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   Message 909 of 1,634   
   Lena B Katz to Meursalt   
   Re: Escaflowne   
   16 Sep 05 10:59:37   
   
   From: lbk@andrew.cmu.edu   
      
   as far as I've seen, it worked wonderfully as an animated television   
   series.   
      
   the movie was utter crap-story. try the series, you won't be disappointed.   
      
   On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Meursalt wrote:   
      
   > Agreed on the visuals. As for the story, I had the impression it was probably   
   > a decent manga, but the plot didn't work well compressed into an hour and a   
   > half movie.   
   >   
   > Still, the organic-looking biomecha were badass, and reminiscent of japanese   
   > mythology with the whole three toed dragon motif. The mecha animation was...   
   > different. Looked almost like they started with cel animation, then filled in   
   > the gaps with computer generated morphs between cels. Pretty cool and fairly   
   > unique animation technique.   
   >   
   > -meursalt   
   >   
   > John Doe II wrote:   
   >> Really good visuals, but hack story.   
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