Ranked #2962

Dragonaut - The Resonance

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

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

This show had a lot going for it: good clean animation, a range of interesting-looking characters, a reasonable story line...and dragons (because we all love dragons...well, I do)
The problems arise because all, or at least most, of this potential disappears due to a lack of following through.
The characters reveal themselves to be pretty detestable. I said they were interesting-looking, but once they started opening their mouths, well, that's a different matter. The only ones I didn't hate or at least dislike were the ones that never really had enough airtime for me to build up a dislike for them. They were mostly flat and underdeveloped and just plain irritating, although nowhere near as irritating as the protagonists, who just seemed to be very very stupid. Jin and Toa couldn't see beyond how besotted they were with each other (which got really boring really fast), Kazuki couldn't get over his personal (and somewhat jarringly over-the-top) vendetta against Jin, and Gio took most of the series to figure out that three really does make a crowd (admittedly when realisation did eventually dawn on him he proceeded to instigate the highlight of the series by: blowing stuff up - lots of stuff.)
The animation was the other thing that really annoyed me. It was fine, there were no real problems with it - until the CG dragons came along (the CG looked very out of place amongst the otherwise perfectly fine artwork), closely followed by massively over-endowed ladies (as in serious spinal injury type bosoms).
The only thing that stood out for me above the rest was the music. It was a little generic, but I still enjoyed some of the themes.
Overall it was a bit disappointing to say the least, but if you happen to want to watch something with the single intent of picking holes in it and laughing at it, then this is right up your street. read more

Disappointing. One word to describe this series. The anime starts of well, drawing the attention of the viewers only to let us down in the end. Or should I say, from the second episode.

Story: Well, the idea of humans and dragons co-existing with each other really caught my attention. It manages to hold on to it, until everything went downhill, badly. The beginning gives the viewer a fresh feel of what to expect in the series, with an interesting plot to keep us entertained. It starts of with the protagonist being stuck on a space shuttle that is destine to be doomed, but the story doesn't the focus on that, but focuses on the love between a dragon and a human. It may sound pretty nice at first, but trust me; Dragonaut isn't very nice - not nice at all. The producers throw in a bunch of romance elements in the show, which was (mentioned by another reviewer) great in the beginning, which soon became very annoying and repetitive throughout the anime. The ending, sorry to say didn't end so well, and hopefully a second season won't be thrown in.

Art: Now, when I first watched the first episode, the animation was great. The CG didn't really fit in with the 2D animation but it was still enjoyable. However, like I said, that was the first episode. When the show continues on, the animation seemed butchered. Also, this may be added as a fan service, but why the oversized breasts? If this was meant to be fan service, I don't seem to see the service in it.

Sound: Watching how bad this anime was, I even forgot how the sound goes, however the sound was not off-tune or neither was catchy. The background music wasn't anything special, the OP and ED are at a reasonable standard. I would probably suggest that you would watch the OP 25 times than watch this rubbish.

Character: I must say, all the characters a pretty different from each other. The cast has a vast amount of characters ranging with different personalities. However, most of them are cliché characters; characters we seen from numerous animes. All the characters all have an impact on me, they all piss me off. Kazumi, Jin, Gio, Asim, yes all of them all play a good role in annoying the viewer.

Enjoyment: Enjoyment? No, not this anime. The only thing I enjoyed was seeing the show end. I can't say much more than this, I enjoyed the first couple of episodes which had me watching for more, however like I said, and like other reviewers have said, this anime does not deliver.

Overall: This anime seem to have a promising start, with great CG and pretty decent animation. This is one anime you don't want to watch. If you have already seen all of it, I suggest you give a pat on your back - you really do deserve it.


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This story is about a boy who survived a shuttle accident that was caused by creatures known as dragons killing his family and how he came to love the dragon that caused the accident and their attempt to change the world.

The story is unique to some extent, but it has the typical save the world theme in a futuristic soceity where doom is approaching. It emphasizes on the meaning of sestiny and fate and how they differ, where one can be changed while the other cannot. It is somewhat interesting but i just didnt feel compelled to like it that much.

The art was quite good, i like the art, it is different from the usual animes that i watched, so nothing bad on that account.

The songs were quite ok. I think the songs did have some effect in the mood of the story though it was not so evident. Nothing special here either.

The characters were fairly good in that they did not only focus on one or two characters but even the supporting chracters had fairly significant roles to play all the way to the end of the show. There is some internal conflict that the characters have and this brings out the themes of the story and i find it quite meaningful because you have the characters questioning the meaning of love and life and all.

I enjoyed the anime in that it contained a lot of meaning, though the story was not very entertaining the messages it tried to convey were deep and that was what i liked about the anime. Besides that there was a decent amount of romance which i personally take to.

