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• Vandread, Vol. 1: Enemy Engaged! (2000) – DVD Review
• Vandread (TV)
• VANDREAD THE SECOND STAGE VOL 2 SACRIFICE DVD
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• All Seasons
• Experimental Fate - Vandread
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• Men are always right, Women are never wrong! A “Vandread” review!
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• Men Are from Taraak, Women Are from Magere

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Vandread, Vol. 1: Enemy Engaged! (2000) – DVD Review

Posted by: steve in Reviews May 16, 0. Apply a literal interpretation to the trope "Battle of the Sexes," infuse it with mechs, jiggling boobs and rampant sexual metaphors, and you have the foundation for Vandread , a callow and unrepentant cocktease that should manage to win you over eventually if you give it a chance.

Don't be fooled by the " Second Stage " moniker though; both "seasons" are essentially one continuous plot inexplicably though I'm sure there's a reason broken up into two thirteen-episode parcels. The two OVAs are more or less musical montages of the two seasons, "Integral" covering the first thirteen episodes and "Turbulence" covering the second thirteen and neither offering much in the way of extra scenes or other critical information.

The total package is a no-frills, down-to-business but thorough presentation of a flawed anime series whose charms will likely grow on you after a while.

Vandread is something of a victim of its own marketing. The promotional materials and packaging set the tone, putting the show's more prurient elements front and center, like prominently featuring Dread pilot Jura's cleavage and describing a cast struggling with "raging hormones.

The fan service is of the more puerile, wink-wink-nudge-nudge variety that resorts to Jello-chested females and the occasional crotch shot for its titillation.

Sexual metaphors are everywhere; male and female mecha combine, or mate, to transform into more powerful forms, while the pilots sit in each other's laps; mech designs purposefully suggest male and female sex organs; the male navigator inserts himself, naked and eventually bald and fetus-like, into an amorphous womb-like chamber to steer the ship, and so-on. The consequence of all this pandering is that it starts your relationship with the show off on the wrong foot and it is only by virtue of the genuinely like-able characters that it ever manages to win you back.

In the universe of Vandread , Earth has sent colonization ships into the depths of space to settle new worlds. For reasons never adequately explained, a schism develops between the men and women on these ships. Eventually, two worlds in the same solar system are colonized, the males inhabiting Tarak and the females colonizing Mejale.

The story of Vandread begins two generations later where we find men and women locked in bitter war, time and propaganda having erased all memory that men and women ever existed together.

Hibiki Tokai is a male 3rd-class citizen of Tarak chafing under the oppression of his caste and longing to prove he is meant for greater things. On a dare, he embarks on a mission to sneak into the new flagship of the male fleet Ikazuchi and steal a Vanguard, a giant powered exoskeleton, before the ship departs to do battle against the females. The ship launches early and Hibiki is trapped aboard, thrown into the fray when the ship is immediately set upon by a female pirate ship. When the female pirates succeed in capturing the ship, the male fleet decides to destroy the Ikazuchi rather than let it fall into the hands of the females.

Sensing its imminent destruction, the Paksis Pragma, a sentient energy source at the heart of the Ikazuchi , creates a wormhole that pulls the female pirates, their ship, Hibiki, and two other male stowaways far across the galaxy.

And that's just how it starts. Ultimately the story is about the three men, Hibiki, Duelo McFile and Bart Garsus, and a ship full of women no harem fetish stuff here rediscovering the forgotten dynamics of male-female relationships while fighting the Harvesters, a machine race "harvesting" humans for body parts wherever they find them for reasons revealed later in the story.

Once you realize Vandread as lurid spectacle is mainly marketing hype, it is possible to find the pulse of this show. The funny and sometimes sweet back-and-forth between Hibiki and the rabidly affectionate Dread pilot Dita Liebely; the mutual respect and caring between winsome doctor Duelo McFile and the nerdy, bespectacled chief engineer Parfet Balblair; even the contentious and often unrequited tango between navigator Bart Garsus and first officer BC; these are all examples of a soul at the heart of a story cloaked in mildly bawdy humor and tepid fan service, all packaged and sold as something else entirely.

I'm struck with the impression that everyone from show creator GONZO to Japanese distributor Bandai and finally to American distributor Funimation had so little faith in the basic premise of the series that a calculated decision was made to hedge their bet and tart it up. Had Mori and GONZO spent a little more time smithing the story to imbue it with more logic and consistency and less time on clumsy innuendo, Vandread may have been memorable.

Lurid elements aside, it is a sometimes tender and thoughtful exploration of human relationships that often trips over incomplete plot elements and head-scratching story developments. Okay, two men can have a baby but what if it's a girl? What if Ezra's baby had been boy? It would have shot the story right in the foot. Vulnerabilities big to small are all over the place, but I guess as long as Jura keeps shaking her tits everything will be okay. The colors don't pop, but the transfer is clean despite the heavy compression it must have taken to pack twenty-six episodes onto four discs.

The menus are simple and static, with no extras beyond some trailers here and there. That they managed to squeeze five discs into the standard DVD case form factor is quite an achievement and makes you wonder involuntarily why twenty-six episodes of something else requires a seven-disc box set costing more than a hundred bucks to cover the same ground as Funimation has with Vandread.

