Reideen

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English: Reideen

Synonyms: Reideen (2007), Raideen

Japanese: ライディーン

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Type: TV

Episodes: 26

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 4, 2007 to Aug 25, 2007

Premiered: Winter 2007

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Unknown

Genres: Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 6.56¹ (scored by 2,298 users)

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Ranked: #5585²

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Popularity: #5468

Members: 7,667

Favorites: 7

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Ranked #5585Popularity #5468Members 7,667

Winter 2007TVProduction I.G

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Synopsis

Saiga is a normal high school student with a gift in mathematics. His daily routine is disrupted when his family gets news that his Father's remains have been discovered—a noted archeologist and researcher who had gone missing while exploring a site many years before. Among his remains were notes and artifacts that needed to be identified by the family near a notable triangular mountain in Japan known as "Japan's pyramid", a place suspected by some to be man-made. A meteor containing a strange robotic lifeform falls from the sky and begins to cause destruction, putting Saiga in danger and causing a mysterious bracelet from his father's research to activate and merge him with an ancient robot burried within the pyramid—a robot the runes describe as Reideen. It is now up to Saiga and guardian Reideen to fight against this unknown alien threat from the sky.

(Source: ANN)

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	Reideen
Spin-off:	Chouja Raideen
Alternative version:	Yuusha Raideen

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Characters & Voice Actors

Saiga, Junki

Main

Azuma, Masataka
Japanese

Midorino, Akira

Main

Chiba, Saeko
Japanese

Maedasaki, Taro

Main

Miki, Shinichiro
Japanese

Kobayakawa, Shiori

Supporting

Okada, Yuka
Japanese

Hoshikawa, Hana

Supporting

Honda, Takako
Japanese

Roxell

Supporting

Nojima, Hirofumi
Japanese

Terasaki, Soji

Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

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Staff

Kuroki, Rui

Producer

Morishita, Katsuji

Producer

Hongou, Mitsuru

Director, Episode Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition

Mima, Masafumi

Sound Director

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Opening Theme

"manacles" by Tomiko Van

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Ending Theme

"Kakeashi no Ikizama" by Ataru Nakamura

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Reviews

Apr 13, 2009

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

DjNastyDevice (All reviews)

15 people found this review helpful

Recipe for this one is simple: take 1 high school kid,add 1 mysterious girl and 1 huge robot. Now sprinkle it with some aliens and mix it well. When done just wrap it in some nice graphics and you're done!
This is not one of brightest moments of mecha genre but i saw worse too.

If you are a mecha fan running out of mecha to watch,than this might do.
If not,stop reading this and move on to something better!

Art: Only realy good thing about this series. Graphics are flawles,a mix of computer 3D stuff and normal 2D drawing. But the scenes of summoning Reideen and his weapons read more

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Apr 2, 2016

26 of 26 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

ggultra2764 (All reviews)

6 people found this review helpful

This one's quite the mixed bag. Serving as a modern telling of the 1970s super robot series Brave Raideen, this 2007 anime focuses on high school student Junki Saiga coming upon a powerful mecha called Raideen that he must control to protect Earth from a mysterious alien threat. As the alien threat escalates, Junki finds himself contemplating how to handle his role as Raideen's pilot while multiple factions seek to exploit the mecha's power or presence for their personal gain.

My reasons for finding Raideen to be a mixed bag come from the mixture of what it does right and wrong with its series elements, and I'll elaborate on what it does right first. For a refreshing twist to the mecha genre, Junki isn't portrayed as an unstoppable pilot when utilizing the Reideen as he finds himself increasingly challenged throughout the series by the alien threat as they continually change their tactics when trying to lure out and capture the mecha with the alien threats unleashed mostly taking more than one episode to resolve. In addition, Junki finds himself conflicted throughout a good chunk of the series with what role he should have in the conflict surrounding Reideen and eventually comes to terms with what he wishes to gain out of it and hints are dropped with some of the characters having bigger roles in the conflict than one would assume on the surface. Also, the presentation to the series is great for the most part with excellent CG animation work on the mecha and alien weaponry, fluid mecha battle scenes against the alien threat and a good number of tense musical tracks with Reideen's soundtrack that are fitting for the show's serious mood.

What greatly hurts the series are a number of significant flaws that it has in regards to its storytelling and depth. The series quite often relies on deus ex machina for Junki to get out of any major crisis with the Reideen whenever it seems like he is about to be finished off and this results in a rather poor ending for the series when this lazy storytelling device gets milked to the umpteenth degree. Also, the series does a poor job of fleshing out and focusing on a number of major story elements and characters critical to its plot. The alien Roxell is introduced as a rival for Junki seeking Reideen for his own ends in the middle of the show's run, yet doesn't show up again until near the end of the series and his motives don't get much fleshing out. The mysterious transfer student Midoriko is hinted to have a connection of some sort to Reideen, yet the series never bothers delving into great depth with it. Also, the aliens attacking Earth to claim Reideen also lack depth in their motives and where they come from.

Pretty much, Reideen's mixed bag status stems from what it does right and wrong with its mecha storyline. While it offers a great presentation and some solid twists to your typical mecha storyline, it suffers a number of major storytelling flaws due to dabbling in deus ex machina and not fleshing out a number of its major series elements. Your mileage will certainly vary with how you warm up to this modern retelling of the 1970s mecha anime classic.

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