Blue Gender

Blue Gender was a television show that aired from 1999 to 2000 and featured a total of 26 episodes. Masashi Abe and Ryosuke Takahashi are credited as co-writers and co-directors for Blue Gender. It was also broadcast on Adult Swim; however, the original plan was for it to be broadcast on Toonami; however, the show's excessive nudity and graphic violence prevented that from happening.

A later airing of the show on Funimation Channel showed the whole movie without any cuts. After the end of the animated TV series in December 2000, Kadokawa Shoten finally put out the manga.

The story takes place in the 2030s, in a dystopian future where the Earth has been taken over by the Blue. Even though humans have abandoned their home planet and relocated to a space station, the blue aliens, which resemble large insects, still hunt and eat them. In the year 2009, our story begins with a man named Yuji who has B-cells, which is a very bad disease. He is preserved in cryogenic stasis so that he can live until they can find a treatment that will save him.

Yuji wakes up 23 years later in the middle of a battle between armored soldiers and blue aliens who have come to Earth to take over. Yuji is completely taken aback by it, and the chaos of the situation is too much for him to deal with at this point. As we are introduced to the armored soldiers who are from Second Earth, a space station that orbits the earth, certain things begin to become more clear.

The soldiers are saving people who were left behind when the first evacuation happened. They call these people "sleepers." The soldiers ultimately decide to assume that anyone who was left behind after the rescue is already dead and leave them behind as well.

The soldiers also end up leaving behind anyone who was left behind after the rescue, considering them dead. After the rescue efforts escalate, everyone dies, with only a soldier named Marlene and Yuji remaining.

Soldiers' deaths have an even greater impact on Yuji, who has already been through so much anguish that he is at a loss for words. After that, we see Yuji and Marlene become friends and travel to the Baikonur space base. They come up with a plan to return to the alternate Earth without anyone else knowing about it in an effort to end the nightmare for good.

From here on, they hope for their suffering and the suffering of any potential survivors to end—but of course, things are never simple, and they face truths that none of them could have ever imagined.

The plot was very interesting, and it managed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats right up until the very end. It starts off in a very mysterious way, and there are a lot of parts that don't make a lot of sense. However, as the episodes go on, their importance becomes clearer. The story is filled with gruesome acts of violence up to its neck, which keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. Between the third and fourth episodes, it reaches its climactic point, which is very satisfying.

The viewer is confused yet intrigued by what might happen next. The series hypes up the ending during the first few episodes. It takes some unexpected turns with Yuji's character, and it stays that way all the way to the end. Unfortunately, this is one of the things that ends up working against the plot.

The buildup to the conclusion is not done very well. It makes no attempt to be subtle about it, despite the fact that it is unexpected. In the end, it does not live up to expectations in any meaningful way. It might have been better if, rather than trying to follow a certain plot point, it took a completely different turn later on. This would have given it more variety.

In terms of how it appears, there is nothing that stands out as being particularly remarkable about it. Although it has an interesting animation style, the overall quality of the show is not on par with that of some of the other anime that were being produced at the same time as this one. There is no hiding the fact that the production team took some shortcuts.

The mecha suits had the potential to be the most visually interesting aspect of the series, but the low-quality animation makes seeing them somewhat irritating at times. The gore could have had a bigger effect on the audience if it had been animated better. Instead, the effects of the gore are lessened because the animation isn't very good. This has got to be the biggest letdown, considering how heavily it depends on blood and violence.

The gloomy tone of the series was perfectly complemented by the score's atmospheric qualities. Even though the individual soundtracks were nothing special, they were able to complement the characters' personalities in a very creative way. This was a major accomplishment.

The quality of the soundtrack does, however, occasionally suffer, and there are times when it simply does not fit the environment in which it is being played at all. It is a matter of perspective, but it is much more enjoyable when you try not to focus on the soundtrack too much. This is a significant factor in overall enjoyment.

The personality of Yuji makes for an intriguing main character. At first, he is hard to understand because he doesn't know what's going on around him. He lost everything when he woke up from his cryosleep. Everyone he knew was a memory of the past now.

However, he slowly grows on you when you get to witness the different events he goes through and his reaction to those events. He develops into a complex character who is trying to balance his urge to kill due to B-cells with his compassionate side, which comes from witnessing so much death and pain. There is a touch of a typical anime protagonist in him, but this only appears during the starting episodes and slowly disappears as writers take very surprising turns with the character.

Marlene Angel, on the other hand, comes with a very linear story, but it ends up complementing the character of Yuji. She is orphaned at the age of ten as a result of the Blue, and she spends her entire life training to put an end to them. Being a cold character at the start, she ends up developing a bond with Yuji and eventually becoming pregnant with his child. Everything she has learned since her childhood comes crashing down due to Yuji, and it brings out a more developed character.

"Blue Gender" was a show that, for me personally, I found to be quite entertaining. The story was straightforward, but it was told in a way that was very moving. The characters were thoughtfully constructed and given a lot of depth. It was interesting to see how the dystopian themes played out, as well as how the earth had a personality of its own. In spite of the fact that it has some problems, the animation style is beautiful and eventually manages to win you over. The score does a good job of blending in with the general vibe of the series as a whole. It is definitely worth watching.