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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Kazuyoshi Yokota |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Central Park Media C |
| FEATURES: | Animated, Color |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 719987214620 |
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Customer Reviews of Maetel Legend
The origins of the Matsumotoverse Matsumoto fills his universe with deep and mysterious characters, none more mysterious than Maetel. This 2-part series tells the origin of Maetel, the pirate queen Emeraldas, and the strange machine world from which they come. The planet La Metale drifts slowly towards a permanent ice age. Queen Promescium, along with her advisor Hard Gear, pushes the planet towards a solution that will guaranty immortality. She orders all the population to submit to the process of fully mechanizing the planet.
Maetel and Emeraldas resist. Hard Gear and his new mechanized army decide that it is not there choice. Drama ensues.
It is hard to see "Maetel Legend" as a stand alone. It really is a prequel to "Galaxy Express 999" which is currently unavailable. It does introduce some of the characters who appear in "Harlock Saga" and "Queen Emeraldas" and works well on that level.
An unfortunate draw back is the unnecessary combination of computer animation with cel animation. This is clearly a director that wants to embrace the new technology but doesn't really know how. All of Matsumoto's recent releases have this failing. It is also a bit hard to see Maetel and Emeraldes looking so...cute. Cute is one thing Matsumoto doesn't do very well. Beautiful, sure, but cute...
All in all, I enjoyed "Maetel Legend" enough to buy it. It is not the greatest of Matsumoto's work (That would be "Galaxy Express 999" or "Arcadia of my Youth") but it is good enough.
The origins of the Matsumotoverse
I saw "Maetel Legend" on a region 2 DVD, and I am happy to see it's US release. Matsumoto Leiji is one of the greats of Japanese animation, and it is nice to see more of his work appearing in the US. (Aside from Star Blazers, of course!)
Matsumoto fills his universe with deep and mysterious characters, none more mysterious than Maetel. This 2-part series tells the origin of Maetel, the pirate queen Emeraldas, and the strange machine world from which they come. The planet La Metale drifts slowly towards a permanent ice age. Queen Promescium, along with her advisor Hard Gear, pushes the planet towards a solution that will guaranty immortality. She orders all the population to submit to the process of fully mechanizing the planet.
Maetel and Emeraldas resist. Hard Gear and his new mechanized army decide that it is not there choice. Drama ensues.
It is hard to see "Maetel Legend" as a stand alone. It really is a prequel to "Galaxy Express 999" which is currently unavailable. It does introduce some of the characters who appear in "Harlock Saga" and "Queen Emeraldas" and works well on that level.
An unfortunate draw back is the unnecessary combination of computer animation with cel animation. This is clearly a director that wants to embrace the new technology but doesn't really know how. All of Matsumoto's recent releases have this failing.
All in all, I enjoyed "Maetel Legend" enough to buy it. It is not the greatest of Matsumoto's work (That would be "Galaxy Express 999" or "Arcadia of my Youth") but it is good enough.
Esperaba mas epica, aunque es una hermosa historia
Hola, acabo de ver ambos OVA's de Maetel Legend, definitivamente han querido unir los universos de Queen Millenia, Galaxy Express 999 y Queen Emeraldas, en este "play" juntando a las tres protagonistas y "resolviendo" un misterio hasta ahora escondido para todos los fans de Matsumoto, la relacion entre Maetel y Yayoi Yukino, y en menos relevancia la relacion entre Maetel y Emeraldas.
La idea esta bien planteada pero es inconsistente con algunos hechos que pasaron en las series originales.
1er Hecho : Yayoi Yukino muere salvando la tierra.
2do Hecho : Emeraldas era terricola.
3er Hecho : La edad de Maetel (pues ella era clonada una y otra vez y segun Galaxy Express 999, su cuerpo original esta congelado en Pluton y cada vez q puede va y lo visita)
Creo que la idea de comenzar de 0 no ha dejado a los fans con un sabor agridulce. En la nueva historia Maetel y Emeraldas son ahora hermanas gemelas y Yayoi su madre, la historia comienza al parecer a finales del siglo XXX, pues ambas son adolescentes, pero si comienza en el siglo XXX, Yayoi Yukino tiene mas de 1000 años???. Los nuevos dibujos no me gustaron, prefiero los dibujos de la pelicula Arcadia of my Youth que es superior en trama y argumento y eso que es de 1981, no deberion hacer este OVA de una manera tan light y pasando por alto muchos de los misterios que encerraban a estos personajes, para convertirlas en familia.