Introduction
It began in 1945, at the end of the Pacific War. Alien invaders filled the earth's Skies, and mankind was forced to confront an unprecedented threat. For the first time in human history, people of all cultures came together under one banner.
This war has now been raging for over fifty years. Countless lives have been lost, and the Japanese military is now forced to rely on young people such as Atsushi Hayami and his high school class, also known as Unit 5121. This new generation fearlessly struggles on with the aid of the HWT humanoid combat machines and the devastating PBE bomb.
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Audience reviews
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Aboocalypse
Gunparade March is a disjointed series, equal parts mecha show and high school comedy. Most people are going to be looking more for one or the other, and will be annoyed at this genre fusion. I found myself actually enjoying this blend, for the most part I felt like the two sides helped each other more than hurt, though I did find that the second half appeared to pick a side much more than the first.
This is an anime from 2003 so don’t expect much from the visuals, they were good enough but that’s about it. I liked all of the characters enough, with Mai as a high point and Hayami as the weak point. The world is also interesting and I hope to find Gunparade Orchestra does more with it. This is a nice 6/10 slice of life show with some character and a mecha twist. Avoid if you don’t do roma…
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Watched this, or at least most of it, several years ago, but didn't add it to the Stack until more recently. So I fire it up and...wait, where's the meccha stuff??
Yeah, that's what I was thinking the whole time. We get a little exposition at the beginning about this unknown creature invasion that took over most of the world back in World War II, and then...it becomes a background story. To a high school slice of life... Huh.
Maybe they planned to do something more with this, and the twelve episodes we have are just a wind up, but it never happened. So we have this untapped potential mecha show that instead focuses on a group of teen pilots, and a third grader for...reasons (?) but most of them have little to no substance or background. They're just there.
The art style is bright and p…
Read at the sourceLostNomad4471
Story 3/10
The thing that I hate most about this anime is the way it changes tone so spontaneously. For example, the characters may be rehearsing for a play one second, but a siren goes off and a voice says "Unit 5121 prepare for battle" then we see the characters getting in their giant robot suits to fight the aliens. What if an anime like Toradora did this? It's like the anime goes from being this slice of life anime to an action scifi anime at a moments notice.
However, what makes it worse is that it fails at both being a slice of life anime and a scifi action anime. To tell a good slice of life story requires strong characters, but these character are all dull with nothing interesting to say about them. This anime also fails as an action scifi story because literally every fight the…
Read at the sourcemartaine
Gunparade is one of the best series I've seen.
although the art, sound and animation aren't top notch, the storyline compensates for that and makes this a one-of-a-kind.
No other series i watched delivered the same atmosphere this one has - dark,
post apocalyptic, yet somehow different. It's not something explainable, just watch it and you'll understand.
This series does have all sorts of anime cliches and the ending is visible from miles away, but it is still quite interesting to learn about who the characters are, witness their development(though very minor)
and slowly understand how exactly the world got to what it is in the series-how the
I kinda make it sound dull, but it isn't. The series is filled with comedy in all the right places, there is decent action throughout the 12 epis…
Read at the sourceRanivus
::QUICK REVIEW::
Story: 6 (Great action horrible drama)
Art: 7 (Most of the money went into the mech battles)
Sound: 4 (without the mecha, this would have been a zero)
Character: 3 (Never seen such a large group i could care less)
Enjoyment: 5 (it was both fun and agonizing at the same time)
Overall: 25/50 = 5.0 (watch this as one of your last resorts)
::FULL REVIEW::
Don't be fooled by the cool mecha action you get from episode one. Thats just there to draw you in to the story. As you keep watching, you will come to realize it's all a ploy. A ploy to lure you into a romantic comedy between two members of the military. It was a HUGE disappointment too. When the action was there it was just awesome. From the animation, to the monsters, to the action, and right down to the military chatter…
Read at the sourceHuntsman
Gunparade March is a unique anime.
The story based of the manga by the same name is great. Gunaparde takes place in a alternate future when after the end of WWII in 1945 a alien race appears on the earth and begins to kill of humans. Fast forward 54 years to 1999 humans are still fighting. The story takes place in Japan one of the last remaining strongholds on the planet. The story focuses on the 5121st Platoon who are made up mainly of young teenagers who were drafted.
The characters were great adding life and emotion to the anime. I personally liked the two main characters, Atsushi Hayami and Mai Shibamura the best. They helped the anime become great.
The animation and sound was very good but not great. I didn't like the design of the mecha in the anime, but it really didn't bother me…
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