Episodes: 26
Aired Date: Jan 9, 2012 to Jun 25, 2012
Aquarion Evol is not just a plain mecha anime. Aquarion Evol is a mecha and an over-the-top cheesy romance anime. This series is a sequel of "Genesis of Aquarion" but you need not watch the first series to understand the plot since both were set on different eras.(about 12,000 years apart). When i first started watching it i expected a serious mecha (I haven't watched the original series) i had no idea it would be an exaggerated love story.
Every episode they would focus on love and romance, heck even the mecha's powers are triggered by love. Faith and destiny are also things that are consistently mentioned in this series. Characters are overly melodramatic, they always shout and their emotions are always exaggerated. The plot is about a young male named
Sora Amata. Sora Amata is a fanatic of a movie called "Skies of Aquaria" and always spends time alone in an old theater watching it. (There is a reason behind this fanaticism which i won't spoil).One day, after finishing the movie again and was about to clean the theater, he was taken by surprise when he saw that he wasn't alone. There he met a girl named Mikono Suzuhiro and it was Love at first sight!! Now Sora Amata has the special power to "fly" or levitate. Funny thing is he levitates whenever he gets excited or scared. To cut the story short, Abductors came and tried to abduct Mikono. The earth defenders who flying ships called "vectors" came and tried to defeat the Abductors but failed. Somehow, Sora with his levitation power, accidentally boarded an aquarion (with Mikono). Sora's vector, by pure chance, combined with two other vectors piloted by
Zessica Wong and
Cayenne Suzuhiro which then formed
Aquarion Evol, which then proceeded to beat the abductors. The two joined NEO-DEAVA an academy for teenagers with
Elemental Powers (Sora's Levitation is an Elemental Power). NEO-DEAVA's purpose is to defend the world from the abductors. Students of the academy are also the ones who pilots the vectors. Now the story revolves around love and the battle between the academy and the abductors.
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| Vectors X, Y and Z (Type-M and Type-F) |
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| Aquarion Espada |
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| Aquarion Gepard |
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| Aquarion Geparda |
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| Aquarion EVOL |
There are a ton of characters here, and i'm happy to say that most of them aren't flat or one dimensional, a bunch of eccentric ones. Each student has their own weird and unique elemental power, from Sora's Levitation, Cayenne's Prophecy to
Andy Hole's dig or hole creating power. The good stuff about aquarion is that nobody is left out, each had their own time to shine, each have their own romance problem, whether it was a love triangle ,unrequited love, forbidden love, love between abductor and earthling, and even destined love reborn through reincarnation. This makes the series entertaining to watch, watching the interaction between each characters.
ELEMENT USERS:
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| An Excited Amata Sora and his darling Mikono Suzuhiro and Shush (Mikono's pet cat) |
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| Andy W. Hole (hole maker) and Mix (Void filler), their relationship is one of may faves in this show. |
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| Sazanka Bianca (Yaoi fangirl), Cayenne Suzuhiro(Mikono's Onisan) and the mysterious Shrade Elan |
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| Yunoha Thrul - Yeah, she's somewhere in this picture, you just have to look harder, LoL. |
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| Maloy Direzza and Aika |
NEO-DEAVA:
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| Left-Right: Suomi Konepi, Mr. Principal (Commander), Donar Dantes |
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| Neo-Deava Supreme Commander Zen Fudou and Crea Dolosera |
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ALTAIR:
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| L-R: Alicia and Izumo Kamurogi |
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| Jin Muso |
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| The feathery Mykage Towano |
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| Kagura Demuri (she likes stinky women -> Mikono) |
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The Art is definitely good, the animation of the characters is consistently good and I love the colorful style. The 3D for the mecha is quite awesome too, it's colorful and vivid, and the way they presented those over-the-top fighting scenes and special moves are a thing of beauty, really an eye candy. The special attacks of the aquarion (born from the different trio combinations of element users) are fun to watch.
Now the plot is thick, not complex but a lot of things are going on, from the characters (tons of them) and even the enemies. The enemies aren't your one dimensional bad guys, there's a reason they're doing the abductions, and the show really did a good of job of showing the viewers the "other" side or the issues of the Alteans/Abuctors. (Abductors are some form of aliens from a planet called Altea "Altair" who comes to earth and abducts females). Now the acting may be cheesy and exaggerated but it never became annoying, it was quite entertaining to watch, it's like your typical heroes in RPG games who would be over melodramatic. The soundtrack is amazing too! just like the over dramatic lines the soundtracks are over the top and are one of the best that i have ever heard in an anime. Good vocals and a lot of beautiful instruments, not your typical anime pop or rock song. The sound effects works quite well with the grand visuals too. You can tell that Aquarion Evol isn't trying to be some serious mecha, but stands firmly with it's unique style, which was effective and was genuinely really entertaining. I seriously recommend this to anyone, except those not interested in love stories It has a lot of quality mecha battles to offer too and you'll never get bored with this one.
My Personal Rating: 9/10
☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☺
OP1: Kimi no Shiwa ~ Aquarion Dai Ni Shou - Akino
OP2: Paradoxical Zoo - Akino
ED1: Gekkou Symphonia - Akino & Aiki
ED2: Yunoha no Mori - Yui Ogora
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