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| I enjoyed it, but yes, there definately needed to be a lot more mecha action. It felt like they were taking their sweet time with the first half, where not much happened, and then tried to cram everything else into the second 30 minutes. Ah well, I loved the art style. Wish there were more movies so the plotline could be explored further, but I guess it wasn't enough of a success that anyone ever picked it up again. Yes, I know there's a manga, but that makes it even stranger that nobody ever adapted any more of it. Of course, Nausicaa was popular and they never adapted the rest of that, either. What I wouldn't do for an updated version of that one ... |
| It's pretty shot for shot with the first volume of the manga, the biggest problem is that more films weren't made. I that Nagano, being the perfectionist he is, wasn't pleased with it and that the director wasn't that familiar with the source material either. I'm not even sure how that's possible when the end product is rather fantastic. Besides, adapting more of the manga wouldn't have mattered, because it jumps around throughout thousands of years and over many different stories and characters, so nothing would really be that coherent; the manga and mangaka are quite enigmatic. |
| Was a bit boring tbh,if only more anime were made it wouldn't feel pointless. Might check out the manga though. |
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| Even without reading the manga you can tell that this is pretty much the opening to a great saga, and it made me interested and hungry for more of it. The art was really superb, especially the backgrounds and mech designs (it's Nagano designs after all). It was a bit of a bummer to only see a couple minutes of action, since the designs were really good and I'd love seeing them in action. But I don't mind how it ended up, the story and characters were still really interesting. |
 "Your sight, my delight. Will you marry me?" |
| That scenery animation. |
 Novels I have read/am reading pending approval: since November 10 2022 |
| Well this sure was quite the nice movie if you ask me, better than expected to be honest! Especially liked the overly shoujo style for the characters and lovely environment background detail! Apart from the last part of the movie there wasn't much mecha involved, but still quite a lovely piece I must say. All in all a pretty solid movie and that all because of Wakamoto Norio having a VA role in it! |
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| Pretty solid, I liked a lot of the visuals, music was good. |
| “I love heroes, but I don't want to be one. Do you even know what a hero is!? For example, you have some meat. Pirates will feast on the meat, but the hero will distribute it among the people! I want to eat the meat!” - Monkey D. Luffy |
| I had high hopes seeing the intro regarding the artificial life / android aspect but it didnt really do anything with it. We barely get to know the characters or the story. Maybe it's because it's only an hour and it feels like it's supposed to be something much bigger |
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| I've been keeping an eye on FSS since I saw some gifs from the movie and read that It's a Mecha/Fantasy combination which seems interesting, finally decided to watch the movie. The scenery and the mech designs are very beautiful, gorgeous visuals. I liked the mirage knights, the Amaterasu seems like an interesting faction. I'm planning on reading the manga, I hope that they focus more on the mechs |
| It felt and pretty much was a prologue to a grander story that we will probably never get to see or read. The movie covered the first volume/story arc of the manga, the manga however went into hiatus for 9 years at one point, it did come back in 2014 but to this date it seem like the manga has yet to be complete (and is likely to stay that way forever). Anyways the visual in this were beautiful especially in BD quality.  More images here. |
| It was a pretty good mecha 80s movie to be honest, but too bad it is too short, only 1 hour, so the whole plot was really rushed and it lack of action except for the last 20 minutes, it would have been really good if it was longer and also with more explanations |
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| Animation was good, but the execution of plot wasn't |
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| Wow this was such a high production movie and from what I know there is plenty of the source material left to adapt. I wonder why they never made more movies. This movie was a good introduction and basically did a good job of setting up the world and characters. Hopefully someday we get sequels to this. |
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| Could have made more of it. It felt like the story 'finally' begins and then it's over. |
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Could have made more of it.
It felt like the story 'finally' begins and then it's over.
It felt like the story 'finally' begins and then it's over.
| @chriskris91 My thoughts exactly. I checked this after watching an AMV for the ED theme, and to my disappointment the best part of this movie was the last 15mins or so. As a mecha fan, I feel kinda cheated... |