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This is another anime micro review. Read here for an explanation.
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| From left to right: Kamina, Yoko and Simon - the three main characters. Kamina is awesome. |
This anime was pretty awesome. It is a bit hard to describe.
Or, at least, it is hard to describe why it is so awesome. The story is about
two guys, Simon and Kamina. Simon is about 12 or 13, and lacking in
self-confidence. Kamina is older - maybe late teens - and is very boisterous
and self-assured. They both grew up in this isolated underground village. Simon
works with some other villagers to dig tunnels and expand the village. Kamina
is a delinquent who dreams of traveling to the surface, a place he saw as a
very young child. Their lives change when Simon discovers a robot while
digging. Shortly thereafter, a big robot comes crashing through the roof of the
underground village. A girl from the surface, named Yoko, is trying to fight it
with only a giant laser rifle, and things aren’t going well. Kamina urges Simon
to take up the fight, piloting the robot he found earlier while digging, and he
quickly defeats the attacking robot. Together, they go to the surface where
they discover that some evil people called the beastmen have been keeping
humans oppressed for centuries. Kamina decides to take the fight to the
beastmen using the robot Simon dug up, and another one that Kamina commandeers
from the bad guys.
This anime seems like a simple enough action series at first
glance, but there are some very personal dramatic moments in it. The characters
are very likeable. Simon seems a little pathetic, but it’s obvious that he has
untapped potential. Kamina is a hot head, but he’s got courage in spades.
Yoko’s character isn’t really explored much in the first two episodes, but she
seems OK. The action in this show is waaaaay over the top, which is so very fun
in a juvenile male kind of way. And there are just so many great lines – most
of them coming from Kamina. ^_^
Content Advisory: Some language. I think there may
have been a little bit of blood in some of the action scenes, but it wasn’t
much. Most of the action is robot vs. robot. There was a certain amount of
so-called “fan service” (Yoko wears a pretty skimpy outfit) but I didn’t find
it as annoying as in most anime that has it. Perhaps because the rest of the
anime is so cool, it doesn’t feel like a desperate attempt to draw in viewers.
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