I recommend all Nadesico fans to NOT watch this movie.
"What were they thinking when they made this?" - That's the first thing that comes to mind when looking at Prince of Darkness. This isn't Nadesico, this isn't the GEKIGAN FLARE-yelling, hotblooded- yet lighthearted- and satiric view of the real robot genre that made Nadesico unique, interesting and a brilliant watch. No, this is a dark, murderous, hideous shadow of Nadesico. It's what you get if you lock Nadesico into a dark room for a couple years, continuously poke it with a cattle prod and feed it nothing but raw meat. It's just not the same.
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Alternative Titles
Synonyms: Nadesico Movie
Japanese: 機動戦艦ナデシコ The prince of darkness
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Type:
Movie
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Aug 1, 1998
Studios:
Xebec
Source:
Original
Duration:
1 hr. 19 min.
Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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#57132
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Your Feelings Categories May 7, 2011
Before I get to anything else, let me point out something: This movie isn't intended to be watched right after the anime with no information given. There was actually a video game made that takes place in between the television series and the movie where a lot of important things happen. You can watch the movie right after the anime and probably still understand it, but it might distract you from the story of the movie trying to figure out what happened. It's called Martian Successor Nadesico: The Blank of Three Years. I don't think it's necessary to actually play it (I haven't), but finding
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Jun 10, 2009
One bit of advice when watching this movie: Don't Blink.
Seriously, the plot turns on you like a bad crowd at Yannifest and if you don't pay absolute attention to it it passes you by, causing you to scratch your head and ask 'wtf'. It did have its good parts but they were sparse at best. They spent way too long trying to convey what everyone was doing post-series but then decided to just flat-out stop at a certain point and try to get the plot up and running... to no avail. the final battle follows closely with what the plot was doing and you ... Jun 9, 2011
"Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of Darkness" (or just "Prince of Darkness" for short,) suffers from a lot of the symptoms that made the original series so rubbish.
While the production seems to have improved, being better dramatised as well as both looking and sounding better than the original series, it doesn't feel anything like a movie from the late nineties. Presentation improvements aside, this movie is even less impressive than the original series. It boasts an utterly confusing beginning where I've no idea what's going on, a build up to something that vaguely resembles a climatic showdown... only to follow up with an anti-climatic finish. ... Oct 17, 2012
I watched this movie against the word of many of my friends who were fellow fans of the series.
Touching on a case by case here: Story: Completely off from how the original series presented itself. The series ended on a well rounded note, and this movie was created to pretty much throw that to the wind. The mood and tone difference between this movie and the series its supposedly based off of is totally dark dark night and bright day. The movie itself seems to be standalone with the way the plot is built. Its completely against the series writing. Art: Amazing. The one shining ... Oct 21, 2024
(While I don't think there are any true spoilers here for Martian Successor Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness if you've seen all of the requisite prequels, there are heavy spoilers for the Sega Saturn game Martian Successor Nadesico: The Blank of 3 Years and one minor spoiler for extra context for the Sega Dreamcast game Martian Successor Nadesico: The Mission.)
The Nadesico film requires a bit of context to appreciate, and this is one of those instances where even the initial theater-going Japanese audience of the time would have been bewildered and in the dark, not just an outside audience getting only select titles localized, as ... Mar 2, 2015
Honestly this movie was pretty badly done could of been much better.Overall it was good but the story was too flat. It basically was revolution we found akito and back o the usual gimmicks.The art and everything was good for a 1990's anime.The characters well same off as the tv series nothing new.For the people who liked the tv series i recommend u watch the movie at your own risk it will leave u just like it left u at the end of the show clueless and wanting more
Feb 1, 2013
A great movie that show that after math of the original TV series, plus it also show life of Nadesico's crew after the war is over. I do wish they will spend more times progressing the plot instead of showing the daily life of every characters, I guess they were planning to have more than one movie.
It is very unfortunate that the story is unfinished, there won't be any sequel to conclude the story. There were 2 dreamcast games that kind of follow the story after the movie, but it barely moved the plot, and it ended in another cliffhanger. As a big Nadesico fan, I ... Sep 12, 2013
Although certainly not nearly as good as the series, the movie truly wasn't too bad. The biggest thing that hurts the movie is that the game "Martian Successor Nadesico: The Blank Three Years" was never released in English. Because of this, a number of important plot points are completely missing in order to understand the movie.
However, even when you know the plot of the game, the movie feels very rushed, and does not have a very satisfying conclusion. This is somewhat addressed with another game, "Martian Successor Nadesico: The Mission." However, this game also leaves us with yet more questions. There were originally ... Oct 10, 2024
I personally believe that the TV series "Nadesico" was a parody of most giant-robot anime of its time. I liked the comedy that came with that, as well as subverting your expectations for what a normal giant-robot anime could be, but ultimately it seemed to include all the trappings and faults of the series it tried to parody.
What about the movie, especially as a conclusion to the rushed-ending of the TV series? Unfortunately it not only doesn't fair any better, it's also much worse. I have a specific disgust for most TV-sequel anime-movies. They often open by introducing a new conflict. This conflict requires that ... |