugar to satisfy. The extras are about in par with those on the other discs (that is to say, they aren't particularly fabulous) the english subtitles occasionally overlap the action in the last episode as the translated song lyrics create quite a subtitle pile up, and most of the action is happening low on the screen anyway. The english dubbing is pretty good. The voice acting is consistant and believable (for the most part). I would definately reccomend the entire series.
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Summary: This is it
Review: Volume 4 is finally here, and it lived up to all my expectations and thens ome. All episodes onthis disc are very exciting, emotional, and still even funny at times. It's just the perfect mix of everything, and all the characters come full circle in their development. If you've seen the other volumes of Pretear, getting this DVD is a no brainer. If you haven't what the heck are you still waiting for?! Just becuase this isn't a very popular anime doesn't mean it's not great! The extras on the DVD are pretty much the same as the previous versions. Behind the Anime interviews with english voice actors, which we all know by now is pretty lame. In addition the clean opening and clean ending are here, as well as japanese cd and dvd spots. The quality of the picture and sound on all the DVDs in this series were very high and worth the money for just a few episodes on each disc. Don't miss out on a series lots of people are missing out on.
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Summary: This is it
Review: Volume 4 is finally here, and it lived up to all my expectations and thens ome. All episodes onthis disc are very exciting, emotional, and still even funny at times. It's just the perfect mix of everything, and all the characters come full circle in their development. If you've seen the other volumes of Pretear, getting this DVD is a no brainer. If you haven't what the heck are you still waiting for?! Just becuase this isn't a very popular anime doesn't mean it's not great! The extras on the DVD are pretty much the same as the previous versions. Behind the Anime interviews with english voice actors, which we all know by now is pretty lame. In addition the clean opening and clean ending are here, as well as japanese cd and dvd spots. The quality of the picture and sound on all the DVDs in this series were very high and worth the money for just a few episodes on each disc. Don't miss out on a series lots of people are missing out on.
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Summary: great series so far.
Review: well, i've just finished the the third volume of this series and and i've really enjoyed it. it has it's funny moments and it's sad moments and even a little bit of lovey dovey moments too, but if you're looking for action packed...sorry, the fighting scenes are few and far between and usually last all of about three seconds. so yeah. anyways i highly recommend pretear to anyone who wants to enjoy a nice clean very well executed series. can't wait to see how it ends.
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