Juu Ou Sei

After the murder of their parents, 11-year-old twin brothers Thor and Rai Klein are sent away from their home planet. They find themselves awakening on the terraformed planet of Chimaera, where carnivorous plants dominate and the few humans who live there are divided into four groups known as "Rings." Soon after, they meet a young man by the name of Zagi, and the twins learn that only the "Jyu Oh Sei"—the one who conquers these four Rings—is allowed to leave the planet.

Driven by the desire to return home and discover the truth behind the death of his parents, Thor resolves to survive in the harsh, merciless environment of Chimaera. However, he quickly learns there is more than meets the eye in this strange ecosystem. As Thor is swept up in the politics that entangle the Rings, he uncovers more about his parents' murder, and ultimately, humanity's fate as a whole.

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Third Main

Oguri, Shun Japanese

Klein, Thor Main

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Fenrir, Zagi Main

Nakai, Kazuya Japanese

Tiz Main

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Karim Supporting

Park, Romi Japanese

Klein, Rai Supporting

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Cheng Supporting

Fukami, Rica Japanese

Rada Supporting

Takase, Akimitsu Japanese

Yuuki Supporting

Shimura, Tomoyuki Japanese

Mao Supporting

Hirata, Eriko Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Minami, Masahiko Producer

Yamamoto, Kouji Producer

Sano, Hiroaki Producer

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Jan 20, 2020

johnbradshaw

Recommended

Juy-Oh-Sei is an anime that belongs to a long lost time, where they decided to make anime about men, not about kids.

With only the span of 11 episodes, Jyu-Oh-Sei managed to tell the story of Thor Klein, whose parents got murdered and Thor himself got sent away to a distant planet where he and his brother struggled to survive every moments. What await for their fate is surely something beyond their wildest imagination.

Jyu-Oh-Sei is one anime where I found the world building is rather interesting. So is the cast. But it suffered a lot from the lack of time as mentioned above. With only 11 ... episode, the plot moves so fast that the director had to use every tricks up his sleeves to connect to story together, from scheming off-screen to timeskip and unexplained abilities... etc. And it is a shame because I do find Jyu-Oh-Sei captivating to watch, the characters would be so much more fleshed out and we might actually got to see more of their wonderful world if we had like 1 season more...

But on the other hand, what it did do right is the exciment. Jyu-Oh-Sei is never boring to watch. While it did lack some subtance and the ending is rushed to hell but I'm still quite fine with what i got.

Personally, I reckon that the anime's art hold up well even to today standard. The characters design is beautiful and served its purpose very well. It also have nice op and great soundtrack along the way.

Bones did so many good anime and tbh, I wanna put Jyu-Oh-Sei in that list too. But given the potential is wasted with such a short adaptation, I ranked Jyu-Oh-Sei below that a bit.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 9, 2023

PotatoSpoon

Mixed Feelings

To keep it simple and to the point: It's been well over 10 years since I've watched this. But the reason I am writing this review is to give the person actually considering watching this show a chance to enjoy it as opposed to completely fall apart at the seems from what can only be described as "Teach the dog to read and write so he can finish it" 2nd act of a show.

Never have I been more insulted by any piece of media I've ever consumed than I have with this show. Stale, heavily clichéd , bewildering metaphors, characters and situations stabbed into ... the viewer like a knife left out on a literal poop deck to just fester and cake onto it all day in the roasting sun, with all the infections you would never imagine could happen to you all at once because someone just handed it to you while you were cutting food and said "here, the knife is good. Just was coated to be brown" then just proceeds to randomly stab you with it till you're chronically stuck in a hospital room for the rest of yours days.

That's what you get in the 2nd Act.

First act is interesting, fascinating, suspenseful. Just watch the 1st act before a certain someone grows up. TRUST ME on this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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Aug 13, 2016

Pearlescent88

Not Recommended

It seems like most people either love or hate this show. I understand why some people would really appreciate this kind of work, but I'm gonna have to go with the "hate" side.
I saw another review mentioned that this is a great show squeezed into far too few episodes, and I think that's a fair assessment- although the biggest problem is exactly HOW they squeezed it in. The Sci-Fi premise is interesting, the setting detailed and forbidding, the set up for an epic struggle to the top all you could wish for in this kind of story. However, the show never delivered on what ... it promised me. It's like they took this whole complex story arc spanning years and multiple character arcs and decided to cut out all of the most interesting parts. Here's the basic structure of the show- Set up the scenario and characters, present the complex problems that need to be solved, build up to the conflict, and- cut to __ years later! Repeat. The first time this happened I literally went "HUH?!" Like, did I skip an episode somehow? Here's our main character, a young boy thrown into a hostile environment with the goals to survive and find out why he's here and what happened to cause his parent's death. Oh and maybe find his brother. And instead of showing me his journey and struggle, the show just goes "Okay, and now he's a powerful ruler and has completely different goals and motivations than when you last saw him, aren't you glad we didn't show you all that juicy drama and character growth?" The show goes on with increasingly frequent time skips and setting changes until the plot and character progressions have no weight at all, even when they logically make sense (which isn't all that often). The PAINFULLY disappointing final episode sealed this as one of the least satisfying anime I have ever seen. Almost every opportunity for catharsis and pay off was purposefully squandered, the characters were almost all completely un-relatable jerks, and I don't even REMEMBER how the show tried to half-bakedly resolve any of the questions the story started out with. I'm sorry if you think this show is stylish and edgy with an interesting and unconventional plot progression, but it really did almost nothing for me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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