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URDA
Genre(s):  Drama, Short
Released:  2002
Episodes:  5 OVA

The year is 1943 and the Nazis are desperate for any chance that can tip the scales of war in their favor. Their prayers are answered when a mysterious ship crash-lands in Germany containing two pilots that claim to be from the future.


BoneyJellyfish
4.25/5
For fans of Wild Arms III, you'll absolutely love URDA's animation style: entirely cel-shaded CG graphics. While the visual presentation of URDA is pretty cheesy and well... crappy, the story is one of the most intriguing tales I've seen in a very long time. URDA manages to accomplish in 25 minutes (the entire length of the series) what would take many TV series a full 26 episodes to accomplish. Every major character is very well developed (all of the minor characters die, no need to develop them), and each have totally original designs and personalities. And then... oh man, there's the time-travel story. Oh wait, I've already mentioned the story. Well, the ending will NOT disappoint. It's a little on the depressing side though so only watch this if you have something to cheer you up right after (might I suggest Azumanga Daioh?). It's nowhere near the depression scale as Grave of the Fireflies, Kanon, or Revolutionary Girl Utena, but it's pretty good.

Likes - Fantastic story; soundtrack; characters
Dislikes - Animation style; length; unnatural movements

Average User Rating: 0.83/5 (3 votes)
 

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» JoJo --
My opinion: The story-line is really good! So good that hope some day there will be a high-budget remake of it. The graphics consist of dramatic and powerful drawn stuff mixed with less fortunate 3D graphics. Too bad it's not all hand-drawn, i think. The voice-actors are somewhat mediocre and the audio work is simply bad. The soundtrack is poor and the sound effects are faulty and sometimes lacking. But because of the nice storyline, i wouldn't even know what score i'd give this.