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10 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
"Lord of the Flies" meets "Lost In Space", 28 March 2005
Author: Perdicus (perdicus98@yahoo.com) from CT, USA

It is the year 2225 A.D., and the solar system has become a much more dangerous place as a result of the "Gedoult" phenomenon, a natural disaster which has made interplanetary travel extremely hazardous. A group of roughly 400 teenagers boards the Libe Delta Astronaut Training Center, in orbit around the Earth. But the Libe Delta is hiding a deadly secret, and the students are swept up in a storm of sabotage and treachery.

Forced to abandon the Libe Delta, they find themselves aboard the "Ryvius", the most advanced warship ever built, hidden within the core of the station itself. Now this intrepid group of young space explorers must face the ultimate challenge: survival.

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"Mugen no Ryvius" (or "Infinite Ryvius", if you will) is a brilliant, underrated piece of animation from TV Tokyo and Sunrise, Inc. A group of unruly (albeit highly educated) teenagers is set loose on a super-powerful warship with no adult supervision, and the ship's creators aren't helping any. "Lord of the Flies" meets "Lost In Space", indeed! Great music, a terrific ensemble cast, and plenty of action. My rating: 8/10 (points off for overuse of teenage angst).

3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
A truly fine body of work, 11 September 2005
Author: barciad from United Kingdom

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Based loosely upon William Golding's ever-so bleak look into the fragility of human society, Lord of the Flies, this truly is an anime to be savoured. Like LotF, it sees how society would develop, and eventually breakdown if all those with the knowledge and the experience suddenly left. Who would take charge, who would there to look up to and to turn to when times become harsh. However, IR takes two spins on this. Whilst one is purely window dressing, the other allows for far more developments, more notions, and more complexities than it's illustrious inspiration. Firstly IR is a sci-fi. It deals with young astronauts at a training college in outer-space. A sabotage on the station leaves all the adults dead and the students drifting alone in space. Sounds familiar enough, it is. However, these students are on average 16 and are not innocent little children any more. And they are not neither stupid nor helpless. The prefect group (know as Zwei) immediately takes control and thus begins the first study into the first microcosm of society. From here on in, the whole nature of power, politics, and personality are put under the intense microscope of the events that constantly threaten to overwhelm the players. Possibly the most mentally taxing and demanding cartoon ever made, those that watch it must be aware of the grim realities of human nature that lie inside all of us. Truly essential ....... 10/10

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