#legend of crystania

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Legend of Crystania

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[lucasbarton]

@themayanswereright Snaps from Crystania

クリスタニア™

[amebanworld]

And that's why I find Legend of Crystania is kinf of a cheap substitute of Lodoss. I love Ashram/Pirotess, but this is flat.

Legend of Crystania

Legend of Crystania is a hard pill to swallow I find. It opens with Sir Ashram cursing the Gods for stranding them in the middle of nowhere without water, food, medical aid in the middle of the sea since the events of Record of Lodoss War OVA / Chronicles of the Heroic Knight saw them and the forces of Marmo being defeated by the forces of the combined good. Oh sorry, Spoiler, the bad guys lost.

So, let’s get the most obvious thing out of the way first. The animation style is really bad, but it’s also good. It exists in a weird borderline of not having had a proper animation budget for it, cutting corner, and making other things very detailed. So you can have character’s faces very well-detailed, voice actors of high caliber, but magical spells is more an animated suggestion.

After Ashram cursed the Gods, a God answered him and promised him everything as long as Ashram accepts being a vessel for him. Ashram agrees to this and doesn’t see it as a bad idea at all. After this, we’re introduced to our viewpoint character of the show, Reddon. He’s a twerp as you’d come to expect, he dreams about valiant deeds and being a heroic knight and all that, while his buddy Nasser ( I believe that was his name ) isn’t at all interested in valiant deeds, he’s only interested in Knowledge. I, I think. The copy I have some times gives me a translation and other times want me to guess what they’re talking about, so for all I know he might be speaking about the holy dale of a woman’s lower spine to her butt.

Either way, they are both looking at this massive wall known as God’s Wall and talk about legends of it. How the Gods slain a giant snake to erect as a wall to it’s inside. The Mage is certain that one day, the doors will open to this mysterious place so they can go in and witness the splendor of whatever is inside. At this moment, an overexcited horse makes it’s presence known - a signal of the twerp of Knighthood to head back home because Lady Athresia have arrived. Apparently the horse likes to tell his master whenever visitors drop by.

At the Kingdom of Dirt and Sand with some Grass, Lady Athresia is consulting the King in requesting the army to overthrow a vicious dictator, but all he can tell her is to look at his people and see how content they are. The crops are going well, they have food in stock and on the table and so forth. If he were to go to war, it wouldn’t be him who would suffer, it’d be his people, and the people don’t really care who sits on the throne of the Kingdom of What-Where. Thus he denies her request for army aid.

Later that Knight, a stylish assassin who looks like he’s a wannabe Guts ( and curiously close to my own design, hmm.. ) named Orville… Wait, Orville? Anyway, he arrives and attempts to assassinate the old Knight-king but fails for the old man is just too good, he even blocks his hidden knife-projectile with his forearm, he’s just that good! But then arrows come through the window and kills the King, turns out the Royal Cavalry themselves turned on the King ( I think..? Again, didn’t get the full translation ) and that they had only used Orville with the intention of killing him as well. The King’s son come in and immediately jumps the Royal Cavalry alongside some Rogueish friend who blocks another guy while the King’s son - Yeah, that’s Reddon - stabs one of them dead with a sword through the chest. He then hurries to his father’s side who tells him to get out and save himself. Distraught, he’s dragged out of there by the Rogue-friend.

As Reddon swears revenge, the word of a God offers him unlimited power if he just comes to him. And the Wall to the Gods open up, allowing them entry into the land of Crystania..

As they enter, a God stops them and acts confused over their presence here, but then he poofs after the other God laughs. Then Lizard people arrive and attack them, and after being saved by Orville who had been stalking them, even giving Reddon the King’s Sword, they find out that the people here in Crystania can turn into animals. Specifically, they learn this when they save a man whose protecting this mysterious Dark Elf named Sheru, and he turns into a Lion and fights someone who turned into a Snake. He explains to the party that Crystania used to be a peaceful land, and people devoted themselves to the many Gods who reside here, as they do so, they are given the power to transform into Beast of which the God resides over. Those who turn into Snakes follow the Snake God. Those who Lion, Lion God and so forth. And it was peaceful, until the God Barrados, the God of TIGERS! Acquired a human host about as a vessel.

I have to say, being born in the sign of the Tiger, I feel targeted by this movie. Geez!

