If there’s one type of anime I hate, it’s mecha-anime. So why the hell am I reviewing this? Because it’s absolutely freakign awesome. SO awesome it restored my faith in the entire mecha-anime genre.
Being made by Gainax, the guys behind FLCL and Neon Genesis Evangelion, I already knew, despite my lack of mecha-anime knowledge, that it would be decent. The music score is absolutely epic, while not being one of my favourites, I still love the opening to bits due to the brilliant opening video.
After that, the first episode opens with a guy on a massive spachship that’s being attacked, without knowing who this is, we see him boast and shout about the strength of them, then finally, the scene ends with one of the most awesome zoom outs ever, zooming across miles of metal onto the massive face of a huge robot.
Continuing from there, we see Simon, a kid who’s job it is to dig, and dig, to make his underground village bigger, and bigger. He doesn’t dig for any special reason other than that he’s told to. When he stumbles upon a little treasure, he stops digging, and walks off, running into his ‘bro’, Camena. Camena tells Simon that they’ll now be trying to dig there way to thew surface, something that Camena said he’s seen when he was younger, but the Mayor keeps saying it doesn’t exist.
After a failed attempt, Camena is sent to jail, but, when during one of SImons late night digs, he comes across a huge metal face, he breaks Camena out. During the break out, they’re caught, and while the mayor is lecturing them, a huge crack appears in the cieling of the village. When a HUGE robot comes down, breaking apart the ceiling showing a beautiful sky, they’re all stunned. When it starts rampaging, it’s followed by a woman with a massive gun, who Camena starts flirting with.
When Simon finally gets Camena and the girl to the big face he found earlier, she tells them it’s the same as the big thing attacking them, though, Camena says it’s probably a god one. With it, they manag to defeat the massive robot, and finally shoot off onto the surface.
Seriously. I hated mecha-anime with a vengeance, but this has COMPLETELY restored my faith. I really can’t wai to see more. The only thing I don’t like is the ending theme, to be completely honest, and with this episodes ending, I really wanna know what happens next.
