So, logistically speaking, what happens to Hell now? Does Lady Death become the new Satan & continue her father's work? Is there no Hell now & everyone, regardless of their sins, go to Heaven? Or is this a nicer Hell?
Lady Death kind of reminds me of Vampirella. ...Except Vampirella had actual talented writers behind the scenes...and intriguing characters...and well-written if slightly confusing stories...and...I was going somewhere with this.
So all it takes for Heaven to condemn a woman to Hell, even in spite of her entire life being spent being a good person, is to make one last-minute pledge to her own Father? Yeah, I know he's the Devil and all, but come on, Heaven. That's a bit harsh don't ya think?
The Sandman is also my favorite comic. When I read Lucifer’s part, I honestly believed that’s probably how he’d be in real life. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even give a damn about us and is laughing his ass off as we destroy each other and our 🌎
"Lucifer" is indeed the Latin term for Venus (the planet, not the goddess), commonly referred to as the Morning Star. But the term was only later adopted by Christians for the name of Satan before his fall. Though it was a misappropriation as the passage that resulted in the name, Isaiah 14:12, was actually referring the King of Babylon. I am pretty sure that the name Lucifer was chosen for the more literal meaning of "bringer of dawn," as that is closer to the meaning of the original Hebrew "hêlêl ben šāḥar." So referring to Satan with the epithet "the Morning Star" is not really appropriate despite its technical accuracy.
Instead of the pontification… Lucifer was a “light bearer.” One of the top angels in the Christian Bible. Although I do not disagree with your comments, I have a hard time with this TH-camr and his bloviating. And also his lack of experience and perspective. I at least appreciate your input, as it has been the best reading I have had so far. And the commentary has been pretty sedentary 🤔🥱😐😂
11:28 the way Lachlan looks & sounds: this scene is like if Elias from Clerks 2 got dragged into hell... which would be the greatest punchline to his appearance xD
Kolsyrad Mcluvin wanna see something weird have a look at the first renditions of witch blade you will shit your brain trying to understand how it got to were it is now it started as an american comic then an american TV show then a manga in japan then turned into the anime and all the earlier renditions didn't rely on the cheesecake big tit factor.
They actually wanted a bigger budget to do the animation. They had problems getting this off the ground! Originally it was to been out in 2001. They also had partners who kept dropping out and 3 studios who wouldnt take the project due to the budget. The studio that ended up doing it ended up getting a deadline to finish it on a small budget and with the company owner (cant remember his name) came out of retirement to draw animation for certain character sequences to get it done, with a small crew of 20 or less animators, colorists, ect. Considering that Street Fighter, Dark Stalkers, Double Dragon had way more budget and more animators ect it was still awfully bad SHATerday morning cartoons I have ever witnessed. In my opinion It really is good for the day and even though ADV is known to put out sexual, perverted, vulgar and profane, Anime's I think they played it safe as they were hoping to appeal to a broader audience. It wasnt overly sexual or violent and there wasnt even any profane language as the comics were. Even when I asked the producers of this movie when it first came out at wizard world '04 they told me they hope it inspires people who love the character to make the money so that they can make a bigger and better one because they were passionate about Lady Death. The animation they really wanted to go for at the time was that like Vampire D Blood Lust but they only made their money back on the project. I still would like to see a R rated Lady Death movie.
"The animation they really wanted to go for at the time was that like Vampire D Blood " hold on................................AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
"Where is God in all of this?" That's exactly what I ask in all of these stories with Biblical influences. Like the entire run of Supernatural, Evangelion, all that shit. Things happen that directly defy God's will, and he does nothing to help the heroes or even try to thwart his own enemies.
The rise of the Lady Death material always made me sad, as the source material that spawned her was left in the Double D dust. I miss Evil Ernie. An unkillable homicidal maniac who is single-handedly responsible for the world killing zombie apocalypse as the chief soldier of Death herself. He was a Deadpool class wackjob,and a great villain. AND he was the star of the comic. I liked a comic where the supporting cast were trying to stop the main character from ending the world, and were failing because he was literally the biggest, baddest thing on the planet.
+Jaelyn Alexander I'm guessing pointless Greek mythology reference, Hope was the only thing left after Pandora's box was opened, and crossover Christian / Ancient Greek fanfiction has a long and storied history going right back to _The Divine Comedy_.
