Alternative TitlesEnglish: She, The Ultimate Weapon Synonyms: Saishuuheiki Kanojo, Saishuu Heiki Kanojo: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet Japanese: 最終兵器彼女
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 2, 2002 to Sep 24, 2002
Duration:
25 min. per episode Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
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both are about a very sad love story
both are talking about the girl protecting the world, making decision to use her own life to protect the one she loves
the boy are useless and also helpless
Both are about a desperate struggle against alien apocalypse, banked on a single hope found in a teenage girl born for this purpose. Both series focus less on the wars but on the tragic characters. Iriya is a superior production in terms of story cohesion and credibility in my opinion.
same story.. the girL is the ultimate weapon and the only hope of the earth(ufo no natsu) or the country (saikano) ..then the girl fell in love with a guy who cant do nothing but support and pity them..they also tried to get away with their destiny or thinking bout their own happiness .. but their conscience cant do it so ends up with sacrificing theirself..
While Iriya has a much lighter tone through the first few eps, they both share a similar premise and similarly heart-wrenching developments.
Estórias complexas, porém repletas de conteúdo. Personagens cativantes. Prosseguimentos interessantes.
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Stories complex, but full of content. Captivating characters. Continuing interest.
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Both are incredibly sad anime, and i could go into further detail of how they are somewhat similar, but it would have to include spoilers, so lets leave it as that.
Both shows are like an emotional rollercoaster from start to finish, and both are equally heart-wrenching. In a good way.
Trust me. If you liked Saikano, you will love AIR,
At first glance Saikano and Air do not seem to be very alike, the first having a post apocalyptic setting and a plot that focuses heavily on war while the second takes place in a peaceful village for the most part, yet they are soul mates in how they handle a sheer dose of tragedy that dominates the later part of these series. The slice of life moments, heart felt romance, cute character designs mingled with nostalgia are more arguments that establish Saikano and Air as epics of sadness.
Both series have a core love story that has difficulties along the way, multiple love interests, and a strong tragic element. Saikano's heavy on the violence as well, but otherwise they're quite similar thematically.
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Both are very good drama type shows.
Both start off as two people who go out but are only led to tragedy. It starts off all happy and romantic but then it all goes down hill. There are also several other similarities but I don't want to spoil it. Both have a really sad ending. Well....for Saikano it all depends on how you look at it to call it a "sad" or "happy" ending.
Both were initially set as a high school drama. Both have interesting love triangles (although Kimi ga Nozomu Eien doesn't have that whole end of the world thing). Striking similarities between the two, both are excellent dramas and both are well worth watching!
Both Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and Saikano involve the energetic best friend setting up the shy girl with the main character, although she secretly likes the main character herself. Each focus mainly on romance, although Kimi ga Nozomu Eien is more realistic than Saikano. Both shows are extremely dramatic, as well as extremely depressing.
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Both about girls who are in the wrong place at the wrong time and are turned into weapons of war. They are very similar in tone, and focus on some of the same themes, though SaiKano focuses more on the costs of fighting rather than the costs of being turned into a tool for fighting.
Little girl used as a weapon in both. Also, Chise looks similar to Henrietta.
Both are about stories of girls who were created to be weapons.The stories tell how they deal with their new way of life.
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Another girl-as-weapon love story, but Saikano is way better.
While the tone of these two series is not very similar they both feature extremely violent situations in which apparently fragile female characters are revealed to have a potential for being highly destructive. Little girls as weapons form the main premise of these series, although it is carried out differently; EL opts for a more graphic approach that maximizes the use of colour, while Saikano is more subdued, using a mostly grey palette to convey a feeling of hopelessness. In both cases romance blooms and is put to a ferocious test. These two series may differ in a lot of aspects - the ecchi factor that is predominant in EL is absent in Saikano, and the apocalyptic impact of the latter is non-existent in the former - but they are similar enough to warrant this recommendation.
Both main girl characters are "the ultimate weapon", lots of guns, romance,main boy characters are kinda stupid
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If you have seen this without watching the actual series, watch the actual series. This OVA did not compare to the actual story so, even if you disliked the OVA, go and watch episode 1 of Saikano at least!
