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Is Astral Ocean a Worthy Sequel to Eureka Seven? (Short Answer: Yes. Long Answer: No.)

(Caution: Contains some Eureka Seven spoilers and very mild Astral Ocean spoilers. I’ll just assume the target audience for this is people who watched E7 and are curious about AO.)

 

This might be a weird statement to see on OR, but I never considered myself a huge mecha fan (meaning a huge fan of mecha, not a fan of huge mecha… Never mind). I mean, it’s not that I don’t like the mecha genre, it was just never on the list of things I would actively seek out and I am woefully uneducated in the field (I know more about Gungrave than I do about Gundam). Consequently, I didn’t really have any expectations coming into Eureka Seven – a show that now ranks very high on my must watch list. I’m sure you already know all the superlatives – the mecha, the animation and design, the world, the characters, pacing, story – it all works extremely well, and it certainly left room for a sequel. So imagine my horror when I discovered that they decided to change everything for Astral Ocean. All of a sudden it’s 2050. All of a sudden we are just on good old near-future Earth with Americans and Japanese and… No Eureka or Renton. What the fuck? read more

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Five Episodes In – Eureka Seven AO

Eureka Seven AO (also known as Eureka Seven Astral Ocean) is a sequel to the popular series Eureka Seven. Produced by Bones, AO is directed by Tomoki Kyoda (RahXephon, Eureka Seven) and features music by Kōji Nakamura (Supercar). AO tells the story of Ao Fukai, Eureka’s son, who joins Generation Bleu, a private company employed by nations to prevent occurrences known as Scub Bursts.

Eureka Seven is easily one of my favorite anime series of all time. Fantastic animation, fantastic music, fantastic direction, and strong va performances. Some folks may complain about annoying characters or the slow pacing of the show at times but that was an integral aspect of what made the show so great, the character development. Nearly every major character acted with some level of dispicableness and immaturity at but slowly developed and grew. Coming of age tales are a dime a dozen these days but few have done such a remarkable job as with Eureka Seven. read more

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Otaku Revolution’s Top 15 Anime Soundtracks: 15-11


Introduction | 15-11 | 10-6 | 5-2 | 1 | Honorable Mentions

#15 – The Big O (Tosihiko Sahashi)

Okay, so it’s first theme song is ripped from Queen’s Flash Gordon theme song and the second season’s theme music is the dark match version of the theme from Gerry Anderson’s UFO. Call those “homages”, damn it. It’s obvious that The Big O borrows from various sources, not the least of which being Batman: The Animated Series (which Sunrise animated some of). But let that be a testament to the variety you’ll find both in the show and its soundtrack. Want sultry, sexy sax? Want suspensful movie serial music invoking shades of Bernard Hermann? What about a track that’s an obvious rearrangement of “La Merseillaise”? And this hodgepodge doesn’t feel anything at all like a hodgepodge, with its judicious use throughout the 26 episode run of the program (which would have been longer if Mike Lazzo didn’t have a hard on for two particularly unfunny “comedians”). The show’s soundtrack might not give you what the title of the show promises, but you’ll be satisfied nonetheless. read more

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