Heroic Age

Here are two previews I uploaded to sendspace:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2viabj
http://www.sendspace.com/file/adtx92

Series is from the same character designer and animator from Fafner and Gundam SEED.

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Answering the call of the “Gold Race”, all the sentient races launch into space. The human race is the last to launch, and are thus known as the “Iron Race”.

Much time has passed since then, and humanity is threatened with extinction at the hands of the more dominant “Silver Race”.

In order to save her people, Queen Deianeira sets out on a journey to a galaxy far away, following the prophecies of the Gold Race handed down by the royal family. Then, she meets a boy named Eiji. Their encounter will change the fate of the universe...

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http://www.xebec-inc.co.jp/anime/heroicage/
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.p...anime&aid=5025

Heroic Age first episode by Bruised-Ichigo:
http://soulfang.net/ha01.torrent

I'm not watching this release, since I noticed that it was translated by SoulFang, and I don't trust him... Check it out if you want, it should be a nice series to watch, but I will wait for someone better to do it.

I watched episode 01, it was very good acutally so I recomend ya'll to watch it ;) if ur interested in this show!!!

I liked the first episode too...the mecha's and animation are both pretty good.

Watched it and it was good.
Though something is really starteing to annoy me as hell:

The women-chauvinism.
Be it Heroic Ages, or Claymore, or other series...what´s with this crappy pro-female attittude?
In Heroic Ages, only women are allowd to approach the queen...the men are stupid mecha-pilots.
In Claymore, only women can become cool soldiers.

From men´s oppresion towards women´s oppresion, yeeha...
No really, the whole 1st episode of Heroic Ages i though "Fuck those bitches...fuk the girl that forbids the one guy to approach the queen...fuck the queen not allowing the guy approach her...fuck the 2 psychic girls with her cool psychic powers...

What's wrong with having strong female characters or female protagonists in Anime, a role that more often then not is dominated by males...... Personally, I find it a refreshing every now and then to see females portrayed as the heroic characters.........

As for the issue of not being allowed to approach royalty. Under a monachal system I'd rather think it makes sense to not allow just anyone into the presence of royalty be they female or male, I'd imagine it's rather a class issue (Against) or trust issue rather then any sexual bias. Furthermore your post seems to indicate a rather alarming level of hostility towards any female figure in a position of power and as such you may wish to question "why" this upsets you........

Cheers,
Vash72

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Originally Posted by Vash72

Personally, I find it a refreshing every now and then to see females portrayed as the heroic characters.........

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"Every now and then" would be okay...

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As for the issue of not being allowed to approach royalty. Under a monachal system I'd rather think it makes sense to not allow just anyone into the presence of royalty be they female or male, I'd imagine it's rather a class issue (Against) or trust issue rather then any sexual bias.

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But they clearly said "only women are allowod to go there"

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Furthermore your post seems to indicate a rather alarming level of hostility towards any female figure in a position of power and as such you may wish to question "why" this upsets you........

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Well, seems that i chose to many similiar animes, but the sheer amount of "strong" women annoys me. As you say "every now and then" would be okay. But to me it seems as if so many anime-series feature strong women and rather stupid men. Gets boring...and annoying.

Women are the more capable sex. At most times, they're more level-headed, keep their cool easier, don't have raging desires as much, can stand giving childbirth (ouch) and besides women are just so much more damn sexier than men are.

Anyways, about the episode. I haven't watched it yet, but I read the description, and am currently downloading it, but it seems that the queens hostility towards men or probably the main character in this case will dissipate further along in the series.

Well MFauli, I suppose we'll just have to choose to disagree ;) ........ Maybe we watch different genres of anime in general and therefore naturally have different views on the matter. Personally, I haven’t seen an over-abundance of male leads being portrayed as stupider than female ones........

Anyways, back to the Heroic Age, nice fluid animation and a plot with potential, will be interested to see where the writers go with it……..

Cheers,
Vash72

Nice animation, nice mechs, nice shounen hero power up (assuming that giant mech/monster/Witsuarunemitea) was the kid. I'll definately stay with this one to see where the plot goes.

