Innocent Venus – 01
Title - Innocent Venus
No. Of Eps - 12
Genres - Adventure, Drama, Mecha, Military, Sci-fi
Plot Summary - In the year 2010 AD, Hyper Hurricanes were born concurrently all over the world causing massive damage and taking 5 billion lives. The world population now stands at 3 billion, countries have been frozen over, existing economies and militaries wiped-out, human civilization has entered a chaotic era. Poverty flourished outside the economic zones, slums are widespread. The ruling class have called themselves ‘Logos’ and have exiled and named the poor ‘Revenus’. Time has passed since all this first occurred. Katsuragi Jo and Tsurasawa Jin, escape from Phantom, a force organised to watch Revenus and to suppress renegade elements of the Logos, taking with them a mysterious girl, Noto Sana. There are many who are interested in her, all with their own reasons.
I have mixed feelings about this episode, the character designs are utterly gorgeous but the characters are a bit lacking in personality and background. The fight scenes and animation are great with the exception of the mecha. Did they really need to add mecha to this story? Its set only 3 years from now! I highly doubt there will be masses of giant robots in 3 years time, what makes the mecha bit even more unrealistic is the fact in Innocent Venus the Earth has just undergone a MASSIVE disaster, and yet people have still found the time and resources to invent these stupid beasts! I guess you could say I’m not a fan of mecha. That aside I did actually enjoy this ep, I really loved Gora, the unusual looking boy and the other characters were really nice too. The story is nothing new, loads of bad guys hunt cute little girl who was taken by super skilled bishonen blah blah blah but if you just lap up the dreamy artwork and don’t look too deep then you can easily enjoy this. Hopefully the rest of the series will improve?
Pros - Character design, action
Cons - Mecha, story
Episode Score - 8/10 (that’s being generous)
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