Dragonaut – The Beginning
7 October 2007
The first episode I watched of the fall season was, fortunately, rather good. I’m sure screen shots and summaries are not in short supply, so I’ll save myself the trouble. In short, Dragonaut – The Resonance is looking like the spawn of Code Geass and RahXephon armed with the tragic, orphaned hero, sunny, blue skies, mysterious research experiments, a superfluous cast with shiny, outlandish hair covering all the colors of the rainbow and, silly as it seems, a lot of breasts. The majority of the female cast, including Toa, the female lead, have, well, big breasts.
That aside, the shuttle take off in the beginning, I thought, was gorgeous. It almost looked like a roller coaster ride, the way the shuttle launched, streaming across the sky and right into a flaming asteroid. I loved the expression on Jin’s friend’s face, shock, fear and everything else.
Oh, right, before I forget, the main character, his name is Jin. After that shuttle incident, Jin was taken in by his relatives and he’s not doing too well with them. His father, the shuttle pilot, his mother and his sister all died in the accident and that alone is reason enough for him to be genuinely depressed, unlike most people in anime, who are depressed, sometimes, just for the hell of it.
Basically, Jin cuts school because his classmates were talking about him, goes to watch shuttle launches feeling incredibly lonely and yearning for his parents. Walks home at night, runs into a giant beast eating a women, ends up getting chased by giant beast and subsequently tossed out of a building. The fall reminds him of the shuttle incident, where he was caught in an eerily similar situation and just like last time, a random flash of light saves him. The random flash of light is our female lead, Toa, a ‘Communicator’. She reminds me of Latias, the Pokemon, because somehow her hair splits in the back just like the Latias’ wings. Anyways, she’s pretty kick ass, saves Jin and subdues the monster. The monster gets hit by a truck that, almost randomly, explodes into a giant flaming ball of fire. Arriving minutes after, in a limo, is a surprisingly flat girl and her butler. I’m assuming they were trying to catch the monster, but missed it.
And! In the meanwhile, remember Jin’s best friend? Right, he’s turning into the new Suzaku as someone else pointed out, joins up with the ISDA (International SolarSystem Development Agency), some paramilitary organization. Kazuki Tachibana, voiced by Tetsuya Kakihara (Simon from Gurren Lagann, guess I’ll be hearing his voice for a while) is inducted into the Dragonauts after completing his Resonance. I’m not sure what it was all about, but it’s giving off a seriously RahXephon, Evangelion vibe.
The best of the episode, save for that catastrophic shuttle ride, was the meeting between Jin and Toa. They are just so irresistibly cute, probably the main reason I’m watching Dragonaut is to see their relationship develop.
There are a million other things going on, there are a million other characters unnamed and it’s hard to remember to talk about everyone. There’s a psychotic big breasts lady armed with a sword. There’s a photographer guy and another big breasts lady conducting some research project. There’s that flat girl and yet another big breats lady that drove Kazuki to the ISDA place. And! There’s a pretty cute, bespectacled guy from the military and his partner, who really isn’t my type.
To top it off, I still have no idea what any of this has to do, if at all, with dragons!
Well, anyways, I think I’m going to keep on watching this just to see where it goes.