Introduction
Any network runs all over the world, and the development of the information network reaches its acme. In this age, there are two developed worlds; "the real world" and "wired", or the virtual network world.
Soma Toru belongs to a hacking group, Steppen Wolf, which runs around the network world freely. They attack the database of the UN forces as their last work. During this attack, he loses Nonomura Yuya, his friend as well as the team leader. Toru is arrested by the army. In exchange for letting him free, he has to work for an anti-hacker organization, the first squad of the UN Security Force Information Administration Bureau.
Working for them, he is looking for the person who killed his friend, while the other members also have their own reason to fight.
The three-way fights of the terrorist group, the security enterprise, and the army, continue every day. The various events occurred during the fight seem to be independent of each other at the first glance, but they're converging on one event as if they were attracted by something.
Based on the game by GIGA.
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
12 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
aregularhuman
Did you ever notice that, compared to Manga and Light Novels, Visual Novel adaptations are fairly rare? Well, Baldr Force perfectly demonstrates why that is the case.
Baldr Force is based on the VN by the same name and is part of the larger "Baldr" series of games, which have a bit of a reputation for piling on long sections of setup and worldbuilding, two things notably absent from this anime.
And therein lies the issue with this series, it tries to compress roughly 30 hours of story content spread across multiple routes into a two hour time span.
As a result characters are undeveloped, plotlines come out of nowhere and if I hadn't played Baldr Sky before watching this, basically nothing related to how the Wired works would've made much sense to me.
And it's a shame that it had to be th…
Read at the sourceBlackwing1963
One of the worst ova series I have seen in recent years.
The artwork is mediocre, given that it came out in the mid 2000's I would have expected better. The CGI is also very mediocre but was probably good back then. It just doesn't blend well at all.
One of the first problems I had was the terminology. Now, I am not sure if the creator just thought they'd try and be "cool" by using what they thought was a futuristic term for the use of distance in this "Wired" virtual realm or if it was the result of some really bad translation in the subtitles. But they used the term parsec as a unit of measure. For those unaware, one parsec is approximately equal to 31 trillion kilometers (19 trillion miles), or 210,000 astronomical units, and equates to about 3.3 light-years. But they were using it for…
Read at the sourceSidewinder51
Rate a 6
seen via english dubbed
Warning: there are some brief moments that can cause some strong feelings (i.e. slight rape).
Rating of this was very hard. Took awhile but found out why. This was similar to the matrix series.Only real differences are the characters.
pro(s):
-plot: All angels of the show were covered. If you ever watched a show chances are you asked what if a lot. Here, it may not answer all the questions but covers most of them if you were on this team vs this side.
-sound: Not only were there appropriate sound effects but additions one were added to provide a more realistic feel. Take the sounds of the city for example. You would expect to hear buses, trains and so forth. You here just that.
-characters: the comic angel was a nice touch. It really caused me to root…
Read at the sourcebrynolf
Overall
Not really anything you haven't seen before, borrowing pieces from Akira, Evangelion, The Matrix and several other sources. Still, quite worthwhile, especially since it is only two hours long all in all. Awesome fighting scenes, a pretty deep (but very cliché) story and pretty cool characters. And a severed limb or two.
Animation
Kind of a mixed bag. The fighting scenes are spectacular for the most part, but the "real world" graphics are only average. Some of the digital animations of the mechas even look really cheap and awkward. But for the most part, the graphics stretches from decent to awesome.
Quite a lot of blood, mutilation and other neat stuff.
Sound
Opening and ending themes are pretty good, but don't sell your dog and your house to get the OST. Background music are…
Read at the sourceBatSurfer
Basically the story is about a hoodlum hacker who some government organization of some format, recruits and uses to help them stop the bad guyz. Really though this is a load, a rip, a troll, a blatant theft of both Ghost in the Shell and Serial Experiments Lain and their respected themes. From tachikomas to ghost hacking to "if you die in the WIRED you die in the real world". It is a complete ripoff and it gets NO POINTS for stealing.
