Eureka Seven Ao anime – Vol 1.
A new generation of hero takes to the skies…
The story is set on Okinawa's isolated island of Iwado, which has seen a growing movement advocating a return to an autonomous government. Ao Fukai, a 13-year-old boy with a missing father, lives on the island with an old doctor named Toshio and is about to enter middle school. Ao's mother was taken away a decade ago by unknown individuals. Naru Arata, Ao's 13-year-old childhood friend and the story's heroine, lives with her father, older sister, and grandmother. She has a “Yuta” power awakened within her due to an incident when she was young. A mysterious entity called “Secret” suddenly appears and launches an attack on the Scub Coral lifeform on the island. Ao launches a certain military FP called “Nirvash” aboard a Japanese military transport in his fervent desire to protect the island.
Volume 1 of 2 (contains 12 episodes).
Special Features
- Episode 05 Commentary
- Inside the Booth: Eureka Seven AO
- Episode 10 Commentary
- Original Commercials
Eureka Seven Ao Review
"Eureka Seven: AO (エウレカセブンAO) is the sequel to the original mecha anime series Eureka Seven. It follows the 13-year-old Fukai Ao in a futuristic Okinawa who, as the son of an alien woman known as Eureka who disapeared 10-years earlier, seems destined to follow in his mising mother’s footsteps when he activates a strange, humanoid-shaped robotic fighting machine and enters into a a battle against alien entities known as “Secrets”. From there, Ao joins an elite group of fighters made up solely of children, the only ones who can operate the mecha, in order to find out what happened to his mother and to help defend humanity. The mystery only deepens, however, when a strange shape-shifter calling himself “The Truth” arrives, kidnaps Ao’s childhood friend Naru, and wreaks havoc on the world.
Eureka Seven: AO is admittedly made up of finely fluid and detailed animation, richly colored worlds and creatures, and spectacular mecha action sequences. That is where the good ends and the not so great things begin. As the story progresses, the sci-fi quest and mysterious backstory surrounding the alien creatures, the Secrets and coral “Scubs” becomes more and more dense and unintelligible. It’s difficult to follow where the writers are trying to point us. By the time we reach what is the final episode in this first part offering, a “surprise”, the connection hasn’t really been made, it’s been pulled right out of the air…When all is said and done, this being my first time watching this sequel to Eureka Seven, I’ll save final judgment for the series on the whole until I have seen it in its entirety. It shows a lot of potential." Blu-raydefinition.com