Nessa no Haou Gandalla

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Blanton, Emma (Main) - Voice Actors: Komatsu, Rika
• Saijou, Yuuki (Main) - Voice Actors: Matsumoto, Yasunori
• Amrita (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Suzuki, Masami
• Arms, Sydney (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Futamata, Issei
• Babalon (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Suzuki, Reiko
• Cascade (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Egawa, Hisao
• Cradle (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yanada, Kiyoyuki
• Foxtrot (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sawaki, Ikuya
• Goldman (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Satou, Masaharu
• Gord (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Miyata, Hironori
• Hudson, Rick (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Furusawa, Tohru
• Kiriya (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nagano, Yoshikazu, Mayama, Ako
• Krayser (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yao, Kazuki
• Linda (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Hanba, Tomoe
• Mackenzie (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Morikawa, Toshiyuki
• Michelle (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Touma, Yumi
• Nicol (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kaseda, Susumu
• Robert (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Okiayu, Ryoutarou
• Saddam (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tobita, Nobuo
• Sandra (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ohmoto, Makiko
• Sax, Joe (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tsujitani, Kouji
• Shirika (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Uemura, Noriko
• Sukani (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yuasa, Kaori
• Taylor (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tobita, Nobuo
• Tyrone (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Suzuoki, Hirotaka
• Woman Pegasus (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sasamoto, Yuuko
• Yang, Minmay (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Orikasa, Ai

Staff:

• Ueda, Hidehito (Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Chief Animation Director)
• Matsuura, Noriyoshi (Sound Director)
• Kawase, Toshifumi (Episode Director)
• Kobayashi, Tetsuya (Episode Director, Storyboard)
• Takada, Jun (Episode Director, Storyboard)
• HΛL (Theme Song Arrangement, Theme Song Performance, Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition)
• Hayama, Junichi (Character Design)
• Kamijou, Osamu (Animation Director)
• Matsumoto, Masayuki (Production Manager)
• Mikimoto, Haruhiko (Original Character Design)
• Minami, Shinichirou (Animation Director)
• Moriki, Yasuhiro (Key Animation, Character Design, Original Character Design)
• Nagata, Masami (Key Animation, Animation Director)
• Sakamoto, Nobuto (Art Director)
• Satou, Masayuki (Animation Director)
• Suda, Masami (Animation Director)
• Taguma, Jun (Editing)
• Utsugi, Isamu (Key Animation)
• Watanabe, Toshiyuki (Music)

Reviews:

• User SgtSalamander (Score: 6/10):
  Before I begin, it's worth noting that I am the first to review this title on MAL. It is my belief that every anime deserves at least one proper review, deserves to have its content engaged and reckoned with. No matter how obscure it is, and no matter how long ago it was made, an anime still represents the creative passion of its creators, the hopes and dreams of the team that made it, and as such, I will give this one a fair and honest accounting here. Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert, referred to from here on simply as Gandalla, is the definition ofobscure. A TV anime from 1998 with less than 3,000 members on MAL and no reviews is already enough of an oddity, so my interest was piqued and I went looking for where I might be able to find it for myself. This would prove to be far more difficult than I anticipated, and I had to delve deep into the dusty corners of the internet in an attempt to find any way that could possibly allow me to watch and engage with this title. Eventually, I found an English dub, tucked away in the form of a little, seldom-visited upload. The subtitles themselves were kind of amateurish and sloppy, messing up certain essentials of English grammar and missing the mark on metaphors, but even so it was more than enough for my purposes. In a way, the fact that someone out there bothered to go through the effort of giving this obscure title its own set of English subs, even if they were a pretty rough, has a kind of heroic quality to it. Now, on to the actual anime itself, beginning with the story. Gandalla knows exactly what it wants to do from the very start, and wastes no time launching into an ambitious, complicated mess of a plot, which goes something like this- A band from LA calling itself Gold Dust is going through the trauma of having lost a couple members, while persevering in the face of tragedy in an attempt to hit it big. They soon find themselves caught up in a web of conspiracies related to a powerful desert being called Gandalla, which has power over sand, can manifest various kaiju, is related to the disappearances of talented musicians from around the world, and which various shadowy parties are seeking to control for their own ends, using the power of music. The key to it all seems to be a certain song belonging to Gold Dust, that LA band we're introduced to from the start. Other themes include magic, prophecy, body horror, and the politics of the music industry. This, mind you, is an extremely simplified version of the story at hand, which combines what feels like three entirely separate storylines and collides them into one another in a way that is simultaneously impressive and disorienting. I honestly don't know how the writers kept everything straight in their heads,…

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External Links:

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