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Vandread
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"Vandread" is not for everybody. But if you like a decent action/science fiction story, you may dig this. If you're a Japanese animation fan, you'll probably like this, but it's somewhat aquired taste may not always be appealing. "Vandread" is geared toward teenager viewers and older, so this is not quite for the "Sailor Moon" crowd. There's not much as far as extras, but the presentation, even if it's not anamorphic, is a strong knock-out. The retail is a bit high, but if you're into the series it's worth buying.
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Vandread: Second Stage picks up where Vandread: First Stage leaves off: the harvest. The Nirvana picks up a human girl named Misty, who seems to have originated from a place and time where men and women co-existed. A message is retrieved along with Misty, explaining why and how the harvest came to be. It seems that what is left of the Earth's population has lost the ability to evolve, and is now facing extinction. It was determined that the only way for them to survive is to "harvest" external and internal organs from other living human beings for their own use. To make the job easier, the Earthlings developed highly adaptable unmanned spacecrafts that would be deployed throughout the universe to do the harvesting for them.
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Vandread focuses on Hibiki, a worker stuck in his position on Tarak. He dreams of one day flying and fighting the enemy, but circumstances finally put him in that position. During an attack, he meets a girl named Dita (who curiously calls him "Mr. Alien"). Hibiki and his friends are soon captured by pirate women. However, a new and mysterious enemy threatens both Tarak and Mejale, forcing the men and women to work together.
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Dita-type VANDREAD is the first Vandread to appear. It is the fusion of Dita's Dread and Hibiki's Vanguard. This Vandread resembles a giant mobile fighter, with its main armament to be a pair of long-range energy cannons. They can ... be used as a pair of cutting weapons, whenever in melee combat. Finally, the cannons themselves can be removed from the frame of the machine and interlock to become a throwable spear. Other armaments include its massive, physical strength and bulky armor.
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The overall story in the full Vandread series (the two parts put together) makes sense as a 26-episode series, and it was clearly planned out that way. Because it was actually done as two half-series, they needed a slambang ending for the first half, and they got one. It's great; you won't be disappointed. Of course, then it meant they needed an even bigger ending for the second series, and they got that too. By the end, all the things you would want resolved are resolved. It was completely satisfying.
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One of the changes for the second version is the split screen sequence of all the Vandread transformations (during which the chorus of the OP is playing). The shots are clearer and are actually the slightly tweaked versions used throughout VSS, while the first version consists of the original transformations and is rather fuzzy and indistinct. The credits that appear during this sequence are the credits for the OP and ED songs. While Pioneer left most of the original credits in place, due to the accompanying English credits used by Gonzo, they did have to replace a couple of credit screens that were entirely in Japanese with new English credit screens. One of these was the OP and ED song credits screens.
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