When Yuji Kaido is diagnosed with an untreatable condition he is put into suspended animation in the hope that one day a cure will be found. Twenty two years later he is awakened but it isn't because a cure has been found! He discovers that the Earth has been overrun by creatures called 'The Blue' and a group of heavily armed soldiers is intending to transport as many 'sleepers' as they can to Second Earth; an orbital space station. Amongst the soldiers is one called Marlene and she is the series second protagonist.
As they make their way to spaceport, faraway in Russia, they must confront numerous Blues and inevitably take heavy casualties. Getting to the space station isn't the end of their troubles; once there Yuji learns why they wanted the Sleepers and finds himself in the vanguard in the struggle to retake Earth from the Blue.
I watched the opening episode of this series years ago and didn't think too much of it at the time so dropped the series but wanting something new to watch I decided to give this a second chance I'm glad that I did as I quickly found myself gripped by Yuji and Marlene's struggle against the Blue. These to protagonists were pretty good as their characters developed nicely during the twenty six episode run; secondary characters also get some development meaning that we care for those who are killed along the way and there are quite a few of those. The action is pretty solid and fairly gory at times anybody who has seen a 'bug hunt' film like 'Starship Troopers' will know the sort of thing to expect. As well as quite a bit of gore there is some sex and nudity although it is fairly tame if you are old enough to watch the violence it shouldn't offend you! The animation is pretty good especially in the action scenes even if there are the occasional 'shaky still frames' rather than full animation. Overall I'd say this is well worth watching if you like bug-hunting sci-fi.
These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.
As they make their way to spaceport, faraway in Russia, they must confront numerous Blues and inevitably take heavy casualties. Getting to the space station isn't the end of their troubles; once there Yuji learns why they wanted the Sleepers and finds himself in the vanguard in the struggle to retake Earth from the Blue.
I watched the opening episode of this series years ago and didn't think too much of it at the time so dropped the series but wanting something new to watch I decided to give this a second chance I'm glad that I did as I quickly found myself gripped by Yuji and Marlene's struggle against the Blue. These to protagonists were pretty good as their characters developed nicely during the twenty six episode run; secondary characters also get some development meaning that we care for those who are killed along the way and there are quite a few of those. The action is pretty solid and fairly gory at times anybody who has seen a 'bug hunt' film like 'Starship Troopers' will know the sort of thing to expect. As well as quite a bit of gore there is some sex and nudity although it is fairly tame if you are old enough to watch the violence it shouldn't offend you! The animation is pretty good especially in the action scenes even if there are the occasional 'shaky still frames' rather than full animation. Overall I'd say this is well worth watching if you like bug-hunting sci-fi.
These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.