Alternative TitlesJapanese: イノセント・ヴィーナス
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 27, 2006 to Oct 26, 2006
Duration:
23 min. per episode Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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StatisticsScore: 7.061 (scored by 5994 users)
Ranked: #27482
Popularity: #1196
Members: 13,094
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Synopsis In the year 2010 AD, Hyper Hurricanes born concurrently all over the world caused severe damage. Five billion people lost their lives, decreasing the world's population to 3 billion. Existing economies and militaries were wiped out. Countries were frozen under solid ice, plains sank beneath seas, the world was changed dramatically.
Human civilization enters a chaotic era. Poverty flourished outside of these ecomomic zones and slums were widespread. The ruling class called themselves Logos and maintained their position by force of arms. They call the poor Revenus, who are exiled to live outside the special economic areas.
Time has passed since then. Katsuragi Jo and Tsurasawa Jin, escape from Phantom, a force organised to watch Revenus and to suppress renegade elements of the Logos, taking with them a mysterious girl, Noto Sana. There are many who are interested in her, all with their own reasons. |
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Touka
58 of 73 people found this review helpful
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12 of 12 episodes seen
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
Innocent Venus is possibly one of the most underrated anime series of recent times. I truly believe it deserves a higher score than it currently has. Although it is only a mini-series, it does have a lot to offer.
The story starts off quite simple, you have your average shady duo accompanied by a young girl and an annoying kid on the run from a roster much bigger than themselves. However, as it progresses it manages to spark your interest quite easily, it presents you with questions you want answered, introduces new and exciting characters, defining plot twists, fantastic action sequences and a lot more. It's amazing so much can happen in such a short amount of episodes, yet it all seems spaced out so nicely. None of it feels rushed. It does, however, manage to seem a little cliche at times.
The soundtrack didn't really catch my attention, and it probably won't yours. It's not very noticeable nor memorable and doesn't stand out in any way. The opening song is nice, but that's about it. There is one certain piano song, however, that I just couldn't get enough of.
The animation is possibly one of the best things about Innocent Venus. The mecha-like robots featured in the anime have obviously had CG treatment, which may take a little while to get used to, but ultimately it works extremely well. The rest of the animation stays in the traditional format, but still manages to blend with the CG animation with ease, which has proved difficult for other series old and new. Innocent Venus seems to pull it off to close perfection.
A handful of characters are presented to you throughout the series. Most are quite interesting folk and are all very different from each other. You have the legendary Urahara Kisuke-like feel of Shiba, the annoying troublesome kid-like character, Gora, and the extremely cool but silent type, Jo. The characters are a huge part of the series and if it wasn't for some of them, I don't think I would have enjoyed Innocent Venus as much.
In such a short time Innocent Venus manages to present to you a captivating story, characters you actually care about, a feel and atmosphere like no other, and a satisfying end that makes you wish this series was longer. It's not the best mini-series ever made, but it's extremely far from being the worst. Underrated or not, in my opinion Innocent Venus deserves a watch. read more
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mizuhashi
28 of 49 people found this review helpful
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12 of 12 episodes seen
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| Overall |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
6 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Character |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
Innocent venus is in my list of favourite animes forever. I thoroughly enjoyed it, mainly because I was hooked to the storyline right the way through. Full of twists and turns, I liked the way it wasn't exactly "predictable" . The series is short, doesn't drag on, but gives you plenty of time to "care" about the characters.
I watched this series in Japanese, and I thought the voice acting was fairly well done, and graphically it was good, however I felt that the intergration of the computer effects on the mecha used could have been more seamless, because when there was great use of computers, it was painfully obvious.
The things I like most about Innocent venus is the music and the originality. The opening them "Noble Roar" I think is extremely addictive, and Sana's piano piece is absolutely gorgeous. Chraracter's could've been more original, but otherwise I thought it was a very original series, and thoroughly enjoyable. read more
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Both share very similar aspects. The mecha used in IV are fairly similar to the Knightmares of CG in their size and the way they move. It shares a similar theme of rebels rising up against a government, and there are many other obvious similarities along the way. IV is of course, much shorter than CG, but if you liked either anime then you might like the other
Innocent Venus and Code Geass share many similarities. Both have a dystopian future where terrorists try to resist an oppressive ruling class. Both have mechas but are not traditional 'mecha animes' - neither treats mecha battles as the main focus. Lelouch and Suzaku of Code Geass are somewhat similar to Jin and Jo of Innocent Venus, respectively, though their adventures are fairly different. (But all of them are really pretty to look at ;-)) Both animes also involve a mysterious girl who is being chased by the government for a reason that is not revealed until later. Both have tons of action and interesting characters, twists and turns and mysteries. If you like one of these awesome series you will probably like the other.
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The setting in both includes wealthy cities surrounded by poor areas, in the future.
Both have 2 male leads who are friends, and are in trouble with the authorities from the cities, so they are hiding out in the ghetto.
Innocent Venus is a bit more action-filled.
Both have nice animation and are quite short.
Segregation of living areas/ elites
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Opening Theme"Noble Roar" by Yousei Teikoku
Ending Theme"Brand New Reason" by FLEET
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