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Dead Leaves Actor: Hiroyuki Imaishi Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Anchor Bay Entertain Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.0 "One word.....INSAINE" Dead Leaves is one of those rare series that'll make you think "what the hell?". The show as some brilliant animationa and some really awesome action sequences that don't involve any CGI at all. The series is pretty much simple to understand PLOT Pandy and Retro find them selves isolated and nude. They have no idea who they are or what has happend to them. So to make some stuff work out they......steal, kill and...yeah you get the point. Not a very smart way to find shelter if you ask me. They end up getting busted and are sent to a prison named "DEAD LEAVES" were they find some really messed up looking inmates. Soon they find out that the inmates are diformed clones of some type and get ready to bust out, with the inmates of course, and that is the beginning of there adventure of escaping Dead Leaves. There is more to the story but I don't want to spoil it for you. The animation is insain and awesome. It's like Ren and Stimpy mixed with south park on Steriods. The best part of this film is once the characters start using there weapons. This film has great stylized action shooting. There was something about the two main characters that I loved that I couldn't quiet get my finger on. One thing is that when these two start killin' it's awesome and very stylized! The series may turn some people off. I really enjoyed it. It was very "different" from most series if you ask me. The series is a bit short if you ask me, it should have bin atleast and hour and half but then again what els would they have added? This series is pretty darn violent too. Lots and lots of blood and some gory moments but not that bad and lots of profanity(in subtitles of course) and is recommended to ages 17+. This show The show is insain, it's cool and hip, it's something new and fresh and I simply loved it and that is why I'm giving this awesome anime a 4.5 out of 5. It needs more stuff though and the Dvd didn't have enough juicy extras for me.. Lates "'Fraid NOT boys and girls..." I was in a buying frenzy. The man said with that dirty "I sell anime can you trust me?" smile "IT'S like, if you like FLCL, then, like, THIS IS FLCL's violence and sex and weirdness and stuff, BUT THEY TOOK IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL!" I should have known that was the kiss of death. But I second guessed myself, and since I had read a good review and since FLCL was the only series that gave me hope in animation again, never mind ANIME, and since I had been given a slight bonus at work... ... I didn't follow my gut instinct and shelled out the (...). Like a sucker. Don't get me wrong, I love my violence and sexual deviance. Shucks howdy, ICHI THE KILLER is one of my favorites! But those characters are FASCINATING and have a depth to their morbid actions, not slack-jawed attempts at Ren & Stimpy humor. I don't think there's a genuine obsession at work here, just Japanese anime writers trying to be "hip." People compare it to INVADER ZIM - no dice boys, there's a neat psychology at work with those amoral characters that pays off in the action. The FLCL comparison in particular hurts, especially since I.G. did SUCH a GOOD job there! Yeah, its like FLCL with worse animation, no subtlety, boring action, and no dramatic core that pulls the random logic together. There are however characters with drills for (...), a single good (...)joke, bad sex humor, and a bull-hoo sybolism to the title. If that sounds like heaven topped with whipped cream, go for it. Me, if that's taking it to the next level I'll kick it down a notch anyday with a guitar to the forehead. Visually, it reminds me of a 90's LOBO comic or Heavy Metal (but unfortunately the animation is "XTREME" and choppy) and the story would fit into the latter magazine, especially the issues where all the jokes fall flat, but some kind of interesting visual elements are there. Plus, no music on par with the Pillows' or Yoko Kanno's. Picture and sound quality's good on the disc, hence the ** rating. I don't mind having sat through it at only 50 minutes long, but there's a lesson to be learned from my mistake: NEVER trust a comic-store owner when your heart tells you to save the $25. "An hour long adrenalin rush." Have you been desensitized to violence and seem unaffected by strange sexual acts.Then step right up. This was made just for you. Even the most jaded viewer will laugh and gasp at the content of this disk. Retro and Pandy awaken with their memories erased. They apparently have been sent to a lunar prison. This is the story of how they attempt to escape with hordes of other inmates. Strap yourself in for a crazy ride. Are you into typical anime with realistic renderings and computer enhanced graphics? You may want to look somewhere else. This has the look of a panel comic. All the outlines are thick and black and nothing looks even remotely realistic. Do you hate crass language? Do you also abhor sexual innuendo? Well then you're going to hate this. The entire anime is filled with sexual language and situations. Do you dislike intense violence? Please look elsewhere. The screen is almost entirely filled with blood through the whole show. "WASTE OF TIME & MONEY!" This anime is HORRIBLE! It's as if they gave a 10-13 yr old a piece of paper to wirte the script and come up w/ the story. It's like Bongman and Chronic from Chasing Amy/Jay and Silent Bob: Strikes Back. Unless that's all you're looking for in an Anime is a whole movie of sexual comments and a waste of time, by all means this is the anime for you. Oh and by the way those sexual comments are from one man to another. It's horrible and a waste of time. Save your money. "Zany fun in the vein of Scud, Aeon Flux and Tank Girl" Simply put, Dead Leaves is not for everyone. The action is frantic and uncontrollable, the plot is reminiscent of something Lewis Carroll would dream up, and it has an almost childish sense of humor. Viewing it for the first time was a complete assault on my senses; Scenes move forward at such a break-neck pace that I can't help but think the animators all suffer from ADD. Dead Leaves is an ode to senseless, over-the-top violence. At times, it almost feels like an animated version of the indie comic, Scud: The Disposable Assassin. There are some definite western influences present, and the animation is very reminiscent of Peter Chung's works. If it seems like I've been relying heavily on comparisons to other works to describe Dead Leaves, you'd be correct. On its own merits, it's nearly indescribable. Suffice it to say that, if you enjoyed any of the works I've mentioned so far, then you should at least rent Dead Leaves. If you think anime is all about weird sexual fetishes and characters with big eyes (or if you judge all anime by how it stacks up to Dragonball Z), then don't bother.