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The Heroic Legend of Arslan




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Arachnée



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:03 am Reply with quote
The Heroic Legend of Arslan is not just an OVA series. They are actually two movies and 4 OAV.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 7:00 pm Reply with quote
There's a note attached to the entry that's only viewable to staff that says "The series of Heroic legend of Arislan was not finished and the last two episodes were done several years after the first four"

Should the last two actually be considered movies (as in screen in theaters)?
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Arachnée



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 11:48 am Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:34 pm Reply with quote
Well, quite a few titles in late 1980s and early 1990s have similar dilemmas. We had a discussion over MAPS ten years ago (wow, time flies by): it was screened by Shochiku Fuji first but VHS released just a week later, and "Original Animation Video" was printed clearly over the VHS jacket. A more recent mix-format example was Stratos 4 Advance.

I think a good compromise would be adding a comment below, describing how the first two "episodes" were screened first.
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Arachnée



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 6:21 am Reply with quote
dormcat wrote:

I think a good compromise would be adding a comment below, describing how the first two "episodes" were screened first.

I would suggest the contrary actually. Have the titles listed as they were released in Japan (in this case with 3 entries for the 2 movies and the OAV series) and with a comment in each entry describing that the movies were released as OAV in US.

The case of "Maps" is different I think because it was relased as movie and OAV in Japan. But the "Arslan" movies are considered like OAV in US only.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:07 pm Reply with quote
That last link mentions an event screening. Was this done purely as a pre-screening for a already planned home video release, or was the intended release as a series of movies and later episodes went video-only?
I mean, if screening the first episode or two of something prior to release on another format qualifies it as a series of movies then there are a lot of things that qualify, like Sailor Moon Crystal.
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Arachnée



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:56 am Reply with quote
Shiroi Hane wrote:
That last link mentions an event screening. Was this done purely as a pre-screening for a already planned home video release, or was the intended release as a series of movies and later episodes went video-only?

Yes, that is the second solution. Wink

The first movie was screened along the first movie of "Silent Mobius" and the second movie with the second movie of "Silent Mobius" and "The Weathering Continent". You'll notice that for "Silent Mobius" and "The Weathering Continent" ANN considered them as movies, not OVA.

Then, 2 series of 2 OVA were made for "Arslan".
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