[.ca] Gestalt

uhg:
Gestalt? Ok. I was first attracted to this anime by seeing an add for it on another Animeworks DVD. The artwork is absolutely beautiful! The colors are bright and its very easy to understand what's going on. (Unlike X the movie where everything is far to dark to see anything.) Ok, ok so the animation was great... but that still doesn't make up for the plot. (Huge sigh) I have to say I was incredibly disappointed in Gestalt, and regret ever buying it. I would return it if I had kept the receipt. In my opinion, I hated it, I own it and have only watched it once (any more then that and I would probably die) but this is just my opinion. Also, I wasent quite fond of any of the characters, (I didn't even bother to remember any of there names) but after all there cant be much character development in such a short anime. (This is short mind you) Sorry if I haven't helped you at all in your decision. Many people have found this to be a great series and wish for it to be longer. Personally I wouldn't care if there was more or not. I just didn't find it intrusting at all. Beautiful animation, but that's all it Gestalt really has to offer.

so CUTE:
i LOVED this one..but i also wanted it to last for long..it wasnt enough to watch it..and 2 bad there was a priest in it..i really wanted to enjoy a love story

Yay, another OAV without prerequesite manga!:
I love the way the American translation companies think they can translate OAV series that don't cover a whole series without confusing and annoying many people. I, like many others, bought this anime because the box art was pretty. And while I admit that I was disappointed with the short length, I still enjoyed it. Its not so much that the plot is incomplete, as its just not fully introduced. What is covered by these two episodes is essentially the first two chapters in a seven volume series. After watching Gestalt, I did a little research on it. Sifting through massive amounts of Gestalt therapy pages (o_O talk about a pain in my bum), I was rewarded with information on the lovely manga that spawned this annoyingly short OAV. I found out it was based on a manga by the wonderful Kouga Yun, who, for some reason, has this problem which her long running series getting crammed into short OAV series (go watch Earthian and you'll know what I mean). I also discovered that there was no prayer (at least at that time- its not impossible now) of getting a translation of the manga over here- Gestalt, like Earthian, is a shonen-ai series. Now, I'm not going to say why it is, because that would be a huge major spoiler. But it annoyed me none the less. But what with Gravitation and FAKE being released over here, its actually not completely unlikely that we'll be seeing something of Kouga Yun's translated soon, Earthian at the very least. Eh, anyways, I don't think there's anything in here that would really offend anyone- the plot hasn't gone into shonen-ai territory yet, and I didn't notice anything else about it to be particularly "iffy".

Wonderful Animation movie:
This is great story and animation is the best I have seen. It is full of beautiful colors and this is wonderful story. This story has everyting hate and romance, priest and sorceress, monsters. Once I have seen it I just couldn't stop watching it. I wish there would be more movies this kind!!!

Good but incomplete:
Gestalt is a beautifully done show that is entertaining, action-filled, and humorous. Unfortunately, it has not been finished. We are left with several questions and the sense that there is more to the story. On the bright side, the character designs are awesome and the story is fairly original. I like how Ohri, being a mute at the beginning, has to speak with those boxes that RPG game characters use. Cute! If you have ever seen (or heard of) the video game series/OAV series "Angelique", then you will find that some of the characters (just Olivier, really) look like a cross between several "Angie" characters. My best friend pointed that out and I have never been able to watch it Gestalt without thinking that. So, please watch this, but understand that it is NOT the whole series.