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The Heroic Legend of Arslan

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4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Heroic Legend of Arslan is one of my favarite story. I read the books several times and I even bought a DVD player this Christmas just to view this anime. Overall, it's well made anime. The production did a great job on putting the original story into anime. BUT, why,why, US Manga skipped the last part. The real ending! If you don't know the original story, the anime itself looks loose, ill-plotted.

If you love shojo or fantasy based anime then you should watch this OAV series. It has high quality animation art (that gets even better in OAV II). The characters are beautifully detailed, and the backgrounds are stunning. This OAV series has a very detailed and interesing story about a young, bishounen's quest to reclaim his kingdom. This OAV also has a terrific sound track, stunning sword and sorcery action, and a very good english voice over cast ( I actually prefer the english cast over the Japanese one, because hearing the characters speak with either british or Indian accents adds a feeling to the story that the Japanese version does not).

The Heroic legend of Arslan was one of the best movie for me. This DVD have a really good quality(the picture,sound,special feature,and subtitle is the best). The story about young prince Arslan who want to take back his country(Pals) from Lusitania.
This story contain war,blood,betrayal,etc. It only have a little love story so for someone who like love story, this is not for you. Although this is a war story, this is not too serious.
But for me this is a splendid series, this series have a good plot, good story, beautiful picture and beautiful characters. And this series also have a good voice actors (Japanese). Please!!!Please!!! don't watch this series with dubbed voice(English), it make me crazy when I tried to watch with dubbed voice.
I'm just disappointed with one thing in this series. This series is not finished. So for you who want to see the "Ending" of this series you will be dissapointed too. If you want to see complete story you must buy this manga and novel (all of them in japanese language). The title of manga/comic and novel is "Arslan Senki" and you must buy these in internet because all of them is out of stock in japan,except novel (I bought all of this in www.jpqueen.com).
I give 5 stars because for me this is a beautiful war stories so I recommend all of you to buy this series.

THIS IS THE BEST PART OF THE ARISLAN SERIES. THE ART IS AWESOME AND SO IS THE STORYLINE. IT TELLS OF HOW ARISLAN MUST TAKE HIS FATHER PLACE AS RULER AFTER HIS FATHER WAS CAPTURED. THIS MOVIE GIVES YOU A GREAT INTORDUCTION TO THE OTHER CHARECTERS THAT PLAY A MAJOR PART IN THIS MOVIE. IF YOU LIKED THIS TRY parts 2,3and4, age of heroes.

Actually there are more than 4 episodes to the story. I think there are 2-4 more. I don't think they were ever released in the United States though because this series wasn't that popular over here. The voice acting is pretty good though and I love the song at the end too.

The reason why the story has a Persian look to it is because it is based off of a Persian story. Knowing this made the story even more interesting than it is presented. Yes, the imagery is beautiful and is accurate in many ways--even with the inclusion of Zoroastrian chants. The story seems to be based off of the persian story "Amir Arslan" & it is also related to the "Shaname"/"Shanameh" by Firdowsi/Ferdowsi. The "nouns" ARE important, and the second translation would be truer to the Persian names they are related to. Though they say "Palsian" during the anime what is meant is "Persian". In Japanese there is that interesting relationship in how "r's" and "l's" sound. "Pars" was where the name "Persia" came from...and in another quirk of language and pronunciation, the Arabs could not pronounce "p's" so the Persian language became known as Farsi instead of Parsi. The lack of an ending is somewhat sad, but you can try to look up the source, "Amir Arslan," if you can find one in your language, or even parts of the Shanameh for more information. This is part of Persia's/Iran's historical/mythical/cultural past and it can be fascinating. The Shanameh is a long read--9 volumes worth. For more information on the shanameh, type "shanameh" or "Firdowsi" into a search engine....

I had wanted to see The Heroic Legend of Prince Arislan/Arslan for a long time after seeing the trailers. The animation is simply presented (often the backgrounds are simplified or non-existant) while still beautiful. The character design is lovely, although admittedly they lack any serious depth -- probably because the cast is so large. The sudden decisions to change not only the spelling of all proper nouns but all of the voice casting for the last parts were tragic and pointless ones. The American voice cast stinks in comparison to the British casting of earlier parts. As a classic and enjoyable piece of anime, it's still worth having, but be wary of a disappointing finale for the reasons above, and lack of closure.

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!

The first three films in this set are amazing and it's nice to finally get everything together in one place. This is a real gem of a series, a sprawling romp through ancient history taking ideas from all over the place with beautiful character designs and epic battle scenes.
On the downside, the print transfer is not the best quality and the final installment sees not only a change in names for the characters but an american voice cast, who while good, just don't cut it after the incredible english casts efforts in the other three films.
If it was re-dubbed, cleaned up a bit and re-released I'd buy it - otherwise stick to renting and think about buying the X TV series instead.

It takes two stars out of the all result,I loved disc A but disk B did not satisfy beacause it does not end in the english languache version for all i have seen so far.Who dubbed the War of heroes so differently than the other parts ? They could at least try to make the voices sound alike to keep the sense of continuity while one is watching.All and all it is very good and does satisfy in the standards of production,graphics and end credits.