Audience reviews
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Armio
This show is overhated. But Im not going to call it great either. It's Turn A/Evangelion/G in Reconguista wrapped up into one atmospheric low-budget package. The soundtrack is one of the all time best (better than Yoko Kannos work that followed in Turn A Gundam), the mechs and world has a creepy 3am in a subliminal space feel to them, and the voice cast features the debut of Sai from Gundam Seed as well as Loran and Sochie from Turn A Gundam. (There are a lot for recognizable names on the list too.
If you are a big Gundam fan you can really see how this fits neatly between Victory and Turn A in terms of themes as well as art direction. It was a weirdly bingeable series and I could feel my brain working in hyperdrive going through each episode. Unfortunately you can tell they were short fo…
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Will admit it's been a while since I've had some rather complicated thoughts regarding an anime series and looks like Brain Powerd has done just that with me. Being Yoshiyuki Tomino's answer to Evangelion in the late 1990s, the series is set on a future Earth where the planet is being ravaged by earthquakes and floods due to the massive power emitted from a massive alien spacecraft called Orphan that an enemy faction called the Reclaimers are attempting to learn more about how to harness its power and leave the planet, which would result in humanity's destruction should this happen. Opposing Orphan are those aboard the battleship Novis Noah, a resistance movement seeking to halt the battleship's restoration and flight from Earth, and whom our series leads, teen orphan Hime Utsumiya and Rec…
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Man, was this one a drag! It gives you the impression that it will be an interesting and weird series but in reality it is totally boring and simple. This is one of the worst titles Tomino (the Gundam dude) ever made and studio Sunrise was out of its mind when it allowed for this thing to be made.
The intro was full of naked chicks and weird imagery. And the song was catchy too. It really managed to make me interested in the series. And then the series begins… And it’s nothing much to look or listen to. Where is the nude? Where are the weird / spiritual backgrounds?
-The general artwork is just your average looking mechas, military bases and rural countrysides.
-The character figures look very generic.
-Animation was kept at minimum.
-Colors and details are done simply, without multiple…
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Brain Powerd is a psychedelic trip, wrapped inside of a sci-fi series, that is then packaged in a parcel that reads "What is the heck is even going on in this series? Really?" which is sent back to the return address, but then the recipient never is given an iota of clarity from the original sender about why the package was ever sent to begin with. Weird, mind-bending, intensely convoluted! But, I do have good memories of watching this series; it was during a single summer and I went swimming afterwards, with it still boggling my mind — I still remember splashing in the cool water, while laughing about the absurdity of it all. So, overall, I would say that I actually really enjoyed "Brain Powerd"!
⚠️ This review will be spoiler-free ⚠️
—Story/Characters
From the sources that I have read…
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As one who has seen nearly everything that director Yoshiyuki Tomino has made, I am sad to say that Brain Powerd is far and away his worst TV series (but not his worst anime period; that distinction goes to Garzey’s Wing). The show was Tomino’s first TV anime after a four year break and at 26 episodes is his shortest series in over 20 years. Which can only be looked at as a good thing, as I can only imagine how hard this would be to stomach at 50 episodes.
In Brain Powerd, mankind has discovered a giant structure known as Orphan, deep underneath the ocean. Numerous scientists and intellectuals have foretold that Orphan is going to rise out of the ocean and head off to space, but in doing so will absorb the energy of the Earth, killing all those not aboard it. Orphan has also created or “g…
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“What do you think you’re doing to my brain?!”
That’s my line, fucker!
Welcome to Brain Damagd: Yoshiyuki Tomino’s mentally handicapped potential answer to Evangelion. Comparing the latter to the former is comparing Hyperion to a satyr. Perhaps that isn’t strong enough to indicate the sheer gap between the two, or what an utter waste of time this dreck is for those not seeking to witness every single Tomino, mecha, and post-Eva anime out there.
The writing is more detrimental than a lobotomy, and more nonsensical than lobotomizing an infant. Their horrendous Eva-inspired attempts at biomechanical pseudoscience and Gundam-inspired attempts at terminology, are as convoluted as they are nonsensical and inconsistent. The show is also spectacularly blunt to the point of telling you exactly w…
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Brain Powerd is a Sunrise anime from '98. It was directed and written by by Tomino Yoshiyuki, the creator of Gundam and the person responsible for the Garzey no Tsubasa OVA. I was asked to review this on the grounds that I hated Evangelion and this is, as impossible as it sounds, supposedly worse. I find that hard to believe, but let's take a look and decide for ourselves.
