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The first 3 were better
Their are 3 tapes done by the original animators, and after watching them, I must say this is easily one of my favorite anime series of all time. A moving story, superb animation (I've honestly not seen anything better so far.), the best English voice-over acting in any anime ever, done in british (it really goes with the characters, believe me.), and great characters that you'll fall in love with. By saying this, I'm talking about the 'First Three Tapes'. <
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> Let me make it perfectly clear that if you enjoyed the first three tapes, do not buy or watch the last one, 'The Heroic Legend Of Arslan: Age Of Heroes'. Thats not a typo either, it's now pronounced 'Arslan'. On the last made tape of the series, the fourth, they changed the name of every character and city due to the original Japanese creators complaints. Besides that, the animation teams were changed, which means the animation is completely different than the first three. The team which was hired to create the fourth tape had a cut in budget, which caused them to simplify the designs in the animation, and hire cheaper voice actors. So the smooth, flowing, beautiful animation you came to know and love in Arislan 1-3 has now for the most part been changed to still shots with the mouths moving, and nothing else. Not to mention the great British voice actors that got you so into the characters are now all gone. With terrible animation (compared to the original tapes), terrible voice acting, and a terrible new production team behind it all, I hope I've raised enough good reasons not to watch this one. But as I said before, by all means, please, watch the first three tapes. Their all farely cheap here on Amazon so I encourage you to buy them. I gave this two stars because at least they tried to continue the series, and not just hang it up. Just leave this one out...

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Beautiful series!
Arslan Senki will always be in my favorites category. The story is interesting, and the animation (Age of Heroes, in particular) is absolutely beautiful. I don't know what they did differently in parts 5 & 6 but I thought it was an improvement over the previous ones. The only downside of this series is that the anime is unfinished...and probably unlikely to be finished. But who knows? Maybe they're just slow-going. :) Hopefully they will get around to finishing this because this last tape is where things really start to pick up...Arslan's father is back, Arslan himself is sent on an impossible mission, etc. and some of the secrets behind Hirumes and Arslan's lineage have yet to be revealed, as they were in the manga. I highly recommend this series to anyone with an imagination and a taste for adventure(not to mention a little bishounen ^_~*). I have yet to find a series more beautiful....I just hope that they can finish it.

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One of the best shoujo OAV series
The Heroic legend of Arislan is a four tape OAV (0riginal video animation) series that originally began as a seven volume novel by Yoshiki Tanaka. His novels were loosely based off of a Persian legend and myth known as "Amir Arislan". Later the story was adopted into manga form by Chisata Nakura and finally it was animated. The four tape OAV series is well written, exciting, beautifully animated, wonderfully dubbed, and has a phenomenal sound track.

The very first tape introduces the viewers to the background story and the imporant characters. It all begins with the handsome knight Daryoon who is stripped of his command and banished by King Andragoras of Palse for questioning his military strategy regarding a battle against the invading forces of the Luisitanians. Daryoon's uncle convinces him not to abandon the kingdom, but to instead to go and find the kind, intelligent, bishounen Prince Arislan and to protect him with his life. It is Daryoon's promise that allows him to save the young prince from meeting his end on the battlefield at the hands of treachery within Palse, sorcery, and the invading Luisitanian army. The two flee to the home of the brillant military strategist Lord Narsus and his companion Elam. Also the goddess Misra sends high priestess Phrangese to protect prince Arislan. On her way to meet up with the prince she encounters the traveling minstrel Gieve. He also decides to join up with the group.