@MFauli strong female charachters aren't new and I don't really think they are taking over anime, though there do seem to have been a lot more strong female types in recent times, as opposed to marshmellowy mahou shoujo's. I don't really mind personally because it's not as much about sex as it is about gender. A person who acts like a pansy and cries all the time is 'girly' but a girl who wields a giant sword and gets rough and rowdy in fights is 'manly' It doesn't matter as much what's between their legs as what's between their ears.

However this princess doesn't strike me as a strong female, more like a pampered and sheltered one, she probably can't be approached b/c she's 'so special and pure' or something, which would be a bit lame, but amybe she would lose her cool powers ifa man got to close, like in Mai-Otome.

Well, I definately liked this one ^^

Judging from the description I was skeptical. But I just watched it, and I must say it's quite amazing. Thrilling, and interesting. The Nodos or the mech looks like an Evangelion in a way, quite fucking badass.

Sounds really interesting. Like Bud, I'm also waiting for a more reputable group to sub it.

Rarghhh, raws for Episode 2 of Heroic Age and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan are out, and I'm seething for the subbed versions. Rarrrgh. More people need to pick these two series up, among many others. This season is packed with good series.

Well, I've had a good morning today, a new Naruto and Claymore and two new series RomeoxJuliet and Bokurano. To me, they are all medium-highquality new series and with Heroic Age added to that, it seems It will be a good season :)

Hoping to see it soon ^^

I saw this... and all I can think was Star Craft and Utawarerumono...
I'll have to see a couple more episodes to see where this goes.

Yeah, I watched this before, has some potential see how it goes.

Heroic Age Episode 2 - YourMom


Have heard bad things about YourMom, but it's tolerable, and I did watch their Code Geass releases. Will give opinions when I've watched it.


Edit: Hrm, no karaoke but a decent OP and song. Good episode interesting, and nice action.I found it odd that they translated his name into Age when I'm pretty sure I heard Eiji or some such. Answered a couple questions like, a man of unpure heart I guess, will cause the princess to faint and lose her senses. The summoning and the formation of the Nodos looks like a Guyver's Bio-boost,

ugh... Your-Mom...

I get super pissed when there's a show I watch, and these guys go in and speedsub it, leading me to avoid the thread until a decent group shows up. It fucks the discussion to hell and also personally peeves me.

But to choose between SoulFang translation or Your-Mom... maybe I'm being too picky when choosing between crap and shit...

I'm glad YourMom picked it up, episode 2 aired on the 9th, and today's the 15th. And no other sub in sight. I only need the subs for a general idea. Bruised Ichigo isn't that bad. Besides SoulFang, there's another translator in the group with him so it's not that bad I guess.

good Second episode, although I do think the storyline revolves around one person too much currently. Too soon to say though.

Heroic Age - Episode 2 - Bruised Ichigo

I simply don't like when fansub groups cut right in, doing only the most recent episode and essentially trying to "steal" viewers away from the group that has worked on the show from the start. Sure, BI only did one more episode than Your-Mom, but I don't like the idea that Your-Mom whimsically picks up shows in the middle of their run and counts on other groups having done the work for the previous episodes.

/rant

edit to below- i just think it's a dick thing to do. just my two cents

I think it's good. They're giving a speed-sub option, meaning speed over quality. I think it's fine that they're cutting in when stuff takes long to get released. Like Code Geass, there was a long period where no episodes were released, and it was YourMom that qualmed our desires for CG. However, they've only subbed 3 series in that was started by another group, Heroic Age, Code Geass and Sumomo momomo. Sumomo only had episodes 1-17, and they just subbed the last 2 episodes (21 and 22). You can say the same about other groups cutting in to other series, like One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, etc. Do you really expect ADC-Elites, Gerusama, Vegapunk, Dattebayo, etc. to start from episode 1?

I think this is one of those age old debates that will never get settled, The way I see it what speedsubbers like Your-Mom do is provide something people really want at an arguably lower quality level but faster.

