Suisei no Gargantia

This anime series was another sci-fi favorite after I watched it. I was going to watch it on Netflix, but I had bought the series on DVD instead.

It has been a long while since I had finished the series, so all I could remember is that during a battle in the farthest reach of space, a young soldier named Ledo and his Machine Caliber (an artificially intelligent, automated, humanoid-shaped battle suit) called "Chamber" got propelled into a wormhole and marooned on a strange ocean planet where humans live on what looks like a town and a battleship put together. Reluctantly, Ledo adjusts to the lifestyle of the "fleet" Gargantia. After much deliberation, he discovered that the ocean planet is in fact the cradle of mankind, Earth.

I love the ending theme, and I thought Amy's pet Grace was too cute! This series has wonderful animation as well as an awesome story. This series also makes me want to watch the Kevin Costner movie "Waterworld," but that movie has a different story line than "Gargantia." Overall, "Gargantia" is another awesome anime series.

I absolutely loved this. They did wrap it up nicely so no real cliff hangers but I wouldn't say no to more though. It was beautiful and addictive!

The writing alone makes this show worth watching. It's a very interesting plot that blew my mind. The show also has good animation quality, decent voice acting, and excellent pacing/direction. Overall it's a great show, highly recommended!

A quite entertaining anime with 13 episodes (plus two OVA side story episodes) about individuality, duty, compassion, the nature of humanity and laser throwing flying mecha of course.

Ledo is a soldier of the Galactic Alliance of Humankind. Born, raised and bred to fight Hideauze, a race of space- faring octopi and the greatest threat to the survival of the human kind in the galaxy. He lives in a quasi- symbiotic relationship with his mecha Chamber. The height of human engineering in the fields of artificial intelligence and warfare.

Ledo and Chamber end up stranded on our earth, the long lost birth place of humanity, after they get separated from their fleet during a flight through an artificial wormhole. They very soon have to notice that the humans left on earth are different than their space warrior descendants. They love freedom, good food, entertainment and most shockingly: they help the weak and old people instead of killing them for the greater good.

The strong side of this anime are the two main characters Ledo and Chamber. Their character development and attempts to cope with the unfamiliar environment make up for most of the weak points of the show. Another strong side of the show are it's art style and ship designs.

What annoyed me the most were the side characters. The three young girls Amy, Saaya and Melty are carbon copies of each other. They seem to have identical personalities, look similar, act the same way and do the same things. Which is especially annoying since one of them is the love interest of the main character Ledo. You could switch them out mid-scene and I probably wouldn't have noticed. Also the elders (or whatever they are called) of Gargantia have severe cases of brain farts every time they show up, they constantly make absolutely irrational decisions and seem to be destined to lead every single one of their subjects into certain doom whenever they have the chance.

Overall Suisei no Gargantia ("Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet" in the English dub) is an enjoyable mecha anime. It's nothing special, but it is worth your time if you like science fiction stories about the human condition and a good portion of mecha battles now and then.

I love a good anime that takes great effort to make believable and exciting mechs that actually add to the story line. Gargantia really hits the mark. They spend 80% of the episode time developing all of the major characters. Finally, in the later portion of the season, everything comes together in a captivating fight of ideals. I couldn't stop watching the last 3 episodes.

I really appreciated that they creators of this kept the plot focused on what it means to be human. They didn't try and go after 15 major plot lines, but rather stayed on one main story line to the very end.

Loved it!