# Reign, OR Alexander the Great anime

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**Created:** [February 21, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reign-or-alexander-the-great-anime/156533 "2003-02-21T15:24:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reign-or-alexander-the-great-anime/156533/1 "2003-02-21T15:24:15Z")

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While channel surfing the other night I caught the end of REIGN, an anime based on Alexander the Great. It’s an odd piece in that it’s part factual, part legend, part pure fantasy, sometimes sci-fi and sometimes mythological, and I got the impression that it didn’t really work. Since I know almost nothing about anime but am fascinated with Alexander, I was curious how popular this was in Anime circles and if it’s representative of the genre, plus generally is it any good in and of itself?

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**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reign-or-alexander-the-great-anime/156533/2 "2003-02-21T16:26:54Z")

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I don’t know if it’s technically anime, since I don’t know if the guy who made it (same guy as Aeon Flux, from MTV) works outa Japan. I can only see it through the visual craziness of scrambled cable (gosh I’m tempted to steal, just to to get CN, but I luckily have no idea how), but I’ve heard really good things. Hes… a weird guy. Aeon Flux was probably one of the most confusing surreal things on TV, plotwise, this side of David Lynch.

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**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reign-or-alexander-the-great-anime/156533/3 "2003-02-21T16:58:58Z")

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Well, I like what I’ve seen so far. I enjoyed Aeon Flux, and this series shares the same surreal feel. I really like the style of backgrounds, with all the geometric shapes.

Its very violent. During some of the battle scenes I got seriously confused which guys were Alexander’s men and which were Darius II’s men. There are also some bizarre creatures, including these 4 armed flying triangle spitting creatures from the ‘Pythagorean Cult’

_Imagining an army of geeky mutants who fight with traingles and protractors_