Directed by Jun Kawagoe Music by Tomohisa Ishikawa | Written by Shinsuke Ōnishi Studio Brain's Base | |
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Genre Drama, Mecha, Dystopian Produced by Norihiko Fujisawa
Kazumitsu Ozawa
Yoshinaga Minami | ||
Innocent Venus (Japanese: イノセント・ヴィーナス, Hepburn: Inosento Vīnasu) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction anime TV series which began broadcasting on the WOWOW network in Japan on July 26, 2006 at midnight. The series makes use of some 3D cel-shaded animation, which achieves a more "hand drawn" look than traditional 3D animation. At Anime Boston 2007, ADV Films had announced they licensed for the show (for $120,000). On July 11, 2008 ADV Announced that it was discontinuing print of the DVDs.
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Plot
In the near future, after the world population and economy is devastated by a series of simultaneous hypercanes, many different factions and fledgling nations appear. In Japan, an elite class called Logos appears, controlling special zones in the country which have most of the wealth and resources. These special zones were created with the help of Power Assist Technology, which allowed Japan to recover from the consequences of the worldwide disaster (which included a combination of land subsidence & rising sea levels resulting in the permanent submerging of low-lying areas and a subsequent ice age in much of the Northern hemisphere), albeit to a strictly limited degree. The Logos exercise control over the Revenus, a lower class who mostly live in devastated & often poverty stricken zones (urban or in close proximity) and areas (rural) known as Levinas (e.g. Levinas Sector Six, Area 18) and who struggle from day to day in order to stay alive. The Revenus are generally restricted from entering the special zones, causing tension which creates a resistance movement which fights back against the Logos.
With the tagline "A Near Future Late-Shogunate Action Animation", the story draws analogies with 19th-century Japan at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate period, just before the Boshin War.
The story proper is mainly set in 2035AD. Jō and Jin defect from Phantom, an elite military special operations group which is used to help control the Revenus. When they escape, they take a young girl named Sana with them. The series follows them as they work to avoid being caught by Phantom and the regular military forces of the Logos. However, there are more to things than meet the eye.
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Music
Noble Roar by Yōsei Teikoku
Brand New Reason by Fleet