I’ve been under a bad mood recently. I don’t have the apetite, easily get offended, don’t enjoy my fav game anymore and even I can’t study properly. It seems that something is not right. I’ve been missing something in my life. But hey life must go on. Below I put the review of one of my most favorite anime.
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Kokyoshihen Eureka Seven (Psalms of the Planet Eureka Seven)

Studio : Bones (Full Metal Alchemist, Wolf’s Rain)
Genre : Mecha, Science-Fiction, Romance
Official Site : http://eurekaseven.bandai-ent.com/

MUST WATCH! One of the best anime I’ve ever watched. This anime also got the award for the best television series at The Tokyo Anime Awards. This title has both manga and anime version. Even BANDAI has launched the game with the title : EUREKA SEVEN : NEW WAVE (PS2 & PSP) and they’re gonna launch the sequel of the game with name EUREKA SEVEN : NEW VISION.

Description of the story (some parts are taken from AnimeNFO.com. Picture : Eureka and Nirvash):

“Don’t ask for it. Go out and win it. Do that and you will be rewarded…” (A quote from the anime)

Excessive amount of time has passed since the human beings were driven from the Earth. Looking for a place to live peacefully, they finally found the Land of the Covenant. It was a desolate planet where the surface of the planet was covered by the substance similar to the coral, and there was an unknown ion called “Trapar” in the air. They exploited the earth, and in order to use “Trapar” effectively, they built huge towers. Under the towers, countries were built, and unifying these counties, the United States of the Towers was founded.

Several hundreds years have passed since then. Renton is a boy who lives with his grand father in a Tower Country, “Belforest”. He has a complaint about his life. He was the son of the Hero, “Adrock”, who saved the world from the disaster, “Summer of Love”, at the cost of his life. It became the burden on him. Furthermore, because his grand father, Axel Thurston,  is a mechanic, he has no choice but to take over his business. Only his mental food is “Lifting” which is a sport gliding in the air using “Trapar”. He yearns for Holland who is a charismatic Lifter, and he wants to travel around gliding Lift like him believing that a big wave will come to him some day.

One day a LFO called Nirvash (a legendary mecha, the first of all LFOs; Light Finding Operation) lands on Bellforest and destructs his house and that is his first meeting with Eureka, the genius pilot of the LFO, a cute yet mysterious girl that he falls for after seeing her for the 1st time. The meeting with Eureka changes his life forever and become the starting point for the exciting yet full of tears adventure. Not long later Bellforest gets an attack from military to retrieve the Nirvash. Renton’s grandfather asks him to deliver the Amita Drive for Nirvash which will awake the “true Nirvash”. Seven swell, a phenomeon that hasn’t been seen long, appears with Eureka and Renton being on Nirvash and the Amita Drive showing the name of “EUREKA”.

Renton finds out that Eureka is a part of Gekko-State with their leader Holland that Renton has been idolizing for long. Holland asks him if he really wants to live up to his dream then he can follow the Gekko-State on their airplane Gekko-Go. Renton takes the offer to be with the Gekko-State he has yearned for and Eureka, the girl he loves. Thus, the journey begins. (Picture Left to Right : Renton, Talho, Holland, Eureka)

The animes has 50 episodes, all have been aired and so far 38 episodes
has been subbed by Nanashi-Fansub. U can download them by bittorent here. I only have watched til eps 38 (can’t
find the raw for next eps :p). SPOILER WARNING! Don’t read below if u
don’t want to know about the story!

Story : 9.5-10

The strong part of this anime is on the storyline, romance, beautiful scenes and the development of the characters. It’s really amusing to see how the characters reacts to different situation. How Renton, starting from a brat, becomes a man who can protect Eureka. (Picture; Left : Renton, Right : Eureka)

1-26 : The 1st season for this anime. This part is mainly about the characters inside, telling their pasts especially the bitter memory of Holland, Talho,
and Eureka. This part is also the main development for the character of Renton and Eureka. How Renton is getting wiser and maturer. How Eureka who lacks of human emotion in the beginning grabs more humanity after Renton being with her and changes her life though at first she doesn’t realize that she has fallen for him. Renton, like another boys on his age, easily gets angry and hurted. Driven by his conflict with Holland and uncertainty of Eureka bout her own feeling, he runs away from Gekko-State (like a boy who runs from his home on teen age) and meets more people, persons that he can call “Papa” and “Mama” to replace his dead parents and the sad ending of the meeting with them.

27-up : The 2nd season is the real deal of the conflict. Who is Eureka? What’s on the planet? What actually Coralian is? And how come in the end, goverment and the military chooses to war and exterminate the Coralians. This part is mainly about how Gekko-State and its members try to stop the war. This part also gives a lot of pressure to the relationship between Renton and Eureka who is said to be the key to save the world.

My fav scenes :
Eps 9 : When Eureka says that perhaps she has changed since she meets Renton.
Eps 10 : Talho and Holland hugging scene on the dessert.
Eps 21 : When Renton asks Eureka to talk on the infirmary especially when Eureka says “my heart rate goes everytime i see you”. (It shows that she loves Renton yet she doesn’t understand such feeling and Renton interpretes it as Eureka not wanting to be with him.)
Eps 26 : Eureka sets out to find Renton and get found by the military. Then Renton and Eureka meets again on Nirvash.
Eps 33 : Holland finally opens up his heart and the burden he hides inside to Talho. A beautiful make-up scene.
Eps 35 : Gekko-State is attacking the Capital. The heroism, humanity, love, and friendship are shown here.
Eps 36 : Eureka leans how to do make-up and ends up with failure (LOL it’s really funny) but in end Renton says that he will still love her even if she doesn’t do make-up.

Animation : 8.5-9

The animation quality actually are good, the characters are maybe not the lovely one that u’re looking for but in fact they are nicely designed! The characters are eye-catching. Personally I love the drawings. The mechs are quite good though incomparable to Gundam Series. But hey it’s not what makes this anime become so interesting.

Music : 9

This anime also has good sound tracks that u will want to listen.
Song lists :
1st Opening : Days by Flow
2nd Opening : Shounen Heart
3rd Opening : Taiyou no Mannaka he
4th Opening : Sakura by Nirgilis

1st Ending : Himitsu Kichi by Kozue Takada
2nd Ending : Fly Away by Izawa Asami
3rd Ending : Tip Taps Tip by HALCALI
4th Ending : Canvas by COOLON

Insert Song : Story Writer by SUPERCAR
Insert Song : Get It By Your Hands

My personal favourites are Sakura, Tip Taps Tip and Story Writer

In closing, this is the anime that u HAVE to watch.