The only way I can see a problem with that is if one thinks there's some type of 'code' to fansubbing where certain rules have to be followed without needing reasonable explanations. 'Thou shalt sub only entire series' would fit this category. No one's experience is directly hurt by the availability of certain episodes earlier than the 'main' groups release. If you choose to download it and it's not to your liking then you will know not to download from them again, and it's your own fault for trying something different.

Second episode was interesting, those 12 tasks seemed pretty mean though ...Humanity take over the universe or be destroyed. And if you think about it, they basically just say save yourselves, no here's what you'll have to do...beat everyone else and become godlike.

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Heroic Age Episode 2 - YourMom


Have heard bad things about YourMom, but it's tolerable, and I did watch their Code Geass releases. Will give opinions when I've watched it.


Edit: Hrm, no karaoke but a decent OP and song. Good episode interesting, and nice action.I found it odd that they translated his name into Age when I'm pretty sure I heard Eiji or some such. Answered a couple questions like, a man of unpure heart I guess, will cause the princess to faint and lose her senses. The summoning and the formation of the Nodos looks like a Guyver's Bio-boost,

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I think he litterally spells AGE three times though ^^

He doesn't literally spell it, if you listen to him he says the pronunciation like A-e-gee. Maybe it's the japanese engrish problem and his name is supposed to be Age afterall, but with the pronunciation they made we may never know unless we look up the official name from them.

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Originally Posted by animus

He doesn't literally spell it, if you listen to him he says the pronunciation like A-e-gee. Maybe it's the japanese engrish problem and his name is supposed to be Age afterall, but with the pronunciation they made we may never know unless we look up the official name from them.

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Well ye, but as you yourself said, with the Japanese way of pronouncing English words, most of them lose half of it stretching their tongue, or add more to it while trying.

And you don't think Heroic Age is to address an "age" right ? I first thought the same, maybe concerning a time-frame. But after seeing the two episodes it seems pretty evident its basically only about Age = person. He on himself is a Tribe. For some weird reason.

Heroic Age Episode 3 by YourMom


Edit: Ok, just watched the episode. Yea his name is Age as concluded by the sign that said "Age's Room". The episode was good, we got to see more of Age's childish and playful nature, and someone from the Silver Tribe. Also, don't forget to watch the introduction at the beginning. I thought it would just repeat information but it had info that wasn't revealed by the episodes.

Heroic Age - 03 by [Sphere] AKA Soulfang and some random editor

So does this episode continue to support the complete genocide of other species and taking over their worlds?

Hell yeah! But it's okay, since every race seems to want to destroy all the other races, so it's kill or be killed.

Heroic Age - 04 [Your-Mom]

sweet thanks :) Dling

Wow Sphere subs sure are taking their time O_o

Episode 5 h264 - YourMom
Episode 5 XviD - YourMom


Edit: Warning to those of you planning to download the h264 version, there seems to be a problem atleast with mine, right near the end of the intro or so around 2:23 it'll get buggy and skip all the way to 5:5x or so. This was with MPC, and with VLC it just crashed, so just a heads up. Might only be me. Might want to download the XviD just in case, which I'm doing now since I don't like missing and skipping shit.

Episode 5 h264 v2 - YourMom

Hopefully they fixed their script a bit as well, but I doubt it.

Episode 6 XviD - YourMom
Episode 6 h264 - YourMom

Episode 7 XviD -YourMom
Episode 7 h264 - YourMom

I thought the beginning was kick-ass, but I'm slowly losing my interest in this series. Not sure what causes it..

Could it be because all Deianeira ever seems to do is project herself into space and say "Age..." in her synthesizer voice? I do like her despite her never seeming to do anything, as well as her red-headed handmaiden Aneesha.

Deianeira's apparent worthlessness aside, the Silver Tribe really pisses me off. They're the type of villain you know won't die til the very last episode, and won't actually fight until the second to last. They just send the Bronze Tribe nests to do all their dirty work, and the one of their kind with a Heroic Tribe inside just bosses the other 3 around. They never do any of their own dirty work, and just teleport out any time that little ship of theirs following the Argonaut might be threatened by Age. fucking cowards. Definitely the archetype of villains that piss me off the most. They act all superior and high and mighty without ever exerting themselves.

