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Plot
Set in a universe where humans have colonized the galaxy, and in one star system, men and women are completely segregated (on completely different planets: Mejere by the women, Taraak by the men) causing the gender war to be more than just a metaphor.
Male protagonist Hibiki Tokai, a third-class laborer, takes up a bet to steal a high-tech humanoid robot, known as a Vanguard, from a male attack force battleship about to fight the "evil females". Still on board when the battleship takes off, Hibiki is caught in a battle with female pirates that causes all of the ship's crew to evacuate, except for Hibiki, Duelo McFile, and Bart Garsus. Stuck on board and held as prisoners by female pirates, things seem to have hit an all-time low for Hibiki until the retreating males retaliate by firing torpedoes at the ship to prevent it from falling into women's hands. The Paksis Pragma, the mysterious, living core of the battleship, eradicates the missile, forming a wormhole that sends the pirates and warship to a distant part of the galaxy, fusing the battleship with the female pirates' vessel. The fusion results in a quirky ship with very smooth lines, a host of technical problems, and various hidden capabilities that become apparent later on. The Vanguard Hibiki attempted to steal has also been altered along with three of the women's fighters, known as Dreads, allowing the separate ships to combine. The fusion of Hibiki's mecha with one of the fighters is called a Vandread, the eponymous mecha.
In this alternate, futuristic universe, men and women (at least on Taraak and Mejere) consider each other to be completely separate species (Hibiki gains the nickname "Mr. Alien" from Dita Liebely, the female protagonist), and the three men put up with much abuse at the hands of their female captors, but gradually make their presence accepted: Hibiki as a mecha fighter and technician, Duelo as a skilled doctor and engineer, and Bart as the ship's helmsman and navigator.
The story of the first season revolves around the crew's trip back to the system where their respective home worlds are. Along the way, they encounter strange, robotic machines, both enigmatic and rather Borg-like, though they do not communicate at all. After a few sorties with the unknown enemy, the crew manages to take some alien data samples from a desert planet. The data is read out: "Blood platelets, white blood cells, red blood cells..." Their alien enemies kills human beings and harvests their body parts from them. Not only this, but a later encounter with the flagship of the "Harvesters", the name given to the enemy, reveals that the robots were sent out by the people of Earth, the same planet humans originated from, whose colonists would eventually colonize Mejere, Taraak, and countless other planets.
At the start of the second season, they rescue an escape pod from the Harvesters. The pod contains a girl, Misty Cornwell of Pluto, the last planet in the Earth's solar system to be harvested, and a virus which enters the ship's systems. When the correct password is entered, the virus shuts down and the crew is given access to the hidden data that the pod brings, revealing why the Earthlings are harvesting their own species.
Following the initial drive to colonize, pollution has devastated Earth, making any life on the planet near impossible. Huge metal gears now cover the Earth's stratosphere in an attempt to create a living environment for people in massive structures surrounding the planet. Earthlings, alone and dying on the toxic planet, began to question the humanity of the colonists. Eventually, they convinced themselves that only the inhabitants of Earth are human, and all other humans exists solely to ensure their continued existence. Their solution, therefore, was to send out the Harvester fleet of machines created from the same basic material as the Nirvana's core, the Paksis Pragma. The Harvesters raid and dominate colonies to obtain body parts, allowing the Earthlings to replace their own dying bodies, thus becoming immortal through the lives of others.
For the crew, fighting is not just about defeating their enemy and surviving; they need to rush back to their respective home worlds in time to warn their people. But will the leaders of the planets listen to their almost impossible tale?
IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309226/
usefull link:
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=177&showallag=1#grouplist
cast:
Mari Devon as Gascogne (13 episodes, 2000)[
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Hibiki Tokai (unknown episodes)
Yumi Kakazu as Dita Liebely (unknown episodes)
Julie Maddalena as Dita Liebely (unknown episodes)
Fumiko Orikasa as Meia Gisborn (Japanese Cast) (unknown episodes)
Yu Asakawa as Jura Basil Elden (unknown episodes)
Catherine Battistone as Captain Mango Vivian (unknown episodes)
Beau Billingslea as The Premiere (unknown episodes)
Steve Blum as Duero McFile (unknown episodes)
Bob Bobson as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Steve Cassling as Tatanka (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
Marc Cummingham as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Additional Voices / ... (unknown episodes)
Richard Epcar as Kokoperi (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
Melissa Fahn as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Lynn Fischer as Amarone (unknown episodes)
Sandy Fox as Paiway (unknown episodes)
Crispin Freeman as Tenmei (unknown episodes)
Bridget Hoffman as Ezra (unknown episodes)
Steve Kramer as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Mela Lee as Rebecca (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
Wendee Lee as Buzem A. Calessa (unknown episodes)
Lee Loopers as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Dave Mallow as Pyoro (unknown episodes)
Mona Marshall as Meia's Fama (unknown episodes)
Jake Martin as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Michael McConnohie as Hibiki's Grandfather (unknown episodes)
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Jura Basil Elden (English dub) (unknown episodes)
Barbara Newhall as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Olivia O'Conner as Seiron (unknown episodes)
Tony Oliver as Hibiki Tokai (English dub) (unknown episodes)
Bob Papenbrook as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Jamieson Price as Rabat / ... (unknown episodes)
Michelle Ruff as Belvedere Coco, Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Philece Sampler as Barnette (unknown episodes)
Lia Sargent as Misty Cornwell, Gascogne's Sister: Child (Season 2)(unknown episodes)
Stephanie Sheh as Shirley (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
Melodee Spevack as Presiding Judge (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
Steve Staley as Leader (unknown episodes)
Jim Taggert as Additional Voices (unknown episodes)
Hideki Tasaka as Duero Mcfile (unknown episodes)
Julie Ann Taylor as Meia (unknown episodes)
Kirk Thornton as Bart, Captain, Utan (unknown episodes)
Amy Tipton as Additional Voices (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
Dave Wittenberg as Tarak Soldier (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
Tom Wyner as Zen: Grand Pa, Ozeki Kyunmel (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
Zan as Liz (Season 2) (unknown episodes)
directed by:
Takeshi Mori
genre:
Action | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
runtime:
episode 1 S1: +/- 24 mintues
all the others +/- 23 minutes
knowns as:
season 1: Vandread
season 2: Vandread The Second Stage
country:
Japan
language:
English
Japanese
subtitles:
English (hardsubs)
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