Because there's always two sides to every story.
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While watching both of these anime, I got the same feeling many of the times. Both of the stories start off with a shy girl and a kind of jerk guy getting together, the only thing is that Saikano has more science-fiction elements.
From there, there are quite a few sexual scenes in both of these anime and I got creeped out by some of them in both of the anime. The main guy character in both of these has trouble keeping his mind on one girl at a time, although the one in Saikano is way nicer, but they are both unloyal, sometimes uncaring people.
In both anime, the characters get together early on and then as the anime continues, they end up seeing less and less of each other and spend more time with other people in other places, but both girls only want to see their boyfriend.
Both of these anime also have rather insane endings, even though Saikano is on a much more epic scale and School Days is on a much more personal vendetta reason, but I ABSOLUTELY suggest this to ANYONE that liked School Days, if you want it with some Science-Fiction and a cute girl that's also a weapon.
Depressing as hell. Also, both romances that look like they'll be cheerful and fun for about five minutes (SaiKano) or three episodes (School Days).
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Both a very sad and angsty story about two unappreciated loves, in times of war. In both anime, there are lots of science-fiction elements and the significant other of the protagonist is used as a weapon. Very similiar.
Depressing theme's in both. Each surrounds the life of a couple, and the worry and loneliness each feels.
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Saikano and Fafner-Right of Left share the same mood of deep tragedy that accompanies the involvement of children in a ruthless conflict. In both, technological advancements are made to help with the war effort and these same backfire and cause considerable damage on the child fighters. A very moving romance develops in both titles. Saikano, however, is exceedingly sad while Left of Right is more bittersweet.
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both about girls who either are or use superior weapons.
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They both are based on two main characters in apocalyptic situations. Both anime series emphasize colors since special events are colored in bright colors while the rest have a muddy hue.
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It is the same as a guy falls in love with a girl who is out of the ordinary, but with a cheerful ending.
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Bokurano and Saikano do not appear very similar on the surface but they share the same overreaching theme of foreboding doom, subjecting their respective casts to situations of intense despair. Both deal with the end of the world as we know it; in Saikano due to human folly and war and in Bokurano due to a bizarre game of fatal consequences. In both anime the protagonists are very young people forced to deal with extreme situations in which death is ever present and annihilation threatens. Saikano has an element of romance while Bokurano deals with family and friendship relations first and foremost. These are anime about excruciating choices and are very bitter through and through; they are very rewarding series, even if highly draining viewing experiences, with solid character development.
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Like Saikano, Grave of the Fireflies is an emotionally intense anime that revolves around people trying to find normalcy while living through a war that is beyond their control.
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They both have a teenage girl being turned into a weapon to save people, they both have romance and drama, but Zaion contain less romance.
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its not actually the person who's the weapon but the only pilot possible for the ultimate weapon in Rahxephon. There's a romance thing going on too...
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End of Evangelion and Saikano might not seem similar at first glance but they deal with the same disheartening scenario: the collapse of humanity. Both are tours de force, uncompromising in their violence, poignant in their striking emotional appeal, visceral experiences of borderline nihilism that do not spare the characters and audience. These animes are about the end of everything as we know it; artistic brilliance drives the point with shocking efficiency as deconstruction is taken to frantic excesses, EoE and Saikano are the epitome apocalyptic storytelling made believable via the very humane suffering that pervades both efforts.
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These two anime are nothing a like. But I thought I'd recommend it anyways for my own personal reasons.
In my own opinion Saikano is the most saddest and most drama filled anime i've ever saw. I most defiantly recommend this anime to the drama lovers. I swear I never cried so much with any anime like I did with this one. I loved it. One of my favorites.
Anyways, same really goes with Wolf's rain. It's sad but an amazing anime.
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They both have a main character that is not human... at all
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They both have many differences ( Saikano being more of a romance ), but I think the feel of each is similar. Both are deeper type of anime's with a bit of sci-fi mixed in.
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