Audience reviews
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ThatAnimeSnobRE
The main themes and story in Blue Gender are grim and handled with more maturity than most anime, and that alone is enough to give it praise. Unfortunately the pacing is also very slow and mostly episodic, thus it’s hard for most to go through it, especially today when most anime fans prefer shameless fantasy isekai over depressing sci-fi.
The art quality ain’t bad at all. The animators went for realism instead of flash thus the weaponry feels fairly realistic despite including bulky mecha. That tends to make most battles to feel slow or simple, although the goal was always a down to earth approach instead of spectacle. It depicts better themes of survival and existential horror when the heroes can’t solo armies using broken powers. And boy, does this anime excel at atmosphere.
The setti…
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Blue Gender started strong... for 15 minutes. It's all down-hill from there. Despite having a ton of tags & genres, it doesn't do any of them well. Quite the opposite, it manages to do every single thing it attempts worse than if it had just neglected to tackle it in the first place. I honestly don't even know where to start with this, but I guess since he was the first thing you're introduced to, let's start with the main character, Yuji. Awoken to a hectic battle, with the power to simply run away in horror, you can immediately empathize with him. He's alone, in the dark, being chased by ominous soldiers and hellish bug monsters, with no clue when or where he is or what's going on. You can understand the angst, the despair, the frustration, the confusion, you can see why he's frightened…
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Blue Gender was produced in 1999 during the era when last peak in mature anime series occurred. The series itself is a great example of how loyal to the "adult audience only" idea anime could remain back in the days.
*light spoilers follow*
From its settings, Blue Gender is highly similar to the cult feature film, Starship troopers, that was released only 2 years before the anime. In this case, our main character wakes up from an artificial sleep -- that is heavily plot-related -- to discover how the world he once knew has been overtaken by a species of over-sized alien bugs -- called Blue -- who are being fought against by a military organization whose current active mission includes *saving* sleepers like him and bring them back to headquarters.
Around half of the entire anime center…
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Blue Gender: AoT done right
As you can imagine from the title, Blue Gender is the post daddy Attack on Titan. Unlike AoT just being an over-glorified edge lord worshiped by the mainstream mass of sensationalists, I can more than happily say that Blue Gender is (perhaps unfortunately?) sits behind the obscurity corner within the likes of many 90’s good shit, which is only consumed by the enlightened – but please recommend to casuals so they can join the Reich.
Blue Gender stands out for combining three awesome things: sci-fi survival horror, social critique and creepy as fuck aliens who make the Titans looks like a bunch of wankers. And sex – presented in a way that is reasonable!
So don’t expect any Dues ex Machina ass writing, like it’s your trivial shounen. People die when they are kil…
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Anime Review No.10
Blue Gender is an anime not very well known by many because of its dark and mature content which most anime fans stay’s away and especially because the anime is an old 90’s anime. Blue Gender is closely related to the popular western title “Starship Troopers” which I gladly enjoy during my childhood but Blue Gender is different because unlike the western title which is set in an interstellar and out of this world action battle “Blue Gender” took in a pass apocalyptic event where the earth human population is in near extinction by the menacing gigantic insects called “Blues”. The remaining humans take refuge in huge space stations which they called “Second Earth”. The anime have great concepts that most people failed to notice.
Read my entire Overview of “Blue Gender” to…
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With all the praise given to classic masterpieces and all the hate thrown around at whatever becomes more popular than it should, it's always fun to go back and take a look at an anime that literally no one gives a flying duck shit about.
Y'know? A series that's not atrocious enough to be called bad, but hardly has enough going for it to even consider it as being "good". Just straight up, no holds barred mediocre. After all, the golden rule of entertainment media is "Be great, or be really bad. Otherwise, no one cares."
There will be spoilers, though you shouldn't care. Really.
Blue Gender is one of those late 90's anime that you see floating around here and there and read a quick plot summary, maybe a brief wiki search, but then you realize that the only reason it caught your attention…
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Note: I have a soft spot for this series. It's one of my gateway anime and one of the first ones I've watched outside of television. I still like it, but I'll try to be as unbiased as I possibly can.
This is a spoiler free review.
*Story*
The story is basically a survival-monster-apocalypse kinda story with giant bug like aliens called "Blue". It centers around Yuji, a guy who is cryogenically frozen for 20 years and eventually wakes up in a living nightmare.
