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I watched parts of this on the cartoon network. It's weird, but the angular art is interesting, as is the mixture of the "historical" backdrop with fantastic machinery, architecture and "philosophy". Not to mention the skimpy armor and crazy hair styles--and got to love Aristotle in face paint.
It's interesting to see what they've gotten right, what they've ignored, and what little (forget the big) stuff they've completely messed up--for no apparent reason. Color me ignorant, but Aristotle as Plato's student? Olympias as the descendant of the goddess Hellas (who? I thought the name "Hellene" came from a mythological hero?) rather than Zeus (and Achilles)? But pure amusement value no doubt explains Hephaestion as ninja musician and Ptolemy as whining coward. Oh, but my favorite of all is probably the statues of the Greek gods with animal heads--and cutesy pastel colored ones at that.
I was curious enough to get my hands on the 1st dvd to see what the English version cut out and because I generally prefer the japanese voices.
And I do like the japanese voices better--esp Hephaestion's. But WTF is up with the (very long) opening? I thought the English opening song was pretty bad--but it's nothing compared to this. Sappy love song playing over bloody war and world destruction scenes? Is it suppose to make sense because they've shown nearly every scene with Roxanne, so it looks like the anime is love story? It's a parody, right? I am expected to be laughing--right? No wonder they cut it out of the English version. For once, I wish I missed this particular deleted scene. It so does not fit, that it's painful.
It's interesting to see what they've gotten right, what they've ignored, and what little (forget the big) stuff they've completely messed up--for no apparent reason. Color me ignorant, but Aristotle as Plato's student? Olympias as the descendant of the goddess Hellas (who? I thought the name "Hellene" came from a mythological hero?) rather than Zeus (and Achilles)? But pure amusement value no doubt explains Hephaestion as ninja musician and Ptolemy as whining coward. Oh, but my favorite of all is probably the statues of the Greek gods with animal heads--and cutesy pastel colored ones at that.
I was curious enough to get my hands on the 1st dvd to see what the English version cut out and because I generally prefer the japanese voices.
And I do like the japanese voices better--esp Hephaestion's. But WTF is up with the (very long) opening? I thought the English opening song was pretty bad--but it's nothing compared to this. Sappy love song playing over bloody war and world destruction scenes? Is it suppose to make sense because they've shown nearly every scene with Roxanne, so it looks like the anime is love story? It's a parody, right? I am expected to be laughing--right? No wonder they cut it out of the English version. For once, I wish I missed this particular deleted scene. It so does not fit, that it's painful.
