Introduction
Onboard a cruise ship heading to the scenic Cenancle Island, the full-body cyborg Nene Nanakorobi, a bubbly young girl who dreams of world peace, meets inventor Uzal Delilah. The two become fast friends along with Uzal's pet cyborg Clarion, a cat-like combat android. Soon after parting ways, a terrorist attack on the island threatens to shatter the pair's new friendship. In a bid to save her new friend, Uzal gives Nene the ability to use the Pandora Device found in Clarion's body before seemingly dying. With this power, Nene can temporarily master abilities and skills never seen before in the advancing world.
Working together, the two unlikely companions go on various missions—from saving children in shopping mall fires to fighting reckless thieves—all in the name of world peace. But to achieve this goal is not easy. B.U.E.R, a sentient laser in the form of a misshapen teddy bear, threatens to wreck their happy lives with his perverted nature and uncontrollable power. And to make matters worse, Nene's guardian, as well as genius inventor, Takumi Korobase has an undying interest in B.U.E.R.
Burdened with saving the world and keeping B.U.E.R from the hands of evil, Nene and Clarion's desire for world peace seems like a pipe dream. With this monumental goal, could the weight of it all destroy the pair's friendship completely?
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Audience reviews
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youkaiai
A truly ridiculous show. It's a bright, colourful and goofy tale of two cyborgs, each charming in their own way, striving for world peace by tackling one local disaster at a time.
The protagonists are two classic Yuri personalities, and their personas will be recognisable to anyone familiar with the genre. Nene, our kind-hearted airhead, wanders into bizarre and frequently dangerous situations in every episode but she is fortunately accompanied by her loyal bodyguard Clarion. Clarion is the seriously protective, logical and monotone rage-kitten who though utterly adorable, is also fearless and formidable.
Those looking for high-brow sci-fi or intelligent comedy will not find that here. It's lewd gags, familiar tropes, and crotch shots. It's the kind of show to turn your brain off and jus…
Read at the sourceEfhhRacso
Story(4/10) - Being similar to other sci-fi stories is not a negative aspect, but being a boring clone is. It brings basically nothing new to the table, it's just your typical action-fest of smacking enemies, just a generic sci-fi show with way more ecchi scenes than it needs, it's another fan service show.
Art(5/10) - One word, "unexceptional". It doesn't have the spark or anything remotely visually engaging, but it's not atrocious. Nothing special, the animal can be described as "meh", the character designs are overall pretty good, but it's not raising the bar higher enough to go over the average mark.
Sound(8/10) - I always forget this aspect in most of my reviews, for an apparent reason, this aspect will either be a 5(Average) or a worse score. And most of the time there won't be muc…
Read at the sourceRESOLVING_POWER
I watched Koukaku no Pandora, also known as Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn. Here are my thoughts:
The plot of this anime is borderline incoherent.
Poor animation quality with CGI used in the action scenes. If I could describe the animation in one word it would be 'sloppy.' Much of it is out of proportion and off-model. In fact the entire production has a very low-budget feel to it. Maybe that is part of the charm though? Which leads me to my next point: this is a pretty fun show. It doesn't take itself seriously. It is completely ridiculous and self-aware of that fact, and as a result it is a pretty fun watch. It feels like some kind of yuri sci-fi fever dream.
Okay soundtrack. The music is unique but suitable for the show. Actually the audio production quality in this is okay…
Read at the sourceDesolatePsyche
Koukaku no Pandora 6/8/7/7/7/7
First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story✦
Absolutely adorable story presentation with some touch of lewdness. Long story short. It's straightforward moeblob with rather enjoyable quirks and traits. It's a bit more "refined" moeblob than the more stereotypical shows. But I did absolutely adore how everything was conveyed, expressed, reacted and presented along the storytelling. It was enjoyably, but nothing too interesting. Characters and presentation methods made it fun.
✦Art & Sound✦
Straightforward, flat, colorful but extremely fun art style. There were so many facial expression that I would gladly save on my harddrive and use them as reaction/emoji. Overall character desig…
Read at the sourceSeregosa
Aaaah, yeah, don't watch this. Go for the manga instead, that's the summary of what I'm going to say.
This anime was quite subpar. I read the manga and then watched the anime version since you often find quite a lot of differences between versions and it's nice to see it from a different perspective and with voices etc. The problem here is that the manga and anime is almost exactly the same. I sped up the whole anime by three times to manage watching it all. The end result is that the only pretty big difference is the last half of the last episode, but even then it's not worth watching.
In the first place, it was fairly nice in manga format, not the best, but enjoyable nonetheless. It had a lot of negative aspects, mainly in terms of characters(personalities and attitudes) and plot holes…
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
Ohhh so this is what happens when Ghost in the Shell turns into a moe yuri show.
And coincidentally, what with LA finishing the first season of Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex quite recently as LA writes this review, this anime is a different take on this kind of setting.
So Koukaku no Pandora follows a very distinct formula after it's introductory first episode or two. Vlind voiced by Satsumi Matsuda starts the episode off with her running gag of never saying her name out loud, next focuses on our main leads Clarion voiced by Manami Numakura a robot assigned to be Nene Nanakorobi's bodyguard, this being due to Clarion's original owner Uzal voiced by Atsuko Tanaka ordering her to protect Nene, have Takumi Korobase voiced by Marie Miyake try to spy or her trying to secretly hack Cl…
Read at the sourceEirenliel
What's best than cute cyborg-girls for a techno-fetishist like me? If you are the same, this anime is definitely for you!
