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An usual plot gains a certain amount of specialness.

Story - 5/10
The usual stuff. There isn't anything new here. I don't even know what to comment about it. The main character, Van, is in a quest searching for a man with a claw, who killed his bride. As soon as he get to this claw man, he will kill him. Van is driven by vengeance. And at each episode, there is a mini story involving a mecha fight to save the town where Van is, and to get information about the one he seeks. And i can't forget, at the first episode, a girl named Wendy ... starts following him, in search for her brother, that was kidnapped by the Claw. As time passes, they encounter various characters and armors - the robots - , and the plan of the Claw starts to be uncovered. All the story is set in a planet called the Illusion Planet, a prison, or at least it were a prison.

Art - 7/10
The art has nothing really impressive to show, in a general view, but the design of the mechas is cool, and the animation is good enough. Sometimes, the lazers and stuff like that may seem a little awkward, but the action scenes are good, overall.

Sound - 6/10
I think i watched only once the opening. It isn't appealing at all. Even the video isn't good, its generic, and its a mess. The background music is not at all remarkable, but at least its not bad. The sound effects are good, they fit the ambient nicely, and seem natural.

Characters - 5/10
While i did enjoyed some of them, others are annoying as hell. Van, the main character, is like many many others, he likes to eat, has his unique way of doing it (with a lot of tempers), and only drinks milk. He is great at fighting, and sometimes, he isnt really the ideal hero, with actions like being uncareful or just dont giving a crap. But at the end he always do the right thing. He has a sword that looks like a gun. Wendy. I hate Wendy. The stereotypical girl who cares so much about everyone, speacialy for her "nisan". OH, ISN'T HER KAWAI DESU?! I simply hate naive characters like her. "Don't treat me like a child", "I will find you, nisan". And she has a turtle. Oh yea, a turtle, hanging on her neck: The turtle, Karmelo (something like that), is a gift from her brother, to bring luck. Wendy starts following Van since the first episode, because they have the same objective, finding Claw, the man who killed Van's bride and kidnapped Wendy's brother. Carmen, the usual clever hot woman. She is an agent (they never specify that, so im not certain) who already knew Van from the past, and helps him get information, sometimes asking for info too. I think they should have developt her a little more. And as they journey goes, they find Ray, a pilot also looking for Claw, as his bride was also murdered by him. He has a gun that looks like a sword (totally unpractical), and will do anything to find Claw. He has a annoying brother who try to follow him, and convince him to not kill Claw. His younger brother, Joshua, starts following Van, because he thinks they will meet Ray in the future. I wont go in any more details, the characters are not very good. I like the old mans, though. In a town, Van encounter with some old guys, that were pilots in the past. They are actually kinda fun, talking about the past, and being some sort of comedy relief. The Claw, the villain, is also interesting, as he sometimes is clearly the bad guy, but in certain occasions he may seem correct. His henchman are boring.

Enjoyment and overall - 7/10
GunXSword isn't at all innovative, it follows a famous recipe, but it has some great action scenes and the Claw is an incentive to keep watching.

I dont have much to say about this. I really dont.

Its a Music Video. It is 5 minutes long. Its from Ghibli Studios. Well, why not to try it, right? I wont miss 5 minutes.

In a music video whats important? I believe the music is. And here, it was not pleasant, at least to me. Nothing special, i just dislike it. The art is good. Its from Ghibli, for god sake, it cant be bad. The story is common. A love story, guy+lady. The guy is no longer with her. She is sad. And that is it. The characters personality is as normal as the ... story, nothing exceptional, just regular persons, at least theyre not bad. Well, putting all the pieces together, Kaze no Toori Michi is not all that great, like On Your Mark, by the same Studio, but is Fair enough. I'd say you would not mind giving away 5 minutes to watch this. I didnt like the music, maybe you will.

5. Not bad, not good.

Gorgeous art and beutiful storyline resume the final concept you have of Pale Cocoon.

At the very start i was already amazed by its great animation and draw style. The story is tremendously intresting. The Earth, in a undefined future, is protected from man, now they live under the ground, so the planet can survive. A man and a woman are the main protagonists. They both work on a department designed to research about how the surface was. This department is almost dead, there are only two working there. The empty offices indicate that once, there were many doing this job. Now, our protagonist is ... the only one that still have any intrest in what the past holds. His friend intends to quit.

I realy liked how the protagonist looked so obssed about descovering the past(wich is our time). It realy seemd like a possible future, humans living underground to mantain the planet safe.

The art in Pale Cocoon is wonderful. A great mix between the regular 2D characters and the sometimes 3D backgrond. The character design is simplistic, not contaning the strange look that is so present in Shonen. The realism imprinted in the look of the characters just reminds us that the OVA is serious and is not directed to the general anime public.

I dont have much to say about the sound. Nothing realy remarcable. In the middle of the episode, there is a music video, but i did not love it. Its just not bad.

The characters are intresting. They have their own convictions, wich is nice, makes them a lot more likeble. They have names, i just can remeber right now. The male protagonist is a mad guy. Mad by discovery and obssed by the old Earth. The female protagonist is hard to define. She seems friendly, but without hope. A serious woman. They are both well developt as far as the 23 minutes allow.

I really liked Pale Cocoon, its a remarcable piece of diamond, that few will have the pleasure to find it. Its such an unknown work. And at the end, you might want to take a time and think a little. You will have to collect all the clues to solve the case, as the man did. If you did, at the end, youll have a pleasent surprise.

Overall, those 23 minutes were well spent, at least for me. If you are not really into more filosophical series, you might prefer to watch an action anime, otherwise, just sit back and enjoy the beuty that this OVA provides.

There is not much to say about this awful OVA. The story is just confusing. I dont know about the manga, but in the animated version, they dont care if you was familiar with the original version. They give you ilogical sentences, and spect you to alredy know why that stuff was going on . I could understand nearly nothing. I was patient. I had to rewind several times, and i still dont get the story. I guess im stupid. I dont know, lets just skip this, like i did when i watched. "whatever, lets move on, maybe they wil explain it better later". Well, ... they didnt. I was lost from the first to the last minute.

The art on RG Veda wasant too bad, but also didnt was too good. I give 6/10.

The music was so bad! I know it was the style *cof* *cof* of the epoch, but its not good. Not good at all. The efforts to sound good just makes it more pathethic.

oh god, the characters. I honestly am without words to describe them. Ok, here si what i got from the characters: A powerful gril with fire powers, a powerful fighter that made a promise with the gril, he must protec her(i think i have seen this somwhere else), a powerful boy, a powerful sorcerer, a guy. And a hell bunch of kings, including a evil one. Also, the male fanservice its damn repulsive. I normaly dislike when there is female fanservice(Im not looking for a hentai, give me content), so i dont have to say i didnt like the bunch of shirtless guys. The development of the characters is lame. I know about the characters the same i know about the plot.

I didnt enjoy RG Veda at all. Thats all i have to say. Overall, its a bad OVA.