| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Animation |
The genre is "Retro-Futurism", a new term I came across describing a sort of steampunk in the 20th century.
During the last decade of 20th century, a "G-Reaction" technology was invented and harnessed to be the primary power supply to almost every need, from providing electricity to cities, to powering land, sea and air transport, for both civilian as well as military use.
Mysteriously, several ground-breaking prototypes disappeared in a flash of rainbow coloured lights.
Two young science prodigies stumbled on a plot by strange aliens intending on world domination. When the aliens finally showed their hand, it was also revealed that the Earth government had secretly been taking counter-measures, creating a clandestine strike force to defend Earth.
But the few years of preparation was inadequate for Earth to resist the overwhelming numbers and advanced technology of the aliens.
Their only hope was for the prodigies to decipher the cryptic clues to the origins and true nature of these aliens.
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This anime was first released in 6 episodes in 2006.
The artists had great imagination in putting in "old" technology such as propellor blades on planes and trains, as well as rotary dials on telephones in the imagined year 2000.
Still, it would have been more logical though to set the show in the 1950s rather than year 2000.
There were a number of loose ends unaccounted by the end of the show - such as why the aliens chose to project an image of a human female to deliver cryptic messages to the Earthlings, or more specifically, to the two prodigies.
Still, the show did manage to get across the message of universal mankind, as well as consequences of mankind's hubris in pursuit and worshipping of technology.
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