Created by our God and Savior Shiro Masamune, this contains all technological stuff from GITS that we love the most and cute girls as a bonus!
Cyborgs, androids, AI, strange funny robots and lots of action. Yes, some things here are just for fun-service like pantsu-shots or even all main characters, but who cares? The hell, this anime is all about fun-service. It's comprised of all the things that sci-fi anime geeks love, and do not lie to yourself that you don't!
Cyberpunk not always should be dark and hard, this anime shows us that it can also be cheerful and beautiful and I totally love it!
Ofc, this review is emotional, but isn't watching anime is all about emot…
Read at the sourceThe_Ruise
Koukaku no Pandora may not be for everyone (if you don't like moe hijinks or care about shoujo ai GET OUT), but I guess it just struck the right chord for me. While everything else about the anime was sort of "okay," the characters and enjoyment value were a perfect 10 in my opinion. To break it down:
Story: 8 The main plot isn't as important to the show as the interaction of Nene and Clarion with the other characters. Also I didn't really pay that close attention to the plot. In the simplest terms possible, the scientist Uzal builds a doomsday device, it goes crazy, city is almost destroyed, cyborg Nene and android Clarion save it, Uzal disappears, bad guys try to steal the device...It's whatever. HOWEVER, I thought the actual setting and atmosphere of the story were really cool, mainly…
Read at the sourceKaiDestinyz
Koukaku no Pandora is probably the most underrated series of the season, mainly because people generally shun away from series like this before even giving it a try.
People are generally more interested in action type anime with a male mc on their front cover. So when you have a series like this, with 2 really young looking girls with a synopsis that doesn't seem to have any deep plot, it gets overlooked very easily.
However, Koukaku no Pandora is a show that manage to combine its yuri elements into a comedy that makes you want to watch more of. I immediately liked Nene and Clarion when I saw them. This show also have a good mixture of its insane randomness and random comedy moments in the background that makes it so enjoyable to watch.
Definitely would recommend to give this series a…
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Don't be fooled by the rating, Koukaku no Pandora is one of the best shows of the season. It manages to blend action, comedy, and fanservice in such a way that they don't detract from one another. When I watched the first episode, I immediately fell in love with Nene and Clarion. They are both extremely likable, and their interactions are some of the best moments of the show. The story manages to be coherent without being too simple or too complicated. The soundtrack is also spectacular, with a catchy OP and ED with cool background music. The only issue I see people having with this show is the animation. Watching the show, you can see that they didn't have a very high budget. That being said, I don't find it to be terrible nor distracting, but I can understand why it would turn people awa…
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NOTE: This MAY contain spoilers!
Story 7/10: There's a lot of plot development in the anime! There are few moments in the episodes where it contains cliff-hangers. There's also a lot of action, fighting and comedic scenes with Clarion and Nene. This anime also contains an aspect of magical girls animes we would normally see. They get to meet new people in the island and becomes friends with them overtime in the series.
Characters 8/10: Nene is sweet, caring, & overbearing to Clarion. Clarion (Claring) is monotone, & is programmed to take care of Nene. Uzal is a well-known professor in the island who supervised Claring & Nene. Takumi (who comes in a few episodes later in the series) is the new caregiver of Claring & Nene, she hates Uzal & obsessed with knowing the secrets behind Uzal's p…
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Short version:
It's not as good. The whole pace seems ridiculously retarded, even though the art is actually pleasing
Long version:
You know how MonMusu seems to have that "monster girl" fetish catering for the fanboys? This *should* be at least cater the android girls fetish. I'm not getting that. You end up with a weird over-sexual henshin that seems to be out of a 14 year old weeaboo who keeps fapping on loli images. annoying reporter who should have died midway but kept alive 'cause "look guys, funny failing reporter x3". An edgy yet mysterious antagonist, and finally, 2 of the most bland yet happy-go-lucky character to date. The only good thing is that mysterious doctor that seems to leave a cliffhanger, with the mysterious antagonist group.
If you really like loli and don't mind wi…
Read at the sourceAllenHavens92
Pandora in the Crimson Shell: Ghost Urn is one of those shows that came, went, and did not do a thing for me at all.
I'm sure there could have been a more interesting story if I looked hard enough, but that'd only give me a headache. What we have is mostly cute robot girls doing cute robot things. Normally, I wouldn't mind that, but if it were a slice of life series. It also is supposed to be a comedy, but, though it was in there, it was mainly a bunch of running gags that went stale after the first reoccurrence.
Characters, including the main cast, by the end remain two-dimensional with little to no development. All of them are written so the only thing they do is act or say the same schtick. Some just appear briefly, having no ulterior motive for being there in the first place. Our mai…
Read at the sourceLeaderTGW
Oh man, where should I even begin with Koukaku No Pandora. First, the show didn't have much of a "wow" factor to me. I wanted to like it because it certainly was unique in its own ways however, it lacked entertainment and engaging story. Surprisingly, it failed to keep me interested and entertained. To me it seemed like the characters were forced to be cute. To explain a bit further it was like in the directors and animators minds, they were saying "Oh lets force a clueless reaction face or cute face on Nene or Clarion to make them look cute." Rather than having things like that happen naturally, it was like everything was forced, and the animators, producers etc were telling me to enjoy it, however it was just so unappealing.
Story- 6/10
The story wasn't doing much for me. I could not…
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