I know this is just a review, but every scene you showed either completely perplexed me or made me roll my eyes. The actual movie must be cringeworthy! Also, have many reviews have you uploaded today? My subscription box is going to give you a restraining order.
Those early scenes with the devil in Sweden just keep making me jump. Why? Well because of the little fact that they had to choose a rare little biblical name for Satan's alias which also happens to be my name, Mathias or Matthias depending on how you choose to spell it. I so rarely hear it used to refer to another that I jump every single time I heat it because it's just natural to respond to my own name. Curse you Lady Death, curse you!
+deathlegionair Oh yeah, still, one thing that bugs me was how stupid Satan kinda was being incognito trying to grab souls. Like, this was proximate to the Medieval times, saying you blatantly need "souls" would raise red flags which is exactly what made the priest suspicious in the first place, in other works of literature and film, they had Satan's human counterpart be clever in luring people to his place through deceptive scams like "Hey why don't you work as a servant in my castle" or "I actually need recruits to build a army for the crusade and/or battle against a enemy country." I mean, he was the high-class ruling Lord of the Land, so to speak, so he could have said those things and people would have had to go with him no questions asked. Unless he said "souls" tongue-in-cheek instead of actually seriously, it was pretty stupid on his part in the beginning of the movie.
I know it's an old video..and I've watched it a ton without commenting. But the thing with Lady Death..I can see an interesting story that just been slapped dashed together. If it landed in the right hands it could be a pretty awesome movie or series.
you all can keep your opinions, I just have to state that Bikini's make for the stupidest battle attire- both in practical and in looks. I will not take a character seriously if they run around with (giant) swords while exposing themselves, as in to tattoo the words "Hit me here". And on the line of sex appeal, characters: male and female, can be fully clothed/armor and still be sexy. Hell, Wonder Woman's costume looks more like proper battle attire
***** kind of what I said, everyone is allowed to keep to their opinions; I was just stating mine... and yes, no one has ever gotten me to watch Kill La Kill. Not going to say it's bad, but it doesn't appeal that much to me
+Wretneck I believe you skipped something: having less clothing can actually make you go faster; as long as that character having less clothing is the speed character, then it's fine. Also, in Kill la Kill, they at least had an excuse; people with the Kiryuine blood (like Ryoko, Nui, Satsuki, or Ragyo) were actually part clothing, and the only way they can be killed is if they are sliced on both sides at the exact same time completely. If there's only one string left, then they can just regenerate. Also, none of the other characters became more powerful when they had less clothing on; the advantage that the Kiryuine's have is because of their advantages, clothing can actually make them better. It can make them go faster; the only reason why that Nudist Beach guy is naked for most of the series is because he's a nudist. Also, the reason why the majority of the cast was naked at the end of the series was because the premordial life fiber was coming back to life to eat everyone. If somebody put clothes on, the clothing could actually eat them; this is because Reeboks is the biggest clothing brand in the world, and Reeboks was the company that actually had life fibers in their clothing that could consume others. There, I explained how Kill la Kill did everything what; also, the unlikeable character who always tried to pick up chicks ALWAYS got his commupance in the end.
Art style wise, this kind of feels like the awful Marvel Mangaverse- like somebody who has never drawn manga in their life attempts to do just that for the first time based entirely on that one episode of Sword Art Online they saw their kid watching once.
3:58: "I mean, even Witchblade's Sara Pezzini has more to her than Lady Death". That's...complicated. Witchblade's Sara Pezzini has more to her NOW than Lady Death NOW. But if you were to actually cut through the fanservice and compare the textual elements of their origin stories? Witchblade #1 is a NOTHING of an origin story. It's all lore, no character, a mode I remember the Witchblade comics stayed at for a distressingly long time. (I read 40 to 45 issues of the early Witchblade stuff on the web for free and it was DIRE trying to hold on to some sort of compelling character trait, positive OR negative, that you could apply to early Sara Pezzini.) Lady Death: The Reckoning, meanwhile...by the standards of the Bad Girl trend, it's the gold standard every other book or adaptation of that trend should be compared against. And compared to that source material? This is some INTENSELY watered down backwash. Let's compare the endings: At the end of Lady Death: The Reckoning, Hope has been so corrupted by the influence of hell that she's cursed to commit human extermination to walk on Earth again and she's okay with it. That's sympathetic, in a "tragic evil" kind of way, and still coherent. At the end of Lady Death: The Motion Picture, she has the same end goal of "walking on earth again", but the "curse" is to kill the devil's lackeys. That's more conventionally sympathetic, but it's also incoherent (for many reasons, but mostly because, especially in comparison, that's barely a curse) and bland.
