Anime Galerians: Rion

[J-Bird]

last night I was watching MTV2oons and saw this cg anime movie called "Galerians: Rion." It was pretty awsome because they had current metal songs as background music during fights. The fights were pretty intense people were being lit on fire, thrown threw buildings, killed by mind control... Anyways this anime looked a lot like resident evil even the music during periods of calmness sounded like the music from resident evil. Most of all the building were grungy and falling apart just like in the game. Despite the sense of resident evil influence it was very original and I would recomend it to anyone. Warning: sometimes the talking gets monotonous, but the fights are well worth it. Some of the voice acting for the characters is weak ( meaning their mouths might not move when they talk). People who really don't like sci-fi/fantasy movies won't really like it. The movie is about a boy Rion trying to find a girl Lillia so that they can activate a virus to destroy a computer Dorothy that has declared itself God over the humans and has created its own race of obedient humans Galerians.

[AzureWolf]

[font=Book Antiqua][size=2][color=blue][b]Galerians: Rion[/b]? There's a reason why it makes people think of Resident Evil: the first game was based on the RE engine (as far as I could tell). The graphics, the controls - you know, the whole kit and caboodle - mirrored RE, down to the circular shadow.[/color][/size][/font]

[font=Book Antiqua][size=2][color=#0000ff]If you aren't aware of it, there was a (surprisingly great) PSX game called [b]Galerians[/b]. The sequel that (solidly) concluded the series is on PS2 (this game was pretty bad, but the story was still top-notch), and it's called [b]Galerians: Ash[/b], Ash being [spoiler]the "backup" Galerian designed to restore Dorothy should anything ever happen to her[/spoiler]. [/color][/size][/font][quote name='J-Bird']The movie is about a boy Rion trying to find a girl Lillia so that they can activate a virus to destroy a computer Dorothy that has declared itself God over the humans and has created its own race of obedient humans Galerians.[/quote] [font=Book Antiqua][size=2][color=#0000ff]This sounds like the first Galerians (the one for PSX). It's very interesting that they are making a movie out of the games, since the stories were very well-thought out.[/color][/size][/font]

[font=Book Antiqua][size=2][color=#0000ff]I'm not too interested in [b]Galerians: Rion[/b], though. The thing that drives the first story is sheer originality and surprise. If you remove the latter, the former doesn't stand well alone (it's still original, IMO). However, the second movie (or second part of it?) will definately be one to watch for. Regardless of knowing what is coming ahead, the incredible ingenuity and presentation makes it worthwhile.[/color][/size][/font]

[font=Book Antiqua][size=2][color=#0000ff]And the ending to this series makes you think. ^_^[/color][/size][/font]