Sci-Fi Anime 'Dragonaut: The Resonance' on Sale

Available on home video in early November 2009, the Japanese animated television series Dragonaut: The Resonance begs the question of what a lonely orphan with an eye for the stars is obligated to do when the Earth is in peril. Feeling rather alienated when an interstellar accident leaves him without an immediate family, Jin Kamishina is having a hard time finding his place in the world, and it isn't until he meets a cast of amusing but determined characters that he decides to turn his life around. Dragonaut: The Resonance, distributed by FUNimation Entertainment, is a full-length sci-fi anime.

When an accident claims the lives of his family, from which Jin remains the sole survivor, the boy's youthful curiosity takes a serious dip. Things take a strange turn however, when out late one night Jin witnesses a woman attacked, and subsequently killed by a fearsome humanoid monster. Chased wildly throughout the town, Jin is about to meet is demise but is abruptly saved by a mysterious pink-haired girl named Toa, who calls herself a "communicator."

As Dragonaut continues, Jin quickly comes to find that Toa and several others are part of a paramilitary organization known as the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA), whose tasks, among several others, include taking charge of the monsters who go bump in the night.

In search of a new place to call home, and in search of people he should hope to call friends, Jin joins up with the ISDA, and quickly comes to find that his life is about to get a lot more interesting. The Agency builds armored suits, called "dragons," and is in the business of harnessing the power of dragons for various purposes. Jin's budding relationship with Toa, as well as other characters within the organization, is likely to be the threads most likely to keep hoards of disasters from befalling the planet.

The first thirteen episode of the anime Dragonaut will be available from the first week of November ($49.98) as a single DVD Set release. Very much so a genre title that prefers to weave the romance of its two leads into the fate of the world, Dragonaut aims to engage audiences with mecha combat, teen love, and several well-endowed females. Applauded for its high quality of animation production, from GONZO (Romeo & Juliet, Last Exile), but affably derided for its fanservice, Dragonaut uses fantasy and comedy to approach plotting tropes typical of sci-fi anime. The second DVD Set release of the animation is currently scheduled surprising soon, in late December 2009.

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