Name: Suisei no Garantia 翠星のガルガンティア Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
Sequel: Suisei no Garantia Specials, Suisei no Garantia: Meguru Kuro, Haruka
Status: Completed
Episode: 13
Release Date (for eng subs): -
Summary:
The story begins in the distant future in the far reaches of the galaxy. The Human Galactic Alliance has been constantly fighting for its survival against a grotesque race of beings called "Hidiaazu." During an intense battle, the young lieutenant Ledo and his humanoid mobile weapon Chamber are swallowed up into a distortion of time and space. Waking from his artificially induced hibernation, Ledo realizes that he has arrived on Earth, the planet on the lost frontier. On this planet that was completely flooded by the seas, people live in fleets of giant ships, salvaging relics from the seas' depths in order to survive. Ledo arrives on one of the fleets called Gargantia. With no knowledge of the planet's history or culture, he is forced to live alongside Amy, a 15-year-old girl who serves as a messenger aboard the Gargantia fleet. To Ledo, who has lived a life where he knows nothing but fighting, these days of peace continue to surprise him.
Summary Source: ANN
Summary from: http://myanimelist.net/anime/16524/Suisei_no_Gargantia
Personal Ratings: 2.5
Mecha gundam type, but it's not really the typical mecha animes out there.
Overall, there were many interesting plot twists on the characters as to which group was bad and which group is good. For people whom you may think be good, somehow turns bad. There are also parts where those bad people unexpectedly do good stuff. So in the end it's really quite unexpected as to who is good who is bad. I think this type anime where by the good and bad people aren't really drawn using a clear line, makes the anime a little more unexpected and less predictable.
However, I did feel that their too specific and structured with their character developments (many stories, inclusive of Dramas and Mangas have this problem). For example, because they were going to show the fleet comander dying, they suddenly started showing us the scenes where he wasn't in good health. So it's really predictable that something would happen to him in the episode itself. I think that spreading out the character developments throughout the front part would have been better, because it makes the viewers feel more affection and curiosity of the character, before the real incident happening.
Now, going into the more specific parts of the animes; starting from the front.
The anime started out with a fighting scene. Honestly, I didn't really like their choice of weapon; laser beams. I'm going to talk about this under the arts section because it concerns more of the design than anything else.
For the difference in language between the two groups of people, I didn't really like how they kept switching who was the one talking in Japanese. Usually they decide which side is the one talking in Japanese and stick with it whenever the two groups are talking to each other. But I guess to a certain extent, since both sides talk in a great extend, and honestly hearing a foreign language would feel weird and may get pretty annoying after awhile, this may be the right call.
It was quite funny to see how Ledo reacts to things which are normal to us, like eating fishes and birds. Though i think it would have been better if earth was still earth, without much change from the one we are staying in right now, it would have given us at least one side to relate to. But than, they needed a reason for humans to be living in outer space. Though that point wasn't really made clear in the beginning, so it was a little confusing when he first landed on earth.
Thought that they should have gave us at least half an episode worth of life in outer space. Or, when they actually tell us the differences between earth and outer space via words, They should have illustrate to us how is it like in outer space, and give us a little overview of how it really is it really like in outer space. Because the whole time, there was close to no scenes of life in outer space, so I can't really picture the whole thing out.
Also, for the thing about Ledo's brother, they kind of made it such a big thing in the beginning where Ledo was crying and stuff like that, but there wasn't really anything much going on there. I was really anticipating something interesting and plot changing to happen, but nothing happened.
For the later parts, where Ledo actually tries to use their language, I think it should have sounded like a more foreign sounding Japanese instead of a robot-ish Japanese.
As for the two extra OVA episodes which were released after the completion of the whole anime, I thought that the episodes regarding the commander should have been told during the time Ledo and the commander were fighting but before he found out that he was already dead. Giving us the background of the whole story regarding the commander, would have probably not leave that kind of "what happened here: kind of feeling while watching that part.
Also, I thought that since the OVAs were released after the completion of the anime, I thought that they should have made a little sequel on Ledo and this current life.
Overall, not too bad an anime, but nothing that left an impression on me.
Art Ratings: 3.5
Quite nice art, but I didn't really like the overall design of the clothes and mecha.
I'm not sure if it's because of the way they designed the mecha, but having many laser beams shoot out at ones, somehow just didn't really seem that appealing, and in this anime it actually looked kind of lame. I know that they wanted to keep the whole future theme in check by using lasers instead of the traditional bullets and explosives, but it just didn't looked as cool as it should. I know other animes like gundam seed do have parts where their gundams actually shoots out many laser beams, but somehow they look really cool. I'm guessing that it's because of the variation of the sizes of the beams which makes it look a lot cooler.
I'm not sure if it's because of the way they designed the mecha, but having many laser beams shoot out at ones, somehow just didn't really seem that appealing, and in this anime it actually looked kind of lame. I know that they wanted to keep the whole future theme in check by using lasers instead of the traditional bullets and explosives, but it just didn't looked as cool as it should. I know other animes like gundam seed do have parts where their gundams actually shoots out many laser beams, but somehow they look really cool. I'm guessing that it's because of the variation of the sizes of the beams which makes it look a lot cooler.
Recommended for:
Gender: Both
Age: 13 and above
My Ratings: PG-13
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