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anime: Galilei Donna
Jan. 23rd, 2014 10:10 pm11 episode anime series that aired in the noitaminA block in the first half of the winter season. (The first of the 4 then-airing anime that I started watching about midway through their runs and somehow managed to keep up with.)
Set roughly 50 years in the future with the world on the brink of a new ice age, the series focuses on Hazuki, Kazuki and Hozuki Ferrari, half-Japanese/half-Italian sisters whose father is a japanese hippie and whose mother is a descendant of Galileo Galilei. Something she never ever ever forgets. Hazuki is a passionate law student! Kazuki is a shy martial artist who skips classes! Hozuki is a loli who invents things, most of which look like goldfish! Only red!
The family is attacked and captured by a corporation called Adnimoon looking for an ancient treasure of Galileo's, clues to which were left in sketches he made. The girls escape with the aid of Anna Hendricks, and Galileo fangirl, but not before being framed as terrorists. They then decide to scour the globe looking for Galileo's treasure themselves so that they can clear their names, whomp the evil corporation, and hopefully get their parents back. They do this traveling in a giant mecha goldfish Hozuki built in the basement. Without anyone noticing.
There's also a very flamboyant sky pirate (also framed by Adnimoon) who shows up from time-to-tie, and who is also looking for Galileo's treasure. He is also in love with Hazuki. He fell in love with her because she shouted the law at him and asked her to run away with him to his giant mecha in the sky, which they would then make their love nest*. She said no because this was about 10 minutes after he broke her mother's house and attempted to hold Hazuki hostage with an empty gun. It says a lot about anime that I didn't find this unusual at all. Very entertaining, but not unusual.
So, yes, it's an adventure anime about 3 girls and their eventual quasi-older sister figure on a global treasure hunt, flying around in a giant red goldfish mecha, and tussling with evil corporations and skypirates with hearts of gold. And, of course, it's very much about the relationships between the sisters, who start out somewhat estranged, and whose conflicts don't magically disappear.
The first 8 episodes are stronger than the last 3, which suddenly and rather randomly decide to go another direction, and then veer back towards where it was before, but with a more subdued ending than I would have expected, though I did like the ending.
*This is actually not dramatic exaggeration, but very close to his actual wording.
Set roughly 50 years in the future with the world on the brink of a new ice age, the series focuses on Hazuki, Kazuki and Hozuki Ferrari, half-Japanese/half-Italian sisters whose father is a japanese hippie and whose mother is a descendant of Galileo Galilei. Something she never ever ever forgets. Hazuki is a passionate law student! Kazuki is a shy martial artist who skips classes! Hozuki is a loli who invents things, most of which look like goldfish! Only red!
The family is attacked and captured by a corporation called Adnimoon looking for an ancient treasure of Galileo's, clues to which were left in sketches he made. The girls escape with the aid of Anna Hendricks, and Galileo fangirl, but not before being framed as terrorists. They then decide to scour the globe looking for Galileo's treasure themselves so that they can clear their names, whomp the evil corporation, and hopefully get their parents back. They do this traveling in a giant mecha goldfish Hozuki built in the basement. Without anyone noticing.
There's also a very flamboyant sky pirate (also framed by Adnimoon) who shows up from time-to-tie, and who is also looking for Galileo's treasure. He is also in love with Hazuki. He fell in love with her because she shouted the law at him and asked her to run away with him to his giant mecha in the sky, which they would then make their love nest*. She said no because this was about 10 minutes after he broke her mother's house and attempted to hold Hazuki hostage with an empty gun. It says a lot about anime that I didn't find this unusual at all. Very entertaining, but not unusual.
So, yes, it's an adventure anime about 3 girls and their eventual quasi-older sister figure on a global treasure hunt, flying around in a giant red goldfish mecha, and tussling with evil corporations and skypirates with hearts of gold. And, of course, it's very much about the relationships between the sisters, who start out somewhat estranged, and whose conflicts don't magically disappear.
The first 8 episodes are stronger than the last 3, which suddenly and rather randomly decide to go another direction, and then veer back towards where it was before, but with a more subdued ending than I would have expected, though I did like the ending.
*This is actually not dramatic exaggeration, but very close to his actual wording.