To be fair, Lady Death choosing to not give chase was the wiser move. It is always advised to never chase down a fleeing enemy, especially in a siege. Hindsight is 20/20 and without any knowledge of a possible trap, holding off charging in was the wiser move.
Chaos had a bunch of characters like LD, including her arch-nemesis Purgatori (probably the more interesting character). Also, ADV kinda crapped on the entire origin story.
Satan, Lucifer, Bellpherog, Leviathan, and Beelzebub are all different demons. Originally it was not one devil, but seven each representing one of the seven deadly sins. I'm not sure if that's still how it works though.
Maybe despite after everything, he still loves his fallen children and can't bring himself to kill them Or maybe he needs him to have someone to oppose
6:18 I’d like to imagine that Lady Death isn’t using her Sith Lightning to strike down the cowards in her army, but instead genuinely doesn’t know what the word “fear” means and is lashing out in a childish tantrum because she hates the fact she’s that stupid.
going off from what my friend told me, this movie isn't just bad but unaccurate, what he told me was that Lady Deaths father wasn't satan but her father over throwned him but that doesn't really matter much since she kills them both
20:43 Ptolomea? Oh, Hell no! You see, In Dante's Divine Comedy, the ninth circle of Hell is an icy lake called Cocytus, where those that have committed treason are punished. The circle is divided into four zones: Caïna, Antenora, Ptolomea and Judecca (for those who plotted against relatives, country/party, guests, and lords). In Ptolomea, the sinners are frozen in a supine position (except for their faces) and weep so much that their tears freeze and turn into a shield in front of their eyeballs.
Well to be fair it's not God's job to rescue souls wrongfully sent to hell. That would be the Saint Michael the Archangel's Job. So the real question is, Where the fuck is Saint Michael
Her outfit was apparently meant to be the wedding dress of Purgatori, a vampire goddess who at one point tried to drink Lucifer's blood (following a wedding)
One of the many things that makes this p.o.s. what it is, is something that I haven't seen addressed yet. Before Lady Death was sent to Hell she was named Hope and lived in Sweden during the late 15th century. If that's the case then her name would actually be Hopp. The Swedish word for hope is hopp. It's not an actual Swedish name, it's just a random word they chose for her character because the hacks that wrote this couldn't have been more obvious if they had actually tried.
My favourite portrait of the devil is, The Spirit That Denies, Mephistopheles from Faust. "I am part of the power which would, attempt evil and ever does the good." Mephistopheles is aware that he sabotages himself, yet he is unable to stop. You could even argue the bet that drives the plot is a trick from God to let Mephistopheles do his work.
Sage, you should probably consider looking at Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic based on the video game. It's very anime-esque and was reportedly worked on by six different animation studios (including Japanese), hence the random shifts in art style. The narrative is also rather messy, trying to compress the entire storyline into an hour and a half movie.
dim the color a bit, and it'd look much better. 1st time I saw this movie was on a site where they had dimmed the colors a bit, and it looked alright. but this looks horrid
Hey, Peter Stormare as the devil in Constantine was awesome! And I know Catwoman's origin in Batman Returns isn't correct, but it wasn't bad! The Halle Berry-Catwoman however, that one was bad, the whole movie was bad!
I think the plot would have been salvageable by just having the final scene point out explicitly that the plan was to kill off his lieutenant and consolidate power with no negative PR.
My problem with the show was that I had no one to root for. In a battle of satan against sexy replacement satan and demons verses demons what is the point of being invested in either character? Furthermore Lady death is the one who influences evil ernie to wipe out humanity so she may well be worse than satan but to say that is like saying rape is better than murder.
16:40 I think I know how it works. If I go by the Robot Chicken logic, If you die in heaven, you go to *SUPER* heaven which is a better, higher plane of existance. But if you die in hell, you go to *EXTREME* hell, which is uglier, sadder, and violence Jack levels of horrifying. Yeah, still counter productive and a crappy decision. *LAME*
+Paul Hensley I'd recommend it. The movie had a lot working against it, and her comics were far more darker (and sexier) than the movie leads on. Make sure to look at the original Chaos Comics versions from the 90's. The new ones are just fanservice with no real mature settings or themes.
