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| Buy | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 8 | Devil Doll | # |
[Rating: 83% = Buy-. Other recommended SciFi/Mecha animes: Shin Seiki Evangelion, Koukaku Kidoutai STAND ALONE COMPLEX]
When I decided to take it as a teenager comedy with just a few serious scenario elements this series began to work very well for me during my second pass. There's humor, competition, rivalry... but most notably - friendship, and coming of age, and self esteem issues. And lots of interesting Characters. And absolutely marvelous Art. And powerful Music with impressive orchestral pieces as well as fine melodic rock tracks. Where Mai-HiME decided to focus on what is happening (and failed), Stellvia decided to focus on how it happens - and succeeds in doing so, because the character relations do work. You just need to be a fan of watching teenager's issues, and crybabies saving the world - then this series will work for you. Last updated Thursday, August 28 2008. Created Tuesday, October 10 2006. | ||||||||
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Drama : Med What a wonderful Anime. Xebec outdid themselves with all the CGI mixed in with the Animation. The story of Shinma Katase and how she grows up. I expected that Shinma would hog all the limelight (Sorta like Misaki in Angelic Layer did) but each character has a backstory that is explained very well (Well except for Kouta's I think). We learn the personalities of about 8 different main characters. They are all very real, one in a failure trying to win again, another is a Success that cannot STAND having a superior. Shinma is a normal girl with ton's of angst and we don't even learn why she doesn't get along with her mother for 6 disks! The script was top notch and I will mark this above Angelic Layer as a Young Person Pick. While the girls slightly outnumber the boys the boys do get their time on the screen. What I am most amazed is that Shinma did not turn into the all knowing Deus Ex Machine (Like Shinon in Starship Operators did). She has real emotions and real issues. I am surprised that CLAMP didn't write this. Last updated Wednesday, January 04 2006. Created Wednesday, December 15 2004. | ||||||||
| Avoid | 8 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | Cedric Chin | # |
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Stellvia numbs my brain. It's not that it's average (which it isn't), it's just that you've seen this "shy girl coming of age" plot and standard anime stereotypes everywhere else before. My own problem with the series is that I just can't get over with some gaping holes others could overlook: In one episode, these preteenagers have access to high-security areas of a space station. They modify -- and crash -- multi-million dollar spacecraft. Still, if you're new to anime and haven't seen yet another sf "coming of age" anime, go ahead and see this one. Last updated Thursday, May 27 2004. Created Thursday, May 27 2004. | ||||||||
| Rent | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | Jan-Chan | # |
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With a feeling that this series has been targeted for the 12 to 16 year old crowd, Stellvia follows a high school teenager Katase Shima as she deals with the separation issues with her family as she travels to a new orbiting high school. Shima has been enrolled in the elite Stellvia high school that includes intra-solar spaceship piloting skills as part of its standard curriculum. Shima is very cute and shy teenager who has been gifted with a strange ability with computers that takes a while for her to sort out. The first few stories deal with issues of grades, class rivalries, young love, and high school friendships. While the later stories deal address the issues a super nova shock wave that threatens to destroy the earth, and how the students of Stellvia are called upon to help in the defense of humanity. (Of course Shima and her boyfriend distinguish themselves and have to deal with the problems of popularity.) While the story is not particularly original or distinctive, the animation is done well (particularly the computer-generated-a While I might not want to speak to highly of Stellvia of the Universe, I really cannot find anything bad to say about it either. This is just one of those fun and entertaining anime series that you can kind-a-sort-of remember having seen after a year has gone by. 26 Episodes (fan sub release) Last updated Tuesday, October 11 2005. Created Thursday, October 09 2003. | ||||||||
Other Sites
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| cdJAPAN.co.jp | http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/anime/topics/stellvia/ |
| Official Japanese Stellvia Series Web Site | http://www.stellvia.com/ |