Just what is Vandread?

[Eddy]

So like i was 5told if i liked Nadesico i would like Vandread..so the story is it's Meb vs women and during a battle they find weird aliens and it turns out the aliens are from earth....a bit more info anyone?

[Frank_kun]

Thought I'd slide part of the review I did for my site into this...

It is indeed about two societies, one all-male and all-female, who discover each other. It's quite a bit more detailed than that, of course.

The action of Vandread focuses on a ship that is eventually called the Nirvana, with an all-female group of pirates that come across the "aliens" called men for the first time. Conversely, the few men that do make contact with the women are under the impression that women are really demons that, among other things, cause destruction and eat men's livers. A normally stock sci-fi anime story with mystery and action is injected with new life because of these misconceptions the genders have about each other. The background in which Vandread is set serves to enhance this, as the history of men and women - once together, then separate, and now together again - adds an interesting dimension to the action that unfolds. The women and men of the ship will eventually learn to work together (and the secret of their machines' "unification" will also no doubt be uncovered), but for now, just discovering each other all over again is adventure enough.

Vandread's slapstick gags involving the differences between men and women (the women want to know why the men have a strange "tube" in their pants while the men are left to wonder how women make food that isn't in "pill" form) are seemingly part of the core of the series, and they work to great advantage and amusement. While the characters themselves get almost equal time in the story, they are not really original characters, and are ones you would probably find in many other anime series. But the background and innovative setting of the story more than makes up for this, as the situations in which the men and women find themselves in continually test the boundaries of this "gender rediscovery".


Hope that helps!

[John Faulkner]

Don't forget about the mysterious 'things' that seems hell bent on destroying men and women-what is their agenda?The quality of the animation in Vandread is superb,although it must be said the character designs are more appealing to males.Also,notice how detailed the characters are-excellent!(Hibiki bears more than aresemblance to Inuyasha,if you know what I'm talking about).