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Gaea is a strange world. While it does feel somewhat midevil fantasy, it has that wierd "only-in-Japanese-Anime" merger between a fantasy style world and strange technology. This strange technology apparently enables giant mecha suits, called "Gaimelif", piolted by knights. The Gaimelif of course look similar to midevil battle armor (with that Japanese flair) and must fight eachother with, yes of course, really big swords.
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I had known for a long time that this animated series existed. I remembered seeing the VHS tapes in the "Family" section of movies at retailers like Electronics Boutique or Best Buy, back in the days of VHS of course. However when this OVA was in general circulation (1997 / 1998) I remember not knowing what the heck story it was about. Not surprising because not many people, including myself, had played Final Fantasy V. Not until Final Fantasy Anthology came out in 2000 did I play Final...
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In my quest for quality fantasy anime, I am often times taken in by nice box art and intriguing synopses on the back cover of the box, especially on value priced complete DVD collections. As was the case when I noticed the "Sorcerer Hunters" complete collection at my local Best Buy. The price was right, I forget the exact amount but it was about $40 retail. What I got was "fantasy" but definately not what I expected, sure it was part traditional "fantasy" but it was also part something else...
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There are three things I'm a sucker for in an Anime series those are: fantasy, detailed animation, and an epic dramatic plot. Therefore, having seen some intriguing artwork for "The Twelve Kingdoms, I read a few reviews that made it out in the aforementioned "epic dramatic fantasy" light. Thus I had been eying it at my Best Buy for some time now. However the two complete packages...ostracized
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First I remember the trailers for this movie back 5 years ago and being semi-intruged but after seeing "The Lion King" I had sworn off Disney many years ago. (For the record I do enjoy the classic Disney films, and I did like Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast...but Lion King was well...not my cup of P.C. tea so to speak.) However one of my favorite websites gave me food for thought, www.imdb.com. Let me copy some of the movie's salient trivia that intruged me into the audition:...
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