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The newest creation from Shoji Kawamori, the legend behind Macross Plus and The Vision of Escaflowne, featuring an original soundtrack composed by Cowboy Bebop’s, Yoko Kanno. Interview with Shoji Kawamori Tokyo International Anime Fair 2005 Talk Show with cast and crew Tsugumi’s "All about CG!" Series Textless Songs Trailers
The mecha adventure Aquarion (2005) boasts an impressive pedigree: director/co-writer Shoji Kawamori created the Escaflowne series; composer Yoko Kanno did the score for Cowboy Bebop. After 12,000 years of slumber, the beings known as Shadow Angels are attacking Earth again, kidnapping humans to drain their prana or life energy. Three teenage mecha pilots must "fuse" so their vehicles can combine to form the "Legendary Mechanical Angel Aquarion," mankind's greatest weapon. Complicating the story is the tale of Solar Wing, a Rebel Angel who sided with human in the previous war--and who is slated for reincarnation. Gen Fudo, the leader of the DEAVA special forces, believes that avatar is Apollo, a grungy street kid. Aristocratic pilots Silvia De Alisia and her brother Sirius refuse to accept the scruffy Apollo as the key to humanity's future. Aquarion is packed with action: every episode boasts at least one elaborate CG battle between the title mecha and one of the Angels' creations. But the story amounts to little more than a shameless Evangelion rip-off, with additional bits borrowed from Voltron and X. Apollo, who scuttles around on all fours, sniffing like a dog, lacks the diamond-in-the-rough appeal of other red-haired anti-heroes--Ichigo in Bleach or Kazuma in s-CRY-ed. Silvia, the reincarnation of Solar Wing's human lover, is fixated on Sirius to a point that suggests incest. The supporting cast consists largely of familiar anime types. Kanno's bombastic score offers none of the jazz-inflected nuances of Cowboy Bebop. The flashy CG effects indicate Aquarion was an expensive series, but the result remains less than sum of its parts. (Rated TV MA: violence, grotesque imagery, risqué humor, nudity, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
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The newest creation from Shoji Kawamori, the legend behind Macross Plus and The Vision of Escaflowne, featuring an original soundtrack composed by Cowboy Bebop’s, Yoko Kanno.
When the Shadow Angels invade after 12,000 years of slumber, humanity is held captive by fear and sheer alien dominance. Eleven years after the Great Catastrophe decimated the world, most of those left alive are scavengers, dirty and starving in the streets.
There is hope, however - Mechanical Angel Aquarion!
Powered by three souls intertwined, a rare breed of pilot takes the controls. Known as Elements, one among them must rise if mankind is to survive. Prophecy is being fulfilled as the end of the world approaches… Through a swirling cloud of love, betrayal, loss and destiny, the last hope for the new century arrives and takes flight!
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The mecha adventure Aquarion (2005) boasts an impressive pedigree: director/co-writer Shoji Kawamori created the Escaflowne series; composer Yoko Kanno did the score for Cowboy Bebop. After 12,000 years of slumber, the beings known as Shadow Angels are attacking Earth again, kidnapping humans to drain their prana or life energy. Three teenage mecha pilots must "fuse" so their vehicles can combine to form the "Legendary Mechanical Angel Aquarion," mankind's greatest weapon. Complicating the story is the tale of Solar Wing, a Rebel Angel who sided with human in the previous war--and who is slated for reincarnation. Gen Fudo, the leader of the DEAVA special forces, believes that avatar is Apollo, a grungy street kid. Aristocratic pilots Silvia De Alisia and her brother Sirius refuse to accept the scruffy Apollo as the key to humanity's future. Aquarion is packed with action: every episode boasts at least one elaborate CG battle between the title mecha and one of the Angels' creations. But the story amounts to little more than a shameless Evangelion rip-off, with additional bits borrowed from Voltron and X. Apollo, who scuttles around on all fours, sniffing like a dog, lacks the diamond-in-the-rough appeal of other red-haired anti-heroes--Ichigo in Bleach or Kazuma in s-CRY-ed. Silvia, the reincarnation of Solar Wing's human lover, is fixated on Sirius to a point that suggests incest. The supporting cast consists largely of familiar anime types. Kanno's bombastic score offers none of the jazz-inflected nuances of Cowboy Bebop. The flashy CG effects indicate Aquarion was an expensive series, but the result remains less than sum of its parts. (Rated TV MA: violence, grotesque imagery, risqué humor, nudity, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
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