Product Details

• Actors: Stacey DePass, Denis Akiyama, Richard Clarkin, William Colgate, Damon D'Oliveira
• Writers: Mark Askwith
• Producers: Paul McConvey, Randall H. Zalken, Reiko Fukakusa, Toshiaki Harada
• Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC
• Language: 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: Section 23
• DVD Release Date: November 20, 2001
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005NZIY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,163 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Power Stone - Mystery of the Stones (Vol. 1)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The first four episodes of the TV series based on the popular video game are set in a vaguely turn-of-the-century London. The son of a wealthy archeologist, Falcon dreams of becoming the champion "fighter" of the world. When the whiny old family retainer brings him a mysterious gem, Falcon plunges into a conflict involving such curious characters as Rouge the fortuneteller, Ryoma the samurai, a living mummy, a troupe of ninja spies disguised as circus acrobats (including a transvestite star), and Octo and Pus, the Team Rocket of the series. Although Falcon remains ignorant of the stone's true power, it enables him to transform into a scarlet mecha version of himself. In either form, he comes across as a supercilious and not particularly likable hero. Power Stone is a fighting game, but the action in the animated version is minimal and cartoony. Rated 12 Up: Cartoon violence. --Charles Solomon

From the Back Cover

One of the gaming world's groundbreaking video games is now the coolest animated hit of the year! When young Edward Falcon is given a mysterious power stone, this teenage fighter is transformed into a rocket-powered robot warrior! Together with his friends—the sexy fortuneteller, Rouge, the dedicated samurai Ryoma, and the beautiful ninja Ayame—Falcon must travel the world over the find all the magical power stones!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This is a dvd only a capcom or powerstone fan would love., November 20, 2001

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timothy kreis (cincinnati, oh United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Stone - Mystery of the Stones (Vol. 1) (DVD)

This Dvd was fairly decent but i only recommend for the powerstone and capcom fanatics. Its got decent animation, fair to capcom, and a so so story line. But i recommend it to die hard capcom/powerstone fans. If your curious about it and arent those kind of fans then i reccomend renting it. worth the curiousity.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Power Stone first anime., January 30, 2002

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Erick Magee (Moss Point, MS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Stone - Mystery of the Stones (Vol. 1) (DVD)

I play Power Stone on Dreamcast and I like it. When I saw Power Stone had a anime, I went and got it. The anime was very good and very funny. The downsides were the DVD only have trailers of other titles,no extras, and the fight scenes were not much. Besides that, I liked the anime. Give it a try, you may liked it.

7 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars First Review, November 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Power Stone - Mystery of the Stones (Vol. 1) (DVD)

I recently bought this DVD of Powerstone. I saw this in native Japanese on TV in Japan, and enjoyed the series a lot. I was happy to hear that I could buy it in the US for a good price.
However, I was quite disappointed at the lack of features, namely, not being able to have the original Japanese language nor the original song or intro.
I'm sure many out there are as disappointed as I am with having only the English version on DVD. Honestly, I am not happy with the English dialogue, nor the new introduction. The new introduction song is horrible!
Basically, why pay extra for practically the same thing you can get on a VHS?
I would have bought Japanese DVDs, but as you know they are very expensive, around $60 each DVD volume. My advice is to not buy this at all unless you don't speak Japanese, and want to see the series anyway. Translation is not that good, and this English version gives a bad name to the series.

Blame Lacey Entertainment, who determines what goes on the DVD. AD Vision just creates the DVD according to their instructions.

-Mako