Red Garden: The Complete Series Box Set & OVA S.A.V.E.

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While alive, Kate, Claire, Rose, and Rachel each explored the streets of New York with the promise of limitless futures unfolding before them. But now, brought together as members of a blood-stained sisterhood, their once-delicate hands reach out to silence demonic beasts no ordinary weapon can destroy. Brutally murdered only to be resurrected as clandestine killers, the girls must stalk their prey with a primal ferocity – or risk losing what remains of their so-called lives. The only clues to their tragic past are a swarm of crimson butterflies and the mysterious woman who carries the harrowing secret behind the lives they lived – and the walking corpses they’ve become.

Would you kill to get your life back?While alive, Kate, Claire, Rose, and Rachel each explored the streets of New York with the promise of limitless futures unfolding before them. But now, brought together as members of a blood-stained sisterhood, their once-delicate hands reach out to silence demonic beasts no ordinary weapon can destroy. Brutally murdered only to be resurrected as clandestine ki

Red Garden: The Complete Series Box Set & OVA S.A.V.E. Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

A Domestic-set Horror Mystery, September 1, 2009

ONENEO (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Garden: The Complete Series Box Set & OVA S.A.V.E. (DVD)

Red Garden is one of those rare anime titles that slips through the cracks as far as placing it into a single genre is concerned. It spans a pretty wide variety of subjects and pacing but at its core is a basically a mystery laced with supernatural undertones. But before we get ahead of ourselves here, let's take a look at the hard facts.

Originally released in individual season sets by ADV Films, this set represents the first time the complete series with OVA is being released to the public. Coming in at a total runtime of 600 minutes, Red Garden The Complete Series spans 4 discs and comes packaged as a pair of thin packs within a cardboard slipcase.

The show wears an appropriate TV MA (17+) rating, which is due to some disturbing imagery and horror-themes and some segments loaded with gore/ violence.

Language options are typical sub & dub meaning the option of original Japanese dialog track (in Stereo) or an English dub (Dolby Digital 5.1... Read more

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Intelligent High School Horror, with holes, January 17, 2010

Steve (Cheney, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Red Garden: The Complete Series Box Set & OVA S.A.V.E. (DVD)

Strange and horrible things are happening in the city, right under our noses, and most of us never find out. Those who do, often die. Four high school girls encountered the horror, and died. That's not what this anime is about. It's about what happened to them afterwards. Other reviewers have given a good plot outline, so I will content with what I liked and didn't like.

First, overall, I liked this. It's above average in concept, in character development, in dialogue. I own it and plan to watch it again. I plan to give it to my friends. It features a group of sane girls trying to cope with insane personal disaster. It's their story, and so we are spared the clueless, gormless, constantly embarrassed male co-star, or the loud and bratty little sister, or the overly moe pet. It's surprisingly quiet. Yes, there's too much shouting during the fight scenes, and some of the secondary characters can be accused of overacting, but it's not one of those anime where everyone... Read more

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Sets a full table, but never serves all the courses, August 31, 2010

Midnight Run "5000" (Birmingham, AL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Garden: The Complete Series Box Set & OVA S.A.V.E. (DVD)

First of all, this is a beautifully drawn anime. If you are just trying to show someone the best a genre has to offer, a few scenes of this will go a long way of making your case. The actual story and development is something else.

I was extremely pleased that this was set in New York City...instead of Tokyo. Although NYC is played out when it comes to American produced movies, Tokyo is certainly overexposed in almost every anime ever made. The girls are real characters with great development and we are expected to know them and understand them and relate to them because the series spends time with each one. We also get a good amount of time seeing them come together (or not) when their circumstances demand which is also a refreshing change from the usual. However, once the big plot point is revealed and we see them start to form a team to do their job, I was left with a bit of disappointment in their "fighting style." It just seemed odd to go through this much trouble so... Read more