Freedom

Science fiction anime usually contains a lot violence, scary scenes of slashing and huge explosions, right? Well, no... There are some very cool sci-fi anime that don't rely on flashy explosions and unreal fight scenes, but are as much entertaining as the anime that care only about that. Can you name one title from top of your head that is like this? Well done if you do, share your findings with others. Also called Freedom Seven, these amazing OVAs are worth a lot of praise. They are suitable to watch for all type of audiences and won't disappoint anyone.

Freedom or Freedom Project was created by Sunrise studios to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Nissen Cup Noodle. The movies were directed by Shuhei Morita and have people who worked on very popular anime titles also includes designs by Katsuhiro Otomo.

The story starts out innocently enough, with a very important start of a race in "The Tube" between two rivals. You won't see much of the race at first, the first episode introduces the characters, their daily lives and the events that lead to this big race. Things are meant to be boring in the world of Eden which is basically six huge domes connected in to one large are. Only in the later episodes there is some explanation of the present times and settings of the story. Don't be turned off by this innocent start of an amazing anime. A story about connecting different worlds together and desires to be a free human being.

Character variety is big and they all are in 3D. A lot of mass crowd scenes and these cool robots that run around trying to catch the good guys. The main character Tekeru is a guy who would go to far lengths for a pretty girl. His two main sidekicks Kazuma and Bismark are very different and complete characters, you will see just how much thought was placed in them. As the story progresses more and more cool characters come in to the story, most of us will find someone they can relate to very easily.

This movie uses CG made characters, things they interact with. This style of anime will soon be everywhere, great CG movement in artistic backgrounds. Hopefully we will see more awesome animation like we have here.

The sound track is so good, you may want to get it separately. The intro and outro songs are very likable. Great music used through out these movies. The only thing that could have been better is the bike engine sound, every time it sounded differently. Apart from that, rest of the effects sounded very good to our optimized ears.

It's quite hard to summarize such a wonderful anime in just a few sentences. It is great to see sci-fi anime that don't have people dieing and places destroyed to dust. Have amazing story with a lot to learn for everyone. Is an eye candy to watch and listen too. Get this DVD when ever you will want to watch some new cool sci-fi anime. You shouldn't be disappointed.


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