Dallos

I have been looking for this animation for long time. It's great that amazon have it. There are also a lot good foreign animations cannot be found on itune, and people want to buy it. Why not amazon collect them all for sell?

My childhood movie, I finally have it to watch as much as I want!

Love this old classic

The movie was OK, but the transfer leads a little to be desired. On my neighbors 60 inch the quality is noticeable.

seems that some of the story is missing or maybe from previous film?

Dallos is by far one of the most impressive and underappreciated gems to fly under the radar. It's gotten no promotion or advertising from Discotek. I was completely unaware of it's release and sales have been subtle to say the least. However this is instantly a recommendation to anyone. This will be one of those titles that go 'Out of Print' and fetch a lot of money in the future from collector's. For starters the character designs are done by Toshiyasu Okada. This is the same artist that did the Area 88 OVA from 1985. This is why the main character Shun resembles Shinji and the hair is a dead give away. Mamoru Oshii, famous for directing classics such as Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Angel's Egg, Twilight Q and Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer, is the lead co-director on this piece of work. Oshii is famous for his ambitious, always intrinsically complex storyline telling which demands viewers to scratch their heads and go back for repeat viewers to notice more content, details and undertones. Oshii is simply considered one of the best director's of all time. Dallos being one of his earliest forays, clearly shows some of his genius unfolding in this ambitious project. Dallos was originally supposed to be a long, successful TV series but the funding got cut mid-way as more advertisers were not secured. The rest of the show, in an almost identical fashion to Megazone 23, could not be animated for this reason. Therefore the first 4 story arcs were bridged together and it was spun together as the very first ever direct to video anime release in Japan. Thus a new type of industry was born but Dallos was the first, it would be later works like Megazone 23 that catapult this style of release into super stardom and the OVA boom period of the 80's would leave an everlasting etch of a golden age and period. Dallos is a beautiful piece of animated beauty to look at. It's designs and setting are easily recognisable and nothing looks close to it's idiosyncratic beauty. Show any fan a piece of imagery from it and most fans that have seen the show can name it. This is one of the best trends of the 80's period, is that no two shows ever look the same. Being an obsessive anime fan, this adds to it's historical value. The story is not surprisingly, a very layered and complex space opera about the clash of idealism and seeking to uncover the hope and mysteries that surround the moon, while dealing with a tyrannical and oppressive regime. Will it spill over into civil war as they try to unlock the answers? The story is split over four OVA episodes, each with their own cliffhanger. The last will be the most bitter sweet as only our vivid and constructive imaginations can foresee the possible continuations. Now for the technical details. The DVD uses the remastered telecline print from the Japanese release in 2004. All the extras have been retained and you will have two subtitled documentaries to watch called 'Remembering Dallos 1983-2003' and the 'Pilot film'. Oshii does speak and gives his insights into his early work. The original 4:3 aspect ratio is retained. No artificial cropping has been done to the mastering. Sound is in Dolby Digital Stereo and is remastered as well for the Japanese track which includes fully translated, English subtitles. Those that may have had a Hong Kong bootleg taken from an old unremastered Laserdisc source with terrible Engrish translations, can retire it happily at last. Lastly, the English dub is not present for two good reasons. Firstly the Dub was edited down to 83 minutes, losing 40 minutes of content. This show was marketed at a younger audience in 1991 so a lot of the harsh, political content and sophisticated themes were taken out. Also secondly the dub was outsourced by a cheap Hong Kong company and the voice acting is pretty bad to say the least. Since sales of this Japanese with English subtitles release have been low up to now, I can't imagine Discotek taking a chance and authoring a separate remastered, dubbed release since it would mean matching up frames and splicing out content. In conclusion, this is an essential purchase for any fan that values extremely engrossing, gripping and captivating stories with a affinity for space opera's like Legend of the Galactic Heroes or Gundam Zeta. If you have obvious titles in your collection like Akira and still treasure it's last impression on you then it's time for another dose of exquisite, vintage, delights of the past. Your mysterious journey awaits. Grade: A Video: A+ Sound: A+ Extras: A

This could have been a nice enough story for the early 1980s but we will never know. Only four episodes have ever been released. You get the general beginning of a story, you are introduced to whom I can only assume is the main cast and that is all. In short, this is a nice introduction to a story and nothing more.

So to be fair, I gave it a 1/2 rating since I couldnt/didnt watch it