Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Six-and-a-half hours of brilliance

This series has everything going for it. It has a very good story, with several factions moving to conquer Lodoss, with the heroes caught up in the middle. It sounds quite vanilla, but it keeps you at the edge of your seat from the beginning until the very end. The artwork is beautiful: the characters are very well drawn, the scenery is lovely, and the scenes are well-directed - the shots enhance the story-line and keep the pace of the movie going. The music is wonderful - not a simple ditty on a synthesizer, but a full orchestra for the battle scenes, and chamber music for the quieter moments. The themes are well-done. The subtitling is good - English colloquial is used instead of academic translations, which is exactly the thing you expect the characters to say.If you like fantasy and anime - get this one.