Centuries after these two planets are colonized war breaks out between the two. In particular, one planet is entirely female, and another is entirely male.
The series takes place in the far future, and Earth has started to colonize other planets. The series discusses some very heavy topics, but most heavy of all is the feeling the viewer is left with that the possibility was that maybe the Diclonii weren't the monsters at all, but rather, that humans were. But as soon as her best friend shows up, her amnesia returns and she goes back to her sweet self, popularizing the Yandere style of character years before Future Diaries did it. And she's not very forgiving.Īn absolute sweetheart who's cute as a button when her amnesia is in effect, she goes back and forth between that and violently cruel. Under bouts of extreme stress, usually forced by scientists trying to kidnap her, she will temporarily get her vectors back, along with her memory - including the memories of how she was treated at the lab.
Top 20 Movie Predictions That Actually Came Trueįocusing on one Diclonius in particular, Lucy, she loses her memory after escaping a labratory and with that, she also loses her violent tendencies and the ability to use her vectors. Thought I'd hate it based on the first two minutes. I thought I'd like it based on the summary. Taking a more old-fashioned hand drawn animation style reminiscent of the 80s and early 90s, it took every single possible anime trope, and dialed them up to the point of parody. Reading the synopsis sounded exactly like a typical high school action series. Rumor has it that all the dubs were improvised as Saban was never sent English scripts, this proving that on occasion, a dubbed version can be better than subtitles, by simply making up it's own plot.įinally, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the show with the huge cult following Kill la Kill. This was my personal nostalgia series as it was the first anime I ever watched, and I was obsessed. It would still be years before anime was popularized in the west, but we'll also get to that later.Ĭapitalizing on the popularity of recent Japanese cartoons, Saban licensed a series known as Samurai Pizza Cats. Back in 1967, a little show you may have heard of called Speed Racer began airing in North America, just months after it debuted on Japanese TV, bringing international attention to "Japanimation" as it was called back in the day.