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Banner of the Stars tv Review
The story follows Viscountess Abriel Nei Debrusc Borl Paryun Lafiel and Count Linn Syun-Rock Dreu Haider Jinto and their continuing adventures aboard the Basroil, a new attack ship commanded by Lafiel herself.
During their adventures, the two will encounter old friends and remnants of old foes as well as make new ones in the continuing fight against the United Mankind.
Story & Characters
Space is not more empty, humanity have spread in the universe and Earth its a dream of the past. But not all is good,
infact there is a race created geneticaly that live only in the open space, that visit very rarely the solidity of a
planet and have a very complex political structure. They are called "the members of the stars", live very
longely and are extremly beautyful. They think that space need order and the normal humans dont understand this and
bring only caos. The anime tell the story of a normal boy that after the invasion of his planet grown like a
"Member of the stars" and a day meet a girl that a day will be a rulers of this kind. What not all know that
this anime born from a famous japanese sci-fi novel by Morioka Hiroyuki and infact after some minutes ot the anime is
easy to understand that there is something big behind it (the names, the complex language and so on) Sadly the anime
scrap only the surface of the books and that is sad because many questions not receive a reply
Rating: 8
Art
I must admit that the design is strange...very strange.... Humans are usually normal but have a very strange pair of
ears and the aliens (Abh) are very similar to a classic fantasy elf (not only in the design but in the personality too).
Animation is simple and doing his work, no searching for some super effect. Many time of the anime is dedicated to the
space battles and them are maybe simplicistic but give the idea that in space there arent always lasers and mecs. Dont
expect so much....but i must admit that Lafiel is veeeeeeeeeeery cool.
Rating: 6
Sound
Sound.......
Ok..i have hear the dubbed version..and after some minutes...i have deleted from my mind and used the subs. This anime
is like a long saga, there are many and many characters and all with a specific voice and personality that its lost in
the english dub. The voice act is great but the music and the generic sound are very simplicistic...afters some time you
will forget it. The vote is for the voice acting anyway but maybe some more epic music have worked well for a Sci-Fi
anime like this
Rating: 7
Presentation
Ok......this is a very but very hard anime to see the first time. If you like serie with big esplosions, big tits and
super effects..this for sure is not the anime for you. But if you like Sci-Fi with a very solid story then you have to
see it and have some time to understand all behind it. But not is all great...infact because its from some books the
story is little developed, many characters appears for a second but you dont see them in the rest of the anime and too
much things will be never explained because there are no more books for now. Anyway i think this is a little
gem...because of the source and because the most important thing is the story (maybe too much important sometimes) but
surely not an anime for normal audience, need the courage to try it but you will not be disapointed, many episodes are
very...emotive..you will love some of the characters :D. Still hoping to see more episodes about them.....very hoping
and for a translation of the books and maybe a day my dream will be true, crossing my fingers.
Rating: 7
Final Verdict
7.1667 (above average)
Reviewed by celluz, Dec 03, 2004
Comments
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I love this series... I can't wait for the last segment (is it supposed to be 'kin of the stars' or
'battle of the stars'? I forget...) I'm curious why you say they've left out a lot from the books...
have you read them? I'm still hoping there'll be a translation some day, adn they'll come to the US.
I'm sure they had to omit stuff, to make it all fit, but I'm not aware of any major deviations from the books,
thus far.
Also... your rating on art was kinda low -_- You didn't like it? Personally, I chose how they decided NOT to make
the abh look like typical anime characters... it gives a very different, interesting feel to the series as a whole.
Admittedly, animation quality on crest was not so great... but with banner II its almost top-notch.
Anyway, nice review ^^ I feel inspired to write my own now, haha ;p
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A simple review, not bad.
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