Ranked #1775

Innocent Venus

Innocent Venus is possibly one of the most underrated mini 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, amazing 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 manage to seem quite cliche at times, however.

The OST didn't really catch my attention, and it probably won't yours. It's not very noticeable, it doesn't stand out. 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-like animation with ease.

A handful of characters are presented to you throughout the series, and most are quite interesting folk, which 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 actually 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.

Quite simply, Innocent Venus manages to introduce to in such a short time, 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

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