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Title (English) Star Ocean Ex

Title (Japanese) Star Ocean Ex

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Fantasy Novel

Notes April 3, 2001-
TV Tokyo.
Enix sci-fi fantasy anime playing on TV Tokyo.
It looks to be based upon the PlayStation "Star Ocean - the Second Story" game.

Classification -

Synopsis Kurodo ( Claude in the game ) is on a giant Star Trek-like spaceship with his father when, while exploring a crashed alien spaceship, Kurodo looks into what appears to be a stone coffin and is transported to some pastoral world. Well, sort of pastoral, because the world is now being invaded by ugly aliens. On the mysterious world, a pointy-eared, blue-haired girl named Rena is remembering the legend of a blond-haired boy with a sword of light who will save the place.

Review "Star Ocean Ex" is a new Enix sci-fi fantasy anime playing on TV Tokyo. I can best describe it as "Star Trek" meets "A Princess of Mars". It looks to be based upon the PlayStation "Star Ocean - the Second Story" game.
Kurodo ( Claude in the game ) is on a giant Star Trek-like spaceship with his father when, while exploring a crashed alien spaceship, Kurodo looks into what appears to be a stone coffin and is transported to some pastoral world. Well, sort of pastoral, because the world is now being invaded by ugly aliens. On the mysterious world, a pointy-eared, blue-haired girl named Rena is remembering the legend of a blond-haired boy with a sword of light who will save the place. Then Rena goes off into the deep woods, where, sure enough, a giant ape-like monster pops out of a stream to menace her. ( The ape looked a lot like the giant ape in "Grappler Baki", so I expected Baki himself to pop out at any moment to pound the crap out of the ape. )
Kurodo hears Rena's screams, and following her overly cute pet bunny's trail, he first smashes the ape over the head with a branch, then blasts it to bits with a phasar that his father just so happened to give to him before he got transported away. Rena sees Kurodo's blond hair, and the big blast of light from his phasar, and decides that Kurodo must be the savior from legend.
So starts what looks like will be a fairly pedestrian kid's fantasy adventure. There was no humor or irony in the episode and the animation and music were tolerable but not memorable. I suspect that this show will do fine with pre-teen boys, for whom the plot and characters may potentially be novel, but almost anyone else will be able to write the plot and dialog at least one scene ahead of the show. ( For example, Kurodo, of course, just had to muse, "Koko wa ?" when he woke up on the strange planet. )
BTW - am I the only person who wonders how the typical pointy-eared elf or alien girl sleeps at night without breaking all the cartilage in those stiff ears? (Dave Baranyi)

Credits Dir: Hiroshi Watanabe

Episodes 26

Release

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 2001 April 3 -

Production Studio Deen

Broadcaster TV Tokyo

Animation

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Star Ocean Ex
Title (Japanese)	Star Ocean Ex
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	April 3, 2001- TV Tokyo. Enix sci-fi fantasy anime playing on TV Tokyo. It looks to be based upon the PlayStation "Star Ocean - the Second Story" game.
Classification	-
Synopsis	Kurodo ( Claude in the game ) is on a giant Star Trek-like spaceship with his father when, while exploring a crashed alien spaceship, Kurodo looks into what appears to be a stone coffin and is transported to some pastoral world. Well, sort of pastoral, because the world is now being invaded by ugly aliens. On the mysterious world, a pointy-eared, blue-haired girl named Rena is remembering the legend of a blond-haired boy with a sword of light who will save the place.
Review	"Star Ocean Ex" is a new Enix sci-fi fantasy anime playing on TV Tokyo. I can best describe it as "Star Trek" meets "A Princess of Mars". It looks to be based upon the PlayStation "Star Ocean - the Second Story" game. Kurodo ( Claude in the game ) is on a giant Star Trek-like spaceship with his father when, while exploring a crashed alien spaceship, Kurodo looks into what appears to be a stone coffin and is transported to some pastoral world. Well, sort of pastoral, because the world is now being invaded by ugly aliens. On the mysterious world, a pointy-eared, blue-haired girl named Rena is remembering the legend of a blond-haired boy with a sword of light who will save the place. Then Rena goes off into the deep woods, where, sure enough, a giant ape-like monster pops out of a stream to menace her. ( The ape looked a lot like the giant ape in "Grappler Baki", so I expected Baki himself to pop out at any moment to pound the crap out of the ape. ) Kurodo hears Rena's screams, and following her overly cute pet bunny's trail, he first smashes the ape over the head with a branch, then blasts it to bits with a phasar that his father just so happened to give to him before he got transported away. Rena sees Kurodo's blond hair, and the big blast of light from his phasar, and decides that Kurodo must be the savior from legend. So starts what looks like will be a fairly pedestrian kid's fantasy adventure. There was no humor or irony in the episode and the animation and music were tolerable but not memorable. I suspect that this show will do fine with pre-teen boys, for whom the plot and characters may potentially be novel, but almost anyone else will be able to write the plot and dialog at least one scene ahead of the show. ( For example, Kurodo, of course, just had to muse, "Koko wa ?" when he woke up on the strange planet. ) BTW - am I the only person who wonders how the typical pointy-eared elf or alien girl sleeps at night without breaking all the cartilage in those stiff ears? (Dave Baranyi)
Credits	Dir: Hiroshi Watanabe
Episodes	26
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	2001 April 3 -
Production	Studio Deen
Broadcaster	TV Tokyo
Animation
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.