I really dislike how they make the Bronze Tribe nests to be such huge fodder. Every episode atleast 5 go kablam, and all of them in under a second of attack. So far we've only seen Bellcross having 2 distinct moves I guess? One is that punch where a shockwave of sorts obliterates stuff, and second is where you see his orbs glow and he draws in energy from the Bronze Tribe insects and fires a huge ass beam from his mouth. Karukinus's Nodos has all that melty poison gas stuff. Anyways yeah, the episodes have been pretty much the same until recently. Age gets in? morphs into? Bellcross he then destroys nests like nothing. If that second Nodos decided to run in and bust up the ship without charging his beam, yeah they would've won...

I actually feel sorry for the other small bald guy. He really doesn't want to fight but is forced to. And does anyone realise that the hair of the silver chick is longer then it could possible become considering her size?

Well, they are a different space-faring species. The only other female member of the silver tribe we've seen also has rediculously long hair (a full view of it in the OP).

Aaaand episode 8 out by Your-Mom

Your-Mom Heroic Age 08 XviD

Pretty decent episode, finally quite a bit of progression.

Not enough though. I'm starting to get real tired of the humans constantly losing, or at least only achieving stalemates with the Silver Tribe. The Silver Tribe orders everyone around, then flees at the first sign of a threat to them. Even in this episode, Age and Bellcross aren't making much progress, and the Silver Tribe only attacked when they thought no one could fight back.

Thankfully, the Silver Tribe Nodos bitch is starting to see that Bellcross will win, and Deianeira single-handedly mind-raped (C.C. style) that Silver Tribe asshole. Guess she was a much more powerful psychic than we thought (even if it made her go unconscious). She also singlehandedly saved this episode for me.

I liked this ep, the humans managed to tie up a Nodos, that was an impressive achievement I think. But on the other hand Heroic Tribesmen can be defeated, considering there were only 5 left when the Golden Tribe decided to stop them from running rampant throughout the galaxy.

Commander Big Boobs did a pretty good job, though I'm not pleased that she thought so little of her fleet. Why would she think that they'd all run like scared rabbits at the first sign of defeat?

The Age/Karukinas fight is dragging along, but I guess it's nessecary, though the way it was portrayed made it look like just an after thought that wasn't important, since all the drama was back with the Argonaut and Commander Big Boobs. Props to Deianeira for the mind fuck, I'm leaning toward her having a little Silver or Gold Tribe in her background somehow.

I don't think she thought they would all run, she was just giving them the option to live since she knew it was a suicide mission.

i started watching this show when it first came out, but set it aside in the hopes that a more reputable group than Your-Mom would pick it up... I know new groups named Sphere and Bruised Ichigo (the one I watched) subbed the first three episodes, but is Your-Mom the only current option?

I'd really like to resume watching this series... should i just suck it up and take Your-Mom?

They're not that bad, and if you've been watching japanese audio for awhile, which I know you have, you should probably have a good idea of what a lot of general words mean. They do put in smiley faces at the top once in awhile, but they're not that bad I guess. It's a shame though, they're the only one working on such a sleeper hit (imo).

I actually think the "<3" they put when Deianeira says "Aaage...." once every 5 minutes is pretty funny. Considering how often she says it, they only have to do it every 5th time. (j/k they only do it once or twice an eps at most.)

@masamuneehs:
If you suffered through the Bruised-Ichigo versions, you're going to wish that Your-Mom had done the first eps too. They do a good job.

Yea, I do think they're funny, they also had an instance where they were doing quick cuts of the Silver Tribe Nodos mugshots and having a different smiley for each. Did B-I really do a bad job? Didn't really notice, or maybe I just can't remember since it was quite awhile ago. Do they even do any other works, how come they dropped Heroic Age anyways?

B-I = Sphere

They just changed the name due to some dispute they had with Your-Mom over some trivial matter.

