Kiss Dum: Engage Planet

[Zati]

Studio Satelight will be doing this, and I like a few of their series: Macross Zero, Noein, Sousei no Aquarion.

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In A.D. 2031, humans are enjoying a prosperous existence until strange life forms called Hardians appear. They suddenly begin to multiply and assault the human population. As a countermeasure, mankind organizes the N.I.D.F. to investigate the Hardians and protect themselves.

A fighter pilot, Aiba Shu, begins to become involved in the battle against the lifeforms. Rurika Yuno, one of Earth`s foremost scientists, investigates the Hardians and hears rumors about the "Book of a Dead Man." What is the secret of this tome, and what relation does it have to the Hardians?

Now, the fight for mankind`s survival begins.

[Source: Animenfo]

Links :
AniDB
AnimeNfo
ANN
Official Site

[Church]

Yes, I know the title sounds absolutely retarded, but this is a perfect example of never judging a book by its cover, because this is probably one of the best action animes I've seen in a long time.

The first episode just started with a bang, and I mean it, BIG BANG. It reminds me a lot of RahXephon and Macross Zero; though it seems it might be a little cliche'd, but not horribly so.
It doesn't appear to have been subbed in English yet, I'm hoping some group will pick it up.

EDIT: huh... I did a search and didn't even see it. Guess I suck at this...
Merged thread, and removed repeated information.

[Chaos]

I was looking forward to this series but unfortunately it doesn't look like anyone's decided to pick it up.

[Munsu]

Looks like Mendoi might pick it up... lets hope they do.

[Chaos]

Looks like Mendoi might pick it up... lets hope they do.

Nice, thanks for the heads up. It does look like they're working on this series right now from their project status page:

http://www.mendoi-fansubs.com/home/i...d=23&Itemid=43

[Zati]

Mendoi just released the first episode, gonna dl now and looking forward to it.

Episode 1 - Mendoi

[Munsu]

Yes, I know the title sounds absolutely retarded, but this is a perfect example of never judging a book by its cover, because this is probably one of the best action animes I've seen in a long time.

The first episode just started with a bang, and I mean it, BIG BANG. It reminds me a lot of RahXephon and Macross Zero; though it seems it might be a little cliche'd, but not horribly so.
It doesn't appear to have been subbed in English yet, I'm hoping some group will pick it up.

EDIT: huh... I did a search and didn't even see it. Guess I suck at this...
Merged thread, and removed repeated information.

I really liked the first episode too, and it does have a Macross feel to it. First episode was action packed, which was nice. At the moment, the current situation is a bit confusing, hopefully the next couple of episodes will slow down the pace a bit and we'll get a better handle on what's going on.

[animus]

Wow, this is quite a good series so far. And yea, the title pretty much sucks.

[animus]

Episode 2 - Mendoi





Edit: Pretty good action packed episode that answered some questions. By the looks of the OP it'll be more of a mobile suit/mecha anime? Though it could just be a buncha various machines used for combat that suits terrain, or environment. But it's also kinda different with the necrodiver stuff with him absorbing metals or some thing. Sounds like that manga that was named Eatman where the main character can manifest anything he ate. I also like how before he finished that monster off at the end, he just chucked Yuno. I laughed.

[Yukimura]

Interesting ep, it felt really well executed. The whole time I was thinking, man these people are getting completely out classed by these monster things...I was seriously wondering how they were going to have a show if everyone died in the second episode. But then Aiba decided to get down to buisness and everything was okay. Hopefully the phantom girls comments about Aiba being pretty bad at dealing with the monsters will lead to more situations that feel truly dire and thus elicit a richer emotional response.

[Church]

lol, necro-post.
Well, damn, I just finished Kissdum, and I don't know how to sum it up.
The first couple episodes were made with epic-ness, full of fighter jets, mecha, and macross win. Until apparently funds got pulled halfway, So the team had to scrap together the rest. Well, which was why ep4 was a recap... and from ep4 - ep18, were some shounen fighting ######.
But starting from ep19, the plot and visuals received some serious boost. They tried to tie in everything that happened so far and explain some crucial information. Now normally this would fall flat on its face and fail hard. But they actually managed to pull it off decent enough, if not, actually pretty good. So the outcome? A heavy vibe of Evangelion, Eureka 7, Rahxephon, and a couple other series, border lining rip off, but not enough to hate it.
The verdict, I actually enjoyed kissdum quite a bit. I give props to the series for trying at least. I'm glad I sat through it till the end ^_^

Plus, kissdum had some pretty good parodies, most notably, an Unlimited Blade Works reference.
O yeah, the OP by two-mix is pretty awesome too, and the OP animation is well done. And lol, the 2nd OP was just like Evangelion OP :P

[Munsu]

I take it you watched the RAWs? I'll let your post be since you didn't reveal any information on the story, but be careful in continuing the discussion.

[Church]

I watched Chinese subs (hooray for being multi-lingual) and I made sure not to say anything crucial, unless you count mentioning Evangelion and Rahxephon a spoiler :P

[animus]

What's Mendoi doing? It's like they just dropped off the face of the earth.

[Church]

Well, unfortunately Kiss dum has been licensed by Bandai Visual USA
So I guess we'll have to see if any subs or rips will come out later.

[AbstractTheorem]

http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...86&postcount=7

Interesting random tidbit

[Yukimura]

A much more interesting tidbit posted today in the forum linked above.

hmm, if everything goes well, Mendoi will start releasing Kiss Dum again

we announced on our site that we wouldn't drop it because of licensing.
also, i think we even released files after licensing.
eps 9-10 or so are already translated, we're only waiting for confirmal on the rest.

Apparently Mendoi decided to be the Nanashi of the '06-'07 season.

[animus]

http://www.mendoi-fansubs.com/home/

Hopefully we'll see whats up with their projects. They're gonna pick up Gundam 00, but haven't been nearly finished with their 2 current projects at all.

[Board of Command]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I hope Your-Mom picks up Kiss Dum...

[animus]

Yeah, I would too really. It's really a good series as far as the subs have gone that is, bar the early recap episode in episode 4.