Moonrise

In a not-too-distant future, humanity has established a loosely organized world government with everything managed by an international AI network called Sapientia. People live peaceful lives by loyally obeying its rational decisions. However, Sapientia's lunar development project, which sends criminals and pollutants to the Moon to maintain Earth's peace, creates disparity and poverty on the Moon, sparking a catalyst for war. Jacob "Jack" Shadow gets caught up in this conflict after losing his family to a terrorist bombing by the Moon's rebel army. Vowing revenge, Jack joins the Earth army as a scout on the Moon, only to discover an unexpected leader among the resistance forces.

(Source: Netflix)

Shadow, Jacob Main

Kobayashi, Chiaki Japanese

Ashe, Phil Main

Uemura, Yuuto Japanese

Skylum, Bob Supporting

Aizawa, Masaki Japanese

Mary Supporting

AiNA THE END Japanese

Rochelle, Rhys Supporting

Yamada, Misaki Japanese

Zinger, Inanna Supporting

Kouri, Arisa Japanese

Cox, Harry Supporting

Onodera, Yuuki Japanese

Dr. Salamandra Supporting

Sonozaki, Mie Japanese

Dorminale, Osma Supporting

Takaguchi, Kousuke Japanese

Michaela Supporting

Endou, Saki Japanese

Nakatake, Tetsuya Producer

Kawamura, Ryouma Producer

Koizuka, Masashi Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition

Mima, Masafumi Sound Director

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Apr 11, 2025

nmbqborges

Recommended

Resume review: 8/10
Excellent anime really enjoyable if you are patient, something people are not much nowadays.
STORY is really good all questions ARE AWNSERED by the end of the anime.
The ART is top with AOT art in some surroundings and obvious character design from FMA , the animation is fluid and pleasing to watch.
SOUNDTRACK is incredible as well, Opening leaves an hint of mystery in your ear.

Let's go by topics on why this anime is worth watching imo

ART, the animation is so fluid, no "PowerPoint" animation here like some animes we saw recently in 2025/24, its elegant, its fluid. It is obvious this anime ... has great animation even before you watch it, if you go see the animators list, this is packed with artists from AOT and other great animes. The character design Hiromu Arakawa was the character designer for Full metal Alchemist and it shows in some characters and its great. Also AOT background design is implemented in some areas during the series and the obvious fighting while in the air and capes. AOT used wires to leap into the air, these guys use technology to get a boost mid air (on the moon so low gravity)

STORY! The first episodes are pain, great set up with the 1st episode, amazing, but the first 4/5 episodes are pain, you are sort of thrown into something new out of nowhere. You get to experience some time skips yes but everything is explained, just be patient, don't give up after 4/5/6 episodes where you might think "did i skip something? why are we here?" don't worry, its going to be explained, its just to create mystery and suspense, its a play with time itself where you get to know things before they are explained or introduced properly. There is a lot of fighting, there is a lot of plotting behind the scenes that you will discover the why after some episodes, a lot of goofiness and fun moments, also some sad moments. Its a good story in the end i was talking to the characters like "NO PLEASE DON'T DO IT" and things like that because i payed attention and i got attached some characters. The end is … weird, There is an end! But there is something there a bit confusing, wont spoil. Basically don't get confused when some Time skip happens out of nowhere and you don't know where it is or when it happened. IT ALL HAS A MEANING and it will be explained!

SOUNDTRACK / MUSIC.... amazing. Loved the opening there is no voice in it but it gives a suspense and mystery vibe. It gives you the idea of mystery, turmoil, hope, sadness, joy. Loved the choice. And the ending is also really good! Its written and performed by one character from the show the artist is called AiNA THE END and i loved her voice during the anime, its different and unique!

CHARACTERS, no spoilers, The MC reminds me of the mc from ID: Invaded, but way more energetic, there is probably a better reference to this MC but, to me its what came to mind. Fun fact the MC and his childhood friend are the voices from Vinlad Saga Askeladd and Thorfinn. MC best friend is Sasha from AOT. Basically this is stacked, go watch the list of Voice Actors! I grew attached to some but didn't have time to grow attached to all, it is a small anime even tho its 18 episodes and people nowadays get tired after 5 episodes in a 12 ep anime... There are a lot of personalities in this anime and its fun to see them interact. My favourite was Mary!

After all that i would recommend watching this anime, good story and great characters even tho i would like to have more time with it, AMAZING animation, flawless. Beautiful soundtrack great opening and ending songs.

Animation: 9.5
Characters: 8
Sound/music: 8.5
Story:7
Overall: 8

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 10, 2025

Shy7161

Mixed Feelings

A few hours ago, I was browsing r/anime when I stumbled across the announcement that this anime was batch released on Netflix. Of course, I did the sensible thing and proceeded to watch all of it, even though it's mediocre at best.

It really needed more episodes to fully explore the emotions it was trying to evoke. If it had been released weekly, it wouldn't have been as bad, but several time skips in a show that isn't told chronologically aren't ideal when binge-watching.
Give us a training arc instead of one episode and some direct aftermath of episode 13, damn it. That at least would give ... us some good character interaction and help the characters feel less like cardboard cutouts.
The animation is solid, the character designs are by the FMA mangaka, and the dub is decent. I guess you could consider it just another Netflix addition. Fine for background, but not something worth paying full attention to.

Hours of buildup for an ending that would have been better if we took some time to explore the characters. The scaffolding is there but it's not enough to get a good series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 11, 2025

1List2RuleThemAl

Not Recommended

Funny

"We got some advanced tech right here, can shape shift into every weapon."

Oh and it requires magazines and bullets, for every shape I guess, unless they all use same mag and bullet-type, which is kinda pointless.

Anyway, this show is bad. This studio has a knack for making shows that look and sound the same, with same generic fighting style of guys jumping around like monkey's, but they have cloaks you see, so that makes them cooool. The editing is all over the place as well.

Script is written with crayons, is how I can explain why most of the shit these people do doesn't make sense. ... There's a war between two worlds? Well, time to parteh, chill, hang around. There's no urgency, nothing (I think they took like one year to train). Let's not mention how random generic people from earth are suddenly a super fighting force ready to throw their lives away cause.. well, um.. yeah.

MC is the blandest mofo I've seen since this studio's last anime. Not only he uses the default face model of "Generic white hero" like all gaming companies do, or this studio does, but his personality, his backstory, his mere existence is "generic". At one point I was confused who was who, after someone was hilariously killed, cause the characters looked way too similar. Only when they flash-backed I would tell the difference.

Rest of his personality is walking around playing a fucking Pokemon-GO ripoff (as if you couldn't hate him any more) while casually just walking away. I cannot stress this enough, these people DO NOT act like they are A) In a fucking war and B) Sent on a suicide mission.

They are casually playing games, chatting, talking about relationships, eating and drinking at bar (?). This feels like a vacation with friends with pointless action thrown in. The rest of the cast is somehow blander than the MC. There's token loud girl, pink hair, token large guy who is all serious-like, a love interest.. I think.. could be his sister cause that's what their relationship feels like (Wincest?).

It's like the writer wanted to write a slice-of-life, started writing it, then got hit on the head by a blow-up doll he married, leading to drastic script changes half-way through. And since whoever is in charge of this studio doesn't give a shit about good script, as long as the characters can wear fucking cloaks, the anime was made.

"A-Actually this is based on Manga and this studio made Attack on Tits so this can't suck."

I'd rather watch a shitty isekai than this turd.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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