Status: Complete ( 50 episodes + movie)
Premise: Renton Thurston a boy living a boring life in boring town with his boring grandfather is rather shocked when a LFO (a mech) lands on-top of his house completely destroying it. The Nirvage mk.0 is a machine belonging to the renegade group known as Gecostate, after a pitched firefight were Renton saves the young woman piloting the Nirvage he is "abducted" by them and joins the crew of ne'er-do-wells and anarchists. This story is about the life of Renton Thurston, a boy who was board of his life until a young woman destroyed his house and taught him that there are some things worth living for.
(Side Note: The girls name is "E-eu-de-ca" spelled Eureka, the pronunciation stemming from the original pronunciation in Greek)
Thoughts: This was a wonderful anime that had huge overtones to it, many themes that really hit home and brought you into the story. I really enjoyed it and might actually RE-watch this one (I watched it several years ago and just found out I missed a few side plots). *Just re-watched it and it was twice as good as I remembered!
Prose: Animation, voicing, acting (yes I go as far as to call this one acting), music, plot, characters, action, world...... It was stupendous.
Cons: The beginning is a tad slow (episodes 3~15 depending on how you look at it) due to the fact that is almost entirely character/world building the thing is the main plot starts going off at that point and doesn't stop till the end. I guess...... well the "puppy love" aspect kind of got monotonous at times but that was again part of its charm, rely not so much a complaint here as a style choice.
-Notes: Fully dubbed, movie as well. Apparently the movie was actually featured in the Montreal Foreign Film Festival in 2009 (Missed it by THAT MUCH!). It is a rather large departure from the anime and attempts to show an alternate version of events that still use Renton and Erueka as the main characters but in a drastically revised plot in the same setting, basically they made a movie for the masses that have not previously seen the anime while still giving their followers something new. Vary enjoyable and funny when things you thought would happen actually are completely wrong in the alternate version. Watch the anime first THEN the movie as there are some references that are hidden for previous viewers
9.5/10 (Surf culture never looked so cool)
yo man I rlly love your blog. if u like Code Geass and Eureka 7 i totally recommend The Legend of the Galactic Heros. it's totally underground and it's never been brought over but it's one of my favourites. so deep man. it'd mean a lot if you could review that one for me. thx buddy.
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