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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Noein: To Your Other Self - The Complete Series, Vol. 1-5
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List Price: $39.98
Our Price: $26.99
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Manufacturer: Manga Video
Starring: n/a
Directed By: Kazuki Akane
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013138507297
Format: Animated
Label: Manga Video
Manufacturer: Manga Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Manga Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-01-22
Running Time: 635
Studio: Manga Video
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In the near future, a violent battle takes place between the dimension La cryma (protector of humanity) and the dimension Shangri-La, bent on the annihilation of all space-time. A group known as the Dragon Calvary is dispatched through space and time, searching for the only thing that can stop the invasion: the Dragon's Torque. In the present, twelve-year old Haruka and her friend Yuu are contemplating running away from home when they meet a member of the Dragon Calvary named Karasu (Crow). He believes that Haruka possesses the Dragon's Torque and claims to be Yuu from fifteen years in the future...
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Summary: The existence of self across time...
Comment: Despite being an anime fan, my tastes tend to be within a certain niche; a familiar type of storytelling that lets me get into the show a lot more easier. As such, a horror series like Hellsing or Hell Girl might not reach to me as quick as something like Fate/Stay Night, Chrono Crusade or the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Noein's more of a sci-fi drama with action peppered throughout as opposed to an all-out fight series like you'd be expecting. This is a series that's meant to get into your brain and make you think rather than just offer simple thrills and despite a couple of flaws, the show was still fascinating in the end.
Haruka Kaminogi is a normal girl in school while her friend Yu Gota has been feeling down lately since his mom has been making him study frequently to prepare for exams and even going as far as to bar him from going out with his friends. While the 2 are out late at night along with 3 other friends, mysterious strangers appear and they all seem to want Haruka. Turns out they're from the dimension La'Cryma which resembles Haruka's timeline in the future while one stranger, Karasu, might be Yu in the future. With talk of needing the "Dragon Torque" and the mention of another dimension known as Shangri-La, Haruka and Yu have to save their dimension as well as all others in existence.
While the plot might sound confusing and the concepts of quantum physics, multiple dimensions with infinite possibilities and time travel might make your head explode, don't fear since the series is actually rather easy to understand once you're in the thick of it. Unlike most shows (Evangelion or Serial Experiments Lain anyone?) where you probably won't understand it even if you saw the entire series, Noein is just simply revealing its cards a bit at a time rather than obscuring them and making you wonder what it is you saw. It's even got some themes that are actually quite touching and make for good discussion points so the head messing isn't just for fun.
One thing I will say though is that this is a series where patience helps while watching. This isn't the kind of show where each episode will have a battle scene in order to keep you from changing the channel in boredom and not to mention several episodes actually deal with ideas of adolescence, planning for a future you have no idea what it would entail and the growing pains of expectations at a young age. When the fight scenes do kick in though, they are as cool and unique as they come and they become welcome to the show's pace though some might not like they're a little bit scattered and only showing up at a more sporadic place.
Instead of shows like from Gonzo or shonen titles like Naruto, the animation is in the realm of being unique if only because it's vaguely familiar of something you must've watched before but there's something different about it. Noein though is indeed a beautiful show with top transfer and while the use of CG is still noticeable as in other uses in anime, the 2D artwork works quite well and when things get a bit intense, the animation changes to a bit more artwork style with more thicker lines and kind of resembles the Kid's Story short from the Animatrix. The show also has a fantastic store with some pretty good opening and closing numbers but as usual the extras are rather pitiful. The usual textless openers and trailers (despite volumes being released over a period of time, it's still the same trailers included) and a little featurette spread out over the 5 discs. While I'm aware that anime features than to be sparse, it's also something to actually buy something with little added.
While I probably wouldn't have it on repeated viewing anytime soon, Noein didn't waste my time and actually kept me interested throughout so I say give it a shot; never know, might just like it.
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Summary: Noein - interesting, but too complex for the time alloted.
Comment: I love the subject matter of this series - and in its exploration of the subject, Noein really stepped outside the boundaries of many anime series.
The problem with taking on such a complex idea is that it becomes difficult to avoid plot holes and keep the series concise. There were definitely moments where I thought "oh, cool - this is a very interesting turn of events" but there were also many moments where I thought aspects made no sense even in the structure of the world they set up. Some significant characters could have been developed more and others could have been left on the sidelines.
The English dub can sound a little over dramatic, but it's tolerable. The animation is different from many anime, somewhat odd, but fitting for the nature of the series. The series is not bad, but you have to be willing to let some things slide - I can do that pretty easily with a cheesy romance comedy anime, but for some reason SciFi that wants to be taken seriously has a more strict set of rules to live up to.
If you're into SciFi Anime - "Dennou Coil" is a similar series to Noein that explores alternate dimensions through the eyes of children, but Dennou Coil has a pretty solid grasp on the world it created and very few (if any) plot holes.
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Summary: Interesting
Comment: Noein is a very interesting outlook on past present and future the animation is great the story is great. You do get kinda lost at points but everything clears up in the end. Its a good buy and totally worth it.
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Summary: Surprisingly Good
Comment: I rented this series on Netflix and ended up liking it so much I'm actually buying the DVDs. Although, it does help that it's so well-priced--what a bargain! Anyway, I didn't have very high expectations when I first started watching the series; it seemed like just another "girl with special powers" anime. I was just hoping for a sci-fi action hit w/this one. But I started really getting into the story and the characters, which turned out to be quite rich and complex. I loved the whole quantum physics stuff in the story; the multiverse, infinite futures, etc etc--very interesting. But at the heart of it all is the touching relationship among the young friends and especially the special bond between the protagonists Haruka and Yu. Even though the main characters in this series are elementary school kids, they're not cutesy or contrived; they're depicted in an appealing, natural way. It delivers on the action front as well, with some breathtakingly fluid fight scenes, using an effective blend of 2D and 3D animation, which is enhanced by an unexpected "sketchy" style of art for some of the characters, especially the stoic and mysterious Karasu. He's a soldier from the future who seems unusually determined to protect Haruka. I usually watch my anime with subtitles, and I found the Japanese voice for Karasu to be very appealing--really sexy :)
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Summary: I love this box set!!! Teenagers review
Comment: Noein is an awesome anime show that i discovered a while ago. This anime is so great that i'm gonna watch the whole series again but in english. I think that watching any anime in japanese with english subtitles are best. I would have to say that this anime is for people who are just happy to have discovered new anime's like noein. I recommend watching it on [...] first before you buy just in case you buy the whole series and you don't like the anime on the first episode. It's mainly a waste of your time. so if you like sci-fi fantasy anime type things i recommend this greatly.
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