Introduction
Gods once lived on earth, and two siblings, Oceanus - God of Water, and Hyperia - Goddess of Fire, lived in peace and dearly loved each other. However, the God of Wind, Algaroc, become jealous of the pair's happiness, and spread lies and deceit between them until their hatred for each other brought about war.
Finally, Algaroc was imprisoned by the King of Gods, but after that time, the brother and sister still despised each other, so the Children of Fire and Water forever remained apart. But, then Prince Syrius of the Water and Princess Malta of the Fire meet and fall in love. The love of Syrius and Malta may not be enough to surpass their parents' hatred. Whether they can stay together forever may be impossible
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Audience reviews
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Zeoguri
Hopefully readers don't mind, but this is going to be a very personal review from me because this is a very personal movie to me. "This" refers to Sirius no Densetsu, better known in the US as The Sea Prince and the Fire Child, and better known to *me* as "The Fire Prince and the Water Child" because the colors have been confusing me for over thirty years. That's right, over thirty years because this was the very first Japanese anime I ever watched as a child!
I owe this experience to my grandmother, a TV addict who counted her twin VCRs amongst her most prized possessions and used it liberally to amass a large collection of over a hundred, maybe even several hundred, pirated VHS tapes. Crucially, she was also at that time what we'd probably now refer to as a "Disney adult" so that when I…
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Sea Prince and the Fire Child, also known as Legend of Sirius, is a 1981 fantasy/ romantic drama film from Sanrio. Set in a world where beings of fire and water hold hostilities with one another, the prince of the sea named Sirius and the princess of fire named Malta fall in love with one another and struggle to stay together due to their relationship being considered taboo among both their kinds.
Sanrio seemed to be going for a Romeo and Juliet style storyline in depicting the romance between Sirius and Malta for Sea Prince and the Fire Child. The approach works decently here as the movie implements the themes of Shakespeare's tragedy effectively with love being great yet cruel, the rivalry between the tribes of the movie being pointless, and the flaws of the couple in love contributing…
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Basically it's a Romeo and Juliet style story, right down to the not-so-happily-ever-after ending.
Sanrio is a funny little company - known for their overwhelming cuteness overload with Hello Kitty and friends, and yet earlier in their existence they were also known for making movies with stories that are not exactly kiddie-friendly. Like Bell of Chirin.
In this case, you have a little bit of nudity, and (as mentioned above) non-Disney-everybody-happy ending. Its a tragic tale of forbidden love between two people who must forever be kept apart; but the real tragedy is there is hope held out for a happy pairing, only to slip from their grasp.
Decent artwork, decent animation, decent sound. Could have done with a little less of the annoying sidekicks, though.
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I’m reluctant to categorize Sea Prince and the Fire Child as a children’s cartoon―seeing as the overarching theme of Windaria, an ADULT-ORIENTED animated film felt a little bit less bleak. This film was produced by Sanrio Films, which also created the infamously dark “children’s” cartoon―Ringing Bell; which had me scratching my head as an adult―I can’t even imagine what a child would decipher a film that teaches, “if someone slaughters your entire family―hunt them down to… ask them to be your mentor, and then kill more of your own kind!” I don’t know, it’s a kooky film!
• This story, in layman’s terms, is a mythical rendition of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which, probably sounds really cool―until you see how the plot is handled. There are several stupid mishaps by characters that coul…
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The story is pretty much a Romeo and Juliet style with elemental gods instead of humans. This makes me have mixed feelings. While the story is so old and pretty much exactly what you would expect of the tale, I do like the gods a bit. Sadly, it was not enough to save the story as it felt bland in both voice acting and artwork. It just doesn’t pop at all and I felt myself becoming bored while watching it as there was no surprise, no special meaning behind any of it.
The artwork is pretty beautiful but it is far from perfect. While the watercolors and special backgrounds pop, the characters seem to feel a little lack luster. The design of the characters feel like they are bland. Malta has only a small hint of wearing something although she is pretty much nude to a point and her limbs are ju…
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Legend of Sirius is a Disney Movie. OK, it’s not by Disney or by any of the staff from Disney, but not a single aspect of it makes me feel like it originated from Japan, obviously helped by watching the dub. It’s a re imagining of the classic Romeo and Juliet tale except this time set in a mythical land between Fire People and Water People. Because if there’s ever two things that don’t get along, fire vs water is only beaten by light vs dark and moe fans vs mecha fans. So much of this is classic Disney. The main character has a wise-cracking smaller friend who helps him out when he is in a desperate state towards the end of the movie. He also has doofus rival who comes in and messes up his plans in a significant way where as earlier he was just a minor annoyance. The…
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Hey this is my second review for a show that hasn't gotten any recognition.
Story-Well its the Romeo Juliet esque plot line with two sets of parents and or families in which despise each other. The introductory part of the story tells how the Water god and Fire god came into conflict.The sea prince is the son of the Water god at first he shows a trait for running away on his escapades. Conversingly the fire princess and or fire child is dutiful to her mother at first( guarding the flame etc..). After the two main characters encounter each other is less friendly with an exchange of verbose name calling, but this is due to their parents respectively portraying the other side in a pejorative manner. Then of course after several meetings the veneer that taught them to hate each other was repr…
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