Its a show that i would not promote that enthusiastically but i would still say give it a try cause you never know, it is quite dramatic and has a lot of meaning so its a decent anime. read more

As one blogger wrote, "Dragonaut should be called a classic of bad anime for our own time". This particular blogger acually had the iron will to finish the series whereas I on the other hand HAD to drop it after ep8, and for that he has my respect. The matter of fact is just writing this review brings back the back memories and horrors. There are many things wrong with this series but I'll just list a few:

1. I know today's anime community is filled with otakus but the boob size is just bizzare.

2. Love on first sight is probably the most romantic thing on this planet, at least according to some people, but when Jin is willing to sacrifice himself for someone who killed his parents and whom he never even met, one has to wonder whether it was really love or is he just dying for sex.

3. Watch Dragonaut and take the wildest ride in your life. First you stay on earth and develop a crush on a dragon, then you FLY TO THE MOOOOOON....to take a bath with the dragon. On your way back to earth, the GONZO staff will help you learn the difference between fake dragons and real dragons. Then you drop the series. read more

I seriously dont know what lots of people have against this anime, its great and very underestimated. I guess maybe the CGI animation they do on the dragons really doesn't suit their taste and it ruins the whole series for them.

Story
This series is shounen and romance geared, if its the mecha or the action you are mostly interested in this is not for you.
Basicly this series mixes some half-baked action(I'm not saying the action is bad its just not the focus and is pretty rare in occurance) and some deep character designs, development and an overall shallow plot.
The thing with this series is that while the main plot is not so great they focus on character depth and the sub characters story is often being told while the main story is progressing but is at most time more interesting then the main plot.

Art
I really like the art, I dont really like the CGI lets just say it doesn't bother me.
The only thing is.... Huge bouncing boobies kind of buggs me, there's some in this series.. But be not alarmed its not close to the over-the-top ecchi shows.... I found it annoying but bearable. Aside from this "issue" the animation is top notch nice looking and smooth.

Sound
Great intro song, quite decent outro and the background music is there, very plain but not bad.

Character
The characters in this series are very interesting atleast most of them, there are some exceptions but there are lots of characters that will really surprise you in this series. You never know whats going to happen with them, they develop and change just when you thought you knew them and at most times in a totaly logical way but no way near the usual archtypes.

Enjoyment
Its fun, to not really know what is going to happen next, to not really know what a character is going to do. Its so refreshing compared to other shounen anime where the character archtypes are so predictable its silly. Its basicly like this, instead of looking forward to and wondering how they are going to beat enemy boss, you're sitting there wondering what's going to happen before they meet the boss.

Overall
Surprising action packed romantic shounen series, what's not to love? The originality of this series is really impressive!
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if your reading this review, leave. no one in there right mind should ever watch this anime. It's horrid, its so bad its ridiculusly horrible.

What's to say? This anime tries to take itself seriously.

But it can't. Because the characters have such massively large jugs that it's like a professor trying to lecture on the role of genocide in 20th century geopolitics while dressed in garters and a pink thong.

Jin is the main character. He and his buddy want to go into space. But then Jin's dad, a shuttle pilot, knocks back a few and kills the entire crew of a shuttle. Or maybe some geese do it. I dunno.

Jin's buddy, and most of earth, understandably hates him for this. Because he surived this crash (he was saved by a dragon or something) which killed the crew and his loli sister. Jin then becomes chased by a girl who turns into a dragon, finds himself a very manly and totally not gay dragon called Gio (and takes this totally not gay and manly dragon from his buddy who now hates him). This all happens very fast and inexplicably and you're left wondering how and why he is now flying around in a manly dragon chasing after the least endowed female lead in the show.

But back to the premise: you have these Dragonauts. People who have these totally not gay relationships with same sex human avatars which turn into giant dragons that like shoot missiles and stuff. (Except for the loli, she has a butler dragon)

There are bad guys led by Garnet MacLaine, perhaps the most memorable anime character in memory (redundant?) because her massive tits and ass are BOTH hanging out and jiggling to their own pre-ordained and separate centres of rotation.

It's hypnotic.

Garnet wants to take the dragons for her own organization, because they can't make a bond with them the way Jin did. But mostly she just jiggles about.

I couldn't watch this. There's not a shred of originality or premise in the first few episodes. Just giant tits and mecha dragons. read more

What the HECK is wrong with EVeryone ?!

THIS ANIME ROCKS !

The reason i can see why most of the people dorpped it was because the story line develops slowly and parts of the storyline get revealed more and more as the episodes go along this is one of the best romance mecha animes that i have seen and the combination of humans and dragons makes it very unique the storyline and the episodes get more exciting after episode ten
the first few episodes before ten i was at a 6 rating after getting to the double digit episodes my rating went all the way to 10
dont listen to all those bad reviews this anime is Awsome ! read more