Audience reviews
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Caeruleus_CCXVI
6.5/10 ~ Not as good as the original but still a fun ride
I cant really say anything that user "JTurner" has not said, if you want a more detailed explanation on the shows go look at this review.
I watched very little of this and the OVA series as a child and remembered almost nothing from either except that elves are hot. The OVA series being a OVA took many more liberties in overall story as OVA's from the 80s/90's tended to do, and the original was no exception:
-Poorly story telling
--things just happen
-poorly written charecters
-overly sexual
-overly violent -usually decent dubs
Where this "Sequel" was forsure made for TV broadcast by being:
-full 27 episode series
-much better story telling
-slightly better written charecters
-far less sexual
-worse voice actors for the dub
-ob…
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Ok... Wasted enough time on this already.
After the Lodoss War OVA this is an utter multi-train crash where all the trains contained trash.
I've been trying to get through this for the last 24+ years since it's initial release. Back in the day before the internet made finding this easy it was all dodgy VCDs from some random model shops... and this was always a struggle to find... and then you did and you understood why: it's offensively bad.
I'm struggling to find a nice thing to say about this... except the OP Music: it's surprisingly great - and you'll find yourself humming it around the house.
But I know what you're really here for - some more chibi bashing... and my god does it need bashing so this crap goes away and never ever comes back into this type of anime. It's utterly char…
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Honestly, I was very disappointed by this. I'm a big lover of fantasy, I read a lot of fantasy novels and play D&D, I also loved the original OVA, but this one was far below what I expected.
The writing was extremely predictable and often, I found myself wanting for more. Something unpredictable, something that would explain character motivations, particularly the villains who came off as "evil for evil's sake" and not someone with actual meaningful motivations for the things they did. I didn't care for most of the characters and honestly, it was a drag to get through.
I still love the character designs, honestly, I still think they have one of the best designs for elves and even if the animation is subpar at times, I can't complain about the art style itself. But I still wouldn't recommen…
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This anime is sortof a sequel, sortof a retelling of the original Record of Lodoss War OAV. Continuity-wise, it seems to be something of a combination of the two. Some things distinctly happen after those events, some things seem to happen during the same period of time. In my own head, I think of it as a sequel.
This anime is a more "anime" anime. The characters are more colorful (visually), and although it is good, I don't like the animation quite as much as I did the animation from the OAV. Although I think the characters are a bit more interesting. This one is longer, and it has more time to flesh out the characters.
The music is lovely.
I also do really enjoy the short animations at the end of each episode. I think they're hilarious.
Read at the sourceDoutei-kun
It might not be fair to write a review on a show which was made two decades ago from now, but i'll write it anyway. It might also not be fair to compare it with the shows that exist today, but I'll do it anyway.
The STORYLINE is good... but it's implementation is concise and lacks details. Watching it felt like 27 episodes weren't really enough to briefly describe the events, character development, which are the MOST SIGNIFICANT ISSUES with this show.
The CHARACTERS were really immature (especially SPARK), although the quotes they said from time to time were really motivating. The first 8 episodes has PARN as its main character, but after that the mc role is taken by SPARK. I would be fine with any protagonist, but the immature personality of SPARK stopped me from liking him as a chara…
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You could say this TV series "Chronicles of the Heroic Knight" picks up after the OVA which rolls back and roughly covers the second half of Ryo Mizuno's light novels. It takes place about after episode 7 of the OVA and follows the party members as they grow up, facing new enemies that threaten Lodoss as well as the aspiring new hero, Spark hence the title. Art's not quite as detailed which is usually the case for longer running TV series but character designs more or less look similar to the OVA. Some of the voices don't sound as well matched.
The show's kind of aimed at a younger audience with its "Welcome to Lodoss Island" (horrible) mini shorts which is probably why there's no blood in it and more joking around. I actually found it a sleeper most of the time because it doesn't have th…
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When translating something from the written medium to film or animation there can be certain aspects of the story that may be lost in translation. However it is sometimes wise to sacrifice certain things, and to that I will explain further, but first, normally I do not write a review to the series I have watched unless what I watched was so bad that it was worthy of a cautionary summation to future viewers. Now mind you I did not find anything that bad or appalling in this series, but I felt that the viewer ratings didn't reflect the true quality of the series.
So I will begin this by saying that the author wrote this story well out of their normal comfort zone. It is hard to take and tell a tale that is not in relation to your heritage, for instance it is hard for a storyteller who live…
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Kind of like this one better over the Lodoss War OVA series, biggest reason being the greater amount of character depth and development. The OVA series just breezed by with its plot developments, leaving little time to develop its characters. Here though, many of the characters get fleshing out over their motives and some even grow over the course of the series. Even baddie Ashram gets focus to show that he has honorable reasons for fighting alongside the enemy faction. There are still some characters that were underdeveloped, such as Parn and Deedlit. But the character depth here is of great improvement from the OVA series.
As for the show's plot, it is your standard fantasy adventure series with the first eight episodes having a different take to the Scepter of Domination storyline from…
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No, it's not a sequel, but rather a retelling of the events that follow episode eight of the original OVA. Actually, the Lodoss OVA are a somewhat streamlined telling of the novels they were based on. This longer, more drawn-out 27-episode television series hews closer to its source material, but in doing so causes for inconsistencies between the two programs. This has caused a lot of confusion for many viewers, although the booklet contained with the series (and the DVD-ROM bonus extras) do help to explain them. There have been a lot of mixed reactions to Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight, with many who dismissed it as a cheap, inferior spin-off of the (arguably superior) OVA. Once you get accustomed to its oddities, however, this series isn't as inferior as it has bee…
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Having watched the original Record of Lodoss War, I went into this title with a little bit of apprehension. Sequels have a notorious reputation for being sub par in comparison to their predecessors. Luckily, Chronicles of the Heroic Knight breaks that stereotype in a fairly big and entertaining way.
For some reason, I could not get into the original Lodoss, try as I may. However, Chronicles had me hooked from episode one, despite the fact that the first batch of episodes are basically a rehashed version of the OVA storyline. Fair warning though; don’t get used to seeing Parn and Deedlit in every episode. After the introduction, it’s as if the original Lodoss story never happened. A new cast, and a large one at that, is introduced with new enemies and new motives. While it was…
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