List Price: $19.95Now Price: $1.25Studio: Central Park MediaRunning time: 80Release date: 1995-03-07Formats: Animated, Color, NTSC
Not horrible, but not great
2005-01-16
I was excited to watch this series when I first heard about it, following the rave reviews it had recieved from fellow gamers, but I was let down upon actually watching it. The plot was jumpy and unconvincing, and the characters ended up seeming like hollow puppets, shoved and pushed in every direction so the "real story" could be uncovered for the viewer, while the whole specifically did not revolve around anything particularly significant or interesting to those same characters. To put it more simply, it lacked the human interest, partiuclarly with the characters, that makes for a good story.
That most D&D players think this anime is good or spectacular says more about D&D players and what they consider "good", due to the unique habituation to particular dysfunctional elements of story often present in the hobby, than it does about the quality of this anime. All in all, this anime played exactly like a traditionally-run campaign of D&D -- where the DM tells a grand story to the players, who are there to experience and participate in the events as proxy-by-character. The (ostensibly) "main" characters act as witnesses to the real adventure, rather than the central actors in the piece as prime motivators of the unfolding story-events.
Ultimately, while not "horrible" -- nothing close to some of the worst anime I have seen -- it was nowhere near five-star material. This is a good movie and you'll probably enjoy it if you are twelve years old, or if you are not being very picky. If you want to zone out and watch some decent visuals, sword battles, and dragon fights for a couple nights, then "Record of Lodoss War" might be a good choice, but if you are looking for interesting, gripping, high-adventure with memorable characters and thoughtful plot events, this series is not it.
My First Anime Let Down
2002-12-05
After being tied down to the chair and subjected to "Slayers" I became a heads over heels anime fan. I'd heard a great deal about "Records of Lodoss War" which was supposed to be a completely serious form of "Slayers." I eagerly anticipated viewing the series, yet when I finally got my hands on it I found I was in for a major let down.While I thought some of the plot twists were original and had some potential, I simply could not get into the characters. It was as if they were cookie cutter characters put in their for moving the plot. They were not original, and the only one who I took even the slightest interest in was Shiris, though she got little screen time. In the end, I could not bring myself to care about what happened in the series. Everyone could die and the world could have been destroyed and I wouldn't have been phased. Everyone could have survived and had ridden out into the sunset together and I wouldn't have been moved. What the series left me with was a complete feeling of apathy, though I guess it is the expected result if you take your characters straight from a D&D campaign.
It is a have to see ova
2002-04-07
If you like a mixture of drama, magic, adventure and everything else you can think this fantasy anime ova has all that. knights dragons and what not. i loved it this ova is difently good. If you havn't seen it you should. Record of Lodoss War is differnt. people in other reviews say that its a copy from other fantsy movies and books but my opinion is that it is orrignal and one that you can't just put one vidio in and watch it and walk away you have to see it all. hope this is helpful this ova is great!
Great Series, but DVD is a better buy
2001-10-30
The Lodoss War OVA series is great anime, but if you have access to a DVD player, this set has been re-released as a 2 DVD set, which costs less, looks better, and takes up a lot less space. This is a great anime fantasy series and definately worth seeing.
Worth the full 5 stars.
2001-08-23
Record of Lodoss War, the original, is buy far the best anime series I've seen. I have the Legend of Crystania series, and both series fullfil my expectations of fantasy. You see, I'm a D&D fan. I've been playing D&D since I was a freshmen in high school (I graduated as a senior in high school May 26 this last year). I don't know what some of others are talking about. Record of Lodoss War, the OVA, is a keeper in my book. If you're a fan of D&D, Tolkien's Lord of Rings and Silmarion, or fantasy in general, I highly recommend you buy Record of Lodoss War the OVA.
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