Ah, good to know. Both names are pretty terrible imo.

I've given up on Heroic Age , dropped and deleted all files and pikked up kekkaishi ..have yet to regret it after 14 episodes. In fact, I sometimes laugh my ass off and generally really enjoy it.

Eh, kinda quick to jump the gun. Sure, it's a bit slow, but it's a pretty good action series to follow. Even more so, if you have free time to just sit down and watch something that has guaranteed Bronze Tribe Nest busting each episode.

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I've given up on Heroic Age , dropped and deleted all files and pikked up kekkaishi ..have yet to regret it after 14 episodes. In fact, I sometimes laugh my ass off and generally really enjoy it.

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I actually did the opposite

i'm still far away from catching up in this series, but...

Your-Mom _ Heroic Age _ Episode 09

Nice episode, the Age and Karukinus battle finally comes to a conclusion and we get to see Deaneira quite crestfallen at the sight of Age. Love is in the air.

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I actually did the opposite

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Thats great for you, exchange purepwnage for lackofanything :)

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Thats great for you, exchange purepwnage for lackofanything :)

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As you said you gave up on the series...so how might you know everything that's happened since then amounts to 'lackofanything'? I watch both this and Kekkaishi, and while Kekkaishi is awesome it's had more pointless episodes than Heroic Age, (I'm not taking into account that Kekkaishi has run longer if you want a reason to dispute).

I think Kekkaishi spent atleast 3 episodes on Cake alone.

So did Karukinus actually die? it was hard to tell since it seemed like the arm that Age almost ripped off started to heal itself. And I really don't understand the whole contract aspect of the show. Just because it was written the other 3 races are basicially slaves to 1.

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As you said you gave up on the series...so how might you know everything that's happened since then amounts to 'lackofanything'? I watch both this and Kekkaishi, and while Kekkaishi is awesome it's had more pointless episodes than Heroic Age, (I'm not taking into account that Kekkaishi has run longer if you want a reason to dispute).

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I gave up 1 episode before the last, I doubt alot changes during just 1 or 2 new episodes ;)

And cake, is..soooooo ftw

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So did Karukinus actually die? it was hard to tell since it seemed like the arm that Age almost ripped off started to heal itself. And I really don't understand the whole contract aspect of the show. Just because it was written the other 3 races are basicially slaves to 1.

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Yea, I was unsure too. I thought he died, because Age seemed to have delivered a death blow, and back at the Silver Tribe base or whatever, the Silver Tribe Nodos girl looked like on the verge of tears, and stuff. Though, if he's dead, he shouldn't have regenerated. Did he regenerate by himself, or did he get healed? >_>

He might have died and then his body reverted back to its natural state as the Heroic spirit part faded away.

I'm also pretty confused about this contract thing. Did each race recieve similar mandates to rise to the level of the Golden Tribe or perish under another? Also, they said earlier that the 5 Heroes were spread amoung the other races, but as far as we know that should only include Silver, Bronze, and Iron. Assuming the other four were the four gathered under that tree at least one of them should have been a bronze tribe, and thus a bug. I wonder how they made that one humanoid.

Age and the Silver Tribe girl (Yuti?) are the only ones who the same race as the ones they serve. The Golden Tribe told all the races to "move" and only 4 responded. The Heroic Tribe fought amongst themselves, and destroyed a lot, leaving only 5 survivors. The Golden Tribe decreed that they would be put into hosts in the other Tribes of the galaxy, and would serve under contract until one of them dominated the universe and succeeded the Golden Tribe. Penance for the destruction they wrought.

The Silver Tribe was the strongest of the remaining three (seeing just one of them can be a threat to a battleship) and quickly brought the Bronze Tribe under their yoke, and then the rest of the Tribes that didn't "move." This is how they gained control of the other 3 Nodos. Open threats (like Yuti always gives to Mehitaka) kept them all in line. The Iron Tribe lost their homeworld to the Silver Tribe in an invasion led by the Bronze Tribe and have been hunted by them ever since.