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Story:
During an excursion, Utsumiya Hime discovers a giant plate. From the plate emerges a giant mecha, one of the titular Brain Powerd. She becomes its pilot and escapes from a pair of giant robots that are chasing her. One year later, Isami Yuu, one of the pilots, is leaving Orphan, the one-dimensionally evil organisation dedicated to helping their ship, called Orphan, reach the stars even if it de…
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I'm not even sure what I watched when I watched this show. It starts out all right, hiding the hideous truth behind the first episode. This is because, like all shows, you really don't know what you're getting into from the first episode.
I was going to give this show a 1, a score I've only graced with only one other show I've watched. That show is the Hakkenden: Legend of the Dog Warriors. However, Yoko Kanno's score saved it from being bottom of the barrel. Who am I kidding though, strike that last sentence. This show is complete garbage. But seriously, that's why I gave it a 2 instead of a 1.
I'm fairly certain that this show is defined under the Geneva Conventions as an act of torture, and is routinely used against captives in Gitmo. What an awful place to be where they'd be showing…
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I apologize if I somehow don't use a lot of big words, or just a lot of words in general in this review. I lost enough braincells watching/half-watching this show that it's affected my vocabulary and my memory, and I've just stopped caring altogether to give this a proper review. I'll be mainly going off Wikipedia and TV Tropes for information simply because I can't be bothered enough to go off my own memory for this. I pity the poor bastards who watched this weekly when it first aired, because I bet they couldn't remember jack shit every week—thus why the main character clearly had to do a quick recap of what happened every single episode, and even SHE didn't seem invested in it.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is the pinnacle of the 90s when it comes to anime, and has become one of the most inf…
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The Evangelion Rip-off Saga, Part 1:
Brain Powerd? More like Brain DAMAGE.
The obligatory quote from the show:
"Iko, where did you learn to hoe a straight line like that?!?" - About 50 children to an amnesiac girl.
Just a touch of background before I begin to describe the awfulness that is to come: Brain Powerd aired in April of 1998, barely 8 months after End of Evangelion came out, and as such, has the distinction of being the first post-Eva Evangelion clone. Headed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, known for his Gundam series, a mecha staple, and the studio Sunrise- also known for any and everything mecha, it sounded like a match made in heaven. Who better to put together a masterpiece and show that hack Hideaki Anno who was the REAL anime master?
Yeah, no. Get ready for this.
Artwork and…
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I discovered this anime from playing Super Robot Wars Judgment, and decided to check it out because it seemed interesting. Indeed, it was, but it needed more explanatory energy than organic energy.
Perhaps I missed it, but one of the greatest flaws in this anime is how it has several core concepts it relies upon that it gives a lackluster explanation for. "B-plates" are mentioned many times throughout the anime, but are never given a real definition. Likewise, "organic energy" is used to explain practically everything, when even the characters in the show don't completely understand what it is. Sometimes it's life force. Sometimes it's emotion. Sometimes it makes a shield or shoots lasers, and sometimes it lets you teleport. Sometimes it's literally what makes plants grow. It becomes a b…
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A horrendous mecha anime that is worth a peek.
Understand that I'm writing this review from the perspective that none of the current reviews represents my perspective of this anime.
Normally this means a show is either worse or better than what the overall reviewers have portrayed since I'm not the type to write a review without looking and considering the rest of the reviews that's been written. Brain Powerd is this one exception.
Let's get the bad out of the way first: Is this as horrible or cookie cutter as many of the bad reviewers have written?
In many ways, it's worse. I'm telling you right now I didn't finish watching this show and I simply watched the first and the last episode.
If you're wondering then how I can review this show without going through the pain of watching this…
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There are a few series out there that claim controversy as part of their aura. These are shows like Evangelion, who for some reveal a mess of whine, and for others a complex basket of goods. Brain Powered falls in to this controversy in a matter I can’t quite fathom, because for some it is incomprehensible. The reason I can’t fathom the controversy is because it made perfect sense to me, and I don’t exactly see where the confusion lies. Despite the fact that for many fans watching this is among the worst anime experiences in their lives, I am going to proudly proclaim this a masterpiece, and hopefully give a satisfying reason why.
When Tomino promoted this film, he claimed it was “even better than Evangelion”. This is an extremely brash statement for any director to make, but in a sense h…
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A anime with big ideas
Brain Powered is a anime with big ideas. The problem with it is it's execution. First the story is in the earth's near future. Where a strange ruin, known as Orphan, has begun to surface from Earth's oceans. Orphan first appeared from under the tectonic plates, and all signs point to it surfacing and causing a world wide catastrophe when it reaches its destination above the waves. This activity from Orphan has created earthquakes, seismic waves, and tsunami's, which have battered the land regions of Earth, producing wide spread floods and destruction. The humans inside Orphan plan to change the earth drastically by raising Orphan out of the ocean. They also use ant-bodies, giant robots created from Orphan. The story follows Isami Yuu who flees Orphan and Hime a memb…
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