Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

It’s the future and mankind has developed a system of Element Users and mech units to combat the Shadow Angels that have laid waste to the planet. There’s a whole bunch of rumblings about an incident 11 years ago and the 12,000 hibernation of the Shadow Angels, but of course none of that is explained. The Vector units can combine in 3’s to form a large mecha, and so top candidates Glenn, Reika, and Sirius are chosen as the main defense team. Pierre, Silvia (Sirius’ little sister), and some random person can’t get it together and so Pierre and Silvia are sent on a crappy side mission: a wild goose chase to find the “Wings of the Sun”. The one who looks like he might be a reincarnation of Apollonius, the hero of Atlantis 12,000 years ago, turns out to be some dirty homeless kid named Apollo. Pierre and Siliva beat the stuffing out of him, but there are no markings on his back and so they figure he’s not the one.

Following a short scene with some four-eyed, feather-armed, purple lipstick wearing evil lady ogling a hibernating bishie in a glass casket filled with white roses (*pukes*), some Shadow Angels pop up and start plugging themselves into various humans. Readings indicate that Apollo is definitely an Element User at the very least, and then the main defense team arrives on the scene. Things are going well until a gigantic and very limber Shadow Angel (a Cherubim Soldier) with a meta-quantum level 92,000 aura drops out of the sky. Glenn, Reika, and Sirius unite and come up with really funny attacks (with names!), but then the building that absorbed all the people suddenly blasts the Aquarion Luna unit. The attack leaves Reika in a shell-shocked state, and an unconscious Glenn gets excreted out of the legs portion T_T. Silvia hops in the abandoned green unit, and strangely enough the red unit zips on over to Apollo. We see at HQ, some dude with battousai-speed named Fudo Gen has appeared (he originally discovered the Aquarion units in an underwater temple off Crete), and everyone at HQ babbles a lot of typical mysterious mecha show nonsense. All the while, Apollo starts having strange visions brought on by too much food poisoning and Flame of Recca viewings, and some bishie tells him to start talking about “Sousei Gattai” (”Sanctity Creator Unification”). Of course Apollo can pilot the Vector Sol unit immediately, and so he, Silvia, and Sirius join together and get the powerup for the win.

I wasn’t originally even going to watch this show, but I couldn’t sleep and this was the only unwatched file I had downloaded. Boy am I glad I did; this show ranks sooooo high on the unintentional comedy scale that I was laughing all night long. In spite of all the been-there-done-that moments, I wasn’t annoyed at any point in the show and was actually wildly entertained. The music was pretty good and the animation was gorgeous and fluid (zomg, CG ramen). Some high points included the various orgasmic unifications (hahahahahaha!), the sentai mecha pose after the “Tenkukuen Shouryu Tenrai”, and the Shadow Angel that looked like it was doing a floor routine at a gymnastics competition. The Silvia-Sirius connection was pretty great, and I liked how in Silvia’s mind, dirty boy == bad, but incest == OK! That last unification definitely had me feeling filthy, but when the Earth needs saving, beggars can’t be choosers. I can’t wait for the episode when the viewers start getting fed heaping portions of ANGST.

The one moment when I really couldn’t suspend my disbelief, however, was when I learned that the Shadow Angels are not concerned about electrical safety, as you can see here.