Anime Review: Last Exile Fam, The Silver Wing

• Director: Koichi Chigira

Actor: Ai Kayano
Actor: Aki Toyosaki
Actor: Aoi Yuki
Actor: Carrie Savage
Actor: Jad Saxton 

Release Date DVD: August 3, 1996
Artist: CLAMP

Series  Rating 3/5

Completed 

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Publisher's Description 

Taking place two years after the events of Last Exile, Last Exile: Fam, The Silver Wing is set on Earth, the original home world of the colonists of Prester. The new story focuses on Fam Fan Fan and Giselle Collette, two vespa vanship pilots who work as Sky Pirates, capturing and selling battleships for a living.

Fam and Giselle get into an adventure when they and the Sky Pirates rescue Liliana il Grazioso Merlo Turan and her younger sister, Millia Il Velch Cutrettola Turan, Princesses of the Turan Kingdom, from the clutches of the mighty Ades Federation. The Federation, led by Empress Sārā Augusta and Premier Luscinia Hāfez, is on an all out war against nations who descended from immigrants who came back to Earth by Exile ships. As Ades being the only nation to stay on Earth when it was in a state of chaos and ruin, Luscinia believes that the Exile immigrants have no right to return to Earth since their ancestors abandoned Earth when it was in chaos only to return when Earth was viable to live on again and force the original inhabitants of Earth off their lands to form their own nations. To return these lands to their original inhabitants, Luscinia leads the Ades Federation to conquer the immigrant nations and destroy their armies, with Turan being one of them.

After Luscinia kidnaps Liliana, who has the ability to control an Exile, Luscinia summons an Exile to destroy Iglasia, the capital of Turan, killing its soldiers and the King of Turan, leading to the surrender of Turan to Ades. With everything she cared for lost, Millia is given refuge by the Sky Pirates, where Fam promises to help Millia regain her kingdom.

Series Received : Own

Why I Picked it up:I want to s see what happened after Last Exile. 

Why I finished it: There is a new cast and it is just a wonderfully don as the first one. 

Who I would give it to: Steampunk lover. 

Anime Review: Last Exile

Director: Eric P. Sherman

Actor: Michelle Ruff
Actor: Kari Wahlgren 

Release Date DVD: April 7, 2003 
Studio: Funimation Prod

Series  Rating 4/5

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It's the dawn of the Golden Age of Aviation on planet Prester, and retro-futuristic sky vehicles known as vanships dominate the horizon. Claus Valca - a flyboy born with the right stuff - and his fiery navigator Lavie are fearless racers obsessed with becoming the first sky couriers to cross the Grand Stream in a vanship. But when the high-flying duo encounters a mysterious girl named Alvis, they are thrust into the middle of an endless battle betwenn Anatoray and Disith - two countries systematically destroying each other according to the code of chivalric warfare. Lives will be lost and legacies determined as Claus and Lavie attempt to bring peace to their world by solving the riddle of its chaotic core.

Series Received :Christmas gift

Why I Picked it up: I was given this as a gift.

Why I finished it: Every character is memorable form the two children to the mechanics on the Silvana. The story draws you in. I had all the disc but hte last one and we went out and bought it that night to finish it. Each character come across as more than the sum of their parts. It is beautifully drawn and wonderfully made.  

Who I would give it to: Anyone who wants Steam punk anime. 

Anime Review: X/1999

Director: Eric P. Sherman

Actor: Crispin Freeman
Actor: Steve Cannon

Release Date DVD: August 3, 1996
Artist: CLAMP

Series  Rating 5/5

Completed 

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Publisher's Description 

Kamui Shiro is a young man who was born with the power to decide the fate of the Earth itself--a destiny he can barely bring himself to believe. But as other players in the prophecy begin to gather around him--the "Seven Seals," with the power to protect the Earth, and the "Seven Harbingers," who are fated to destroy it--he has no choice but to come to terms with his fate.

Series Received : Own

Why I Picked it up: I wanted to watch ans see how close the anime was to the manga. 

Why I finished it: It brought the story to life. It was also less on confusing to see than to read. It had great music and movement

Who I would give it to: Someone wants to see the end of the world.