Product Details

• Actors: David Fuhrer, Lee Moore (III), Greg Stuhr, Vincent Bagnall, Nick Nagel
• Directors: Yoshiyuki Tomino
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Us Manga Corps Video
• VHS Release Date: January 11, 2000
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003BE09
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #540,819 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I must make sense of our convoluted situation, December 31, 2010

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E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garzey's Wing (DVD)

There are great anime. There are good anime. There are mediocre anime. And there are anime whose eye-searing badness tears holes in the universe.

Guess what kind of anime "Garzey's Wing" is. This is not just a simple, ordinary bad anime -- it's an incoherent, incomprehensible, brain-melting mess, graced with choppy editing and a dub that makes my ears bleed. It's literally impossible to understand half of what's going on, and the other half makes no sense.

Chris is driving to his hometown when his spirit is swept away by... a giant goose. I am not kidding. After getting dropped through some kind of dimensional rift, he emerges stark naked in a medieval world, with a pixie tangled in his necklace and a pair of giant wings on his ankles.

The sight of him causes the Metomeus tribe, who are slaves to the Ashigaba kingdom, to rebel against their masters in the next two minutes. They believe that Chris is a holy warrior destined to help them rebuild their country, but the Ashigaba army is hot on their heels. Chris must protect the mystical priestess Hassan and defend the ex-slaves from the dinosauresque War Beasts.

And to make matters even MORE complicated, Chris' body is TOTALLY UNAFFECTED by the loss of his soul, and they communicate through a magical necklace. All of his friends, by the way, immediately accept that his soul is off fighting in another world instead of getting him psychiatric help.

I still boggles my mind that "Garzey's Wing" was not only directed but WRITTEN by Yoshiyuki Tomino (who created the Gundam franchise). It fails on every single level of storytelling,

Instead we get an eternity of choppy, dull scenes about people discussing bells, how to make nuts and bolts, and occasionally having unintentionally hilarious battle scenes (Chris attacked by a chopped-off head). Even worse? Almost NOTHING is ever explained to the audience -- we're just thrown headfirst into the story and given nothing to guide us.

The hatred of the Fellario? Never explained. The goose and the foot-wings? NEVER EXPLAINED. The names of half the characters? NEVER MENTIONED! How does Chris spontaneously become a master swordsman? NEVER EXPLAINED! Who is the Yamato Takeru no Mikoto? WE STILL DON'T KNOW! You can basically make trading cards of all the things that are never explained.

But I honestly doubt if explanations could help this turkey. The dialogue was directly translated from Japanese to English, so it's clunky ("The bells around Lord Chris' neck are rattling because it is time for him to become a Holy Warrior!"), nonsensical ("If you had a convenience store, then I would live with you"), and sometimes just... INSANE ("I am just half! I cannot act like an ancient Japanese man! AAAAAAAAA!").

And the voice actors are all uniformly terrible -- wooden, loud, and completely devoid of any emotion. It sounds like the company just yanked some random people off the street and stuck a microphone in their faces.

"Garzey's Wing" is the Santa Claus Conquers the Martians of anime -- so bad, so inept, so stupid that eventually cognitive dissonance takes over... and you start laughing at the sheer wretchedness of it all.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, its not THAT bad., October 19, 2003

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R. A. Brown (The Commonwealth of Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garzey's Wing (DVD)

I came across Garzey's Wing with a two pack deal for 20 bucks with Legend of Lemnear.

I've been a fan of Anime for about the last 6 years of my life, and have seen Evangelion to Wings of Honnemaise, Rurouni Kenshin to Golden Boy, to Magic User's Club to You're Under Arrest and Initial D.

Let me say this, Garzey's Wing is not a masterpiece, but its not a piece of trash. There are some certain incongruities to it, like reference to gunpowder by people who've never heard of a gun. (I'm guessing thats more translator's doing). However, at times its an interesting well thought out universe, unique in its own way than other fantasy settings. The idea that someone can be taken into another world and still have a part of themselves stuck in this one certainly isn't used often, and is, amusingly sometimes, used where the two Chris's talk to each other about problems!

The more you watch it, the more you find yourself appreciating it or chuckling at little things. The animation is decent, not low cost, but not glitzy by any means either. Its on par with other animations from that time period. The Character designs aren't bad and the music isn't either. The storyline is original, with the exception of a couple plot device of going to another land, as an example.

Actually, my only real complaint is that it ends abruptly and to my knowledge, in medias res. Its a 3 episode OVA, and I'm not sure if more episodes were ever made or not. I watched the subtitle version only, a strategy for almost everything I've ever watched. (You don't get disappointed by horrible voice acting otherwise).

Overall, its not a bad show. Its worth the money I paid for it,(10 bucks, since in two pack), and definitely one that I enjoyed.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Oh come on it's not that bad., July 16, 2002

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"monkeys_and_anime" (Euclid, Oh United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garzey's Wing (DVD)

I saw this movie right after seeing Legend of Lemnear (bought the 2-pack), so maybe anything looks better but I didn't mind this movie. True it's not the greatest movie I've ever seen but it's entertaining. There's interesting fighting and the typical fantasy theme of normal person sent to another world. I even found the idea unique that rather than his whole self being sent there, only his subconcious is and his physical mind and body are left in his world. Oh yeah I was kinda surprised that he spends the first five minutes naked and fights demons in the nude as well. Hmmmm, nope, nothing wrong with that. Heheh, it's not like they showed anything and it's a welcome change from seeing naked women all the time in anime.

So as long as you watch this subtitled in Japanese, it's possible to enjoy yourself. However I found watching it dubbed quite humorous. It turned a simple fantasy anime into a very hilarious comedy.

"you.. HAVE.. failed..the college entrance.. exams tWice"

"No .. I shall go TO THE.. pool... party..tomarrow."

"YOu ...ARE so EASY....going"

It truly sounds like these voice actors are trying to do a bad job. How is it possible to sound this way. I don't understand. It's like those old kung fu or Godzilla movies that everyone always makes fun of. Actually, it's more like when someone is making fun of kung fu or Godzilla movies and puposely exagerating how bad it can sound. Oh gosh this movie is funny. Actually you may wanna buy this movie just to hear for yourself how bad the dub is.