Holy Genesis Aquarion / 創聖のアクエリオン
This
is a good mecha series to start with if you are not much of a mecha
fan. Hot-blooded finishing blow shout-outs and the out of this world
kind of feeling when combining are some of the *ooohs-aaahs* I have
felt after watching this. Sunrise did a pretty good job in animating this with
artistic European backdrops, beautiful setting sun effects and dazzling flashes of light on transformation scenes and others. Aquarion
is an homage to older mecha series, and that is easily seen when you
watch it. Personally, I haven't watched a lot of older mecha series, so
I can't exactly spout out examples of it copying them. But I've talked
with people who are experienced with them, and the one mecha from the
90s which I've watched (NGE) is enough to prove my example of how
similar it is.
アクエリオンEVOL
The story itself starts 12000 years after the stuff in Aquarion goes down, and as you probably know it follows the reincarnates of those characters, and of course the characters before that. As was the case in Aquarion, Evol follows a group of teenageish characters as they pilot Aquarion to save the world from abductors. It focuses on their relationships with one another and shit like that, but at the same time it is able to maintain an interesting story that keeps you going all the way through. As the story progressed, it got more and more tragic. There are just sad situations and the whatnot popping up everywhere at a point and I was all depressed and shit like "aw damn, this is gonna have a sad ending" which was the vibe I was getting. The actual ending though is very good and all the sad stuff that goes down at least gets brought to points where theres closure if nothing else. The ending also provides an actual end, by this I mean that the whole 12,000 year repeating cycle can finally be ended by the end to this. On a whole I was really happy with this show. It had subtle humor, good characters, orgasmic animation(sorry I just had to use that pun) and it fixed alot of the crap that Aquarion didnt do so hot with. I will recomend thsi to anyone who liked the original, hell, Ill recomend this if you didnt like the original because this is just on such a higher level.
