Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion (2008) User Reviews

A decent show, but nothing to set it apart.

[jmcginn174 · 6/10 · 16 June 2011]

Aquarion takes place 11 years after a great disaster destroys most of Earth. Along with the destruction came beings called Shadow Angels who have been asleep for thousands of years, and begin to harvest humans and extract their life force. Ordinary human weapons are ineffective against the Shadow Angels, that's where the organization called Deava comes in creating machines to fight against the Dark Angels called Vectors. The Vectors c...an also combine to form a giant robot. The story takes off years later and follows Apollo who might be a reborn hero from thousands of years ago.

I'm going to begin with the things I didn't like about the show than to the things I did like.

1. This show just seemed to blend RahXephon, Eureka Seven and Evangelion together and this is what came out. I know the creators of this series were trying to tell a story, it just didn't work, it just didn't make much sense. This was the part that brought down the series for me, maybe if I hadn't seen the shows above I might have enjoyed it more.

2. The other thing that I didn't like was the soundtrack which didn't add anything to the series.

Onto the good.

1. The best part of the series were the characters. I'll focus mainly on Apollo who was a great main character. He was enjoyable to watch and you will just plain like him. You will like him more as the series goes on and watch him develop. There were other good characters in Silvia, Hong Lihua who I found very interesting, Pierre, and the rest. Each brought something to the series.

2. The other thing that I liked was the animation done by I think Satelight, I could be wrong. Anyway I thought it was very good, and added to the series.

Overall a decent series that recycles themes from other disaster anime. I think it's worth checking out I'd imagine most people would give it between a 5-8. I don't think it merits anything lower or higher.

Aquarian Age (2008)

[SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain · 1/10 · 29 December 2011]

Black winged angels looks awesome on the cover of this film. Shame it's a load of ol' balls on about every level. I should have taken a notebook for this exposition heavy nightmare. Despite the 80 minute long explanation of what is going on, I still had no idea what any of this was about. It seemed as though I had missed a previous film, even though nothing actually happens in this film. That is no exaggeration. The film doesn't even have a climax, it ends with people lining up for a battle and then cuts to black. The film has no action, just talking. Scenes of people sitting around and explaining things to characters as confused as the audience. It's poorly shot, being severely under-lit, and the editing is choppy. The "effects" could be created by any free to download program from the web. So, no excitement, no story, no sense, and no conclusion. An absolute waste of 83 minutes, and I've seen Old Dogs.