Koukaku no Pandora (Pandora in the Crimson Shell)

Onboard a cruise ship heading to the scenic Cenancle Island, the full-body cyborg Nene Nanakorobi, a bubbly young girl who dreams of world peace, meets inventor Uzal Delilah. The two become fast friends along with Uzal's pet cyborg Clarion, a cat-like combat android. Soon after parting ways, a terrorist attack on the island threatens to shatter the pair's new friendship. In a bid to save her new friend, Uzal gives Nene the ability to use the Pandora Device found in Clarion's body before seemingly dying. With this power, Nene can temporarily master abilities and skills never seen before in the advancing world.

Working together, the two unlikely companions go on various missions—from saving children in shopping mall fires to fighting reckless thieves—all in the name of world peace. But to achieve this goal is not easy. B.U.E.R, a sentient laser in the form of a misshapen teddy bear, threatens to wreck their happy lives with his perverted nature and uncontrollable power. And to make matters worse, Nene's guardian, as well as genius inventor, Takumi Korobase has an undying interest in B.U.E.R.

Burdened with saving the world and keeping B.U.E.R from the hands of evil, Nene and Clarion's desire for world peace seems like a pipe dream. With this monumental goal, could the weight of it all destroy the pair's friendship completely?

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Clarion

Main

Numakura, Manami
Japanese

Nanakorobi, Nene

Main

Fuku, Sanae
Japanese

Delilah, Uzal

Supporting

Tanaka, Atsuko
Japanese

B.U.E.R

Supporting

Morita, Junpei
Japanese

Korobase, Takumi

Supporting

Miyake, Marie
Japanese

Gilliam, Amy

Supporting

Naganawa, Maria
Japanese

Bunny

Supporting

Murakawa, Rie
Japanese

Kurtz, Ian

Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

North, Janus

Supporting

Ootomo, Ryuuzaburou
Japanese

Vlind

Supporting

Matsuda, Satsumi
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

Producer

Tamino, Kouichi

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Nawa, Munenori

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Tsuruoka, Youta

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"hopeness" by ZAQ

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"LoSe±CoNtRoL" by Nene Nanakorobi (Sanae Fuku) & Clarion (Manami Numakura)

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Jun 20, 2016

The_Ruise

Recommended

Koukaku no Pandora may not be for everyone (if you don't like moe hijinks or care about shoujo ai GET OUT), but I guess it just struck the right chord for me. While everything else about the anime was sort of "okay," the characters and enjoyment value were a perfect 10 in my opinion. To break it down:

Story: 8 The main plot isn't as important to the show as the interaction of Nene and Clarion with the other characters. Also I didn't really pay that close attention to the plot. In the simplest terms possible, the scientist Uzal builds a doomsday device, it goes crazy, ...

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Mar 25, 2016

LeaderTGW

Mixed Feelings

Oh man, where should I even begin with Koukaku No Pandora. First, the show didn't have much of a "wow" factor to me. I wanted to like it because it certainly was unique in its own ways however, it lacked entertainment and engaging story. Surprisingly, it failed to keep me interested and entertained. To me it seemed like the characters were forced to be cute. To explain a bit further it was like in the directors and animators minds, they were saying "Oh lets force a clueless reaction face or cute face on Nene or Clarion to make them look cute." Rather than having things ... like that happen naturally, it was like everything was forced, and the animators, producers etc were telling me to enjoy it, however it was just so unappealing.

Story- 6/10

The story wasn't doing much for me. I could not find any joy or pleasure in watching for the story or plot... I did not feel like anything could've stood out. Like, for me, there was no real "wow factor."

Art- 8/10

To a certain extent, I did like the character designs. I love cyborgs, androids, etc so seeing characters with mechanical parts is always pretty rad. I mentioned earlier that my biggest dislike was the reaction faces. I felt like they overdid the reaction faces. I strongly felt like it wasn't necessary at all to have reaction faces after every 2 sentences or so. The biggest thing that I disliked, about the whole damn series (In art department) was B.U.E.R. Single most annoy-ingest character in the show.
I hate it's design that stupid third leg (penis pun, I'm assuming.) B.U.E.R was a huge pain to look at.

Sound- 7/10

Yet another series where I didn't pay much attention to the soundtrack or BGM. I sort of hate shows like these. There are shows where the soundtracks really stand out and some shows where it's so dull or generic sounding that I don't really pay it much mind. This is one of those. Moving on to the actual voice actors, I don't think that this show would count as one of their best roles. Except for Junpei, he's hardly in anything anymore. Overall, not too impressed.

Characters 6/10

I couldn't like them, as mentioned earlier, they had too many faults for me. Not appealing in personality nor appearance. Characters in the show came off to me as more annoying than cute or anything else.

Overall, I seriously wanted to like this show. I thought at first that it had a really cute vibe to it so I figured "why not watch it." In the end I just do not think it was worth watching... Go figure huh?

Final thoughts, Unfortunately Koukaku no Pandora just didn't live up to my standards or exceptions. I was very disappointed with this series in the long run. My overall rating is 5/10 it could perhaps be a lot better if certain events were taken seriously.

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Mar 28, 2016

V1nn13z

Not Recommended

Short version:
It's not as good. The whole pace seems ridiculously retarded, even though the art is actually pleasing

Long version:
You know how MonMusu seems to have that "monster girl" fetish catering for the fanboys? This *should* be at least cater the android girls fetish. I'm not getting that. You end up with a weird over-sexual henshin that seems to be out of a 14 year old weeaboo who keeps fapping on loli images. annoying reporter who should have died midway but kept alive 'cause "look guys, funny failing reporter x3". An edgy yet mysterious antagonist, and finally, 2 of the most bland yet happy-go-lucky character ...

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