Reviews for Sousei no Aquarion (6.72) 4j2e2f

This looked good in the beginning, but it has developed in a bad direction.

Instead of cleaning up the story mess, Sosei no Aquarion has become entirely random. The characters developed to nowhere, they just showed increasing amounts of weird traits. Even though animation and sound are still top, I can't rate this good.


Animation is REALLY good. It only lacks the style Macross Zero or Gundam SEED Destiny has concerning 3D models // realistic acceleration and movement. That's the only flaw there is. Most of the combat animation is obviousely computer graphics, but they managed to fit this well into the anime-image style. Thus, fluid animation with nice colors and lighting make Aquarion pleasent to look at.

Great opening/ending and bg music. I've listened to it quite often and still don't get bored ... good sound effects and decent voices.


STORY - or: What the heck?

From the beginning, the storyline is already built up in a way that will typically not become completely logic and "solved", as it is rather a mixture of other anime than a logical pattern.

As the show 'developed', my fears have not just proven right. I'd summarize the story in one word as bullshit.

There is no decent explanation for Aquarion, nor for some hyper fast running dude who seems to be perfect suited for everything but does almost nothing. Things are disappearing and appearing without any pattern, the enemies behave in no logical way, etc...

Still, the anime keeps inventing new random chaos all the time! People have to sleep to fight, a mecha (aka Aquarion) teleports into their minds (WHAT?!) and lots of funny abilities appear... like their mech suddenly growing giant arms (I'm talking about kilometres here) or some soul-jumping, psycho-powers and so on. There is absolutely NO WAY that all this can be connected in a logical way. It is obviousely just a bunch of different (incompatible) elements thrown together. The rest of the story - such as relationships - are too flat to save the series.


The characters are just cheap. They're so predictable, it becomes boring. They don't change much either... "Apollo" is named after the greek god of the sun and archery, but this reference was only used for Aquarions attacks - his actual character is rather the 'generic anime hero'. Having a childish outsider prodigy as the main character seems to be "in" ever since Naruto and Bleach were so successful, the you-are-stupid-but-after-a-while-i-will-fall-in-love-with-you-generic-hero-girlfriend is present too. Still, the characters aren't completely worthless: many different types of people are represented by (side) characters, and them confronting each other is sometimes quite entertaining.


Aquarion is too childish and not deep enough to improve a collection or things like that. This just doesn't really say much, it's 'easy' entertainment with a horrible storyline.

(Content taken from my former review on AnimeNfo)