What if you made a anime movie, put it out in theatres; and hardly anyone went to see it? Well that is pretty much what happened to this movie, and that is really to bad. People really missed out on seeing something good up on the big screen.
Delgo is the story of not just a young boy, but of two groups of people. One peace loving, the other more war like, And all the problems that war brings to both sides. But let me start at the begining, I always get in a rush. hehe.
After having left their own world due to a loss of natural resources, the Nohrin settle on Jhamora with the permission of the Lokni.
But some of the Nohrin, led by Sedessa, believe in the superiority of their own race and try to take land away form the Nohrin. Delgo’s parents are killed in the resulting conflict. King Zahn is horrified by the war and admonishes Sedessa, who then poisons the Queen and almost kills Zahn as well. She is subsequently banished, and her wings are clipped off. Delgo meanwhile, is raised by Elder Marley , who tries to teach him how to use the power of the stones. Once Delgo grows up, however, he gives in to his desire for revenge against the Nohrin as a whole. But then he meets Kyla and develops a tentative friendship with her. When she is kidnapped by General Raius, who is actually working for Sedessa, Delgo and his friend Filo are blamed and arrested.
In the Nohrin Prison, Delgo meets General Bogardus, who was forced to illegally gamble with his weapons by Raius, because Bogardus opposed an all out war with the Lokni. Delgo, Filo, and Bogardus escape into some underground caverns and eventually reach Sedessa’s stronghold and rescue Kyla. Together they hurry back to try to stop the war from taking place. They are too late, for the war has already begun. Bogardus meanwhile fights and defeats Raius, but is soon after mortally injured. Just as Bogardus dies, Delgo realizes that he was the Nohrin soldier who spared his life many years ago during the first war between the Norin and Lokni. Meanwhile, Sedessa’s army of monsters join in the battle. Kyla convinces the Nohrin generals to direct their troops to stop fighting the Lokni and instead pick them up and fly them away from the battlefield. Filo then directs an entire stampede of large animals onto the battlefield, sending Sedessa’s minions fleeing for their lives. Delgo goes off to face Sedessa and find King Zahn, whom she has taken prisoner. He finally manages to master the stone magic, and defeats Sedessa. He also puts the past behind him by saving her rather than letting her fall to her death. However, Sedessa then attacks Kyla, who has come to Delgo’s aid. The two struggle and Sedessa finally falls, her artificial wings being of no use. Later, during the celebrations, Delgo and Kyla’s friendship blossoms into romance when they finally kiss.
Sound like something you know? Yeps, Romeo and Juliet, done in anime. The people voicing the characters are all pretty well know. Freddie prinze jr, Jennifer love hewitt, Anne bancroft, and Louis gossett jr. The anime is really good, but the story is wow! Soooo good! The whole story shows both people, and how they feel that they have been wronged by the other. There is war, but there is nothing bloody or anything, so the movie is safe for kids. The love story is pretty predictable, and nothing we have not seen before. But Delgo’s best friend is a total riot! He bumbles into everything and is a total klutz, hehe. But really funny.
What I liked is how war is viewed as a bad thing, and something to be avoided until you just can’t any longer. That is something you don’t see in a lot of movies anymore. A lot of time, people just resort to violence to solve things, a lot like real life too. So that was good to see here and a good lesson, also another good lesson was it teaches about how to bring two different set of people together to work together for a better world.
The movie is really pretty, and the cities of the sky living race looks like something out of Star Wars. The characters look kinda like orcs in the faces, not scarry at all, just has that shape of heads. Some are green colored skins, some are blue. All look pretty cool.
This movie came out the same time as The Clone Wars anime movie, which is why the one got missed. It is not out at theatres now, but I wanted to review this for you guys, so that you can look for it on like net flix or something. It is really good and one you will be wanting to see. Your whole family will like this one.
Darcy
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