Anime Catalogue

Gungrave Collection

Details

Director: Toshiyuki Tsuru
Catalogue Number: MVD7042
Certificate: 15
Date Released: May 9th 2011
Screen: 16:9 Widescreen
Languages: English & japanese
Subtitles: None
Duration: 650 minutes

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Synopsis

Armed with "Ceruberus," his twin handguns, and a coffin filled with heavy weapons on his back, Grave returns, cloaked in darkness and bent on revenge!

For Brandon Heat, death doesn't matter. Driven by his need for revenge, he returns from beyond the grave to cripple Millennion, the huge mafia organization that uses undead monsters as its enforcers. His ultimate goal will be to destroy Harry MacDowel, the leader of Millennion and, at one time, Brandon's best friend...

Contains 26 episodes

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Textless Opening & Ending
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Review

It has to be said than normally I wouldn’t touch a Gangster anime by choice, but this series has change my preconceptions. I like the tie-in with Western (cowboy) themes, as in “man’s gotta do, what a man’s gotta do”. Not to mention the obvious influences of such live action films as Godfather and Once upon a time in America. This isn’t Yakuza, this is US mobster style action and politics.

This story is so obviously about the main characters (check out the opening closing credits) and their relationship. As such I’m very excited at the thought of some great dialogue and characterisation: A man does not live by pitch battles alone! Although saying that, there appears to be enough flying lead and superhuman action to satisfy most action fans most of the time.

Not many series could get me caring for the bad guys (main protagonists), but this one does. As such the potential is there for something special, let’s hope they continue to deliver on the potential with subsequent discs. (Anime-On-DVD)