Sheru, the Dark Elf supposingly carries the secret on how to stop Barradus but she must be escorted to the village where the rebellion hangs out, known as Fangs of the Beasts. However before they can, Barradus sends a surprise attack, and just to show how powerful he is to Reddon - kills everyone, including his own troops. Reddon is horrified at this, while he had initially been saying that he’d go any length to get his revenge on those who killed his father, this is too much to him. He and Sheru get split up from the rest of the party and he asks Sheru what makes her so special, and she recounts the tale we saw at the start. How her lord Ashram 300 years ago made a pact with the God, and at the start it was all good as Ashram was asleep and she waited for him to wake up, and once he woke up, he no longer was Ashram but Barradus. So she escaped but not before snatching the Chaos Ring, a Ring that some mystic had used to banish Ashram’s soul as he was stronger than Barradus had expected and didn’t give up.

And for you listening at home, Yes, Sheru is Pirotess. I thought all the way up until this time that she was a child of Ashram and Pirotess, but apparently not. Which is strange considering that’d make for a lot better story as opposed to she just suddenly sporting a different hair and skin color to go along with a different name since you know, that’s kinda a completely different character..

She thanks Reddon for escorting her but she’s gotta do this on her own now. Reddon, distraught about what to do- SUDDENLY, Horse Ex Machina! His horse appears in front of him and looks happy, and together they ride after Pirotess and takes her up on the horse and head towards Barradus Fortress. Meanwhile the army of the Fangs of the Beast alongside the other companions have made a valiant charge and cut down all attackers and busted in the door to the castle. While this was going on, The Rogue, Orville and Orville’s… daughter? Not sure what she is but she’s been around all this, sorry for not mentioning her earlier. They’re all locked in a cell, and after Leifon ( that’s her name ) gets pissed and summons every Fae she can to blow up the door, she succeeds enough so the Lion guy can force open the door.

Reddon and Sheru arrive at the top of Barradus fortress, and Reddon says they have to leave Garmus ( the horse ) behind as he cannot get down there. That’s when the horse decides to do a Skyrim and make a series of super stylish jumps - and break all legs and presumably internals upon landing - just to get his master and her down. The horse coughs up blood and dies, but I guess looks somewhat content in the knowledge he could assist his master. Reddon is once again distraught over this and cries profusely. Understandably, had I been in a different state of mine this would had made me cried too.

They all meet up in front of Barradus in the throne room, and he shows them just how weak and pathetic they are. The Chaos Ring does nothing against Barradus - until Pirotess in her anger throws it at him and he tries to block it with his hand. That causes it to start sucking like a vacuum cleaner, allowing Ashram to struggle. He tells Pirotess to kill him, she refuses, Reddon attempts but it’s utterly pointless, his sword does nothing. Ashram commends him for his valor but his sword cannot do anything, and he tells Pirotess to use his sword - Yes, the Demon Sword ‘Soul Crusher’. After a long drawn out Yes No Yes No, she finally draws the sword and stabs him with it, killing Barradus, and Ashram thanks her and dies.

The movie ends with Reddon talking about his father and how his father would never let him hold a sword, and the Mage says that his father would be proud over what he did, and Reddon says Yes.

Legend of Crystania… Is a bad movie. It really would had benefited from a 20+ episode series as opposed to one movie. Bad animations, mixed with good animation, comes off as jarring. Very rushed story elements jumping from place to place at times, and characters dying. Yes, I didn’t mention everything that happens in here and skipped some stuff and just went for the rough straight forward parts so you yourself can watch it and make up your mind about this movie.

The ending song Hikari no Chizu is pretty darn good though!

- Zeithri

[littleeyesofpallas]

Houryu Densetsu CRYSTANIA[漂流伝説 クリスタニア]: Drifting Legend CRYSTANIA

[yvonnelim99]

Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring ★★★★★★★★☆☆

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Shin'ō Densetsu Crystania pc-98

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Legend of crystania

[chiripepe]

I'm re watching the Legend of Crystania OVA and Pirotess looks so different. Like the blond hair. Sis, she has white hair. At least they kept her dark skin intact thank godt but its weird seeing ha without her badass armor, the absolute queen and icon.

Anyway... Slayyyyy!!

[camilleto]

i watched legend of crystania for one (1) specific character and i was not disappointed

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Newtype (02/1997) - Legend of Crystania

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in case you were wondering, Legend of Crystania W H I P S