I finished watching Eureka 7 last night(actually post was started last week..) in a sleep depriving marathon but man was it worth it! I can’t believe how close I was to skipping this show altogether because I thought of it as another generic mecha show. Luckily Kawaii managed to catch my interest with her reviews and I watched the handfull of episodes released at the time. I was pretty much hooked immediately and was thrilled everytime I saw a new Eureka release. Since I’m too lazy to do a full fledged review I’ll do a mini-rant instead because I really want to say something about an anime this good.
I thought the show was very good, one of the better I had seen in fact but it was the episode where Renton realizes that there was real human beings piloting the LFO’s he was destroying that made me fully appreciate it. The scene where he goes complete berserk was like flicking a switch on my view of the series. It added so much depth and seriousness and I started to really feel for the characters.
I think the reason why I enjoyed this show so much was because the characters really did develop. As they experienced things their views and opinions changed, their behaviour became different throughout the series and even their appearance changed in some cases. Especially Eureka was so well done in that department as her appearance changed for the worse, getting scars and several other anatomical anomalies. It left me with a feeling of realism; you are not left unscathed from every encounter in life.
“Is Eureka the most uglified female lead ever? She gets facial scars, a chemotherapy haircut, skin disease, turns into a bug…” - Riuva.com
At the end of the show it all felt real; the characters felt believable as if they truly did have a personality. One pair of the support cast that I enjoyed tremendously were Anemone and Dominic. Each one apart would not be as interesting at all but when together and their tragic circumstances unfolded were easily as good as the main duo Eureka and Renton. In fact I really wouldn’t have minded seeing them as the main cast, they simply were that good!
It really was the characters that elevated Eureka 7 above your typical mecha. The way they inserted small snippets of the different characters past spread throughout the whole series was a good move as it added a sense of continuity instead of doing it in a episodic way, just dropping a story bomb on each character right out of the blue. Although admitedly I was disappointed with the resolution to Holland’s past, just because the way they kept hinting at it throughout the entire show and when it was done I really was left feeling kind of “meh”. I really were expecting Diane to have a stronger personality, but instead once she appeared she barely left a mark in my memories.
Diane together with the last episode are the only complaints I can think of from the top of my head. The last episode was just one big cheese bomb and I was cringing almost throughout the entirety of it. It really was a good thing that I wathed the last 10 episodes in a row because I still had an awesome feeling when I was watching the last episode and I could appreciate the ending in a different way than if I had watched episode 49 1-3 weeks before the last episode.
Eureka 7 might not be the perfect anime (are there any?) but certainly was awesome enough to deserve a top 10 spot on my best animes list. It left an impression that it will take a long time to forget and I can’t say that there are many animes that I remember past one month of finishing them, if even that. Final verdict: Eureka 7 rocks!
Anime merchandise here in Sweden is extremely limited so the chance of something like that coming here is close to zero.
i like this website
Hey! I love Anemone and Dominic.
The slow pace of the first season made many lose interest in e7, so it’s quite the pity.
There’s tonnes of cool merchandise though, like the limited edition Renton replica shoes!!
Left by tj han on May 26th, 2006