The story itself does have a rather large scale of both a space colony and the entirety earth. It is quite intriguing and they do explore this setting thoroughly enough. They explore the living conditions and resentment of the people abandoned on earth and also the technologically advanced people in space and how each of their li…
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Welcome back, to horror anime month. This week we look at another anime that wasn't based on anything but was an original work. From AIC studios, the same people who brought us such fails as Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari and OreImo, such decencies as Viper's Creed and Quiz Magic Academy and such goodies as Sasameki Koto and Vampire Princess Miyu. Since their work quality has such a wide range I can't even give a good estimate about how this we'll turn out. Let's take a look at Blue Gender and find out.
Our story begins in 2009 with Kaido Yuji being put in Cryogenic Suspension for a strange condition that the doctor's hope to find a solution for before reawakening him. Remember when we developed that technology, froze all those people and completely forgot about all of it? That was a craz…
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Story/Plot: I really did like the concept and the premise--Bugs vs Humans; Humanity on the brink of extinction; Scarce resources and difficult moral choices. It started out very fast paced and crazy (in a good way) but stalled after the first half. It’s not unwatchable-stalled but you’ll feel the decline and it won’t pick back up. The transition between story arcs feels a bit forced too. It has some dark parts which I thought were well done.
Art: The animation was subpar and a lot of shortcuts were used. There was noticeable choppiness during some parts and low resolution scenery. I think the most annoying part was the way the robots moved. The mechs had two legs but they ALL scooted around on wheels attached to their feet. I can only guess this was done to make drawing them easier. Oh an…
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In my humble opinion Blue Gender is one of the most underrated anime, maybe because its style is a far cry from the usual anime tropes. When I bought the DVD many years ago, I knew very little about anime and chose this series on a whim. I consider myself lucky. Now that I've re-watched it, as an anime veteran, I can fully appreciate it for what it is and what it tries to do.
- What is it ?
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Blue Gender is a story about a young man of today waking up in a brutal futuristic world. Yugi Kaido was one of many people in the early 21st century, who were diagnosed with a strange genetic disease. With the absence of a cure, they had no other option but to enter cryogenic sleep, until one was found. Suddenly, Yugi is wakened into a future where the Earth is overrun by an insecto…
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have you ever watched something or listen to a song and thought it was great and then showed it to your friends and they didn't share your opinion on it? that's exactly what happened to me with this series.
Blue gender tells the story of a guy that was a "sleeper" or a person that was sort of frozen in order to keep him/her alive since the was no cure for the illness he/her was suffering at the time and wakes up to a world in ruins and aliens(although they are not really from out of space) running around killing what's left of the humans on earth. I won't say much more on the story and while it's not the most original (but on this day which stories are?) it felt as real as a sci-fi can. the characters were all flawed but likable and developed realistically according to the progression of…
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This is the only anime that I have ever had to rate at a one. I realize so many people are throwing tens at this monstrosity's feet, but I can't. I found the characters to be depth less and redundant, even the attempts at making the locals seem personable seemed to fall on itself. The overall combination of non realism combined with the attempts at bringing science into the mix left me horrified at the result. I forced myself to continue watching this abomination in a desperate hope that it might be brought to a well written close but sadly I have to say I enjoyed the ending to the third brolly movie more than I did this. After finishing this I feel as though I should need to request for some reward for completing it or if nothing else my time misspent back.
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[Spoiler Warning]
I don't know what to make of this series.
I honestly really liked the first part. The series begins with the main character Yuji waking up into a post apocalyptic world after being retrieved by a recovery squad. They try to get to a spaceship, while facing some difficulties along the way, and finally make their way to Second Earth. That part of the series was utterly satisfying. It had a relatively diverse cast, some good action and the episodes always contained something new and interesting.
After the characters get to second earth though, the show slows down a bit. There is a lot of political intrigue, which is a nice change from the previous episodes, but while there are actually things happening it always feels like you know what is going to come next. After a whil…
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Well I Recommendations to all Blue Gender because is a really fantastic series. Well it left me wondering what was going to happen next. But is sad is not like the other anime I seen this anime is old but is like a anime new anime is so cool wow I yes don’t know how to tell u guys how good it is. A race of alien bugs called the Blue have taken over the planet, and a few select humans have retreated to the space station Second Earth. Yuji is taken back to Second Earth, where he learns that he and the other sleepers will be instrumental in defeating the Blue. And his relationship with one member of the recovery squad only serves to complicate things.