The Golden Tribe gave the strongest of the Heroic Tribe to the weakest of the Tribes, the Iron. All of the Nodos are bound under contract to protect and aid the Tribe they are bound to until only one of the three major Tribes dominates the galaxy. Then that winning Tribe must grant the Nodos a wish. The Silver Tribe pressured the others to work for them.

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I imagine Yuti is the second strongest of all the Nodos (Bellcross being #1), but for some reason, the leader of the Silver Tribe, or at least her superior, will not let her leave whatever planet they are on.

Episode 10 XviD - YourMom
Episode 10 h264 - YourMom

I didn't expect the other nobles to be so stupid, but I probably should have. Her one idiot brother only wants to use Age to increase his own prestige and become King of mankind, while her other idiot brother believes that Age can be fought alongside of, to increase his own prestige. Disgusting. At least Iolaus felt bad about being unable to help Age. I definitely enjoyed how Age refused to go to the party even if Deianeira went.

Even more interesting was Yuti's reaction to Karkinus. She's overcoming the racism of her own Tribe to worry about her own comrades. It's understandable being a reject from her own race, unable to be with them as a Nodos, and unable to fight alongside the other Nodos unless ordered. She obviously doesn't get the same consideration to have her own concerns wiped from her memory. Too bad she'll have to die along with the others, I was starting to like them.


Deianeira: T_T

Haha, yeah I like when they had that T_T at the end of someone's line, I forget whose. Age's decision to seperate from Deianeira was kinda surpising to me. But then again that's probably the best decision to carry out his contract, and prevent her from being in danger. It looks like shes stuck on home stay.

Who else cries in the series constantly, Mehitaka.

Maybe Age knows something else about what's going to happen to the first fleet to attack the Silver Tribe. If Age sees her as the true leader of the Iron Tribe, one who will lead them when his work is all done, then it's better to keep her safe.

Wow I should have expected the humans to be retards but for some reason I thought that DNA (this is so much easier than remembering her real name) was a princess on the fringe but that the rest of humanity would be governed by her dad who was King.

Without a strong single leader it's no wonder that the human nobles prance around and make big speeches without actually thinking anything through long term. Mene...M is just a power hungry douch who will likely lead that fleet to ruin in his attempts to become King just for the sake ofthe title. Hopefully he'll die early so we won't be subjected to his crap for more than an ep or two.

Kinda disappointed Karukinus didn't die. Gonna mean that these fights are going to drag on a bit longer.

Honestly I don't mind more kickass battles between 2 Nodoss.

what i would REALLY like to see... is the war that decimated the Hero tribe. I mean... that must have been ridiculous.

seriously though, the other Nodos piss me off. at least Age enjoys what he's doing, they are just running around looking sad.

Mehitaka: I don't want to fight anymore T_T.

I sucked it up and powered the available episodes. I like this series quite a bit, although it does feel overly familair (formulaic), especially with the characters. I like Mobead (same guy who voiced Ra-Kan in Zoids Genesis, a very fitting voice), Age's grown on me, and the princess isn't super annoying, which I find very agreeable. You can smell most of the plot events a mile away, and the character interaction is much of the same, each of them sticking to their allotted stereotypes. But, whatever, the story is still delivered in a pretty interesting way, good pacing (although sometimes horribly unrealistic and inconsistent). Helps that the soundtrack is decent, nothing great though.

I'll admit it, the action is what keeps me engrossed in this show. The Nodos fights suck, like watching Power Rangers in modern animation. But the spaceship battles are pretty awesome. I especially liked the AzuAzu fleet's fight with Mehitaka and the Bronze. Those Cores are freakin' sweet! The Organ mechs and the battleships are beautifully done as well. I really prefer this 'massive space battle' to the 'epic heroic duel'.

I am, however, slightly confused about the Nodos. There's 5: Age, Karukinas, Mehitaka, the pink haired one and Yuti, right? But then what exactly is the deal with the creepy woman pinky was talking to about the contract? I can tell Yuti is under the direct command of that Silver Tribe guy (their king?), but I couldn't figure out that lady's deal... Also, how come the Silver got 4 Nodos, and the Iron the single, strongest, but the Bronze got nothing? Third place really got screwed over... Did the Golden Tribe just assume they'd become the subordinates of the Silver?

edit- sorry, must have missed Ryl's explanation post. But still, what became of those 'tribes' that Mehitaka and Karurkinus came from? And where the hell is the Bronze tribe's Nodos?

