Dragonaut: The Resonance

Twenty years prior to the story's beginning, an asteroid headed for Earth destroys Pluto. Due to Pluto's destruction, the asteroid, which is dubbed Thanatos, becomes temporarily stagnant. Now, in order to avoid Earth's impending destruction, the International Solarsystem Development Agency (ISDA) works on the "D-Project", and creates the "Dragonaut" after finding a dragon egg under the ocean. This weapon's primary purpose is to destroy the asteroid when the time comes. However, they soon find out that the asteroid is not their only threat, as powerful dragon-like creatures, which are bent on destruction, appear on Earth.

After witnessing a murder by one of the creatures, Jin Kamishina, a lonely 18-year-old boy who lost his family in a shuttle accident two years ago, gets involved in the mysteries of the dragons and becomes the chosen pilot of the Dragonaut. Helping him on his journey is Toa, a mysterious girl who saves him from falling to his death after the creature attacks him. As they get deeper into the mysteries of the dragons, they encounter new friends and enemies, and also begin to develop a closer relationship.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Toa Main

Chihara, Minori Japanese

Kamishina, Jin Main

Ono, Daisuke Japanese

Gio Main

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

MacLaine, Garnet Supporting

Hirano, Aya Japanese

Kitajima, Yuuri Supporting

Asano, Mayumi Japanese

Baumgarde, Sieglinde Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Souya, Akira Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Widow Supporting

Chiba, Saeko Japanese

Machina Supporting

Gotou, Yuuko Japanese

Cromwell, Raina Supporting

Takewaka, Takuma Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Miyake, Masanori Producer

Nagai, Masaru Producer

Ono, Manabu Director, Storyboard

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Jun 20, 2024

Erdgeist

Recommended

A mindless fun anime with enough action, romance,and the right ammount of fanservice,the character design is good and the CGI looks average,some elements in the story feel forced and some characters feel undeveloped but if you like Dragons,action,romance and fanservce and you are looking for something to relax and watch without needing to read a whole bible to understand it then this is the rght anime for you,its not a character driven masterpiece but it does its job, to entertain you.

The good:
Romance
Character Design
A few side characters
Soundtrack
Action
Fanservice

... The Average :
Some characters feel dumb
Some elements of the story feel forced
The CGI
Final minutes feel kinda rushed

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 12, 2021

Yugesai

Mixed Feelings

8. Continuing from my Death Note, Bleach and One Piece reviews, I am still documenting my anime journey.
There are much worse shows than Dragonaut yet I truly hate this show with all my heart.

To be honest, this show is not that bad, at most it is MEDIOCRE.
But that is the issue here.

I have encountered great anime and I have encountered trash anime, but never have I been so disappointed with mediocre anime.
Since then I consider 5/10 to be the worst possible score.

Shows can be bad, you can hate-watch them and make fun of them with your friends while drunk. Similar examples are infamous movies like ... Tommy Wiseau's "The Room".

I still remember how bad Tokyo Ghoul, Sword Art Online and Promised Neverland Season 2 were. I learned from the mistakes and only further developed my taste.
But Dragonaut was just mediocre and thus forgettable.
So forgettable that I want my time back that I wasted on this show.

I watched it back in 2007, what is the story about? Who are the main characters? What was even going on in the show?
I remember nothing.

I can name every character of Naruto and One Piece. I know every episode of Death Note by heart. I will never forget the amazing Ghibli movies like Princess Mononoke.
But Dragonaut, I absolutely erased everything from my memory...
...and it had 25 episodes! That's 10+ hours of my life!

If something is just bad, I can drop it at any moment, I am not that completionist about it.
But a mediocre show tricks you into watching it, giving you just a little bit of hope that it might get better.
Back when I was a teenager in 2007, I was foolish enough to eat up that lie.

In order to never again fall into such a trap, I needed to develop my taste like a wine sommelier to never again ingest such cheap garbage.

Hence why I have no tolerance for trash like Captain Marvel, Ghostbusters, Japanese live-action anime movies or anything overrated like "Your Name".

This show taught me an important lesson and since then I never again settled for mediocre shows no matter how much rabid apologist fanbases defended them.

I don't remember anything about this mediocre show, yet whenever I remember it, my hate grows only stronger.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 5, 2023

idzzz

Not Recommended

interesting story premise executed mid af. starring a paper-thin characters you can't bother to care about other than how annoying they are and all the tiddies constantly flopping in your face cant fix these issues. im guessing this was an excuse to ship dragons and humans for the triumph of love or something like that. a heaping amount of pointless ugly 3d scenes as well, can't enhance the uninteresting combat sequences. tho i will say the first end theme is a banger and the soundtrack isn't bad. you might like it if you need a sleep aid, for which it works wonders, otherwise avoid it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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