Customer Reviews

Wolf's Rain - Recollections (Vol. 4)

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

 

 

I rented this with high expectations but ended up stopping it halfway through. I had no idea that the disc would be a complete recap of the previous action. Thus my hopes for a new plot twist or perhaps some explanations for many of the mysteries in the series were dashed.

Don't get me wrong - I love this series. The artwork is fantastic and the soundtrack inspired (thank god for Yoko Kanno - she is hands down my favorite anime composer today). But there is so much to be explored in this story! I'm very disappointed that Studio Bones wasted 4 hours of critical plot development time to a recap. Perhaps it was money related - I don't know the details. What I do know is that as a fan of this series, I wish that these episodes could have been used to develop the story rather than just throwing in old animation.

Bottom line: If you've not watched any of the previous episodes, you could get this DVD and catch up on the story in only 4 episodes as opposed to 12. But who'd want to?

Unless you are one of those people (like me) who run out and buy every disk of a series you like right when it comes out, please just save your money. This disk is a complete dissapointment, and I'm sorry that I spent money on it. I waited and waited to get it only to find out that it's entirely flashbacks! I can understand one recap episode to sum things up, but four? No, thank you. It won't stop me from getting the next one though, it's a fantastic series, i just hope that there's new stuff on the next disk ^_^

I have been collecting the Wolf's Rain DVDs, so naturally when this volume came out I rushed and bought it on the day of its release. However, this all ended in disappointment when I found that I... basically already own this disc. My previous discs essentially contain the same episodes that are recapped on this disc. If you have been a Wolf's Rain collector up to this point... be forewarned that you already own these episodes. I would only suggest buying this DVD for the collector's value, but be forewarned that the storyline does not progress at all here.

Add me to the folks who thought this would continue the storyline and were disappointed. There's really no reason to get this one unless you just want to own them all. All of the footage is cut from older episodes with a few extra bits of dialogue added.

Wish I'd checked for reviews before picking it up.

This is a great anime series but if you have the first 3 disc then there is absolutley no reason to purchase this dvd. I only wish that there had been some type of warning on the cover that this was a recap dvd. I give this dvd 1 star because I feel ripped off!

No new material, just a recap of things already seen. A complete waste of money. Interestingly, the description on the back was exactly the same as vol.2 . Maybe they were trying to send a warning. If you can find a way to get your money back, do so.

I finished the DVD in 5 min. Bandai, this is a total disgrace. I can undestand if we are in Japan and the production is running slow on the weekly program and these episode are padded in. Or 1-2 episodes are used to add more info with recap. But to inlude these in the US release is just shameful! IF YOU ALREADY OWN DISC 1-3 (I assume you do, otherwise you would not be interested in this one?), save your money and proceed to disc 5!

So i finish disc 3, pop in disc 4 ready for more action...suddenly i'm watching disc 1 again. except disc 1 is in its case.
there was no reason to even have this so called recollection disc. real lame now i gotta wait for disc 5 to arrive in the mail.

Ok, I like this series, buy honestly, it did not need four recap episodes in a row. The naration doesn't give any new insightsor reveal anything about the plot. If I had known that I would have bought this disk last, if at all.

What happened? Instead of continuing on with this fantastic series, the animators decided to use one whole DVD volume to recap all events up to this point. Did someone in the production team realize that the series was going to be one DVD short in filling up the box set & they decided to remedy that?

Get Vol. 4 ONLY if you have short term memory issues or like looooooooong flashbacks. Otherwise skip to Volume 5, you'll be glad you did.