Finally, the fansubbers. I still don't like Your-Mom. Despite being the only group currently working on this series, they don't care enough to go back, correct their errors, and release second, improved versions... I think that says quite abit... In early episodes they also wouldn't translate background conversations or other audible, "secondary" utterance, which I don't like. I'm not a big fan of their use of emoticons either. Once or twice is funny, but they're just beating the horse to death... I did laugh when they did the *pew pew* sound effect for the lasers being fired, that was good...

Episode 11 XviD - YourMom
Episode 11 h264 - YourMom

a pretty good build-up episode. I like that Mobead and Nilval are essentially scheming a plan to undermine the Junos brothers... The older brother, the blonde, is a pretty good speaker and a good politician, but it's obvious his pride and ambition (not spilling any of your own blood? like the Silver are that weak...) will be the cause of early and massive problems for the fleet. Atlantis, the younger brother, is just a retard. It's like a spoiled Naruto in a royal family... 'I'll beat them up!' is his battle strategy...

I actually think it's a good idea to rely heavily on Age so long as no enemy Nodos are in play. However, the humans are just sitting back, and once the enemy Nodos come, they'll struggle mightily just to hold off the Bronze... I see them losing the flagship early on.

Your-Mom didn't pull much asshattery this episode, I was pleasantly surprised.

Haha they did a TS Note - PANTSU! for when Age said P-A-I-NT.

If Age's painting is right (and I assume they are), Mehitaka will probably be ordered to destroy another planet, and it will probably be Earth. The Silver might be driven away from this battle if Age starts to finish off one of the Nodos, and they'll probably have Yuti force him to destroy a planet to demoralize the humans.

With any luck, the younger of Deianeira's idiot brothers will be killed in the blast, and her older one will live to be thoroughly disgraced.

They've now said it outright, but I wonder why part of the deal is to have Yuti never fight.

Deianeira's brothers are such piles of crap, I doubt anyone listens to them for any reason other than their family's prestige. Fortunately this means that once Deianeira can stand against them in public people should flock to her, since she's got actual capabilities in addition to the prestige.

Age seems content to ruin the days of Bronze Tribers all by himself, and it doesn't seem to phase him at all so I don't feel as bad about it, but it looks like the Bronze turned one of Jupiters moons into a nest (Hopefully not Io since that one might actually be useful to humans). That might actually give him a moments pause, that and the swarm of silver tribe ships with real shields and real weapons. Next ep should be awesome.

Yeah I wanna see what he can do to a Silver Tribe ship that doesn't teleport away when there is danger. And I think the Silver Tribe actually realises that Bellcross and Age are a real threat. I mean that woman said that they could live together with the Iron Tribe. Sounds to me that they just want them as an Ally so that Bellcross won't totally crush them.

Is her name Prome? I can't remember it. Anyway, her faction is the one who takes in the emotions of all the Silver Tribe. She took in the fear that Deianeira instilled into the one who keeps pursuing them (fortunately, DNAra's telepathy is obviously stronger than that). She, like Yuti, are swayed by emotions. This gives her mercy, as well as the apparent ability to swallow her pride.

I don't think it's that her faction doesn't want to be destroyed, I think it's that she's able to see that they could be destroyed. She's taken in the memory of what Deianeira can do to their kind, she can sympathize with the loss they may face, and she may also possess the humility to realize that they can lose. To her, peace is a win-win situation.

It seems even she can't take away all the pain that the Deianeira mindfuck did to that Silver Tribe dude.

