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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Filby" data-source="post: 2508682" data-attributes="member: 7497">That's how I'd been following the series, too. Up until a few weeks ago they'd gotten up to episode 20-something, but then, all of a sudden, they went straight back to the first two episodes, which really annoyed me since I'd spent around three months following the storyline.Basically, story behind the confusing chronology of the two series goes something like this: Because of big budget constraints, the OVA couldn't cover the entire trilogy of novels that it was based on, so while the "campaign" about the War of Heroes and the Grey Witch's ambition was fully covered in the first eight episodes, the next two, revolving around the quest for the dragon Shooting Star and the wizard Wagnard's treachery, were squeezed into two and three episodes, respectively. The TV series, Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight, remedied this by saying that the last two story arcs didn't happen and doing them over again, this time closer to the original novels.Something I really enjoy about the TV series is "Welcome to Lodoss Island!", the 2-odd-minute short animated in "super-deformed mode" at the end of every episode, parodying the main story. I think that's something you either love or hate.One thing I should note, though, is the quality of the animation, which is occasionally rather slipshod. The animation on the OVA pays a marvelous amount of attention to detail, but apparently their budget was such that the quality of movement (ie, the actual animation) gets pretty bad at times, so what you get is a lot of really pretty-looking cardboard cut-outs moving around on screen at times. Furthermore, stock footage, especially during battle scenes, is used extensively. The TV series, on the other hand, has much smoother animation, but the level of detail is seriously lacking -- although for key episodes such as the beginning and end of story arcs, they seem to have amped up the quality of detail a good bit.I'd highly recommend Lodoss for a D&D fan.</blockquote>

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