RideBack

We start the new year with a few great sci-fi anime series. Every year the animations get better and better. With more complex, jaw-dropping action scenes, with very beautiful and detailed CG animation. We start a brand new year with one of animes that are promising a lot of gooooood stuff.

RideBack was produced by MADHOUSE and has just started airing in Japan. If you know MADHOUSE studios and their work, of course you will watch this anime. It is one of their best works yet and it is simply stuning. If you want to be introduced to this stodio's work; RideBack is a good place to start.

Present time is 2025, a resistance group called GGP has suddenly taken control of the world. They outmatched the superpowers with a new type of military forces. They have won what was called a "historical victory", but their exisistance was never shown to the public. The "historical victory" records have disappeared with all heroes. After that came an era of world order. A revolution. A new world order.

But that changing world has nothing to do with the main character of these new series. Rin - a girl who has dedicated her life to follow in her mothers footsteps and perform as a ballet dancer. Our main character is in the final moments of her school. She feels really alive only when she is performing on stage, but "This world will change, as do the lights on the stage". At that very moment of her performing, thinking these thoughts she suddenly slips, injures herself. She quits ballet not long after. She enrolls in in to the Musashino University and a beginning of a new life starts here, with RideBack.

The plot line is of this anime is pretty interesting, if you have read mangas of RideBack. We won't go and reveal it, so you can enjoy the story unfolding.

In the first episodes we are introduced to to Rin, her closest friend Shouko.... and the RideBack club tcheam. Although not much info about the team in first episode, which you really don't miss at all. Straight away the anime begins with mass people scenes and through out very well drawn scenes. These make you feel that their world is big. Also there is someone always watching or listening to world news - makes the world that they live in kind of more realistic.

The animation is absolutely beautiful, especially the machines. Very well detailed and a lot of complex scenes, once again MADHOUSE have worked very hard to create such jaw-dropping anime.

Great opening song, great ending song, great themes that fit characters every single move. The sounds of engines have been carefully designed and RideBack itself sounds very cool.

RideBack is one great start of this year, you shouldn't miss it. We will post more about this anime as the series progress. You can only rate this anime with very high marks on every point, it is a must-watch anime of January 2009. Don't you dare to miss it!