Nah she took away the fear and emotions that Deianeira gave him. What she didn't take away is the memory itself it seems. Or I got it wrong =\

I think the DNA mindfuck was just too powerful, and some remnants of the fear remains. Because even if only the memory remained, fear is naturally derived from things one has experienced, and thus fear remains as well. The question would be if the fearsuck technique actually remove the memories as well, or as previously proposed only the fear (I wouldnt understand how it works if this is the case)

Episode 12 XviD - YourMom
Episode 12 h264 - YourMom

Holy. Shit.

I knew they were stupid, but Deianeira's brothers really need to be publicly reviled, tried, and left alive disgraced (because that would be so much worse for those egotistical assholes). Wtf did they think was going to happen?!?! They destroyed Jupiter to kill ONE Silver Tribe ship. (The others were destroyed sending the flames back at the fleet, so I'm not counting them.) We knew it was going to happen, but I really didn't expect this. I thought the Silver Tribe would do it on their own.

Lekti has a pretty crazy ability. She can go back in time a short distance to toss off an energy lance.

Deianeira should mindfuck the shit out of the younger of her brothers. Yunos will be worse off being disgraced.

Yeah...that was pretty fucked up. The Baka Brothers really need to be removed, but I don't think Deianeira has the fortitude to call them out yet.

All through the fight I was waiting for Age to use the Life Absorbing Beam of Doom but he never did :( there was so much Bronze cannon fodder out there it wold have been spectacular.

The animation in this episode was almost movie like. And a pretty amazing episode imo. Bending time is possibly the most powerful ability ever.

The battle was awesome. Brothers should be tried for crimes against Iron tribe. Bronze tribe seems to be equipped with Silver tribe technology(shields). I liked how Silver tribe reversed attack 100 times more right back at humans even through sacrificing some of them.

Nodos fight should be interesting, can't wait.

Man such good quality episode. Almost movie-like. And god I hate those brothers. Thinking that they are strong and all. I wanted them do die in that blast =\

I agree, the animation of this episode is really good. well almost all the episodes has great animation. Too bad jupiter blew up... And i also wanted the brothers to die in that blast but then again, having them hated and trialed when they get home is a much more deserving end for them.

I know Bellcross is the strongest of the 5 nodos but how the hell can will he beat the 3 of them at the timE!?? much anticipated fight!!

Im guessing that he will fight only two of them at a time. 3 on 1 is kinda hopeless, considering the relatively small power gap between them despite Belcross supposedly being the strongest. Also, the nodos with time bending abilities (which I believe to be limited since it is way too cheap) may be weak in actual combat, giving Age the chance to kill her off first.

this episodes was a feast for the eyes! I loved the battle, although the Baka Brothers (i totally typed this, and then found that Yuki used it too... ) were just as miserably foolish as foreseen. Did the coup already happen? Or is Nilval and the Commander still planning? I'd hate to see such an important event get glossed over for the Nodos fight...

Cuz we all know Age is going to win. The new fighter really does have an awesome ability, and Karkinuas is very determined... but I honestly see Yuti giving Age a harder time on her own than these three... simply because that's how anime usually works... This show has been a pleasant surprise

I think the coup is already happening, I remember the old commander(forgot his name) mentioning that the princess did not deny the organization chart. Maybe things are already on the move. And by the time the nodos fight is over, the coup will be successful.

Fighting 1 nodos is hard enough for belcross, so maybe belcross will defeat the weaker nodos fast like shinta said..

Question, Is the silver girl the last nodos?

Yuti (silver haired girl) is in fact the last Nodos, the one appearing from within the Silver Tribe.

I'm sorta disappointed if the coup is already starting, since the initial surge of such an event is often the most revealing and most interesting... I know Deineira signed off on the chart, but that's simply a post-coup hierarchy as jotted down by the plotters, not an actual attempt to rob power from her brothers. I do fear they'll gloss over this important plot event so we can see more of Bellcross roaring and the massive, heroic Nodos fight... (which still isn't my cup of tea)

Heroic Age - 13

You can do it Age, it's only 2 + a coward on 1!

Man, that was a really fun episode to watch, even though it was all basically just spear throwing and flashbacks. And it just keeps showing how godly Age and Bellcross are to overcome time even. What will happen to Age?!