"In the far future, the elevated irradiation from the sun has destroyed the environment of the earth and the birthrate of humans has drastically decreased. The government controls society with an army of cloned soldiers called "Ideal Children (IC)". Sam Coin is a trader in a desert. One day, he saves a beautiful woman Maya, who has been chased by Theseus, a corps of IC. He shelters her in his trade ship, but the destroyers of Theseus surround Sam and Maya." -MyAnimeList

Links: AniDB, ANN, Official
Genres: Sci-fi
Episode 1 - HorribleSubs






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First thing to say is that this looks really old-school. I haven't seen designs like this since 80's or early 90's shows. There's also something disneyish or something in the designs of the more comedic minor characters. But other than that blast from the past, this seemed quite interesting. Dune hits in the face during the first moments in a good way. Adventure is a genre favourite of mine, and while I wasn't bold enough to list it after sci-fi up there (since no site really lists genres extensively for this yet), this first ep showed enough of it already.

How could it be anything else but adventure, when Char himself makes an appearance (even if he dyed his hair darker and got a less flashy coat):


Anyway, the voice cast was nice enough, with Kakihara Tetsuya (Natsu of Fairy Tail, Simon of Gurren-Lagann) as the main character dude, Tanaka Rie (Sammy of Eve no Jikan, Lacus Clyne of Gundam, Chizuru of Ika-Musume) as the girl in white of the screenshot, and Fujimura Ayumi (Azaka of Kara no Kyoukai, Misaki of Kaichou, Eiko of Ika-Musume) as the jealous childhood friend girl. We also hear Tanaka Atsuko (Caster of FSN, Motoko of GitS, Konan of Naruto Shippuuden) as the enigmatic captain (dressed in red in the ss).

I'll keep watching.