Marvel Anime: Iron Man - Complete Series DVD Case

When word of the Marvel Anime project first surfaced around two years ago, and the proposed series were announced, I automatically began ‘playing favorites’, if you will. As a fan of well-done anime and a fan of characters like Iron Man, Blade, and some of the X-Men I deduced right away that the only two properties able to pull off the anime treatment among the announced quartet were Iron Man and Blade. Why? Simple: anime is notorious for spectacular mecha fights and well-done vampires. Nothing against the X-Men and Wolverine series – they just did not work for me. But Iron Man and Blade did (Blade to a slightly lesser extent than Iron Man), mainly because they felt like an anime twist on Marvel mythology.

For my money Iron Man is the strongest of all four Marvel Anime series both visually and story-wise. How does it fare on DVD, though, a format that has been known for taking some of the sheen off of the visually daring? It fares very well. In fact, it’s one of the most well put-together anime DVD sets I’ve seen in the two-to-four-disc variety in some time.
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