3:55-Hahahahaha, seriously, that is it. Why is Satan letting his daughter Hope or heck Lady Death wear a cross around her neck? Granddad said so? 11:28-This happens when people get liberties to write uncanon material. You get bull crap like this, that is as canon as Dark Knight Returns. 15:45-Really. You wanna take that up with Micheal or oh I don't know..GOD!? 21:30-Nice Lawyer. Good casework there. 22:40 Kilala's better. Wait how are some of these demons wearing skull hats? WHO DIED IN HELL? And who died so permanent that someone can wear your remains. 26:35-Whats with the snapping teleport chuckles? Are you Ganon in disguise.
When Lady Death says that Hope is dead, i just went "Well yeah, that's how you got there."
25:33
Rita Repulsa: (Looks at Satan uncomfortably) You have issues.
Satan: I'M THE DEVIL!
The original Mr. Daddy Issues. XD
So, logistically speaking, what happens to Hell now? Does Lady Death become the new Satan & continue her father's work? Is there no Hell now & everyone, regardless of their sins, go to Heaven? Or is this a nicer Hell?
Do you really care ?
Damn, this show raises some really interesting questions. Too bad it's awful to sit through.
she just goes on to kill Satan's ppl until she can get back to earth. she teams up with this dude evil Ernie. ya know it's a comic OK.....LOL
In an old arc she takes over he and eventually becomes Lady Demon.
It's now Half Hell. The less severe variant of Double Hell.
Too bad Sage didn't do a Witchblade review. He apparently knows what it is and he should know of the anime that was made about it.
Ask and ye shall receive
i saw Satan come out and i literally went "oh hey,Satan..."
that is NOT a sign of a threatening lord of hell,you know?
That sounds very unthreatening than South Park's rendition...
somehow,now that i think about it,yeah it DOES sound like that XD
Lady Death kind of reminds me of Vampirella. ...Except Vampirella had actual talented writers behind the scenes...and intriguing characters...and well-written if slightly confusing stories...and...I was going somewhere with this.
So all it takes for Heaven to condemn a woman to Hell, even in spite of her entire life being spent being a good person, is to make one last-minute pledge to her own Father?
Yeah, I know he's the Devil and all, but come on, Heaven. That's a bit harsh don't ya think?
It takes even less.
Satan can apparently drag every soul he wants to hell.
Is she even dead? her entire body was dragged to hell, and all the souls we've seen have been immaterial.
Cyan Bloodbane its a shitty movie, you expect it to make sense.
I have more to complain about if I assume that it's supposed to make sense.
DDespicable
The movie is shitty because it does not make sense, not the other way round.
The 90's experienceed the "Bad Girl" phase in mostly independent comics with lots of fan service and mostly weak plots.
The Sandman is also my favorite comic. When I read Lucifer’s part, I honestly believed that’s probably how he’d be in real life. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even give a damn about us and is laughing his ass off as we destroy each other and our 🌎
that's a contradictory statement you cannot not give a damn and revel in someone destroying themselves
"Lucifer" is indeed the Latin term for Venus (the planet, not the goddess), commonly referred to as the Morning Star. But the term was only later adopted by Christians for the name of Satan before his fall. Though it was a misappropriation as the passage that resulted in the name, Isaiah 14:12, was actually referring the King of Babylon. I am pretty sure that the name Lucifer was chosen for the more literal meaning of "bringer of dawn," as that is closer to the meaning of the original Hebrew "hêlêl ben šāḥar." So referring to Satan with the epithet "the Morning Star" is not really appropriate despite its technical accuracy.
Instead of the pontification… Lucifer was a “light bearer.” One of the top angels in the Christian Bible. Although I do not disagree with your comments, I have a hard time with this TH-camr and his bloviating. And also his lack of experience and perspective. I at least appreciate your input, as it has been the best reading I have had so far. And the commentary has been pretty sedentary 🤔🥱😐😂
"And not in the good way, where he likes dudes" is my new follow-up
11:28 the way Lachlan looks & sounds: this scene is like if Elias from Clerks 2 got dragged into hell... which would be the greatest punchline to his appearance xD
The Bennetverse God needs to come back. Damn scheduling conflicts.
I'm not excusing incest (And never will while I'm still sane)
But it makes too much sense for Satan. He's the ultimate sinner after all
What was Satan doing in Sweden? Lol.
Kolsyrad Mcluvin wanna see something weird have a look at the first renditions of witch blade you will shit your brain trying to understand how it got to were it is now it started as an american comic then an american TV show then a manga in japan then turned into the anime and all the earlier renditions didn't rely on the cheesecake big tit factor.
