Alternative TitlesEnglish: Dragonaut - The Resonance Japanese: ドラゴノーツ-ザ・レソナンス-
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Type: TV
Episodes: 25
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 4, 2007 to Mar 27, 2008
Duration:
25 min. per episode Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
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SynopsisTwenty years prior to the story's beginning, an asteroid headed for Earth destroys Pluto. Due to Pluto's destruction, the asteroid, which is dubbed Thanatos, becomes temporarily stagnant. Now, in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA) works on the "D-Project", and creates the "Dragonaut" after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. This weapon's primary purpose is to destroy the asteroid when the time comes. However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures, which are bent on destruction, appear on Earth.
After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina, a lonely 18-year-old boy who lost his family in a shuttle accident two years ago, gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes the chosen pilot of the Dragonaut. Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him. As they get deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also begin to develop a closer relationship.
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Related AnimeAdaptation: Dragonaut -The Resonance
Side story: Dragonaut: The Resonance Special
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Wasabi
61 of 90 people found this review helpful
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25 of 25 episodes seen
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| Overall |
6 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
6 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
Dragonauts is another anime done by Gonzo. This show shows some promise, but due to certain presentation of its characters and style, it pretty much falls back quite a bit.
Story: The beginning of the show starts off with a young Kamashina Jin as he witnesses his family's deaths as their space shuttle gets blown to bits by a mysterious falling object from space. The main plot then follows an older Kamashina Jin as he gets thrust into a world of government secrets concerning "dragons", envoys sent by a living asteroid... thing called Thanatos floating around the remains of Pluto. Enter the Dragonauts, an elite team of humans paired up with their own artificially born Dragon. Jin and the Dragonauts are on opposing sides at first, but a government conspiracy eventually leads them to the same objective. The plot progresses at a fair pace and even has a nice short timeskip to compliment its mid-climax.
Art: The character designs are done by the very same man who did the designs for Witchblade... so you can definitely expect lots of women with unnatural proportioned bodies. The show also makes use of CGI for its dragon battles. The CGI is not very good looking as it clashes with its 2D counterpart if you even dare to compare them. The dragons themselves all have unique looks to them but it is hard to determine if the dragons are suppose to be organic beings or some kind of bio-mecha. Other than that, the art is decent except for weird proportioned women but you can never forget Sieglinde's 6th finger. Good job, Gonzo.
Sound: The music in the show is nothing special. All the tracks are not memorable enough. There are your generic suspenseful themes and romance themes and of course your action themes. I can't even write anything about it since I forgot what music the show even had.
Character: Never has a show made me hate so many characters before. I will say that the main characters have their fair share of development but the supporting characters don't shine much.
Jin is one of those "I-don't-want-to-fight-anymore" guys that does nothing but tries to talk his way out of life and death situations and Kazuki is one of those annoying cretins that just keeps coming back to kill our beloved hero blind to the fact that he's a complete asshole. I hate Kazuki as much as I hate Kururugi Suzaku. Other than that, everybody just seems... completely flat.
Enjoyment/Overall: I had hoped this show redeemed itself constantly especially through its character department but is still fairly disappointed. If you focus solely on the story, you might enjoy it some but other than that, everything else just completely ruins a potentially decent shounen show. read more
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Monkey_D_Luffy
25 of 38 people found this review helpful
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25 of 25 episodes seen
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| Overall |
6 |
| Story |
7 |
| Animation |
6 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
5 |
| Enjoyment |
6 |
Story:
The story starts off really giving you feel of a "saving the world" type of story. There's these people called Dragonauts who pilot dragons and are trying to save the world from Thanatos. However, this plot basically gets thrown to the side as the love story between Jin, a human (not a Dragonaut,) and Toa (a dragon.) The romance between them is okay in the beginning, but it quickly becomes so annoying and bothersome. Also, the huge twist in the plot that occurs like a little past half way through the series was a pretty dumb idea.
Art:
The artwork and animation is okay, but what really just completely ruins it is the CG animation that they use for the dragons. I personally just don't even like CG, but I can usually tolerate it. However, this I couldn't tolerate very well. The dragons just looked so out place and too weird. It really would've been better if they just were normally animated, not CG animated.
Sound:
The OP and EDs are fine I guess. There's appropriate tunes for the series, so I can't complain there. However, the background isn't all that. I mean, it's not horrible, but they probably could've done a little better with it.
Character:
Character...oh man, what a disaster. Just like the story, it starts out okay. When you first see the Dragonauts they seem pretty cool and all, and Jin doesn't seem too bad, as well as Toa. However, this quickly changes as well. Jin and Toa and their relationship becomes so lame. Kazuki, Jin's best friend from years ago, who now wants to murder him, becomes possibly the number one most annoying anime character in history, and the other characters really just have no depth to them at all. However, I can't really complain about the character designs too much. Oh wait...yes I can. More than 75% of the females in the show had boobs bigger than Africa. Don't get more wrong, big boobies are great, but this show just kinda ruined it. You'll se what I mean if you watch the show.
Enjoyment:
The series starts off pretty enjoyable with some pretty decent action and all. However, all too quickly does it start to bore the viewer as it begins to revolve solely around Jin and Toa's horrible relationship and undying love for one another. It just gets so tiresome to watch after a while. read more
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Many similarities with Dragon Crisis except that it's a more older version , both involve dragons, the main character is attached to his dragon which is a girl. Also the dragon girl saves him when they first met.
-Both animes features Dragons that has human from as the main focus.
-However in Dragonaut, the female lead is the same age as the male lead.
-In Dragonaut, the male lead is comnpletely relies on the other male lead, which is also a dragon, to protect him and the female lead who is also a dragon. But, in Dragon crisis the male lead has the means and his cousin to protect the female lead who is a dragon.
-One anime has an extra genre which is "Sci-fi," while the other one has a couple of extra genre which are compose of school, comedy, harem and supernatural.
-In Dragonaut, the female lead has no other competition for the male lead's affection, while in Dragon crisis, the male lead aside from his dragon that love's him very much, there is another girl that also has feelings for the male lead.
Both contain a dragon based plot where random people are chasing after the main protagonists. Both have some kind antagonist to mess up the daily lives/stir up the plot. Both action with a hint of romance, if you're into that kind of stuff. In Dragonaut the dragons don't even look like dragons they're more machine-like.
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well its actually both this and r2 the main character and his best friend developed from best of friends to the worst of enemies
I found myself noting a lot of similarities between the two shows, in the first few episodes of Dragonaut particularly. The main characters of both, Jin and Lelouch, both go through traumatic experiences concerning their families and end up basically alone. Both protagonists have cheerful/naive friends who turn angry and bitter against them. Both involve a mysterious girl with unusual abilities. Both involve some type of government corruption and military power, including large machine type weapons that the combatants ride in/on.
Code Geass though, is more intricate and has a lot more twists and turns to the storyline; as well as the characters coming across as a lot more dimensional and engaging.
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Opening Theme"perfect blue" by Jazzin' Park
Ending Theme#1: "Rain Of Love" by Yukari Fukui
#2: "Fight Or Flight" by Yuu Kobayashi
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