Blue Gender - The Complete Collection
|
List Price: Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
(Click here)
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of Blue Gender - The Complete Collection
Movie Review: Just average
Summary: 3 Stars
This anime is nothing special. After watching great series like Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Panic, and Ghost in the Shell, this series cannot hold interest as well as those series could. I did watch the whole series, and while it's not awful, there are better animes to spend your money on.
The series is essentially mechs fighting against huge insectoids on an uninhabitable earth. The main character, as someone else said, is kind of annoying, and none of the characters are really memorable.
Movie Review: I agree with "Nameless"
Summary: 4 Stars
This series did have enough action but the main characters personality seemed extremely exaggerated in many respects. I'm not even going to touch the logic in the science. The last half of the episodes are much better than the first half, and I liked the ending. The quality of the animation is exaggerated but its still above par.Movie Review: An Anime Master Piece
Summary: 5 Stars
Yuji Kiedo was put placed into stasis to escape death from a rare newly discovered genetic disease. Expecting to sleep for only a few years enters stasis to await a cure. A cure that is never found. He his awoken a decades later to find the world he knew gone forever. In is sleep gigantic insect like creatures known as the blue appeared and have have driven Humanity to the edge of exstinction. Awaken into this nightmare by the few survivors to help take back planet and give humanity back its future. But first in order to save the future he'll have to survive.
Okay that came off more as a preview instead of the plot set up sorry. Any way time for the review. Blue Gender is without a doubt a master piece. The animation is amazingly smooth and clean for a nearly ten year old anime. The voice acting is also top notch, as his the haunting errie music. The character designs are lovely. The plot is complex and winding to the point that it makes it impossible to guess what is going to happen next. The Characters are also likeable and change quiet a bit thew out the series. But no mistake this is an adult anime, there are plenty of graphic violance, mild nudity, lots of sexual situations and grotec scenory. The series mantains a dark tone threw out the series with few jokes scattered about most of which are genually funny. The thing that most impressed me about Blue Gender that it's not really a mindless monster of the week that wants to destroy humanity for no reason. Everything has a scientificly plosible explaination. Nothing happens without a logic or emotional answer.
As for the flaws, I really can't think of any believe it or not. Perhaps the only flaw is how often the cast changes.
In the end if you have the money buy this series you won't find anything from any genre that surpasses it.
Movie Review: Did not live up to expectations
Summary: 3 Stars
I read a lot of good reviews for this series, so when I finally got around to watching this series, I fully expected to some first rate anime. After having watched all 8 discs, I was sorely disappointed.
First, the character of Yuji is REALLY annoying! He's got to be one of the worst anime protagonists I have ever seen. The director of this series clearly wants to play out the human side of Yuji. But give me a break, human nature is not just a bunch of sissiness in the fact of eminent danger, wanting to convert your enemy even when she has a gun pointed at your head and when she along with the other major villain has just killed THOUSANDS of your fellow soldiers. And so on and so on. I am really fed up with this guy.
Second, most of the animation is crudely drawn. But I really have problems with the animation for Yuji. In coming up with the image of Yuji, the animators seem can't make up their mind whether they want to portray Yuji as a female or male. So basically for half of the series Yuji ends up looking like both.
Third, the science behind this sci-fi series is crude at best. B-cells, for crying out loud are basic plasma cells. When you have an excess of B cells, you eventually end up with any one variant of the many types of B cell leukemia. It doesn't turn you or any other types of animals into human killing monsters. The story writers should hire some biology/medical consultants before they come up with these far fetched ideas.
Movie Review: Good but not the best
Summary: 4 Stars
I first viewed this show a year or so again on Adult Swim. Due to my unstable work schedule, I was unable to watch it regularly. I decided that I liked what I saw and would order it.
Each episode is part of a greater story. But they break down very nicely. I wont bother to explain what the story is like as others have done that very well. However I will say that this sets box is the best I have ever seen. It has no book or paperwork to loose. Instead it has many single sided DVDs each on a flip-book style box. The last Disk is a full length movie version of the series. It has no original footage and is a bit edited I think. As an extra I give it a zero. But with 4 shows each it is a good series for watching in the morning or at night when you might have to leave or worry about falling asleep.
Get this if you want something to watch with an actual plot. Don't get this unless you are willing to spend several hours watching to understand the plot. this is not light cartoon type anime.