Hiding guitars in snowy caves and conjuring death metal.... duh!
They actually wanted a bigger budget to do the animation. They had problems getting this off the ground! Originally it was to been out in 2001. They also had partners who kept dropping out and 3 studios who wouldnt take the project due to the budget. The studio that ended up doing it ended up getting a deadline to finish it on a small budget and with the company owner (cant remember his name) came out of retirement to draw animation for certain character sequences to get it done, with a small crew of 20 or less animators, colorists, ect. Considering that Street Fighter, Dark Stalkers, Double Dragon had way more budget and more animators ect it was still awfully bad SHATerday morning cartoons I have ever witnessed. In my opinion It really is good for the day and even though ADV is known to put out sexual, perverted, vulgar and profane, Anime's I think they played it safe as they were hoping to appeal to a broader audience. It wasnt overly sexual or violent and there wasnt even any profane language as the comics were. Even when I asked the producers of this movie when it first came out at wizard world '04 they told me they hope it inspires people who love the character to make the money so that they can make a bigger and better one because they were passionate about Lady Death. The animation they really wanted to go for at the time was that like Vampire D Blood Lust but they only made their money back on the project. I still would like to see a R rated Lady Death movie.
"The animation they really wanted to go for at the time was that like Vampire D Blood "
hold on................................AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Christine Auten was really wasted here as Lady Death.
She really deserves more roles these days. I loved her as Izumi Curtis in Fullmetal Alchemist.
Must have been back in her early days as a VA as they always have terrible starts sadly.
"Where is God in all of this?" That's exactly what I ask in all of these stories with Biblical influences. Like the entire run of Supernatural, Evangelion, all that shit. Things happen that directly defy God's will, and he does nothing to help the heroes or even try to thwart his own enemies.
for Supernatural... google Chuck
Her design is too good. Someone competent take it and make a real movie about Lasy Death!
The rise of the Lady Death material always made me sad, as the source material that spawned her was left in the Double D dust.
I miss Evil Ernie. An unkillable homicidal maniac who is single-handedly responsible for the world killing zombie apocalypse as the chief soldier of Death herself. He was a Deadpool class wackjob,and a great villain. AND he was the star of the comic.
I liked a comic where the supporting cast were trying to stop the main character from ending the world, and were failing because he was literally the biggest, baddest thing on the planet.
OBJECTION! That is Miles Edgeworth's voice clip, NOT Phoenix Wright!
This movie should have been less Lady Death and more Doomslayer.
Niccolo was 15, he loved to play the piano.
Doug Glassman call me Captain America, But I get that reference!!
@@drakesterX 2002 was an interesting year for anime.
"Gigantic fuck you world of warcraft pauldrons" I'm crying XD
hahahaha she's trying to be dante and failing so badly
Incestous Satan? Whaaa?
11:48 AHHHHH I forgot about this asshole. We need more of Brodouche God.
Nah, Hope wouldn't have gone to Hell - she'd have gone to Heaven instead! After all, where else was she *supposed* to go - Detroit?
21:02 "Phoenix Wright, if you will."
**EDGEWORTH shouts Objection**
wut
Why would Satan name his daughter Hope?
+Jaelyn Alexander Irony? He was planning on corrupting her to his side after all.
+Jaelyn Alexander So she could this... (18:30)
+Jaelyn Alexander
I'm guessing pointless Greek mythology reference, Hope was the only thing left after Pandora's box was opened, and crossover Christian / Ancient Greek fanfiction has a long and storied history going right back to _The Divine Comedy_.
+Jaelyn Alexander I think hope`s mom named her hope.....not the dad i think
+Jaelyn Alexander Hope is the first step on the road to dissappointment.
I know this is just a review, but every scene you showed either completely perplexed me or made me roll my eyes. The actual movie must be cringeworthy!
Also, have many reviews have you uploaded today? My subscription box is going to give you a restraining order.
Those early scenes with the devil in Sweden just keep making me jump. Why? Well because of the little fact that they had to choose a rare little biblical name for Satan's alias which also happens to be my name, Mathias or Matthias depending on how you choose to spell it. I so rarely hear it used to refer to another that I jump every single time I heat it because it's just natural to respond to my own name. Curse you Lady Death, curse you!
islandersfan1 And Castlevania’s Dracula is Matthias Cronvist.
