Product Details

• Actors: Mîna Tominaga, Kazuki Yao, Ichirô Nagai, Kaneto Shiozawa, Fuyumi Shiraishi
• Directors: Shinya Sadamitsu
• Writers: Junki Takegami
• Producers: Ahmed Agrama, Frank Agrama, L.B. Bartholomee, Satohiro Nagao, Shûichi Onodera
• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Section 23
• DVD Release Date: July 13, 2004
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00029NMIQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,394 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Birth: A War of Two Worlds!" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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BIRTH - DVD Movie

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Planet Busters wasnt that bad, February 2, 2007

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Schenect son WHAT! "Schenect son WHAT!" (Schenct son WHAT!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Planet Busters [VHS] (VHS Tape)

to previous reviewer:

i found the original dub of Planet Busters to be one of the most entertaining english dubs I have ever heard. After finally getting Birth i was a little dissappointed in the original japanese diologue in comparison. The animation in this feature has a lot of quirky elements and I felt that the planet busters english language edit brought out that quirkiness the best. However, planet busters edit cut out a good amount of scenes from the feature (to presumably move the story along) however the story/plot is often convoluted because of this. So I am happy that when I viewed Birth I saw alot of new animated sequences and even certain elements to the story are different (some good, some bad differences). Of course the English dub on this ADV release is horrendously unwatchable (as usual), I was really hoping the english language version would be the Orion Planet Busters cut (maybe some day).

So overall: this feature is a hidden gem of action packed and interesting animation (as previous reviewer stated), and it is different cut than the Orion Planet Busters release (which is my favorite and i will always have a spot in my heart for). Still this release is quite a unique cartoon that any animation buff should check out.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Missing an Ending, March 4, 2007

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Thomas H. Kunich (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Birth: A War of Two Worlds! (DVD)

This story starts well. The artwork is highly reminiscent of the 60's stuff by Ralph Bakshi with smooth lines and women drawn impossibly sexy. The real problem is that the DVD starts to faulter about 2/3rds of the way through in a manner that suggests that they never had a story to begin with and so never had an ending that made sense. In the end you're left high and dry feeling had by the producers.

Nevertheless it is an interesting production as long as you don't get the idea that there's going to be a story in there somewhere. The artwork and the animation are pretty highly evolved for a DVD of this sort.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Really funny stuff, August 22, 2007

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Luis Checura "checuras" (iquique, Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Birth: A War of Two Worlds! (DVD)

I watched this OVA for the first time when I was around 10 and I found it hilarious. It kept on my mind ever since and I was able to watch it again now that I'm 27 and have a big "anime maturity". So what do I have to say about this? It's still hilarious, although I can add some more things like "insanely hilarious". Nevertheless, don't expect top of the notch story here, this is something more of a scene by scene with not much content behind it stuff. Anyhow, it has some great animation and graphic quality -keeping in mind is anime from the 80's- So, if you're looking for a great lough, simple-plot (and sometimes even a litte disconnected story-line), neat animation with great graphics, sci-fi anime with cool actions scenes, here's your answer.

Oh, great character design as well