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Lost Universe (1998)
Great show
This anime is in the same existence as the anime "Slayers", the general layout for this existence is that everything resides upon a sea of chaos, which is the creator of all things.
In this anime we follow Kain Blueriver, Cannal and Millie, a gang of 'trouble contractors' as they take on various jobs, more or less anything from finding a lost kitten to stopping worlds from being blown up, however the ultimate story of the series is that the dark lord of this universe is awakening and it's up to this.. scary bunch of some heroes to save the universe.
Details on the characters are : Kain Blueriver : A man who wears a mantle.. and if you say anything bad about his mandle, he'll kill you! ^^; He always has his trusted Psi-Blade with him, to those not too familiar with the world of slayers, it's a sword that kind of looks like a lightsaber, to those who are familiar with slayers, it is the same kind of weapon as Gourry Gabriev's "Hikari no Ken" Gorunova. His characteristics is that he's more guts than brains, but he's not a total brainless guy like Gourry, but he's more a man of action than a man of thought, he likes to 'quote' his grandmother a lot, like "Be nice to girls, nice advice my grandmother always said" and such.
Cannal : A hologram, she is the brain of the spaceship "Swordbreaker", a 'lost ship', rumoured to be the only remains of a superior ancient civilization, in reality, the lost ships are the 'gods and demons' of this universe, like Phibrizzo and Water Dragon King etc.. from Slayers --spoiler alert-- Cannal and Swordbreakers true identity is Volphied, the 'god' of that universe --spoiler end-- Cannals characteristics are... hard to describe, think of a noisy little brat of a girl who gets anything she wants, mixed with a real smartmouthed lady.. ^^; well, that and tons of others, you can more or less look at her as Lina Inverse (same voice actress as well)
Millie : A 'detective' put out of job thanks to Kain and Cannal, she always says she wants to be the best in the universe, in everything, she's a great cook.. but.. she blows up the kitchen every time she cooks (but hey, it's the best food in the universe :P), she can hit anything anywhere when she use a gun, and she's got a brain, unfortunately for Kain and Cannal, she's a bit of a spoiled brat sometimes, and.. slightly short sighted in thinking.. which can (and often do) lead to trouble for this insane bunch of heroes.
Swordbreaker : Cannals 'true' form, the 'lost ship', the spaceship of these weird heroes, not much is known about the ship, except that it disobeys all laws of motion, power, inertia etc.. and that Cannal is it's brain
My personal note about this series : Watch it, you wont regret it!
As for the artstyle, it is exactly the same art style used for Slayers, nice effects, nice details etc. A little notice is, if you're a slayers fan, keep your eyes open, in almost every episode there is something from the slayers world as an easteregg, the first one I ever noticed was in an episode where the characters were in a bar, and on one of the beer.. thingies, Lina's 'chibi' self was pictured, it was after that I started looking for details in each episode and in almost every episode I've seen 1 or more eastereggs from the slayers world
So all in all, I give this series 5 out of 5 on my own personal anime judgment, and as a personal note, this and Slayers are two of my most favourite animes of all time. This is a series you wont regret watching (unless you hate comedy), so watch it, now! :P