The English voice dub is better than some but worst than most. Watch it in Japanese, which I always do for comedies anyway since somehow what makes it funny in Japanese gets lost in translation. There is no English dub for the OVAs, just subtitles. Vandread has problems, but it's worth checking out. Never mind the pervy image presented by the marketing. There is a nice love story and some decent action. The finale of Second Stage is great fun if you can stick it out that long.

The show is funny, despite the harrowing plot, but only because the interplay between the characters and some of the situations can be a pleasure to watch.

On balance, Vandread: The Ultimate Collection is a flawed yet fun series and Funimation, despite some cheeky marketing, has succeeded at offering a fair-to-middling product at a fair-to-middling value.

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Men Are from Mars Tarak, Women Are from Venus Mejale Introduction Apply a literal interpretation to the trope "Battle of the Sexes," infuse it with mechs, jiggling boobs and rampant sexual metaphors, and you have the foundation for Vandread , a callow and unrepentant cocktease that should manage to win you over eventually if you give it a chance.

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Vandread (TV)

Posted by: steve in Reviews May 16, 0. Apply a literal interpretation to the trope "Battle of the Sexes," infuse it with mechs, jiggling boobs and rampant sexual metaphors, and you have the foundation for Vandread , a callow and unrepentant cocktease that should manage to win you over eventually if you give it a chance. Don't be fooled by the " Second Stage " moniker though; both "seasons" are essentially one continuous plot inexplicably though I'm sure there's a reason broken up into two thirteen-episode parcels. The two OVAs are more or less musical montages of the two seasons, "Integral" covering the first thirteen episodes and "Turbulence" covering the second thirteen and neither offering much in the way of extra scenes or other critical information. The total package is a no-frills, down-to-business but thorough presentation of a flawed anime series whose charms will likely grow on you after a while. Vandread is something of a victim of its own marketing. The promotional materials and packaging set the tone, putting the show's more prurient elements front and center, like prominently featuring Dread pilot Jura's cleavage and describing a cast struggling with "raging hormones.

VANDREAD THE SECOND STAGE VOL 2 SACRIFICE DVD

It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I don't know if I'm just misremembering what I saw in the anime, or if there really was no good explanation ever given, but I am unclear on the real reason why the original men and women in the space colony in Vandread split up into two separate colonies in the first place. So, do we ever get a real explanation as to why they split by gender, or is it just something we're supposed to take for granted? Once upon a time, in the future roughly two thousand years from now , a colonist ship departed Earth, heading for the stars on it's journey to discover a new world to populate for the human race. This journey proved successful with the discovery of not one but two neighbouring planets suitable of colonisation. However, the colonists grew into conflict with each other - A conflict that divided the crew by gender! The men settled on one planet, which was dubbed Taraaku while the woman settled for the neighbouring planet, Mejarru. If I remember correctly, Each colony or colony group was created to provide a specific component or body part to the remaining earth humans. They were separated out and instructed to use cloning technology so that the organs would not be used when it was time for harvesting.

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Not too long ago, there was a bit of a buzz in the anime fandom about a scanned page from a Japanese magazine talking about Vandread 2 not to be confused with Vandread: Second Stage. Apparently this was a planned 3rd series in the franchise but sadly it never got off the ground. I remember when I was first introduced to Vandread a few years ago. At the time, I had no anime backlog and thus was looking for stuff to watch, whether new on the market or not. Some people suggested to me that I really should give this Vandread anime a watch.

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Sign In. Hide Spoilers. CrunchyCookie 17 February I thought this might be another kiddish shoot-em-up anime, and like others here, I also mistook it for a feminist series early on. Well, it ain't either.

Experimental Fate - Vandread

In a distant future where men and women live on separate planets, a lowly mechanic named Hibiki has his eyes on piloting a Vanguard, a mecha fighting machine built by the male military. He sneaks his way onto a military space ship at a time when female pirates attack with their ships called Dreads. In the middle of the battle, the male ship and female ship accidentally collide and merge into a new ship, later called the Nirvana, leaving Hibiki and two other men stranded with a crew full of women far off in the depths of space. Now, men and women must learn to live with one another just to survive against a new threat to all of humankind. Home Shows Vandread.

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As long as anyone can remember there has always been two planets, Mejere and Taraak. Taraak is home to only male humans, while Mejere is home to only female. Strange enough, these two are at violent war with one another and consistently attack one another. The men live in fear of the horrors in which women are rumored to do the their prisoners.

Men are always right, Women are never wrong! A “Vandread” review!

Nirvana Space Ship Vandread. Space Ship. Space ship. This space ship is a great toy and it prints really well.

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The villains of the series. Although some planets would resist the harvest fleet, they could never stop it. The primary ships in the fleet consists of smaller cube-like robots that combine to form larger ships and weapons. Throughout the whole series, smaller ships from the fleets are encountered by the Nirvana, taking a variety of forms. In the finale of the first series, a harvest flagship was encountered. These ships dwarf nearly every other ship seen in the series, which in addition to their own weapons, have a massive number of cube robots with them.

Men Are from Taraak, Women Are from Magere

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