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These are all titles I have seen, but I feel I do not have enough material on them to devote each one its own page.

These reviews only tell what the title is about along with my opinion of it.

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Galaxy Express 999

Ten year-old Tetsuro has only one goal, to kill the robot who murdered his mother for sport. Unfortunately the only way he can do this is to steal a pass to ride the 3 nine train to find him, that is until the mysterious women, Maitel offers him a chance to travel along with her. Now if they can get pass space pirates and other cyborgs our hero might get a chance for vengeance and Maitel may succeed with her mysterious goal.

If you enjoy wild fantasies this is it. The worlds visited are all unique and all the character work, especially Maitel. The film does wrong long after a false climax, but it does work to set up the sequel. Its actually more dark than the description makes it seem. The animation is really good despite one might compare to titles that are 15 to 20 years younger and the technical aspects are excellent. Sometimes it runs slow, but its definitely worth seeing.

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Two years after the first film, robots are now destroying all the humans they can find. Tetsuro is pissed about this because he thought he destroyed their home world. Everything seems hopeless until Maitel calls for him to board 3 nine again without a known reason. This does confuse him especially when rumors that Maitel is now the cyborg queen. Again he doesn't know who he can trust and just hopes he'll survive the ride.

Not as good as the first film probably because it lacks in the adventure the first one had. The film still works though with its goals of having more emotion than more action. It also does a good job at answering any questions left unknown from the first film. Technically its as good as the first and you can't expect much improvement in animation in only two years. All in all it's a worthy end to the tale of 3 nine.

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Records of the Lodoss War (1:3)

Roujin Z

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful

Vampire Hunter D

Venus War

Casshan the Robot Hunter

The biomechanical race, (best description I could come up with) the Paranoids, has forced the all female race of the Solnoids to try to escape this war by going to the planet called Chaos. During the battle, a battered Solnoid space craft with a crew of seven leaps to hyperspace before the rest of their fleet leaving them alone to face Paranoid forces. Now for them to reach Chaos, all must being willing to sacrifice their lives so other crew members can reach their sanctuary.

"Epic space battles and heart-wrenching sacrifice characterize this tragic yet inspiring class war drama.", say the add in AnimeNation's 98 catalogue. Talk about overblowing something to sell it. Yes there is a hell of a lot of sacrifice. These are the only attempts to try making the audience feel any emotion which gets tiredsome after the first two crew members are sacrificed with only 15 (at the most) minutes between them.

I saw the dub so hopefully this was just a bad English translation of the emotions we were supposed to be feeling, but that is a huge hope. There are some cute scenes, but this has to be the worst written title I've seen. We've seen this story in other incarnations in the media and almost everyone of them does it better (makes me yearn for Battlestar Galatica: The Motion Picture). As for the space battles, the animation is good, but most of the sound effects for the ships propulsion are stolen from the speeder bike scene in Return of the Jedi. In fact, the sound effects in this film's speeder scenes are the sound effects of the RotJ's unedited and in its entirety. Sacrilege V_V. This film isn't what I consider to be worthwhile, but there are many aspects that can draw people into seeing it. Personally I need to wash this film out of my system by watching the Star Wars Trilogy.