She's easily the best member of the crew and arguably does more than the others put together. Then there's Akari Yomatsuri, a character who's wasted on this show. He's also used early on to rather annoyingly serve as the series' drama/angst fuel, though thankfully he snaps out of that soon enough. There's Teppei Arashi, the former Planetary Gear turned human, who has a deal with Daichi where they return a necklace of sorts every time they do something that impresses the other. He also looks like an older version of Renton from Eureka Seven, a BONES series from nine years prior. His father died protecting the Earth, so of course, he has to pick up that torch. Daichi is the archetypical shonen hero in a giant-shouldered mecha suit. Still, they are at least far more interesting than the main cast. Baku, aka Bugbear, actually lived a life that could have been a separate OAV series all by itself, even if it's being sort of predictably tragic, which is actually a bit against the general tone of the show itself. Routine as it is, it does at least allow us some time in the lives of a list of people, and their up-to-then lives. Outside of Teppei, who is already aware of his alien-ness and later voluntarily destroys his own cube, the show turns into a bit of a predictable routine, where the Midsummer Knights fails to get to the other Gears in time, they are turned, and an attack is initiated. The show starts out with Amaroc and Moco, two Gears who have the ability to turn the dormant ones active with a kiss. The first half of the show is centered around the other Planetary Gears members being identified and then turned. So yes, they're immortal space cubes coming to steal our libido to feed on, and we have to fight them with our robots controlled by sci-fi guns called livlasters. If the Midsummer Knights (the name our heroes eventually start calling themselves) can't defeat them by that time, the enemy will be able to initiate an attack from their base in space, and send a Machine Goodfellow staffed by one of the Planetary Gears, seemingly immortal personalities that look human but have a tiny square core of unknown origin. To do this, they run this first round attack, where they have to endure for a set number of minutes. The aliens, which crunchyroll hilariously subtitle as "Kiltgang" (bringing about mental images of a certain Monthy Python skit starring people turned into Scotsmen by blancmange-based alien lifeforms, which would have been no less ridiculous than this show), refer to the Earthlings as Neoteny, and they run these complicated attacks on Earth in order to take our libido energy. Daichi flies the giant robot the "Earth Engine Impacter" - fair enough - but he also has the ability to summon a livlaster (a pistol of sorts) that uses Orgone energy to fire. It's not that the show is hard to follow, but it tries (rather annoyingly, we might add) to hide this by applying heavy amounts of treknobabble to everything. ![]() ![]() It's not a bad combination if you know how to use it, and for what it's worth, Captain Earth had a sort of cheesy appeal. In a way, Captain Earth is almost the archetypical giant robot show, shonen showpiece, and sorta-cryptic space sci-fi all rolled into one. And in a way there was, but it takes so long to get there. ![]() This dark-skinned beauty fooled both of us into thinking that perhaps underneath all the mecha action, there'd a cute little love story between her and Daichi. Tim: Like Stig, I too was suckered into Captain Earth by way of Hana. And the promo image featuring the gorgeous Hana Mutou miiiight have played some part in easing that decision, I will somewhat shamefully admit. Stig: I'm not normally one for rather obvious giant robo shows, but the concept of this one seemed too weird to pass up. There he meets some people he remembers from his childhood, and gets embroiled in a battle for Earth's survival. Having once lost his father to invading forces, Daichi Manatsu joins the Globe Organization to fight the Kiltgang (or is that Kill T Gang?). Notes: There's also a visual novel-style game on the Playstation Vita. Length: Television series, 25 episodes, 24 minutes eachĭistributor: Currently licensed by Sentai Filmworks.Ĭontent Rating: 13+ (Violence, mature situations, mild fanservice.)Īlso Recommended: Macross/Robotech, Vandread.
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