Wolverine (Marvel Animated Series)

Marvel has dipped a bit into Anime and I decided I had to get a look for myself. Naturally, Wolverine got his own, 12 episode series. The series starts off with he and the love of his life, Mariko Yashida, on a boat together when Mariko is taken. When he finally finds her, Logan discovers she is betrothed to another, at the insistence of her father, Shingen. For those who have read the comics, events in here have some resemblance to the Wolverine limited series as well as some parts of the Wolverine regular series from years ago. We do get to see some other villains, such as Omega Red show up.I am a big time Wolverine fan. I have been for years now. I did like the series, but I have some issues with it too. There is lots of action and plenty of Logan putting bad guys into a "world of hurt". We get to see some cool characters such as Yukio cause some havoc. What bothers me most, however, is how Logan is portrayed but I will explain.Prior to watching this series, I watched the Anime X-Men series (which is awesome). In that series, they did a great job with the voices and the dialogue matched very well with how the characters, including Wolverine, are portrayed in the comics (or at least how they were in the 80's and 90's, I haven't collected in about 14 years). Wolverine in this series probably has one of the worst voice overs they could have chosen. It just doesn't match with the Logan that we know (or any of the voices in other animated series he has been in). He is smaller framed and thinner in this series too. It was almost as if I couldn't see him as Wolverine until he popped his claws out.The voices in general didn't come nearly as close to the quality they found for the Anime X-Men series. I know Anime in general has some lousy voice overs anyway, to the point where it is kind of funny and that is one allure of anime. It doesn't ruin the show, but it definitely does detract. Again, part of my problem is that they did it right with X-Men so I feel as though they could have done it right here.Overall, it's a good series and it's pretty cheap here. Wolverine fans should certainly consider getting this.

WOW -1 of the most underviewed/underappriciated of Marvels rather quiet collaborations with Anime ICONS/TITANS-The Led Zeppellin of Anime-Ladies &Gents (drumroll pleeze)M-A-D-H-O-U-S-E- This is an adaption of (the Iggy Pop of) ANIME- FRANK F'N MILLER. ok its a little bit spotty in parts -BUT IT WAS THE medium that brought back to a new generation both east & western culture the breaking off of Wolverine from the rest of the X-Men And retold the Samuri/Ronin Saga that Frank &C imagined & told to a world not exactly primed for of The Wolverine as Far Eastern Lore that was so groundbreaking it proceeded to slowly seep into the archetecture of heros reimaginating-or tweaking their origins to freshin them up for new &old audiences-it just took a little bit of digesting to fully cumullate into 2013'sBLOCKBUSTER The Wolverine w/Hugh & those ultra BadA** Babes Marik/&Blood Red Haired'BodyGuard'-She deff Got what it takes to take what I got!!!So this is the Anime Genisis to that movie-So even though this story arc is different -it is what was a rough bluprint-&so if U R a Fan of Wolverine &eastern settings -this 1's for U-Enjoy

I've always loved this anime, and now I've got it on DVD!KEEP IN MIND:If you want to watch in English, you have to change the setting in Languages before starting each episode. If you plan on binging the whole thing, then you only have to do it before selecting "Play all episodes."

I was really disappointed by this series. I first watched the XMen anime, which I generally liked. It wasn't amazing but it was reasonably good. Based on that, I picked up the other animes and watched them in order (Iron Man and then Wolverine). Iron Man was a little lacking, and I initially enjoyed the differences in Wolverine based on the first few episodes.Beyond those first episodes, however, the series really started to drag. The story was fairly lame, and the action scenes got to be pretty tedious and boring. Wolverine was generally unphased by any attack against him, and the motivations of all the other characters was so one dimensional that it was hard to really have any interest in them. They seemed to exist solely for the purpose of being collateral damage since Wolverine is basically immortal.I can't really recommend this series to anyone. The past week that I have been watching the show I have honestly been dreading it, but wanted to power through. It became a chore. Everything after the 4th episode (Omega Red) felt really tedious to me, especially everything with Hell Road.

This anime version of Wolverine is very good. Now its not for kids for Saturday morning toons. Teens and adults recommended since it a lot of graphic violence, but with good reason. And the cool thing is how I would depict Wolverine exactly how gritty as he supposed to be. A lot of good story and action fight scenes throughout the series here on 2 discs. This is about Wolverines Japanese connections so naturally it all takes place in Japan. A fitting idea to make an anime version too right?

Great anime show to watch and completing my Wolverine DVD collections.

Received.

