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List Price: $29.98Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $2.99 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013023243194
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Geneon [Pioneer]
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Geneon [Pioneer]
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 05, 2005
Running Time: 75 minutes
Sales Rank: 22951
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
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An ancient Japanese legend says that if one were to partake of the flesh of the mermaid, one would be granted eternal life and youth. Yuta ate the mermaid?s flesh 500 years ago and became immortal. Since then he has had to deal with living a lonely never-ending life, watching his loved ones grow old and die. Wishing to have a normal life, to live and to die like others, he searches for a mermaid for centuries, thinking she may be able to tell him a way to become mortal again. When he arrives a village, he meets a girl named Mana, who also became immortal by eating a mermaid's flesh. Together, they start their journey in attempting to find a mermaid and regain their humanity.
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Rumiko Takahashi's relatively short manga adventure Mermaid Forest was originally animated in 1991 as an OVA; this broadcast series followed in 2003. An ancient legend says that anyone who eats a mermaid's flesh will remain young forever. Yuta, a handsome fisherman, unwittingly ate some mermaid sashimi 500 years ago, and has spent the last five centuries seeking the peace old age and death can bring. In a remote seaside village, he meets Mana, a young girl who's been raised as a prisoner in a lonely hut. A group of mermaids is planning to kill and eat her to preserve their fading beauty. Yuta rescues Mana, and they begin wandering, searching for a normal life.
Mermaid Forest is considerably darker than Takahashi's longer, more popular works. The story suffers from major inconsistencies: Eating mermaid flesh only makes some humans beautiful immortals. The less fortunate become deformed monsters, but the reason for the differing results isn't explained. Yuta can't end his wearisome existence, although he's repeatedly told that decapitation will do the trick. A minor work by a major artist, Mermaid Forest is not for the squeamish. (Rated 16 and older: violence, grotesque imagery, brief nudity, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
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One of Takahashi's most famous/notorious side projects, the Mermaid Forest Saga explores the mermaid myth (much like Watase did in Ceres regarding celestial beings, but without the romance). The story stars Mana and Yuka, both of whom have eaten mermaid flesh, but lucky enough not to become monsters (since the flesh is a poison), instead, they have become immortal. Yuka has lived for 500 years and his quest to find a mermaid in order to go back to his mortal form led him to a village where he meets ... Read More
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Mermaid Forest- Quest for Death sets the stage for the saga. It introduces the two main characters and their backgrounds. The history of their pasts becomes apparent in the first five miniutes of the film. More importantly, if you like eating mermaid flesh for lunch, this dvd is for you.
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Yuta is a young man on a quest to find mermaids. The reason that he wants to find them is that over 500 hundred years ago him and some of his fisherman friends had a little feast of cooked mermaid meat. You see, the legend goes that if you eat the flesh of a mermaid you will become immortal. The problem for Yuta and his friends was the other half of the legend. Only a very tiny percentage of the people that eat it become immortal. The rest either die a horrible death soon thereafter or are transformed ... Read More
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According to the ancient legend, mermaids flesh can grant immortality if eaten. 500 years ago, Yuta unknowingly ate a piece of mermaids flesh. For centuries, in Japan, hoping to find a mermaid, thinking she may be able to make him a normal human again.
You want to know how mermaids stay young. They raise a girl to be their food so they can eat her flesh to take her youth looks how sicking.
rated 16 up: (grotesque image, bloody violence, brief nudity, alcohol use)
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I have to say that I am very big fan of the Mermaid's series novels as well as the OVA's but this adaption of the mermaid series for me is a dissapointment.
I mean, the stories are so good, they should have gotten better treatment. For one thing the Mermaid manga is very violent and Takahashi draws it in such a way so that it compells it's viewer with lasting effects, the TV show however is unable to achive that effect. Another problem with the series is concerning the artwork, the humans are drawn ... Read More
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