Xenosaga, Volume 1 - Denkyu: Anime Webzine
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"The animation is wonderful"
"Every voice was perfect, especially Kos-Mos'."
"Xenosaga is the right anime to introduce to any of your friends who are hesitant or not sure if they'd like anime and have a love for Sci-Fi."
More than 4000 years after abandoning Earth, humanity finds themselves between a rock and a hard place. A fleet of spaceships find themselves under attack by one of the greatest threats to humanity, the Gnosis. Aboard one of the ships is an object that they desperately want, a monolith with unknown powers.
The attack upon the ship Woglinde awakens humanities last hope to fight against these creatures from another dimension when the creator of the weapon is nearly killed by a Gnosis. Kos-Mos, a powerful android weapon, awakens and breaks free from the safety restraints that held her. She quickly finds her creator Uzuki to save her from imminent death.
After the fight is over and the Gnosis are gone, Kos-Mos confiscates a ship in the area so that she may now fulfill orders that Uzuki didn’t give her. Now past the rock, the group faces the hard place.
Aboard the ship is a very important android named M.O.M.O., a prototype that had been kidnapped because of a secret it holds. Not one, but two ships now pursue them, trying to get their hands on her. To make matters worse, upon leaving the gate they were traveling on, they wind up right in front of a fleet of more than 3000 Gnosis.
Not having played the video game, I didn’t know what to expect. From fans I have heard mixed thoughts about it. Some loved it while others thought the story in the video game was better. There’s so much story that it’s hard to imagine them cramming it all into twelve episodes. From what I’ve seen so far, I liked it, a lot
To start off, the soundtrack was very well laid out. The opening theme fit so perfectly with the opening sequence. It gave you a taste of what to expect. The ending theme on the other hand was slow and sorrowful. I didn’t care for it at all.
The animation was wonderful. Clean lines and vibrant colors were used, giving us some wonderful scenes. The eyes of some of the characters seemed to be so full of life. My eyes were drawn to the TV screen, not wanting to miss one second.
One of my quirks with dubbed anime is a lot of times the voices just don’t fit the characters. But it isn’t so with Xenosaga. Every voice was perfect, especially Kos-Mos’. The voice actor did a superb job. Even though the character was an android like the 100 series units, there was a robotic like quality in her voice that set her apart, other than being a weapon of mass destruction. At the same time it was feminine and soft to match the look of the character.
Xenosaga
is the right anime to introduce to any of your friends who are hesitant or not sure if they’d like anime and have a love for Sci-Fi. It’s an anime that I will be definitely showing to a friend of mine from high school who is a huge Sci-Fi fan and has just developed a curiosity about anime after finding me on MySpace and getting reacquainted.
Licenser:
ADV
Company: Toei Animation
Length: 100mins
Retail: $29.98 (U.S.)
Availability: 09.11.07
Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 (Archive on Sunday, October 14, 2007)