Anime Review: Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet

December 23, 2013

Ensign Ledo comes from a group of humans that no longer have a planet to call their own. They live in space ships and stations. During an engagement with their mortal enemy Ledo is separated from the main fleet and loses consciousness. Upon waking he finds himself surrounded by primitive humans, by his standard that is.

He is now on a planet with oxygen. A planet covered by water. All the people still alive live on ships that band together and form small floating colonies. Err, ya ever seen water world? Anyway Ledo must find a way back home to rejoin the war he was bred to fight in. Along the way he may learn a few things about humans, his enemy and maybe even himself.

This show was clean, though I will admit it had a few rather suggestive moments. Two different episodes come to mind. One entails a number of the he girls wearing skimpy bathing suites while enjoying some time off at the “beach”, or rather their version of what going to the beach would be. The other has has the same girls doing some dancing on a stage. While the clothes were truly no worse than the swim wear the dance itself was meant to be provocative, though again nothing was actually shown or happened.

Overall I liked the show. I felt it could have been done better. It felt like it was either too short to complete all the subplots or they should have just extended it a few episodes. I know that doesn’t really make sense, it is kind of hard to put into words. But there were plots that feel like never finished them and forgot about them, or maybe intended a second season to finish them off but never got the green light. Either way there were some things

I can’t say if I would list it as a show I like. The things about it I did like they didn’t do much with. For example I really liked the idea of the flying or gliding around that the mail courier girls do because the concept of flying to me is very interesting, but they don’t do much with it. So it’s not like it was a bad show in those regards, just didn’t catch my attention long-term.


Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 13
Content: Generally clean.