Loud Thinking

I have watched a lot of animé and Eureka Seven is the greatest work I’ve seen. From the captivating world to the picture perfect characters and the cool reffing LFOs, this animé series transcends its medium.

I thought it was just another mecha animé that will just entertain me when I first saw it in ABS-CBN 2, but I got hooked with it. Thus, I watched the series over at YouTube during the Christmas break. Afterward, Eureka Seven became the opiate of my mind until now.

I would like to quote one of the fans who posted his comment in IMDb. He said “Eureka Seven has a beautiful art style, an entrancing world, absolutely phenomenal high speed fight scenes and an excellent story that is absolutely full of twists and turns, shocking moments and profound surprises. Nothing, however, compares to the masterpiece that is the character cast. Renton is the main character who is at the beginning of the series a bored and whiny kid who is oblivious to the nuances of adult life. After he meets the mysterious Eureka in the first episode (and immediately falls in love with her), his character sets off on a true adventure and by the end of the series Renton truly becomes a man. The fantastic romance between Renton and Eureka is the center of the storyline and will undoubtedly cause at least half of Eureka Seven’s audience to burst into tears at multiple points of the story… The other characters in the story are no less interesting and many go through extreme changes just as Renton did. The cold, hard and reluctant leader Holland morphs into a compassionate and strong hero by the end of the story and many people who watch this series start out hating Holland but absolutely love him by the end.”

It also got several awards in Japan. I never thought that there are award giving bodies in Japan for animé.

Anyway, quoting an entry in Wikipedia, “Towards the end of its original Japanese run, Eureka Seven won multiple awards at the 2006 Tokyo International Anime Fair, including Best Television Series, Best Screenplay for Dai Satō, and Best Character Designs for Ken’ichi Yoshida. Ken’ichi Yoshida, the series’ main animator and character designer, also received an individual award at the 10th Animation Kobe Awards in September 2005. The series also won an award at the 20th Digital Content Grand Prix in Japan in January 2006. At the Anime Expo 2006 SPJA Awards, Eureka Seven won the award for Best Television Series, and Best Female Character for Eureka. Anime Insider voted it “Best DVD Series of the Year” in 2006.”

I guess I would just like to say to others, “Go watch it!!!”

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