Anime: Innocent Venus
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VERY NICE!! MUST WATCH!!
Official Webbie: http://www.innocent-v.com/
This is those near-future-post-world-war anime, with mecha and a lil cute loli for those pedo fans.
The story and setting is darn kewl!
In the year 2010A.D., Hyper Hurricanes born concurrently all over the world caused severe damage. Five billion people lost their lives, decreasing the world's population to 3 billion. Existing economies and militaries were wiped out. North America, Russia, and Northern Europe were frozen under solid ice; plains sank beneath seas; the world's geography was changed dramatically. Human civilisation enters a chaotic era.
The Japanese Government created special economic areas which have achieved a limited degree of recovery pursuant to the disaster. Powered Assist Technology, which had long been under study, played an important role in this recovery.
However, poverty flourished outside of these ecomomic zones and slums were widespread. The ruling class called themselves "Logos" and maintained their position by force of arms, introducing Powered Assist Technology into the military. They call the poor "Revenus", who are exiled to live outside the special economic areas.
Time has passed since then. The main characters, Katsuragi Jo and Tsurasawa Hitoshi, escape from "Phantom", a special force organised to watch Revenus and to suppress renegade elements of the Logos, taking with them a mysterious girl, Noto Saya. There are many who are interested in her, all with their own personal motives.
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Total episodes: 12
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Military, Sci-fi
Year Published: July 2006
Studio: Brains Base
Seiyuu Fact:
Kaori Nazuka as Sana Noto (Also voiced as Mai Taniyama in Ghost Hunt)
Kenji Nojima as Jo Katsuragi (Also voiced as Karman in Blood+)
Takahiro Sakurai as Jin Tsurasawa (Also voiced as Kagami Kyoji in Getbackers)
Hideo Ishikawa as Toraji Shiba (Also voiced as Ukitake Jyuuchirou in Bleach)
Naoki Yanagi as Gora (Also voiced as Moses in Blood+)
Toru Ohkawa as Maximas Drake (Also voiced as Rufus Shinra in FFVII:Advent Children) -
After having watched the 12 episodes, I considered IV one of the anime that really tickled me from episode 1 to 12. Excellent stuff overall.
The storyline and flow is quite tight. Each of the main character's short past and motives were unfold slowly one by one. The series revolves around Sana but other main characters in Jo & Jin played very crucial parts respectively. Betrayal is hard to swallow esp if it happens between fighting comrades & friend.
There are action-packed scenes as well as scenes that are emotional and moving. The emotional part tends to revolves between the main trio of cos. Considering it's a predominately a Mecha themed based anime, the emotional side of things blends quite well in it.
The Mecha reminds me much abt Patlabor. Patlabor = Police / Gladiators (The Mecha in the anime) = Military. It's not so much the design and movement is very much Patlabor but it's the usage behind it. While Patlabor protect the innocent, this bunch of Gladiators are designed to kill and annihilate rebels.
Lastly the soundtrack leans towards the electronic side but damn... they fits well. Esp when battles take place.
Here's a vid cap I took:
Sana Noto
Jo Katsuragi
Jin Tsurasawa
Toraji Shiba
Gora
Jo's Gladiator
Jin's Gladiator
Phantom's Gladiator
Yes, these Gladiators rollerblades!!
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Oh, when these Gladiators fight one another.... you can almost smell the gun powder smell. The sounds of machine gun and bullets spent is close to real.
Majority of the killing scenes quite violent so there. -
Vid caps on the intro (click the thumbnails):