Also weird virtual rape scenes. Which didn't make any sense at all as long as it caters to fandom. Pointless fan service FTW! Story 0/10
The art is nothing to talk at home about. Bland designs, sloppy backgrounds and terrible lighting. A bunch of pointless flashy kill scenes for wow factor to hide its terrible plot and theft. Nice try, but I am among the…
Read at the sourceMidori-tan
What differentiates the real world from the virtual world?
This short OVA discusses the concept of virtual world vs. real world. There is network and people can actually get ‘inside’ there networks and interact virtually. The story takes place when a young man is asked to join an organization called FLAK, which job is to dive in the network and attack the hackers who try to hack into FLAKs servers. This is only a portion of the story, the story is a lot more complex than this, there is revenge, friendships, and secrets waiting to be unraveled.
The animators did a good job with the character designs and backgrounds. The buildings were beautifully drawn, the interiors were very detailed and the slums looked real. There is nothing too fancy about the art; in this is what made it beautiful…
Read at the sourceyamichiru
The series stands out as one that can't really seem to make up it's mind what genre it's supposed to be. One thing's for certain, this is not for kids. If the exploding head gore in episode 1 doesn't make that clear, the virtual rape in episode 2 should do. It contains various shoutouts to other series, most noticably the matrix and neon-genesis evangelion. And yes it does have a gainax ending. Halfway through episode 4.
Story: 7
Set a few years into the future, where instead of the internet, people login to a virtual world called the WIRED through plugs on their neck, ala the Matrix. The major difference being that people's heads can explode. The premise is a little silly, but it gets a lot more serious. There is also imaginary mecha.
Souma Toru accepts a job at FLAK (mecha internet pol…
Read at the sourceyunfanz
its surprising to see how many game storise turn in to some really enjoyable animes. i really enjoyed this serice its short not too hard to understand and its deep with some heavy emotions. i recomend it to people that likes pyochlogical serice. it story is enjoyable the art work are pretty good. the opening was horrable but the inserts are ok characters are really well made and developed. after i finished its one that stood in my head but i also think this serice can be a lot better
Read at the sourcefirath
this ova is one of the better ones that i have ever watched.
the shortness of it does not take away from the story at all and the four episodes deliver all the emotional scarring that NGE did.
well i definitely wouldn't recommend those whom are weak at heart to watch this but otherwise its great. could do without the expolding heads though
Read at the sourceSkadi
Most of the time when I view an OVA series I often feel the show was too short and could have used more episodes. In the case of BALDR FORCE EXE, I couldn’t wait for it to be over.
Things start out pretty well as we are introduced to a future world where a virtual reality internet is a huge part of society. This network is called WIRED, and people can do about everything you can think of in this online world. The world is populated by hackers and network terrorists and the corporations and police forces that try to stop them. The world gives the show a perfect opportunity to have robot battles because anime loves itself some Mecha's. The hackers, terrorists, and police do battles online in virtual reality mecha suits but the catch is if you are killed in the online world, apparently this…
Read at the sourceLivira
BALDR FORCE EXE Resolution is one of the those fantastic OVA series that is severely overlooked by the vast amount of people who watch anime. It has wonderful art, a decent storyline, and good characters.
STORY:
The series is about a man, Tooru, who has lost everything (won't spoil ;p) and joins up with a kind of team, or company, called FLAK. The series is set in a would-be Japan, where the "wired world" is part of everyday life. People are able to literally plug themselves into certain computers and spend time in this new cyber world.
It is quite a difficult concept for the writers of this OVA to get across well in such a small amount of time, but they do it brilliantly.
ART:
Nothing to complain about here: the characters are drawn very well, the backgrounds are fantastic, and the Mec…
Read at the sourceMrGaz
For a 4 episode series, it sure does deliiver the goods but not all of it. With good CG animations and soundtrack to get you into the series, it didn\'t make it up for the character development and storyline but considering its only a 4 episode series (2 hour movie if you would say), it had to be rushed in order to fit all the events in and in a proper sequence.
The beginning starts off with the usual routine of investigating in the cybernetic world. As the FLAK was doing their normal routine, they encounter this special girl and things take a nasty turn for a couple of FLAK members. As the story moves on, Souma Tooru becomes one of the new members in the FLAK new devision but he joined not to relive his glory days as \"Steppen Wolf\" but for solely one purpose. You will have to watch to…
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