Guin Saga

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Japanese: グイン・サーガ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 26

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 5, 2009 to Sep 27, 2009

Premiered: Spring 2009

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Aniplex

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Satelight

Source: Light novel

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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The ancient kingdom of Parros has been invaded by the armies of Mongaul, and its king and queen have been slain. But the "twin pearls of Parros," the princess Rinda and the prince Remus, escape using a strange device hidden in the palace. Lost in Roodwood, they are rescued from Mongaul soldiers by a strange leopard-headed man, who has no memories except for the words "Aurra" and "Guin," which he believes to be his name.

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Guin

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Horiuchi, Kenyuu
Japanese

István

Main

Asanuma, Shintaro
Japanese

Aldo, Naris

Main

Uchida, Yuuya
Japanese

Jeina, Rinda Arudia

Main

Nakahara, Mai
Japanese

Aldoros, Remus Al Jeinus

Main

Yonaga, Tsubasa
Japanese

Amnelis

Supporting

Watanabe, Akeno
Japanese

Sala

Supporting

Watanabe, Misa
Japanese

Li Fa

Supporting

Sato, Satomi
Japanese

Ran

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Lussia

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Itou, Kanae
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Wakabayashi, Atsushi

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Aketagawa, Susumu

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Hanyuu, Naoyasu

Episode Director

Foster, Steven

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"Guin no Theme" by Nobuo Uematsu

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"Saga ~ This is my road" by Kanon

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Jan 22, 2010

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Archaeon (All reviews)

263 people found this review helpful

This review is dedicated to Imaoka Sumiyo, better known as Kurimoto Kaoru, the author of Guin Saga, who passed away in May 2009. Few can come close to matching what you have achieved as a writer and author.

As a fan of science fiction and fantasy, I'm always on the lookout for enjoyable stories, and this is one of the reasons why I'm such a fan of anime. Imagine my surprise then, when I learned that a series that I've only ever managed to read parts of (and small sections they were too), and that I have tried on numerous occasions to find in English, was read more

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Mar 24, 2011

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Nipsirc (All reviews)

33 people found this review helpful

Considering 2009 was the first year i really started to notice that fewer shows were getting released year on year, it is truly surprising this project got the go ahead at all. Guin Saga is truly a faithful depiction of classic Fantasy/Adventure story telling, for better and for worst.

The story sets up and has the potential to be an epic masterpiece, the scale and complexity of the tale is vast, and ambitious, and while the scale of the story is rarely an issue, the show doesn't quite get there.

What the show does well, is what i would describe as the political aspect of the adventure, the various countries, their royal families and the various stages of the conflict and occupation of Parros are engaging to watch and really set in around the early mid stage of the series. This steered me quite happily from episode to episode without any complaints.

What the show handles poorly are the day to day events following Guin and the Remus Twins, my interest in the events didn't last long beyond the introductory episodes to our protagonists. Now while i quite enjoyed watching the Remus twins and their adaptation to the situation they find themselves in, everything regarding Guin came off as underwhelming. Guin is very much our all action straight laced hero, sadly this show is all about the bloodless violence, every time the show went into a small scale battle, i would always be left disappointed, there's simply no edge to any of the action, it's predictable and stole screen time from the events i did find enjoyable.

The art is strong worthy of a 2009 anime, the character models for better are classic fantasy designs, nothing of the current moe trends, far more reminiscent of years gone by. The background animations are reasonable, albeit lazy at times, they do a good job of bringing a huge world to life. The sound was reasonable, if not overly memorable, the voice acting was functional if not a little repetitive (blame the scripting as much as the voice acting)

The characters actually grew on me quite a lot, by the end of it i had grown genuinely interested in what was going to befall the Remus Twin's and even Istovan finally showed another dimension to his character, which i appreciated.

Overall if you like fantasy shows you'll almost certainly enjoy this show, i happily breezed through the 26 episodes in 4 nights without any real complaints. There's plenty to poke at if your looking to not like this show, but all in all it was a good not great introduction to what i'm sure turned out to be a fairly epic story, the show could have been a great portrayal in it's on right, had it taken a few more risks, but settled for being a fairly standard affair in the end.

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Dec 10, 2009

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Onslaught2k3 (All reviews)

12 people found this review helpful

Not having read any of the novels this great yet short series is based off, I really liked the presentation, development, and the events which took place throughout this series.

