The character and world designs are all very unique and memorable, infused with an injection of sharp detail, personality and visual originality that you don't see in many anime anymore. The environments are always painted in absolutely beautiful detail and color, and many shots are screencap worthy because of how genuinely pretty they are.
I can't even tell you how happy that scene made me, I felt like Amata.Īfter that, you get treated to what's easily the prettiest god damn show of the season, and maybe year, as Amata takes this big-boobed blue haired girl on a date through the rivers of neo-Venice. The theme song got popular, but that's about it." So yeah, the opening of this new foray into the orgasm-powered mecha genre is Shoji Kawamori brazenly declaring that he gives not a single fuck to the haters out there. This is followed by his boss coming out and telling him "Amata, no one likes that movie but you, really. I had no idea of what to expect from this series' new art direction and the effects of a near-decade hiatus, but ho-damn am I satisfied.Īquarion EVOL opens 12,000 years after the end of Aquarion, with the main character, Amata, watching his favorite decade-old movie that (poorly) depicts events of the prequel series' final episode. The melodramatic characters and their reactions to everything, the complete nonsense shouted by the leader that would lead to victory in every episode, the omnisexual, ten-way, cross-dimensional love story. It was stupid and weird in all the best ways, and to this day it's still a very different spin on the super robot genre. It took 4 months to finish, and was actually my first subbed anime. Hell, that OP was the sole reason I decided to blindly download the whole show on dial-up back on Christmas of '05.
Audience response was mostly apathetic, but people loved the theme song and the OST had some of Yoko Kanno's best work. It was a show thatĬouldn't take itself seriously even when it was trying to take itself seriously. It was an overly melodramatic, awkward, very episodic and somewhat girly mecha series where the robots were essentially powered by orgasms(You read that right) and it had to compete in an era where good mecha anime was still a thing. To my knowledge, not many people liked Genesis of Aquarion. It's been 12,000 quarter-days since the first series came out back in 2005 and now it's been reincarnated for the new era.
(Note: this review covers the whole series' content and has done so forever, but MAL stuck a little yellow tag on here that says "preliminary")Īquarion EVOL.
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