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Heroic Age Collection 1
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world once was ruled by powerful beings called the Golden Tribe. They
encouraged the other tribes to explore the universe and the Silver,
Bronze and Heroic Tribes heeded their call. As the Golden Tribe was
about to leave this universe for another, another tribe appeared -
Humans (the Iron tribe). The powerful Heroic tribe went on a planet
conquering rampage but were overcome by their masters, the Gold tribe -
reduced to five essences ( to serve inside five beings of the weaker
tribes). The Iron Tribe's Nodos (vessel) is called Age and he is the
saviour of human kind. Only Age can save human kind from the rampaging
Silver tribe and their underlings, the Bronze tribe. And so begins
Heroic Age's convoluted plot.
Heroic Age is very loosely based on a lot of greek mythology most
notably the 12 Labors of the Nodos from the 12 Labors of Heracles. This
does not make Heroic Age more interesting. The anime is rather slow
moving and the humour I found to be weak. The plot is rather
predictable and the space combat repetitive. The space combat consists
of mechs, flying around with guns in their hands shooting
robotic-looking insect-like creatures (sound familiar?) with the
saviour, Age, transforming into his Heroic alter-ego, a huge hulk which
can destroy thousands of these things by his power. The characters,
themselves, are not particularly likeable and are a bit shallow. Age's
innocence and naivety though is refreshing but is the stereotypical
uneducated primitive being brought into society. The animation is
reasonable, although sometimes seems to jump jarringly into cell-shaded
scenes which seems to break the flow and continuity of the episodes.
The special features includes a few trailers and songs.
Unfortunately, I must say that I was not a huge fan of Heroic Age. I am
usually a fan of huge mechs and space-based animes but I could not get
into this anime. It was too slow and predictable for the 13 episode
investment. I would not recommend this unless you are a huge anime
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