Last Exile - Vol. 1

9 out of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Nicely done!

A Customer from North East England, 23rd May, 2005

Synopsis - LE is about a pilot and his navigator who are essentially delivery monkeys. They get lumbered with 'package' in the form of a littel girl who is highly sought after by a powerful and advanced enemy. This will sound familiar to fans of anime cos she possesses some secret that the bad guys desperately want to get their hands on..... chasing, explosions and desperate sitations follow. The animation is crisp and the character design is nicely done (cf. Range Murata) The characters are not particularly surprising if you are familiar with one or two adventure series' you have the super cool mysterious benefactor, vulnerable sidekick, wimpy but plucky heroe and the afore said mysterious little girl. Thankfully there are no mecha... for a change. If you like arial battles, huge lumbering battle ships, likeable characters and beatiful animation give it a try.

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4 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:

This is anime at its best.

Boze from Surrey, 18th February, 2005

Having recently watched Fist of the North Star Vol I, my enthusiasm for this genre had taken a bit of a pounding, but watching these first four episodes of Last Exile restored it in its entirety, and I can’t wait for the next four to be released.

This is a fully realised Steam Sci-Fi world, with a powerful plot that is mature and only occasionally self-indulgent. All of the traditional manga standbys are here, in particular the sullen, enigmatic antihero with long dark hair who may turn out to be friend or foe, and there’s an excellent high speed race which outstrips the Tatooine sequence in SW 1.

My only reservation is that the DVD doesn’t contain an option to run the four episodes back to back without titles, as it gets a bit frustrating having to skip through them.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Worth watching

Craig McDonald from Manchester, 3rd July, 2005

This series seems quite slow to start but does start to pickup towards the end. Animation is excellent as are the cgi effects. My only (minor) complaint is that in some parts the cgi effects seems at odds with the animation.

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I implore you, watch all of them!

A Customer from Manchester, 11th November, 2008

Last Exile started off for me a little slow but it turned into one of the best and emotionally captivating, epic series I have ever had the honour of witnessing. Please I implore you, watch all of them...I miss you Dio.

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Gorgeous to watch

brokenking from , 10th April, 2008

This was a lot of fun to watch as the series has a brillantly realised world with stunning artwork.

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