Shadow Skill
by Hiroshi Negishi
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Actor: Kappei Yamaguchi, Laurel Lefkow, Rei Igarashi, Reiko Takagi, Takeshi KusaoDirector: Hiroshi Negishi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Manga Video
DVD Reviews of Shadow Skill
DVD Review: Awesome for the Epilogue alone
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't know which started first, the series or the movie. The Epilogue alone is what made this DVD worthwhile. It is as other reviews described below with great light and shadowing effects. The action is simply spectacular and will leave the martial artist in you drooling for more. As its name suggests, it takes place pretty much at the end of the Shadow Skill series with Gau and Elle facing each other in combat to see how much Gau has grown as a Shadow Skill fighter. There are no words to describe how great the fight scenes are!
The only downside to this DVD is the actuall movie itself. At first, you can tell it's Anime style is different from the Epilogue. It's alright, but as it progresses on, it's like their funds began to dry up on this project. The Anime progressively looks worse and worse until at one point I swear one of the characters was looking like E.T. with her eyes! I couldn't stand watching any more of it as horrendous as it was looking. THAT and the fact that the movie basically covers the same storyline you can catch in the t.v. series DVDs (which look a lot better and are a lot funnier too!).
But overall this DVD is well worth it for the Epilogue! Don't bother with watching the other half of the DVD being the movie and go for the t.v. series on DVD instead!
DVD Review: High budget action-packed fighting anime BUT...!!!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
COOL HIGH BUDGET FUN anime to add to your action collection!! Try also: Battle Arena Toshiden, Fatal Fury the movie, Gowcaizer, Street Fighter the movie and Fist of the North Star.
WARNING:
This DVD have two movies: Shadow Skill the movie and Shadow Skill epiloge. AVOID THE MOVIE!!!!!! It's HORRIBLE, LOW BUDGET, CHESSY POWERS, POOR ANIMATION.....!!! Just makes me want to throw up!!!!!
* GO FOR THE EPILOGE!!!!!!!!! this is the one that RULES!!!! Buy this anime!! YOU WON'T REGRET IT!!!!!
P.S: This anime is NOT hentai (porno).
ADIOS!!!
DVD Review: Interesting
Summary: 3 Stars
In a war torn world, a martal art called "Shadow Skill" exists, and you must fight to survive. Although interesting, pretty boring characters and a very hard-to-follow story line with several plot holes (I'm not kidding, and I fully understood "Akira"). However, the bit of story line that does make sense is pretty good, and the fight sequences are excellent.DVD Review: a bit far out but entertaining
Summary: 3 Stars
If you are new to anime and want to see an entertaing movie with a not so in depth plot, than Shadow Skill is for you. While a bit over the top at times with martial art scenes, people will most likely be drawn into this flick mainly for the purpose of discovering what the shadow skill really is. Though Shadow Skill is targeted at kids, teens and young adults who are into anime may want to give this a look.DVD Review: Shadow Skill
Summary: 4 Stars
Shadow Skill is a great Anime, despite the impressions you may get from the cover artwork. The story line is excellent, with the young orphan Gau being taught the shadow skill by his adoptive sister Elle. The anime features plenty of blood and some foul language, but is a great anime non the less. The only unfortunate thing about the anime is that it is too short a series. They should have made the series longer than they did. Besides for that one "flaw", Shadow Skill is an excellent martial arts anime.
Description of Shadow Skill
"I am invincible! No one can survive my shadow skills! With a single stroke I am unbeatable!" In a world where martial arts gladiators with unheard-of skills battle for glory and justice, young orphan Gau trains relentlessly under his cocky adoptive sister Ella (a great champion) to master the elusive Shadow Skill, a mystical style with a dark past. His education of course allows for plenty of flashy fights, and that's the main appeal of this lively collection of two short 1996 OVA features. The animation is limited but the art direction is detailed and vivid, and director Hiroshi Negishi saves his budget for the battles, which offer impressive displays of animation pyrotechnics. Though hardly deep ("We can get closer to God by fighting!" opines the mysterious champion Scarface), the episodic adventures zip right along, and the climax packs an unexpected charge of drama between the blows. For ages 13 and up for violence and some strong language. --Sean AxmakerGeneral DVDs
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