Fushigi no Umi no Nadia: Original Movie

Synopsis:

Characters:

• Fuzzy (Main) - Voice Actors: Ito, Tsukasa, Vadacca, Maddalena, Pietermann, Gabrielle, Bréheret, Laurence, De Luca, Lorella
• la Arwall, Nadia (Main) - Voice Actors: Takamori, Yoshino, Magnaghi, Debora, Bauman, Meg, Pfeiffer, Beate, Siclay, Valérie, Biondini, Nadia
• Roque Lartigue, Jean (Main) - Voice Actors: Hidaka, Noriko, Fortuny, Enzo, von Lerchenfeld, Hubertus, Rey, Hervé, Parsons, Nathan, Garbolino, Davide
• Carlsberg, Marie en (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mizutani, Yuuko, Bréheret, Laurence, Massironi, Marina, Fava, Daniela
• Electra, Medina La Lugensius (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Inoue, Kikuko, Mink, Aleksandra, Della Pasqua, Paola, Messina, Paola
• Frei (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ikeda, Shuuichi, Roullier, Philippe, Ridolfo, Claudio, Borcherding, Andreas, Albertini, Stefano
• Gargoyle (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kiyokawa, Motomu, Moneta, Claudio, Scattorin, Maurizio
• Giegar (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Otsuka, Chikao, Scarabelli, Mario, Albaret, Jacques, Schwarzmaier, Michael
• Granva, Grandis (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Takizawa, Kumiko, Duncker, Marina, Duncker, Martina, Cericola, Dania, Pariante, Monica
• Grenavan, Ayerton (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tsujitani, Kouji, Balzarotti, Marco, Korol, Olivier, Acktun, Gerhard
• Hanson (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sakurai, Toshiharu, Albertini, Stefano, Romanò, Sergio
• Nemo (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ootsuka, Akio, Lotti, Massimiliano, Battezzato, Giovanni
• Sanson (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Horiuchi, Kenyuu, Mink, Oliver, Sabre, Diego, Artaux, Cyrille
• Whola, Albert (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ooki, Tamio, Fenoglio, Adolfo, Rovatti, Riccardo

Staff:

• Campbell, Charles (Producer, Recording Engineer, ADR Director)
• Kawando, Kenjirou (Producer)
• Shimizu, Katsunori (Sound Director)
• Masuo, Shouichi (Storyboard)
• Furukawa, Masashi (Editing)
• Kase, Masahiro (Animation Director)
• Kou, Yuu (Screenplay)
• Nagano, Nobuaki (Assistant Animation Director)
• Oota, Masahiko (Assistant Animation Director)
• Sadamoto, Yoshiyuki (Character Design)
• Sagisu, Shirou (Music)
• Takada, Kouichi (Animation Director, Character Design)
• Tanami, Yasuo (Screenplay)
• Yamashita, Ikuto (Mechanical Design)

Reviews:

