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Release Date: 14 July, 2000 Retail Price: $79.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: |
The Heroic Legend of Arslan Reviews
Parts missing?
I remember renting this movie years ago from my local video store. I recently rented the two disc DVD set from Netflix and I am a little confused...
The first disc is as I remember it, but once I got to the second disc I only saw half what was originally released and than a longer "episode" that I had never seen before and did not fit in to the story thus far. According to the very first episode of "Arlsan" His father the king DIED in prison of an illness shortly after his talk with Silvermask / Hermes.. Yet in the last part of Arslan, he is alive and well and comes back to take back his kingdom.
I don't understand how they could make such a horrible mistake in the story. Also there is a part missing, in *I THINK* part three there is a scene where silvermask meets a Blind princess on the road, there is some sort of back sotry with them, that never gets explained... but thats not the only part where we see the princess, I CLEARLY remember at least a 5-10 minute scene that goes in to more detail with the blind princess where she meets up with Arlsan and his people. There is a whole episode missing that was VERY good that belongs between the last two episodes.. its BEFORE they changed the actors for the voice overs and BEFORE they started changing the characters names.. In fact if I remember correctly the character of Gieve( changed to gebo(sp)) left in the "Missing" episode to explore and get away from the rules,etc. But in the last episode on these discs he is gone, with no explaination, where we find him confronting silvermask/hermes, with no explaination and than returning to Arlsan.
I know that was confusing, but I hope it showed just what I think abiout this set, I am VERY disappointed that an entire episode is missing, one that a fan would enjoy and that was with the original voice cast and names. I am also very dissapointed that what seems to be the last epsiode in this series does not follow what every other episode in the series has told us.. you CAN NOT just revive a character that has died and have him take over the country!
Anime itself is incomplete unless you read original story
To fully understand the anime version, you gotta read original story. However, as far as I know, there is no English translation of the story; I read Japanese original, because I have Japanese proficiency. Original novel is one of my favorites, but anime isn't.
The anime version is very(and way too much) summarized version of original story(which hasn't been concluded yet; damn, it took 8 years for release of 10th volume from 9th volume), and the anime was ceased halfway of original story.
(Comment to reviewer below: Arslan's father King didn't die at the point. Fade-out doesn't always mean death of character.)
Anime itself is featured by beautiful arts and musics, but storyline is a bit perfunctory to appeal to those who haven't read original.
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