Well I’m telling u guy if u wish to see something good this anime is a hot anime to see god to good, Well if u wish not to cry d…
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So, for my first review I wanted to do my absolute favorite anime. I fell in love with Blue Gender the first time I saw the first episode. Post-Apocalyptic stories, a good bit of romance, one man and his love against the world...all sounds a bit cliche but Blue Gender has a bit of something that puts it past its overdone plot elements. I can't put my finger on what it is exactly, whether it be the enthralling characters, rocking soundtrack, or the sheer boldness of the series itself.
If pressed I'd say the two main characters, Yuji Kaido and Marlene Angel are what really make the anime. It's heavily character oriented and I haven't seen too many anime that develop characters as well as Blue Gender. They are what keep the viewer heavily interested in the down points of the plot, which are…
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Bluge Gender is an anime that few people know about, or just over look due to the stroy about alien bugs taking over the earth and one man that is able to save it. It's a stroy thats been told before, but Blue Gender dose a much better job of doing so, with it chracters, and over all stroy line. It's these two major things that set it apart from the rest.
STORY- A man awakens 12-years after being put in a state of suspended animation to find that the earth has been over run by giant bugs know only as the Blue. He is resuced and taken back to mankinds last safe haven called second earth which is a sapce station. Their he disocvers that he has the power to destroy the Blue and take back the Earth in order to save humanity.
ART- The art of the show is not the best, but very well done. It is…
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Blue Gender is one of those series that a lot of people overlook or brush off for some reason. Many assume that it's just a depthless ripoff of Starship Troopers. However, in the process they're missing out on a substantially underrated and mature series that deserves more recognition.
Story: The initial idea, I must admit, isn't very original. Giant bugs VS. human beings has been done many times over, but this isn't the entire focus of Blue Gender. A variety of locations, plotlines and situations are introduced, the vast majority of them well developed. A wide range of issues related to maturation, bonding, dealing with death/violence and mankind's self-destructive nature are explored, and the political intrigue in the latter half of the series is also a nice touch.
Art: Probably the w…
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I've gotta admit that I'm surprised by the amount of enjoyment I had watching this series. Maybe it's because I didn't expect much heading into it, but like I said...very enjoyable.
For any of you who have seen the movie Starship Troopers, there are quite a few similar elements in Blue Gender. Despite our staggering intelligence and development, mankind is getting owned by some huge bug-like monsters. The difference here is that the bugs have already taken over Earth, forcing a small proportion of our population to flee to an orbiting space station. However, all hope is not lost since mankind is initiating an operation to retake our glorious planet. At the heart of this mission are people called "sleepers" and enter our main character.
We follow Kaido Yuji as he wakes up to a post apocal…
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Blue Gender is truly a remarkable anime. It takes the end of the world anime type that is getting a little over used and takes it in a whole new direction. It surpasses all the other ones I've seen before. There are many things that takes Blue Gender beyond all the other world ending anime. First the story, which adds many twists. How far would we as humans go to survive, and what we would be willing to do to each other. The cost of war is up front, and doesn't pull any punches. The action is great, a relief from the endless giant mecha these type of anime. The anime is great, a different style from most anime, that works great. The two main characters: Yuji Kaido and Marlene Angel bring life and hope to this grim anime. As the anime progresses you how the story takes it's tole and them an…
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Ah, post apocalyptic animes are so much fun. I love how they always manage to over-dramatize the end of the world, a story arc that you would think has enough drama on its own. Sarcasm aside, Blue Gender is a surprisingly deep sci-fi drama with a lot going for it. Before I get started on the actual review though, let me just point out that the content rating on this anime seems to always be wrong wherever I go, including on the box set. I bought the collectors box set at Best Buy and after checking the back for the content rating I see that it has it listed as �TV-PG.� TV-PG?! They must be nuts! Blue Gender has more people getting killed in single scenes than most of the goriest animes even have. Not just soldiers, but women and children as well. I don�t know, but I wouldn�t want little Ti…
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