Audience reviews
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AeroGunz
“Legend of Lemnear” is what happens when you have Taarna at home.
Taarna is a character from the last story in 1981 “Heavy Metal” movie. A whiźte haired, scantily clad in red (and black), riding a flying reptile that looks a lot like a weird chicken, warrior on her quest to avenge the slaughter of innocents. She starts her journey in a bar, gets into a fight, later is captured, stripped and has to fight a powerful sociopath with a boner for power.
Lemnear is the titular character of “Legend of Lemnear”. A white haired, scantily clad in red (this time only in red, but to be honest I think the amount of red that Taarna wears would still cover more of her body than that what Lemnear wears), riding a flying reptile that looks a lot like a weird chicken, warrior on her quest to avenge the slau…
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One’s liminal ears at the precipice of lemony tears, soured by the duress and distress of all that you hear could only match a crumb of the heartache from the mythopoetic soul that resides in Lemnear. Should sword and sorcery offer a companion piece from a land in the East, this would be most welcome a feast in the midst of past contemporaries deceased. And that it does in its dealings with life and death, truly its effervescence springs forward past its grave leaving none bereft.
In the bosom of Indo-European tradition, our heroine embarks a journey through perdition to rescue her sacred kin, and in solace by the end, leaving none chagrin. For in the heart of darkness to overcome spirits resided far too long in the shade, one must be their own light thus that their own will shan’t be be…
Read at the sourceSapphireloid
Hey there! Are you a bored dweeb that scrolls through retro anime OVAs that rank as well as b-movies as I do? Then chances are you've run across this title.
At first glance, it seems like your run-of-the-mill fantasy, so I thought I was about to watch some mediocre fantasy that you could mistake for any other. Though I suppose I was foolish in that with me being someone who likes Satoshi Urushihara's artstyle, but not his way of inserting fanservice so much. Like I'm fine with fanservice, his insertion of it so far just sucks.
Though, big warning, don't go in blind like I did if you're sensitive to attempted rape and groping scenes. Certainly wasn't the most welcome of surprises.
Nonetheless, this OVA sticks to the typical fantasy formula I know of with few departures. It's something th…
Read at the sourceKamezuki
“Legend of Lemnear: Kyokuguro no Tsubasa Valkisas” is a one-episode high fantasy OVA that has a typical beginning, an unnecessarily and egregiously explicit middle, a boring final fight, and a predictable ending.
The OVA starts out ordinarily enough — we have a flashback to where the bad guy kidnaps a guy called the “bronze hero,” who is the brother of the “silver hero,” who is the only one powerful enough to defeat the bad guy, the “gold hero.” Years (?) later, the “silver hero,” the titular Lemnear, is traveling from town to town with her trusty flying dragon-horse mount, in search of the bad guy. She eventually finds him, and after lots of explicit “adventures” and all-too-convenient power-ups, she goes on to fight him and the “gold hero” in a flying fortress.
The story does progress…
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Legend of Lemnear is a show that you are forgiven for having no idea it ever existed. I myself only found out about it because I by happenstance dropped the Lemnear character in a discord karuta game. However something about her design piqued my interests and I sought out the 40 minute OVA (subbed of course because the dubbed is absolutely atrocious). After having seen the OVA, I can say with good confidence it's a hidden gem.
Story: 6/10
The basic premise is that an evil race of bad people™ sought to genocide a tribe of warriors and did just that, killing all but 2. These two were Lemnear, the protagonist of the movie, and her brother who was kidnapped. Her quest is to avenge her people and rescue her brother. Using her wits, her fists, and some magic I won't go into because spoilers. Ho…
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Sword and sorcery fantasy OVA with a healthy dose of nudity and fan-service. Although not the comedy style fan-service that most associate the term with these days, this one's pretty serious. I actually liked it pretty well, even though it doesn't do much to stand out from the pack. Something about these older fantasy anime OVAs/series that I tend to really like. At least there's a heap of action--the entire last third of the film is a big ol' fight--but the animation is cheap and the visuals bland. Even the Japanese acting is bad. But I still loved it.
A low-minded, nudity-strewn, fantasy action fest. worth the time for fans of heckling bad action movies.
Read at the sourcematthigh
This is a Satoshi Urushihara joint, which means you only have to know one thing about this: Le boobies.
I mean, they do try to wrap a story around the whole fan-service-y bits, but in the end its all just window dressing. In this case, Lemnear is a scantily-clad sword-wielding silver-haired beauty who is out for revenge, and ends up being at the heart of a prophecy.
However, that's all just an excuse to get to what Urushihara does best: Drawing nubile young girls in various states of undress. No, it's not a porno flick, but rather that teasing risque anime that gives fifteen year olds in the eighties all the titillating giggles. And in this day and age, that's not nearly enough to hold up as worth viewing.
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This one's pretty dense for an 80s/90s OVA, a lot happens in it's short run-time. Completely worth your time if you're into high action fantasy with fan service, you won't be disappointed, this is one of the better ones and I've seen loads of those from the era in all levels of obscurity. The action is good, the fan service is excellent, the fantasy elements are compelling, and to top it off this has great animation.
Something that stood out to me other than the sheer amount of breasts in this OVA was the boss fight. I'd put the boss right near the top of the list of the most awesome villains I've seen in anime, very satisfying. I was rooting for him because he's straight up cool, both from a high fantasy perspective and because he's metal as hell.
This is one of those OVAs where you can…
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Overview:
After reviewing the original Transformers Movie from 1986, I decided to look at the next movie animated and directed by the same man that gave Transformers its legendary animation. Transformers was the first movie animated by the now rather infamous Satoshi Urushihara. Never again would he work on ANYTHING kid friendly, and devoted the rest of his career to drawing complete smut. That descent into total perversion began with his directorial debut in 1987: Legend of Lemnear. Urushihara had just left high school and worked on the Transformers movie instead of going to college. Fortunately for him, it was a huge success and his artwork won enough praise to land him the job of animating and co-directing this low budget OVA the next year. It was here that he found his life's passion:…
Read at the sourceGrumpyGumpy
For most of us in the western world the Legend of Lemnear first appeared as yet another 1990s pulp produced OVA however it was actually from the mid-1980s with the delay simply being the product of waiting for a decent localisation to reach our shores in the days before fan-subbing and the internet made almost all releases available in a matter of days after they were released in their native language. The Legend of Lemnear certainly holds its own appeal despite the era it comes from being associated with large numbers of dubious quality OVAs arriving due to it having a rather dark tone and a strong female protagonist who has ties to another female character featured in the far better known animation Heavy Metal. That is not to say however that this is a classic that has flown under the ra…
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