by Bliss » Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:18 am
Well from the first episode of Innocent Venus, I was extremely amused. It starts off with a shot of the classic post apocalyptic slums with the looming industrial city in the background... government soldiers that look like a toned down Master Chief from Halo are chasing and killing the Revenus (poor people) and the Lithonian refugees... a young girl for moe factor, and a crack-shot with crazy technology.. their cornered ala Jin-Roh and saved by a Psycho Mantis like Ninja who tears apart the soldiers like the last scene in V for Vendetta....
Cut to a flashback general overview that describes the situation we're facing in the anime. Apparenly simultaneous Hyper Hurricanes wipe out 52billion of the worlds 82 billion people, and covers Russia, North America and Europe in Ice. Furthermore the Asian countries (China and Korea mainly) form the Asian Union---Modelled after the European Union--minus Japan invade Japan because it's become a militaristic nation using power armour to dominate it's citizens... *smirks* Of course Japan wins hands down and forces the countries to surrender and sign a non-aggression pact. *smirks*
*smirks* And there is the whole Logos, oppressing the Revenus. Logos being the new government and Revenus being the derogatory term for poor people in this anime. There is some sort of resistance fighting the Logos and some crazy crack squad who's goal is to eliminate terrorists.. of course their all stereotypically unhinged and very bloodthirsty... think Weis Kruez's Schwartz....
Meanwhile we learn more about the escapees in the beginning of the movie. We got the cute little girl who ran away from the city, and is innocent and naive. Super Moe character and super kind. We got Jin who is this cool character and seems to know Sana the super cute moe character...We got Jo the silent Squall type character who is a crazy psycho violent super soldier ala Heero... and Gora who is a hyper idiot ala Naruto.... Jo is from the industrial city as well as Sana and presumably Jin.
Also there is some sort of hidden agenda within the Logos... and we've got the VA who did Revy from Black Lagoon in this too. Plays some sort of agent called Leny *shrugs* Still pretty badass though..
The episode ends with the soldiers attacking the place where Sana, Jin, Jo and Gora are hiding... however they all get slaughtered by a crazy Armored Core like Mechs....
Seems like the soldiers are looking for Venus.....which is still unknown at this point. But the crazy mech battles are pretty interesting.. Sorta like a Zaku meets Armored Core meets Front Mission.
The party escapes but not before we get some touching Sana and Jin byplay... they escape away from the Logos border...
Well the music is good, and it seems interesting if not heavily borrowed from other animes.... the plot seems pretty cliche at the moment but it could prove to be better... Especially if the crack Assassins squad fights again the Refugees group, and we get to find out Jo's hidden past with Logos... *shrugs*
And the government guys look like they're from Full Metal Alchemists.... *smirks*
I wonder how many weird refs, comparisons and whatnots I drew in that one review/summary of the first ep of Innocent Venus
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