Seikai no Senki II

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Title:	Seikai no Senki II Banner of the Stars II 星界の戦旗 II (Japanese)
Overall:	Buy
Keywords:	2001, Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Sequel, TV, War
Notables:	ARIMOTO Kinryu Animation - SUNRISE CHIBA Isshin CHIBA Susumu DOI Mika FUKAMI Rika HAMANO Yuki HAYASHIDA Naochika HORIBE Ryuichi HOSHI Souichiro HOSOI Osamu IMAI Yuka INOUE Kazuhiko JO Haruhiko KAWASUMI Ayako KONISHI Katsuyuki KOYASU Takehito NAGAI Katsumi OGAMI Hiromichi OOTSUKA Akio R1 License - Bandai SAIGA Mitsuki SHIMIZU Kaori SHIOZAWA Kaneto SUGAWARA Junichi SUZUKA Chiharu SUZUOKI Hirotaka TAKAMORI Nao TOKUHIRO Natsuki YAMADA Miho YOKOO Hiroyuki
The success of the “Humankind Abh Empire" counter-offensive has shifted the focus in the war. The Abh rules of engagement require that a noble represent the Empire in negotiations of surrender for any overrun inhabited planet. A shortage of qualified nobles has compelled Jinto and Lafiel to visit an isolated planet to formalize the terms as to their surrender. But they find themselves to be very perplexed in having to deal with four different planetary leadership claimants. The planet of a backwater prison planet, with a group of wardens (or guards) supervising three different penal districts. Jinto and Abriel try to deal with four untrustworthy leaders, (the warden and leaders from the penal zones), each claiming to be the legitimate governor of the planet and each with their own personal and conflicting agendas. When one faction attacks and captures Jinto in a political move, Abriel becomes concerned for his safety, and with the threat of an enemy space fleet overrunning the system, she is very tempted to show those on the planet just how harsh the judgment of the Abh could be. 10 TV episodes, released in 2001 Produced by Bandai Visual, Sunrise, WOWOW and BeSTACK Prequel to this season OVA Seikai no Danshou 1st season Seikai no Monshou 2nd season TV - Seikai no Senki sequel - 4th OVA - Seikai no Senki III 1:38min Series Opening - YouTube Video

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Overall	Art	Animation	Character Design	Music	Series Story	Episode Story	Reviewer

Buy 4	8	9	9	9	7	10	Devil Doll	#
Seikai no Senki II [Score: 86% = "Buy"] Drama: High (even more character interaction drama this time, and less space battle) Comedy: None/Low (if any - the situation isn't for quick laughs) Action: Med (more politics than space battle) SciFi: Med (tech talk and space play only a minor role) Ecchi: None (unless you count one 'seduction attempt' in episode 3) More of the great saga, the Music even with a beautiful ED song this time, and the Animation improved compared to earlier parts. A must see for everyone who liked the previous seasons. The Characters are mostly those we already know, plus the leaders of the planet where Jinto has to operate as territorial deputy ambassador. So they're not as new and refreshing as they were in the prequel, but they still have their strong scenes. Then again, some scenes shown in the very first episode (telling the audience significant parts of the story development, and not even subtitled because all characters are using Abh language instead of Japanese) turn out to be a horrible suspense killer. And the episode previews are horribly spoilerish as well, you really need to skip them during the first pass of watching. Certain decisions during battle look questionable this time, unlike the prequel. All in all the Series Story is the weakest aspect this time. This one might have been the best season of this saga if it had been told in conventional style, as the diplomacy aspect of this story on a prison planet taken over by the Empire (plus certain tricky situations asking for complex decisions) is the most challenging theme of the whole Seikai Saga so far, and some developments were really surprising. Unfortunately, the most important ones were not, and unnecessarily so. But still, this is a good show that won't disappoint the Seikai fans. Last updated Friday, July 18 2008.

Rent 4							Jan-Chan	#
Seikai no Senki II Shifting the story from deep space conflict and battles, to one of politics and Abh policy, Jinto shows his patience and compassion in getting Lafiel’s permission to travel to the planet to study the on-planet situation and listen to the concerns of the leaders. The penal planet is broken up into three penal sections. Reproductive females in one section, reproductive males in a second section and third section of non-reproductive mixed sex prisoners. The leader of the males section is intent on staying on the planet and starting families to continue their existence, while the leader of the female section is hell-bent on getting off the planet, (and away from the violent and aggressive males). And the wardens of prison have an agenda to getting their families off the planet and away from the pending fight between the two very polarized and hostile factions. And in a battle of control, one of the factions makes a very unwise move and decides to take Jinto captive in a desperate power play. 1- Operation Hunter 2- Planet of Exile 3- Emigration Plan 4- The Hunters 5- Rebellion 6- Abh Hell 7- The Flag of Gatharsr 8- Things to Protect 9- To Lay Down the Bow 10 -An Abriel`s Tears If you enjoyed the earlier seasons, then this one should be considered a must watch type of anime, but be prepared for a step down in the quality of the story. Everything (the characters and the complexity) are still there, but the 3rd season just does not 'click' like the previous ones... (but it is still alot of fun!) Last updated Saturday, November 18 2006.

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