This story surrounds the main protagonist, Guin. I myself never seen a barbarian-like man with the head of a Leopard! That was the main reason why I got interested in this show and I surely hope it's the reason for others. Besides our bold, responsible, refined, and primal-powered warrior role-model mentioned, the music, side characters, sub-plotting and development are just outstanding!

Though Guin is a very powerful soldier and leader, he is faced with much stronger calamities than any of the other characters in the story (durp, Onslaught2k3, DURP) which doesn't leave you with the aftertaste that Guin is overpowered like some other protagonists in other franchises. His greatest weakness is his lack of self-knowledge that propels him to search throughout the lands to find out WHO he truly is and more importantly his DESTINY.

A few issues any informed viewer of this anime would have are natural. The only/main one being there's SO MUCH MORE to be told in this anime it's hard to believe that it was officially ended at ONLY 26 episodes which I believe covered the first novel of the 127 novel series.

Each character has their own severe trails brought upon them as if it's some sort of test sent to them by their respective deities (there's Jarn, the god of Fate, Doal, the god of Evil/Darkness, others in which I've forgotten). Every character is thoroughly explained in the anime and there's no confusion as to what their true intentions are (minus one supporting protagonist named Aldo Naris).

This story largely focuses on betrayal as many people are stabbed in the back throughout the series. The involvement of spirituality, the different racial backgrounds and the significance of each, and the more serious trials involving Guin is what really sucked me in to loving this series in almost any way possible.

From open to close, each episode is filled with significant material like some sort of beautiful birthday or christmas present. The opening/closing themes are well-composed and vocalized (closing theme I absolutely adored) in this series and is worth recognition.

This series in my opinion is meant for the younger adult crowd looking for spiritual and deeper enjoyment out of a japanese cartoon. I would've loved to see how far the anime could go (who knows, maybe there is litigation going on to get more seasons pumped but as subtitler [Frong] says: "I guess that much is left to the novels.").

This anime adaptation of Guin Saga will definitely leave you wanting more, but in a much more positive and heart-warming sense. If you want to watch this or have a glimmer of hope you'll like this show, WATCH IT NOW! JUST WATCH IT! I guarantee you that you'll have at least SOME enjoyment out of this show!

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Nov 14, 2009

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

Neji (All reviews)

12 people found this review helpful

Well my first review, so bare with me. I decided to write this review because all of the other reviews for this series are positive ones, but this is really a mediocre show at least it turned out to be. This review is for people who have not seen it yet and are thinking giving it a chance.

This is a pathetic show, with very minimal enjoyment and even less value. It started pretty good. It was a tail of adventure of Guin, a mysterious warrior and his search for his identity (yes, amnesia). The first part of the series is the presentation of the characters and settings and this part is the only decent side of the series. You get to know this "middle ages" type world with countries at war, with magic and science. The characters are weak and uninteresting mostly, but Guin is decent. He is very cold and wise, so you do want to know more about him. His fighting skills are great too, so is his leadership and that's what the creators should have gone for. But they didn't and soon we all get a new main character and that's when the series tanks. The name of this freaking show is "Guin Saga" not "Aldo Naris Saga", but Guin is limited to 20 second fights against mediocre assassins for the past 10 episodes or so. The series dose not have a direction. The creators started many plots and subplots but had no clue where to go, so the series soon turns out into a train wreck. After some time you stop caring anymore. The amount of holes in the story is staggering and I was getting a feeling that the creators were thinking that only complete idiots will be watching this show, so they didn't hold back. I can honestly go on and on about problems of this series, but I will just say this. After 26 episodes I didn't have a clue who is the villain of this series. There were several candidates but I didn't care anyway, even worse I didn't even care for our heroes. The only reason I completed this series is to understand what in the hell the creators were thinking. The stupidity of this show will not allow any emotion other then anger to flourish.

To Recap. This is a really bad show and you will waste your time if you watch it. It keeps you in hope that soon it will get better, one more episode and it will turn out good, but it never does and even worse it keeps getting worse. The bastards that created this series kept this trend even at the last episode, but this time it is "one more season and it will get better". WTF? They say that anime industry is very competitive and only the most talented people will ever make it there, so I would really like to meet "talented" people behind this "masterpiece".

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