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(From WeAreMovieGeeks.com. 23 June 2010, 8:00 AM, PDT)
AniMania: Vandread
(From WeAreMovieGeeks.com. 4 May 2010, 8:36 PM, PDT)
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(Series Cast Summary - 1 of 47) | Mari Devon | ... | Gascogne (13 episodes, 2000) |
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| Atsuhiro Tomioka | (unknown episodes) | |
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| Shouji Murahama | .... | executive producer (unknown episodes) | |
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| Jun'ichi Higashi | (unknown episodes) | ||
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"Vandread: The Second Stage" - USA (second season title)
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Jura Basil Elden:[wipes a tear out of Barnette's eye] The Barnette that I love so much is much stronger and cuter than that.See more »
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I thought this might be another kiddish shoot-em-up anime, and like others here, I also mistook it for a feminist series early on. Well, it ain't either.
Allow me to make a toast to a team of writers who actually seem to understand human emotions! Unlike too many soulless anime series these days, Vandread's actually funny (both the physical and written humor) and its characters have personalities and chemistry. For that reason, the drama works, too, and the series is thankfully free of those forced incidents engineered to conveniently create melodrama. Heck, even the dorky premise that the show rests on -- males and females literally being from different worlds -- is used to good effect.
I'm also a fan of the artwork, and the hot/cute female characters make the fanservice welcome. The mecha action scenes are pretty invigorating, too (even if things move a bit fast to see what's going on). Cinching the deal, both the intro and ending theme songs kick ass.
The second season ("Vandread 2nd Stage") was a bit of a disappointment, regressing to the typical repetitive clichéd humor that defines all too many anime comedies, but to me the first season ranks right up there with Neon Genesis Evangelion in sheer awesomeness.