I like the devil from Dante inferno.
"Phoenix Wright, if you will."
>uses edgeworth's objection
Satan looks like Genie Jaffar.
I am christian and I laughed at this!!
sillygrl23 Yep... this here is like a comedy action animated movie to christians.... its just funny watching it...
+deathlegionair Oh yeah, still, one thing that bugs me was how stupid Satan kinda was being incognito trying to grab souls. Like, this was proximate to the Medieval times, saying you blatantly need "souls" would raise red flags which is exactly what made the priest suspicious in the first place, in other works of literature and film, they had Satan's human counterpart be clever in luring people to his place through deceptive scams like "Hey why don't you work as a servant in my castle" or "I actually need recruits to build a army for the crusade and/or battle against a enemy country." I mean, he was the high-class ruling Lord of the Land, so to speak, so he could have said those things and people would have had to go with him no questions asked. Unless he said "souls" tongue-in-cheek instead of actually seriously, it was pretty stupid on his part in the beginning of the movie.
Same here
That prayer scene xDDD
So is this the same lady death that has a doomed relationship with deadpool weird.
I know it's an old video..and I've watched it a ton without commenting. But the thing with Lady Death..I can see an interesting story that just been slapped dashed together. If it landed in the right hands it could be a pretty awesome movie or series.
you all can keep your opinions, I just have to state that Bikini's make for the stupidest battle attire- both in practical and in looks. I will not take a character seriously if they run around with (giant) swords while exposing themselves, as in to tattoo the words "Hit me here".
And on the line of sex appeal, characters: male and female, can be fully clothed/armor and still be sexy. Hell, Wonder Woman's costume looks more like proper battle attire
Wretneck THANK YOU. If you want attractive characters adorned in full battle armor, I recommend the anime Claymore.
Kenpachi Ramasama Or Griffith from Berserk. Everyone wants to tap the sorry son of a bitch, while I just want to tear his head off. :D
***** kind of what I said, everyone is allowed to keep to their opinions; I was just stating mine... and yes, no one has ever gotten me to watch Kill La Kill. Not going to say it's bad, but it doesn't appeal that much to me
Wretneck well thats mainly because
wonder woman is based on real life Amazonian warrior women. who wore like that
+Wretneck I believe you skipped something: having less clothing can actually make you go faster; as long as that character having less clothing is the speed character, then it's fine. Also, in Kill la Kill, they at least had an excuse; people with the Kiryuine blood (like Ryoko, Nui, Satsuki, or Ragyo) were actually part clothing, and the only way they can be killed is if they are sliced on both sides at the exact same time completely. If there's only one string left, then they can just regenerate. Also, none of the other characters became more powerful when they had less clothing on; the advantage that the Kiryuine's have is because of their advantages, clothing can actually make them better. It can make them go faster; the only reason why that Nudist Beach guy is naked for most of the series is because he's a nudist. Also, the reason why the majority of the cast was naked at the end of the series was because the premordial life fiber was coming back to life to eat everyone. If somebody put clothes on, the clothing could actually eat them; this is because Reeboks is the biggest clothing brand in the world, and Reeboks was the company that actually had life fibers in their clothing that could consume others.
There, I explained how Kill la Kill did everything what; also, the unlikeable character who always tried to pick up chicks ALWAYS got his commupance in the end.
Art style wise, this kind of feels like the awful Marvel Mangaverse- like somebody who has never drawn manga in their life attempts to do just that for the first time based entirely on that one episode of Sword Art Online they saw their kid watching once.
"I'm not waiting around for Sanford and sons.. I want to laugh tonight '''
3:58: "I mean, even Witchblade's Sara Pezzini has more to her than Lady Death". That's...complicated. Witchblade's Sara Pezzini has more to her NOW than Lady Death NOW. But if you were to actually cut through the fanservice and compare the textual elements of their origin stories? Witchblade #1 is a NOTHING of an origin story. It's all lore, no character, a mode I remember the Witchblade comics stayed at for a distressingly long time. (I read 40 to 45 issues of the early Witchblade stuff on the web for free and it was DIRE trying to hold on to some sort of compelling character trait, positive OR negative, that you could apply to early Sara Pezzini.) Lady Death: The Reckoning, meanwhile...by the standards of the Bad Girl trend, it's the gold standard every other book or adaptation of that trend should be compared against. And compared to that source material? This is some INTENSELY watered down backwash. Let's compare the endings: At the end of Lady Death: The Reckoning, Hope has been so corrupted by the influence of hell that she's cursed to commit human extermination to walk on Earth again and she's okay with it. That's sympathetic, in a "tragic evil" kind of way, and still coherent. At the end of Lady Death: The Motion Picture, she has the same end goal of "walking on earth again", but the "curse" is to kill the devil's lackeys. That's more conventionally sympathetic, but it's also incoherent (for many reasons, but mostly because, especially in comparison, that's barely a curse) and bland.
