Heroic Age

[Munsu]

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.

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...

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

[Munsu]

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.

[Julianlivre]

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

[Chaos]

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

[MFauli]

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...

[Vash72]

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

[masamuneehs]

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...

[animus]

Episode 11 XviD - YourMom
Episode 11 h264 - YourMom

[masamuneehs]

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.

[animus]

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

[Ryllharu]

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.

[Board of Command]

[oyabun]

What a great time to get a hard nipple.

[shinta|hikari]

Well, I believe excitement does trigger that kind of reaction.

[oyabun]

LOL, I think Belcross will return to its original form, the MCbelcross was so cool.

[Yukimura]

Heroic Age - 16 - [Your-Mom]

[Ryllharu]

Finally caught up. Mehitaka joining Deianeira wasn't something I expected. Did I miss something? Which of the conditions of his contract was the "impossible to fulfill" one Yuti mentioned?

It's interesting to see that Yuti is never allowed to convocate with the rest of the Silver Tribe. Perhaps they view her as corrupted or polluted. With how much her own tribe seems to abuse her, it's no surprise she's starting to break further away from them. They won't let her fight, even though she's convinced she's absurdly strong and could finish this all at once, and Romu Roe clearly sees her as an inferior. She obviously wants to keep Karkinus safe above all other things she could be doing.

I wonder if Lekti will also join with the Iron Tribe. Perhaps "Defeat the other Nodos" in Age's contract doesn't necessitate killing them.

Iolaus is going to wake up one morning to find himself next to a totally naked Aneesha. I just know it.

[oyabun]

Wow... Age having the most condition. I thought it was Yuti who has so many condition.

The reason why Mehitaka is no more bound to the contract with the silver tribe is because a condition in his contract states that he will fight for the silver tribe until his "strength or energy" is drained out. He said he used up all his energy fighting Age, therefore fufiling one of the condition thus releasing him from the bounds of his contract.

[shinta|hikari]

Age IS the main character. I guess it would only make sense that he appears to be the most special in the Nodos group, with Yuti coming in next with 8 conditions.

Mehitaka clearly said that Yuti is stronger than Age, and having fought Age in MC mode, that might in fact be accurate. If the number of conditions given by the gold tribe is not related to the strength of the Nodos, Yuti just may be able to defeat Age. That would imply that Age might need some help in the upcoming battle with Yuti.

[Ryllharu]

I thought in the beginning that the narrator stated that the Golden Tribe gave the strongest of all the Nodos to the Iron Tribe because they were the weakest by far. Is it that Mehitaka doesn't really know the capabilities of Yuti since she's not allowed to fight much, or are Age & Bellcross stronger in another sense?

Again, Which condition of Mehitaka's was the one Yuti said would be "impossible to fulfill"? They all seemed pretty simple to me.