Friday, November 24, 2006

Soukou no Strain Ep 1

If I didn't notice it carefully, I might have mistook it to be another Sunrise Mecha offering.

However it isn't.

Episode 1 opens to a girl sending off her Ace Pilot Brother off in front of her parents' grave. He promised her he will be back but the girl knows it's not possible since it's a few hundred lightyears away. She probably be dead before he came back.

She promised to look for him in the stars and thus this is how the story begins.

Hmmm. I smell a twist coming from a zillion lightyears away.

Jump forward years later, Sara (oh. Hi. Ain't that so familiar) is training hard to be a Strain pilot just like her brother did. She is so into getting reunited with her brother. Haha. Oh well. School is fun especially when you ACE in class and had close friends.

One night, while practising box step (i think that's what they call it) with a boy who had hots for her (but obviously she had her minds elsewhere. Like a few hundred lightyears away. No prize guessing why she is dancing) , the Imperials (oh Wow. How familiar) attacked the Academy.

Sara took off on in her Strain to fight off the invaders. All is well when a mysterious Black Strain flew in and slaughtered her 3 best friends. Before she could react, the Black Strain took her down.

Slightly injured, Sara crawled out from the wreckage. Spotting the Black Strain parking on the side, Sara went after for the pilot to avenge her friends. When she finally caught up with him, she caught face to face with the very reason she was in the academy for.

Her brother.

He didn't acknowledge Sara, like she was a total stranger. The strange girl he took from the stasis in the academy smile at him as he cradles her in him arms. Looks like he got what he came for (and obviously he didn't came back for you, Sara)

Ralph Werec, brother of Sara, took off into the night with his Strain.
Sara gave chase with questions all over in a borrowed Strain from a reisner (pilot) who apparently never made to die it to die fighting.
Ralph found the trailing Strain to be a nuisance and got rid of Sara.
Sara took a fall once again on the same night.

And this time it wouldn't be the same.

A very promising 1st episode despite the cliches that surfaces. Part of my mind is on whether we be continuing the Academy Part for a few episode before something happens.
Hell no. Apparently the writer is in a hurry. He even murder 3 named characters all at once just before we starts to know them (they spend a good 10mins or so, trying to set them different).


Prolouge sequence in Episode 1

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hihi... wad is the title of tis anime??? it seems interesting

d4thday said...

I will let you have it easy for once.

It's called Soukou no Strain.