This one doesn't even have good porn.
I knew I recognized Lucifer's voice! He's the Raven from Princess Tutu!
When I first saw it i thought it wasn't bad...then again.. I was 15
That was Miles Edgeworth, not Phoenix Wright.
To be fair, Lady Death choosing to not give chase was the wiser move. It is always advised to never chase down a fleeing enemy, especially in a siege. Hindsight is 20/20 and without any knowledge of a possible trap, holding off charging in was the wiser move.
Chaos had a bunch of characters like LD, including her arch-nemesis Purgatori (probably the more interesting character).
Also, ADV kinda crapped on the entire origin story.
"Hello Im creamator" 18:56 LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
cremator from the comics yeah
his intro sounds like the entrance of a secondary NPC in a crappy B-rate RPG.
"Hello, I am Creamator, the cream-in-nator, lord of all creams"
Cremator
His voice actor rob mungle sound like Fred tatasciore
Satan, Lucifer, Bellpherog, Leviathan, and Beelzebub are all different demons. Originally it was not one devil, but seven each representing one of the seven deadly sins. I'm not sure if that's still how it works though.
Usually it's used to refer to the Devil himself in literature.
If you could kill Lucifer God would have done it Universes ago.
Badjoke Maker Well the story makes no sense if you start looking at it. :P
maybe he had a group of lesbian angels soaping eachothers tits. That's what i would do if i was God.
Maybe despite after everything, he still loves his fallen children and can't bring himself to kill them
Or maybe he needs him to have someone to oppose
6:18 I’d like to imagine that Lady Death isn’t using her Sith Lightning to strike down the cowards in her army, but instead genuinely doesn’t know what the word “fear” means and is lashing out in a childish tantrum because she hates the fact she’s that stupid.
going off from what my friend told me, this movie isn't just bad but unaccurate, what he told me was that Lady Deaths father wasn't satan but her father over throwned him but that doesn't really matter much since she kills them both
I have this film but I wasn't happy with the drawing style it shouldve been more accurate to the comic art
I'll take Blue Exorcist over this any day.
20:43 Ptolomea? Oh, Hell no! You see, In Dante's Divine Comedy, the ninth circle of Hell is an icy lake called Cocytus, where those that have committed treason are punished. The circle is divided into four zones: Caïna, Antenora, Ptolomea and Judecca (for those who plotted against relatives, country/party, guests, and lords). In Ptolomea, the sinners are frozen in a supine position (except for their faces) and weep so much that their tears freeze and turn into a shield in front of their eyeballs.
Peter Stormare was an absolutely amazing Lucifer in that Constantine movie. He nailed it
90s look better than today to be honest
I was imagining the outrage music was the crab people song from South Park
Never read the manga, but god damn Devilman Crybaby is good isnt it?
Sage isn't a massive Fan of that.
Where is God?
He's in the same place he is in EVERY God hating movie!
(No where to be found!)
Well to be fair it's not God's job to rescue souls wrongfully sent to hell. That would be the Saint Michael the Archangel's Job. So the real question is, Where the fuck is Saint Michael
21:06 Thats Miles Edgeworth, not Phoenix Wright!!
Her outfit was apparently meant to be the wedding dress of Purgatori, a vampire goddess who at one point tried to drink Lucifer's blood (following a wedding)
I thknk they forgot the dress part and only put on the lingerie.
One of the many things that makes this p.o.s. what it is, is something that I haven't seen addressed yet. Before Lady Death was sent to Hell she was named Hope and lived in Sweden during the late 15th century. If that's the case then her name would actually be Hopp. The Swedish word for hope is hopp. It's not an actual Swedish name, it's just a random word they chose for her character because the hacks that wrote this couldn't have been more obvious if they had actually tried.
He tosses hope out the window.
Well, you know what they say: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
"Hope is dead!"
2:17 wow, I think I've actually read that graphic novel, it was in my high school's library.
