All right, before I begin, I have to make light of the fact that this artist (Mutsumi Inomata) who made the movie deserves more credit! I found the art on a special page one day, and found out how very excellent this person IS. They really need more recognition!
The story to this movie is pretty typical. It's about a girl who gets sucked into another realm. However, she does it a little differently than a lot of others had managed to... Her name is Yohko, and she admires a man from afar (or whatever). In order to get the guts up to ask this stallion (haha) out, she composes a love melody on the piano. All of this is in hopes of that when she passes him on the sidewalk, she will be able to talk to him.
When Yohko DOES pass him on the sidewalk, she doesn't get the guts up to talk to him. She stands there and looks at her feet. A leaf falls towards the ground... but when it touches, bubbles come up out of the sidewalk and Yohko finds herself in a strange new world. She realizes that her tape player (on which she was listening to her composition) is in front of her, and reaches for it. Then the ground moves (well, that's never good). Yohko is on the back of a very large turtle-like creature... and she lost her tape player.
To make a long story short, Yohko meets up with a talking dog. His name is Ringham. He tells her the history of the world, and how it is linked to Yohko's. He also tells her that a man named Zell is in search of the Heart of Leda... which seems to be directly related to her cassette player. (?) Her world and this new one are going to be either separated or they'll clash together, but not without the help of Leda's Heart. (Leda would be the goddess that threw a nasty fit a long time ago and sealed the worlds apart...)
There is not really anything objectionable in this show. There is no nudity, and maybe one or two common swear words. There's some violence, and a tiny bit of blood. But it's all in good fun and what not.
Storyline
4/5 It was good, but also slightly choppy.
Character Development
4/5 I wasn't particularly attached to any of them...
Plot Depth
5/5 Nice and deep.
Music
4/5 It was all good and 80's like.
Sexual Content
5/5 NONE!! ^_^
Nudity
5/5 NONE!! ^_^
Violence/Gore
4/5 A tiny bit o' blood and there was giant-rustic-robot fighting.
Animation
3/5 It was very, very BAD.
Profanity
4/5 Probably about two swear words total.
Overall goodness
4/5 It was really horribly dubbed. The animation was so bad it was hardly standable. Something about it just seemed so unprofessional, yet the company that released it IS a trustable one. In the end, there was a preview for the movie which we just watched, and it was odd. How so? The voices for the characters sounded totally different, the dubbing wasn't so bad, and you could understand what they were saying. The animation also seemed to be clearer... what's up with that?
Totals: 42/50 It was kind of choppy and everything about the tape just seemed so CHEAP!! It was a very nerve-wracking thing for me to watch. *_*
Well, to start out with; this story and character design was done by one of my personal favorite artists: Mutsumi Inomata! An amazing artist... drool-like over the beautiful drawings!
Well, it starts out with a girl: Yohko. She has been in love with this guy for like... either five months or five years. I couldn't understand her. Well, anyway, she composes this song to get her courage up to tell him how she feels. Laa dee daa, walking down the cherry blossom road like thing. Pass the guy. Stop and think! Well, with that piano blasting away in your ears, you'd think... never mind. Well, she says nothing. As she walks past him, listening to her song, a leaf falls. NOOOOO! I mean... As it nearly hits the ground, it disitegrates upwards. Yohko falls into a new dimension. She wanders about, listening to her music. She evntually loses her cassette player. She meets up with this funky talking dog, named Ringham. He tells her about how this Leda goddess used to own this world of Ashtanti. (I think. I couldn't understand him) So they get into a fight with these military-tpes over Yohko's cassette player. The guys shout how it's Leda's heart. Yohko wants her musical device back. Falling into a flower (which are GIANT), she transforms into this mystical ever-powerful warrior and slices up the military-types. They go off in search of her musical device.
Zell, the "bad guy", (I called him Make-Up Man) wants to get into Yohko's world. By now, everyone has forgotten that Yohko has a name and call her "Leda's Warrior". Yohko just wants to get home, get her cassette player back! She doesn't really want to do battle with giant robots and save Leda's heart. But the age-old question arises: What IS Leda's heart? Why did Leda desert the world? And blah blah blah. . .
Storyline
4/5 Twas. . . choppy, says I. Good plotline, just VERY CHOPPY!
Character Development
5/5 Wondery-ful and googly goo.
Plot Depth
5/5 Well, it was kinda cheesy, but I liked it a lot.
Music
5/5 All piano-like stuff, so of course I liked it!
Sexual Content
5/5 There's none at all!
Nudity
5/5 None at all! In a few scenes, you'd THINK she'd be, but no.
Violence/Gore
4/5 Not really. There's this red stuff that LOOKS like blood, but you never know.
Animation
3/5 Made in 1970. . . actually, despite the 70's animation, it was made in 1985. It was REALLY bad. There was something very strange about it. . .
Profanity
4/5 A little bit, but not much.
Overall goodness
5/5 The dubbing was absolutely HORRIBLE! The voices were scratchy and blurred, you couldn't understand a WORD that they said. Thank God they put Yoni and Ringham's names on the end, or never should I have known their names! It was kinda choppy, but I liked it. The mech designs were totally unique to Inomata, that genius of anime, and the freaky Riven-esque mechs flying about were so cool! The storyline was pretty good.
Totals: 45/50, or pretty good. Besides the weird dubbing, (I think we got a really BAD tape. Either that, or a fandub. It was really. . . not professional! In the end there was an ad for it, and Yohko's voice was pretty understandable, it sounded way different, and the animation looked a LOT clearer!) it was good.
TOTALS (both reviews coined together) 43.5/50. Goo. Very goo. (GOO=GOOD... MWAHAHAHAHA) OOPS, no evil laughter... tee hee.
**We rented this tape, unedited, dubbed and professionally (?) done. ***
| Title: | Leda: The Fantastic Adventures of Yohko | ||||||||||||||
| Original Creator: | Mutsumi Inomata | ||||||||||||||
| Year: | 1985 | ||||||||||||||
| Licensed by: | The Right Stuf International, Inc. | ||||||||||||||
| Length: | 70 min | ||||||||||||||
| Rating: (not professional) |
PG (blood, strange babble, and non-understandable characters)
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Number of Tapes:
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1
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Price for individual tape:
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$19.95 (for both dub and sub)
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Box Set? Price:
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No
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Number of DVD's:
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Not on DVD yet
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Price for individual DVD:
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Not on DVD yet
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Box Set? Price:
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No
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Comments:
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Leda: The Fantastic Adventures of Yohko is a sci-fi and WEIRD flick that would be enjoyed by the sci-fi and weird types. It seems to be more of a female-centered show, but males may like the awesome mechs. They are very cool ^_^ Hopefully you'll get a better quality tape than we did.
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