Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• 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: Adv Films
• DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009PLM80
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,960 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Toga is AWOL. Leele is still recovering from her emotional shock. Mizuki and Luna are missing. Ena is dead. Could the situation be any worse? Yes, the Zeravire are intensifying their attack under the direction of Hugi Zeravire, who is after Sandman to settle an old score. He’s on his way toward Earth and the consequences look to be dire.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Goodbye Gravion!, August 16, 2005

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MarthaC (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gravion Zwei, Vol. 3: Humanity's Edge (DVD)

This is the last of this series and it ends with a bang, as the two rival groups of pilots get it together for the final confrontation.

If you have a favorite character in this series, they all get their moments in these last few episodes, with some secrets revealed at last. All of the English voice actors did a great job throughout the whole series. The sly fanservice and digs at the mecha genre were a lot of fun

This DVD earns three stars because the story rushes too much at the end to tie up loose ends, skimping on how these revelations can affect the various characters, perhaps if the story had contained less comedy and more character developement it would had been better and more logical how the story ends

1.0 out of 5 stars FINAL BATTLES, November 2, 2006

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Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gravion Zwei, Vol. 3: Humanity's Edge (DVD)

The Grand Knights have been scattered to the winds. Toga has left the group after causing Leele to retreat into a vegetative state after he reveals her past. Ena is presumed dead after careening into the ocean preceded by a deep fry by a Zeravire energy beam . Luna too has been hospitalized/imprisoned by government forces after the EFA Gran Troopers had to rescue Gravion from being destroyed. Mizuki was revealed last volume to have been a spy, but now is having second thoughts about betraying her ex-teammates. Incredibly, it's Eiji, the obnoxious hothead, who has to track down Toga and begin to regroup his shellshocked friends. Meanwhile, Sandman's evil brother, Hugli, the leader of the Zeravire, appears as a giant hologram all around the world and threatens to destroy the Earth within 48 hours!

I liked the first season of this show and even enjoyed Volume 1 of the second. But starting with Volume 2 of Gravion Zwei, I found the plot almost incomprehensible, especially the backstory. I still don't really understand what happened to Sandman and his brother centuries ago. I know someone very dear to Hugli died and he blamed Sandman for it, but beyond that, I don't get it. Volume 3 attempts to up the emotional ante, but instead the characters become so weepy and sentimental that they become ridiculous. All the episodes since Volume 2 have seemed forced, from Ena's death to Mizuki's betrayal, to Ayaka's disguise as Raven. The writers of the show are saying that they have to have to have big revelatory events because the plot doesn't really have anything going for it, resulting in some pretty lamebrained twists.