• User JTurner (Score: 3/10):
  The ending of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water provided a sense of closure to the story, and that is one of the many problems with this theatrical sequel: there is no reason for it to exist. The consensus from many is that Nadia: The Motion Picture is actually worse than the awful island/Africa episodes combined. The movie isn't quite that bad, but this should not imply that it's of the same caliber as the series--on the contrary. There are a lot of bizarre inconsistencies in the plot, which basically feels like a hastily cobbled Saturday morning cartoon episode, minusmuch of the depth and richness that made Nadia as a series so appealing. The whole thing tries to be a funny, fast-paced sci-fi mystery adventure, and there are some laughs to be had--but it's hilarious for all the wrong reasons. The action sequences, in particular, are implausibly staged (one involves Jean and Nadia fighting bad-guys--he removes a grenade from his pocket... and destroys a group of enemies in one shot, yet he and Nadia escape unharmed!). Even one-liners from the Grandis gang runs dry in places.nnRegrettably, the "cartoonish" aura is made even more apparent by the animation. "Sub-par" doesn't even come close to describing how sloppy and unattractive it is. Compared to even the Lincoln and floating island episodes (which were visually awful in comparison to the better eps), it simply looks dreadful. The recycled footage that makes up the first thirty minutes (ironically the best part of the movie, except it's all poorly edited and sequenced in a way that will confuse all but those who are familiar with the series) only reinforces the dubious quality of the movie as a whole. Actually, wasting the first thirty minutes with footage is a major mistake on the filmmakers' part: it provides little to no time for whatever story there is to fully develop.nnWorse still, the new characters come across as cliché, cardboard cutouts. The villain of the piece in particular, Dr. Giegar, a sort of mad scientist with a silly-looking hairdo, is laughable--it is suggested early on that he is worse than Gargoyle, but he turns out to be just the opposite. He's nowhere nearly as frightening or fully-realized. The central new character to the show is Fuzzy, a blonde (and not very talkative) girl who serves to reunite Jean and Nadia after two years of living apart, and unfortunately, she comes across as the dullest in the show. Probably the only character to show any depth is her distant father, Dr. Whola, the sort of gruff man who at first rejects his daughter for being a carbon copy of the real thing who was killed (oh, surprise), only to realize his error. But even then, there is something about him that feels very forgettable.nnRemember how most of the island episodes (and the Africa ones) seemed to press reset on most of the main characters and have them behave in over-exaggerated ways? Well, this movie is guilty of doing the…
• User adeadaccountlol (Score: 1/10):
  It's not very often where I wonder why under the member stats, there are scores given as high as a 5 on an anime because usually, i can see at least one reason why someone would like a certain anime. This? No way. Speaking as someone who really liked the original Nadia series, this movie is a disgrace to everything the series stood for and everything that was great about it. The story is horrible, the characters are just a fragment of what they were like in the series and the animation is just plain bad. Even the hardcore Nadia fans should stay away from thisone and it's definitely an experience that needs to be wiped from your memory. There is just nothing here worth watching.
• User BlaizeV (Score: 2/10):
  I write this review having only 10 minutes ago finished this film, a film I was really unsure about going into it. This film has a reputation and I was wary of it but also incredibly curious. Could it actually be that bad? The average scores for this film are quite low, reviews warned of the horrors within and for all intent and purpose the film has been retconned from the annuls of the franchises history. Sure sequels can certainly be terrible but I wasn't overly convinced this could really be as bad as everyone made it appear. I mean the series is truly fantastic, oneof the all time classics and even at it's worst it's still okay, the Island filler Arc is still quite enjoyable in my opinion and is nowhere near as bad as many would have you believe. At least in the case of the Island Arc its bad because it ruins the pacing but it stays somewhat true to the characters and the overall vibe of the show. So obviously having differing opinions from most about the Island Arc as a completionist I saw fit to track down the DVD release of the sequel film and see what I had mercifully avoided or simply missed.nnSo here just over 90 or so minutes later I sit with this one truth having been learnt and that is simply this—it's all true. Every bit of it is true and in some ways I believe it's worse than what I had heard prior to viewing. Nadia the Secret of Blue Water The Motion Picture is indeed total garbage! So with a deep breath and a stretch of the fingers lets get into why...nnThe film opens with a sequence about the world powers on the brink of World War (which in the Nadia universe would never have happened before) ending with a Navy Admiral literally evaporating while making a speech, umm okay then. After that we get the credits and find Nadia working at a Newspaper in London as the news of human evaporation's continues to spread. Now if you remember that the epilogue to the TV series takes place 12 years later then I suppose this film is meant to fit inbetween. So Nadia has moved to London to become a journalist and Jean remains back in France. Anyway even in this first sequence of Nadia on screen there are some early warning signs of the horrid nature of this film to come because the Animation here is woeful, looking like it had been made in the sixties and this trend continues for much of the film but I'll return to that abit later.nnBecause first this 90 minute sequel (or 1 hour and 27 minutes or so to be more exact) isn't even really that long because after that short scene with Nadia in London the next 25 minutes of the film are spent recapping the TV series and not of a lick of it makes sense. The TV series…
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