Dragonaut: The Resonance

Twenty years prior to the story's beginning, an asteroid headed for Earth destroys Pluto. Due to Pluto's destruction, the asteroid, which is dubbed Thanatos, becomes temporarily stagnant. Now, in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA) works on the "D-Project", and creates the "Dragonaut" after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. This weapon's primary purpose is to destroy the asteroid when the time comes. However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures, which are bent on destruction, appear on Earth.

After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina, a lonely 18-year-old boy who lost his family in a shuttle accident two years ago, gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes the chosen pilot of the Dragonaut. Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him. As they get deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also begin to develop a closer relationship.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Toa Main

Chihara, Minori Japanese

Kamishina, Jin Main

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Gio Main

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

MacLaine, Garnet Supporting

Hirano, Aya Japanese

Kitajima, Yuuri Supporting

Asano, Mayumi Japanese

Baumgarde, Sieglinde Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Souya, Akira Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Widow Supporting

Chiba, Saeko Japanese

Machina Supporting

Gotou, Yuuko Japanese

Cromwell, Raina Supporting

Takewaka, Takuma Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Miyake, Masanori Producer

Nagai, Masaru Producer

Ono, Manabu Director, Storyboard

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Jun 5, 2008

ethann

Recommended

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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 31, 2008

Wasabi

Mixed Feelings

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.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 15, 2016

PsyChoticMonk

Not Recommended

It's a story as old as time, a boy falls in love with a girl, who then turns out to be a dragon spaceship but he decides to still fuck the said spaceship.

Anyways, story is crap, characters are crap and no amount of alcohol will make this any close to being watchable. it is an absurd setting and honestly is the most idiotic nonsense of an anime ever.

The female protagonist here killed the male protagonist's family for fun while the "mother" wants to destroy the earth. The music in this anime isn't well though out and the characters are moronic and annoying. The only hope ... is for them to be all sent into the sun.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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