The wolverine video storyline and plot was enticing and interesting, so I did not lose in the video. The animation was very life like, which I really like when the animation is more human like in the movements and life like drawings. The fight scenes were very exciting and I was drawn into the action. Loved it.

This is the Wolverine from the comics. I read the comic this anime was based on; the subtle points of the story line were taken out in favour of more action scenes. Even that is ok, with me because that fits in with Wolverine's character completely. The animation is great and fits the mood and theme of the series. The only things (I am being really nit-picky here), I did not like was the way Wolverine was drawn he look too lean and tall. I can understand why this was done probably to make him look more like Huge Jackman. Whereas in the comics he is more stocky even short and muscular. The other thing is Wolverine voice (in the English dub) makes him sound too young, and does not seem to go with his more gruff language. This can still be explained because of his healing factor he vocal cords stay the same as his appearance.The story 10 years ago Wolverine and his girlfriend (Mariko Yashida) are attacked on a boat. Wolverine put up a good fight despite being shot by hundreds of rounds of machine gun fire. By the end of the fight most of the attackers are dead, but Mariko is missing. 10 year later a Japanese officer and (friend of Logan), come to America to tell Wolverine Mariko has been found. Also she is the daughter of Japanese Kingpin Shingen Yashida. Shingen is forcing her to marry the criminal king of the lawless, pirate island of Madripoor. This is so Shingen can expand his criminal empire. Wolverine attacks Shingen in his fortress/home slashes his way through Shingen's men till he reaches Shingen himself. Pretty short for a series huh, wrong Shingen is a master swordsman. He hand Wolverine probably the worst beating I have ever seen. Every one of his blows is a killing stroke the perfect representation of the of his art no unnecessary movement. The trouble is he cannot kill Logan. With his healing factor Logan simply has to take the pain and out last him till he can get a killing shot. The duel is settled with outside interference from Mariko's fiancé who hits Logan with a drugged dart. The series is Wolverine chasing Mariko to get her back. With many road block in the way some henchmen some super powered, and in some cases a whole island against him. He picks up some allies along the way like Yuriko. Yuriko want revenge against Shingen for killing her parents. Yuriko must shop in the same place as the Black Widow. Same jumpsuit with the zipper stuck half way down. No compaints from me.Differences from the comic, after losing to Shingen Wolverine does not go through any more training except killing a whole load of human road blocks. Yuriko acts a lot older then her comic counterpart. She is not the adrenaline junky and prefers tactics over Wolverine's bull in a china shop approach. Mariko is the ultimate damsel in distress she does not even put up a fight or say anything in her private moments she seems have a recurring theme of "oh Logan. What have I done to you"? However the plentiful action scenes make up for all this. They also add nicely add in one of Wolverines forgotten powers. His strength obviously he is not in the same league are the Thing or even Spider-man (even though everyone seem to forget Spider-man how strong Spider-man is he could lift 10 tonnes people 15 after the other) but he is a touch above Captain America. There are any examples of this in the series, it though it was well used.This is a great DVD and you get Wolverine doing what he does best, and surviving everything that is thrown at him. If you are a fan of Wolverine movie or especially comics watch this it is great. If there is a season 2 one word please Sabertooth!!!!

A further addition to my Marvel collection......and a good one.

Great addition to my Marvel collection. A must for Marvel fans.

Ja, was soll ich sagen. Ich habe diese Serie mal im Fernsehen gesehen und sie hat mir sehr gefallen. 😊 Marvel Wolverine in Animegestalt. Die Synchronsprecher sind ganz okay und die Handlung kann sich auch sehen lassen. Tolle Musik und es gibt genug Action und spannende Kämpfe.Am meisten haben mir Wolverine und Kikyo Mikage gefallen. 😁 Dann gibt es es noch das ein oder andere Extra auf dieser DVD Box. Wie zum Beispiel die Entsteheung dieses Animes mit deutschen Untertiteln. Und weiteres über den berühmten Antihelden.Was ich persönlich schade finde, ist das es zum Anime Blade keine deutsche DVD Box oder Fassung gibt. :/ Er hat mir sogar noch besser gefallen. Vielleicht kommt da ja doch noch eines Tages eine Box. Die Hoffnung stirbt ja bekanntlich zu letzt. 😊Also ich bin voll und ganz zufrieden mit dieser Box. Kann man nur empfehlen, wenn man Anime und Marvel mag. 😉Danke an Amazon und den Verkäufer. 👍 /5 Sterne/ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

absolut cool und die Grafik ist so klasse und super gemacht