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I'm afrain i'm gona have to be the 2nd person to also give this a 10 overall...and yes its well worth spending more time reflecting on it tah it took to watch haha

Story: (I dont care what anybody says! this WAS origionally intended as a searies!!! nothing can be this bad unless its intentional!) ok yeh, umm, first its necessary to grasp the f**ked up storyline, so watch it before you read this coz no synopsis can substitute for that - i think it was something like martians who are actually earthlings (but humans actually evolved on mars) come to earth on a spaceship bring back the wreakage of a previous exepedition to mars somewhere in the near to middle future; the "aliens" blow up the ship in the artmosphere and somehow survive the crash. Then, it cuts to typical angel-tai esque squad fighting them (no helmets to show off their moe faces of course) with what they mention offhand later to be plazma weapons, when a guy whos later revealed to be working for his father coz he was made to, (why we dont know and neither does any1 else it seems). Then the leader of these guys comes around later and the kid gets back into the suit (yep hes a high school student, but with even less background than devilman in the 2000 ova - at least there u can watch the other searies or read the manga) and shoots him with a plazma rifle that looks something like the one yoko carries from Gurren Langann, the end.

this is why im convinced the rest of the story just wasnt made in any form most likely because it stayed in the author's head, who either died or forgot about where he wanted the show wanted to go after they'd animated every 2nd scene, so they turned it into an ova and got rid of all traces of the budget to pay for his funeral

Art:
The art is simply amazing. It's old for a 2005 anime, and the animation is just so stiff. Perhaps it was trying to emulate devilman 2000 ova a bit... the violence all seemed low budget, like it'd been taken straight from the manga, stuck into flash and a few extra drawings made to fill in the gaps so the entire 20 minutes would come togeather from nothing at the click of a single button. like i said before though, basically looked like the actual budget got lost somewhere and they filled in whatever they didnt have with crap

Sound:
The voice acting was INDEED horrible. Yes, the moanings of dying people was nice, the growling that is, computer generated of course, from the 'Ancients' was wholelly annoying. The music is the only bit i dont understand - they must've hired the same guy who made the monorail in the simpsons for this, coz the whole thing was not only thrown togeather, but more like it'd been made in an otaku's basement, but one who got bored and didn't actually watch the completed thing before he released it
yes, the music is clasical and recognisable, but definately NOT tastful like in Cannon

Character:
The idea to make the characters different genders and hairs is a great anime invention taken to lengths, much like a 10 centimetre ramen noodle streached 10 metres. Not that there are no distinct characteristics for the different characters, but rather after watching the only people i was sure had even talked was the kid and some green hair named shizuka.. maby a nurse, natually not counting teh father since he counts more as a narrator. They [might as well]? no, they did make every single character sound the same.

Enjoyment:
yes, the enjoyment factor =). like i said, dont think of it as an anime, think of it as a manga that was never completed. I have a friend who's writing his own anime he thinks hell get published and is 1/2 way through, and isnt sure if it will be a novell, a manga, or a script, well i dont think these guys even wrote anything before they made this besides a few rough sketches out of a "my first manga" sketchbook. The ship at the beginning blowing up was pure flash player goodness. Not to mention the 'Ancients' blowing up people's heads at 2 frames per second and policeman being torn apart with less animation quality than a homemade manga flipbook. the only bit that annoyed me was when the kid acted like any other anime kid when he got a broken arm and fired the lazer, it wasnt weird enough (like the head exploding) when the 'Ancient' began to speak was also a highlight, a kind of "oh yeh! here comes another 'wtf lol' moment"

Overall 20 minutes of pure "wtf" not detracted at all by the ocassional "oh, that kinda makes sence - i can relate to that" kind of thought.

Mars of Destruction, a MUST watch for anyone who's MAL list says they've seen over 2000 episodes (but Gurren Langann is a must see to watch this or u may not lol as hard, also samurai X is recomended but not necessary, and finally anything with kagumia rie helps :) )

NOT reccomended for anyone just starting to get into anime watched maby one or 2 searies's... though if you hated death note (especially if the 1st few chapters of the manga didnt quite add up) you'll probably like this (though like is a subjective term) read more