Voiced by: Nozomu Sasaki (Japanese) Steve Staley (English), Immy Uncle (English) in OVA. 14 images of the Magic Knight Rayearth cast of characters. In the second arc he also leads all of Cephiro until a new pillar can be found. She is very young, self-assured and appears fairly bratty (she wants Cephiro so her every whim will become reality, and in the anime version she wants to become pretty to impress Sanyun), but can use all the legendary forbidden spells of the Royal Family, including the ability to conjure up creatures that she draws on ceremonial paper that she uses to attack with. Emeraude (エメロード, Emerōdo) is the current pillar (and princess) of Cephiro. Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki (Japanese) Terrence Stone (English), Jim Ensz (English) in OVA. Tarta shares her name with the Tata Motors from India. He puts a lot of pressure on Aska to become a good ruler, which causes her to think of him as a "preachy old man" in the English version, a "bigmouth". Manuela Espejo Fernando Daquilema José Joaquín de Olmedo Alonso de Illescas.Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información.Relaciones Exteriores y Movilidad Humana.Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación.Since it has nothing to do with this story I won’t discuss it further here. This uses the same character names and designs to tell a completely unrelated story. Other VersionsĪ three-episode OVA (direct-to-video) was released in 1997.
None of it would be likely to frighten a typical American ten-year-old. The violence is stylized but not entirely bloodless, particularly in the later episodes.
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The series includes numerous violent action sequences. The second season would probably be even less appealing. Older viewers who have some experience with stories with tragic elements are more likely to appreciate it.Ĭhildren as young as seven might enjoy the whimsical opening episodes, but by the time they reached the end of the first story arc they would probably be confused or upset. It doesn’t contain anything likely to be particularly harmful to younger children, but they probably will not enjoy it. This series is best suited for teenagers and adults.
Finally it works it way to a more-or-less happy ending. Repeatedly this story arc threatens to end as tragically as the first, if not more so. Characters wrestle with their inner demons, sometimes literally. Instead of a sword-quest through a beautiful magic land, we see giant robots battling in a desolate landscape for a prize that seems hardly worth having. The second season contains some whimsical elements but the overall tone is darker than the first. I feel it trembling in the bottom of my heart:īoth the light and the darkness that I warmly embrace,Ī chase for the dream that I just can’t give up on… So I want freedom, just like the wind that will come with the next sunrise. The bright light that I missed will not come back to me now, Solitary tears fall into the sea that I sealed away inside my heart. The warm red shades of the sunset have a melancholy beauty, On the other hand, if you have no previous exposure to CLAMP’s somewhat twisted sense of humor you would probably do better to start with one of their more accessible works, such as Cardcaptor Sakura or Angelic Layer. If you are a fan of CLAMP’s other stories you will definitely want to see this one. When I watched it for a second time I had a better idea of what the first season was really about and I enjoyed it a good deal more.Īctually once I accepted that there is more going on here than just a goofy parody I found the story powerful and affecting. The second season seemed darker but more enjoyable. Watching the first season for the first time I initially felt amused, then impatient, and finally shocked. Perhaps because it was an early work the series has a strangely uneven tone. A long time ago, before xxxHolic, before Chobits, even before Cardcaptor Sakura, the enigmatic team of artists known as CLAMP created a manga called Magic Knight Rayearth, which was made into a two-season television series, the first anime to be based on their work.
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