A ragtag
crew aboard the battleship Nadesico fights in a futuristic space war.
At the
time, 1996, Nadesico was a big deal for the fandom. Heavily promoted both in
Japan and Europe this anime series was an event but when it arrived here it
didn’t exactly set the world on fire and also in Japan a planned second series
was scrapped due to low ratings while the main story was finished with a movie “Prince
of darkness”.
In
hindsight Nadesico had a big problem, it’s an anime, a super robot one, from
fans to fans, so if you are really into the genre, a lot in to, probably you’ll
have a lot of fun because a lot of the stuff that happens in this anime can’t
be properly appreciated without proper knowledge of the various anime and super
robots tropes.
Everything
in Nadesico is a shot out, a parody or an homage to earlier stuff. They even
have a super robot serial, drawn in the style of the 70s anime, that the
protagonist watches between the battles!
Now while
all this is certainly nice Nadesico is sadly missing in the main story and characterization
department. Even with a couple of cliffhangers and plot twists the storyline is
really stupid and kinda boring while the various characters are all stock
people from anime tradition.
Honestly, even
if you are a big fan of the genre, I’ll give it a pass.
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