Good review but death and the devil are two separate entities entirely
My favourite portrait of the devil is, The Spirit That Denies, Mephistopheles from Faust.
"I am part of the power which would,
attempt evil and ever does the good."
Mephistopheles is aware that he sabotages himself, yet he is unable to stop. You could even argue the bet that drives the plot is a trick from God to let Mephistopheles do his work.
Maybe I'm too far gone into staring at lady death's lady lumps and so I never noticed any plot holes. Priorities.
Sage, you should probably consider looking at Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic based on the video game. It's very anime-esque and was reportedly worked on by six different animation studios (including Japanese), hence the random shifts in art style. The narrative is also rather messy, trying to compress the entire storyline into an hour and a half movie.
3:50
Power Girl.
You named a shit ton of different entities there >:(
dim the color a bit, and it'd look much better. 1st time I saw this movie was on a site where they had dimmed the colors a bit, and it looked alright. but this looks horrid
I actually started reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman because of this review
T.J. Bonnes Then I will happily recommend the Lucifer series to you as well.
This move may look like garbage and be written like garbage... That is all.
Mike Kleinhenz (Lucifer) kind of sounds like the Headmaster in Angel Blade. The only reason I know that is from Anime Abandon, of course...hehe..
That god is whitest black guy I have ever seen.
Hey, Peter Stormare as the devil in Constantine was awesome! And I know Catwoman's origin in Batman Returns isn't correct, but it wasn't bad! The Halle Berry-Catwoman however, that one was bad, the whole movie was bad!
TMZ is hell for hell.
24:40 Killface!? What the hell are you doing here!?
I wanna preacher anime
I think the plot would have been salvageable by just having the final scene point out explicitly that the plan was to kill off his lieutenant and consolidate power with no negative PR.
Aw jeez, now every time i watch excel saga, fullmetal panic, or princess tutu, im gonna get lady death flashbacks.
My problem with the show was that I had no one to root for. In a battle of satan against sexy replacement satan and demons verses demons what is the point of being invested in either character? Furthermore Lady death is the one who influences evil ernie to wipe out humanity so she may well be worse than satan but to say that is like saying rape is better than murder.
22:33 Is it wrong that I know that song is from that unicorn running game?
The 90s had a lot of great stuff but, yeah, it was the Dark Age of comics. Oh well, no decade is perfect.
16:40 I think I know how it works. If I go by the Robot Chicken logic, If you die in heaven, you go to *SUPER* heaven which is a better, higher plane of existance. But if you die in hell, you go to *EXTREME* hell, which is uglier, sadder, and violence Jack levels of horrifying.
Yeah, still counter productive and a crappy decision. *LAME*
0:24 anime plzzzz
I just want a sequel called Lady Death and Nicilo Hells Gigalo.
It's worth noting that Satan's interest in his own daughter is actually semi-canonical. If you accept John Milton as canon.
this actually makes me want to read her comics now
+Paul Hensley
I'd recommend it. The movie had a lot working against it, and her comics were far more darker (and sexier) than the movie leads on. Make sure to look at the original Chaos Comics versions from the 90's. The new ones are just fanservice with no real mature settings or themes.
thanks
Paul Hensley
You're quite welcome. :)
oh shit
22:33 Really?! You just played that song?
This is probably one of the funniest episodes on Anime Abandon. That cameo is the icing on the cake.
F*****, but not in the good way where he likes dudes.
I love the past.
Holy christ that was hilarious! I haven't seen this one! Your old stuff is just as good and thoughtful as your new stuff.
Littlefoot: Hey guys! Lets go outside the Great Valley & risk our lives for the upteenth time!
Cera: What could go wrong?
3:55-Hahahahaha, seriously, that is it.
Why is Satan letting his daughter Hope or heck Lady Death wear a cross around her neck? Granddad said so? 11:28-This happens when people get liberties to write uncanon material. You get bull crap like this, that is as canon as Dark Knight Returns. 15:45-Really. You wanna take that up with Micheal or oh I don't know..GOD!? 21:30-Nice Lawyer. Good casework there. 22:40 Kilala's better. Wait how are some of these demons wearing skull hats? WHO DIED IN HELL? And who died so permanent that someone can wear your remains. 26:35-Whats with the snapping teleport chuckles? Are you Ganon in disguise.
well at least she looks better here than the comics
17:07 'Gustav Holst - The Planets' playing in the background.