Chris Beveridge
06-25-2009, 07:07 AM
http://cdn-www.mania.com/content_pics/000004/27/49/22c173fbfaa83d44_thumb.jpgReview by Chris Beveridge (http://www.mania.com/simoun-complete-collection_article_113961.html)
Mania Grade: C+
* Audio Rating: B
* Video Rating: A-
* Packaging Rating: B+
* Menus Rating: B
* Extras Rating: A-
* Age Rating: 16 and Up
* Region: 1 - North America
* Released By: Media Blasters
* MSRP: 49.99
* Running time: 650
* Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
* Disc Resolution: 480i/p
* Disc Encoding: MPEG-2
* Series: Simoun
In Summary:
Watching this series over the course of a day really felt like it might have been too much to do. I was very interested in Simoun when it was first licensed, yuri fan that I am, but I didn't watch it in the single disc form. I have to wonder if I would have enjoyed it more in that form since here it feels like far too much and the fairly superficial nature of a lot of it becomes apparent. There's a lot to like here, with the women all over each other in non-explicit ways, some interesting technology aspects and a very clean and great looking sense of design for the characters and the action sequences. But the show didn't click well in a complete sense as I never really felt invested in the characters and the length to which some of the stories went in dealing with their issues. Simoun had a lot of potential for the stories it could tell, but with a mostly faceless enemy that didn't have anyone truly standout to rally against, it reached high but didn't make it.
Mania Grade: C+
* Audio Rating: B
* Video Rating: A-
* Packaging Rating: B+
* Menus Rating: B
* Extras Rating: A-
* Age Rating: 16 and Up
* Region: 1 - North America
* Released By: Media Blasters
* MSRP: 49.99
* Running time: 650
* Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen
* Disc Resolution: 480i/p
* Disc Encoding: MPEG-2
* Series: Simoun
In Summary:
Watching this series over the course of a day really felt like it might have been too much to do. I was very interested in Simoun when it was first licensed, yuri fan that I am, but I didn't watch it in the single disc form. I have to wonder if I would have enjoyed it more in that form since here it feels like far too much and the fairly superficial nature of a lot of it becomes apparent. There's a lot to like here, with the women all over each other in non-explicit ways, some interesting technology aspects and a very clean and great looking sense of design for the characters and the action sequences. But the show didn't click well in a complete sense as I never really felt invested in the characters and the length to which some of the stories went in dealing with their issues. Simoun had a lot of potential for the stories it could tell, but with a mostly faceless enemy that didn't have anyone truly standout to rally against, it reached high but didn't make it.