The Heroic Legend of Arslan: Dust Storm Dance (アルスラーン戦記 風塵乱舞) is the 8 episode continuation of the Heroic Legend of Arslan 2015 TV series. The anime is based on the novels of the same name by Tanaka Yoshiki. Dust Storm Dance aired in the Summer of 2016.
We pick up from where we left off the original TV series. Arslan and company have made significant grounds in their quest to free the King and reclaim their capital and country for themselves. With out getting into too many spoilers, Arslan's plans are side tracked and he majority of this half season series deals with him in the port city of Gilan to muster more troops and financing for the push to take over the captured capital. Unknown to them all is not well between the leaders of the invading forces and their job may be a little easier when they finally march on Ecbatana.
Sadly and surprisingly, this series was apparently cut short for what ever reason and leaves up hanging yet again. The resolution is in sight but as with the entire anime existence of this story, it has been outside of our grasp. Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the continuation of this arc and we may see the push for the final campaign. The final novel in this long running book series is due any time now so perhaps the anime is waiting for that. But something tells me there is a significant amount of story with what books already exist that the series could work off of. So perhaps the series really wasn't as popular as it needed to be and all we got was an updated expansion on the original OAV series and a little bit more of the story. Yet we are still left with no conclusion in the anime edition of this epic story.
The artwork is the same as the preceding TV series. It has its ups and downs. What really stood out in this one was some weird CG integration when it came to large combat sequences, but it wasn't enough to really be problematic. The only real complaint is the brevity and cliff hanger of an ending...we need more.
The series was simulcast through FUNimation and we should see a disc release in the future as well.
We pick up from where we left off the original TV series. Arslan and company have made significant grounds in their quest to free the King and reclaim their capital and country for themselves. With out getting into too many spoilers, Arslan's plans are side tracked and he majority of this half season series deals with him in the port city of Gilan to muster more troops and financing for the push to take over the captured capital. Unknown to them all is not well between the leaders of the invading forces and their job may be a little easier when they finally march on Ecbatana.
Sadly and surprisingly, this series was apparently cut short for what ever reason and leaves up hanging yet again. The resolution is in sight but as with the entire anime existence of this story, it has been outside of our grasp. Hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the continuation of this arc and we may see the push for the final campaign. The final novel in this long running book series is due any time now so perhaps the anime is waiting for that. But something tells me there is a significant amount of story with what books already exist that the series could work off of. So perhaps the series really wasn't as popular as it needed to be and all we got was an updated expansion on the original OAV series and a little bit more of the story. Yet we are still left with no conclusion in the anime edition of this epic story.
The artwork is the same as the preceding TV series. It has its ups and downs. What really stood out in this one was some weird CG integration when it came to large combat sequences, but it wasn't enough to really be problematic. The only real complaint is the brevity and cliff hanger of an ending...we need more.
The series was simulcast through FUNimation and we should see a disc release in the future as well.
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