Eureka Seven Review

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Eureka Seven screen shot Eureka Seven is an anime series set in the future, about a 14 year old boy named Renton, (shown left) who at first has a life that "totally sucks" in his opinion. His only dream is being able to "lift". In this series, people ride airwaves on these futuristic hoverboards, and they call this sport "lifting". It's actually a pretty cool concept.

Anyway, Renton's life takes a turn for the better when a Mecha (called, the Nirvosh) crashes into his house, who is piloted by this mysterious girl named Eureka.

Eureka turns out to be a member of a mercenary group fighting in an anti-government movement. Eventually, Renton joins the group, and falls in love with this girl Eureka. But little does he know that Eureka is a mother, with three children.

This series has a pretty interesting cast of characters on the ships crew as well, and at first this series seemed like a warm, possibly even humor-based anime but the more you watch it you see that the characters kind of change, they begin to slowly reveal that they have a lot of deep rooted emotions of death, killing, and war from their past. Which is good, it kept me tuned in.

My only gripe (and yes, believe it or not, I have one) is that Renton is a total loser. He has a crush on Eureka for the longest time, but he's so shy about it, it's ridiculous. It gets to the point where the other crew members even start saying to him "just let it out dude", "just let her know", I mean, I was personally even wishing that he'd "let her know" as well, that blushing and sweaty palms stuff gets old pretty quick.

But all in all, it was an okay series. Not too funny, but had some nice elements and good battle sequences.

Apr 15, 2007

TypeZero commented on Mar 08, 2008

Eureka seven is such an awesome series! i think they call it "reffing" btw, and it's Nirvash not Nirvosh...not meaning to sound rude or anything =)
Dude, it's completely understandable why renton gets all shy and can't tell her! i think he's cool!
I agree with Nether, it's meant to be "touchy", although it does have it's comedy, i laughed so hard when eureka and renton jumped on holland's face!

Oliver commented on Feb 17, 2008

The thing about Eureka being a mother messed up the intro bit. It should have been ' But little does he know whats going on in the world ' or something like that ;)

And yeah, Renton was a total idiot in the series not telling Eureka. I was so relieved at the episode at the end of season 2 where Eureka went out to look for Renton on gidgets board and they had the fight with the military and Ray and Charles. And DAMN, after that the idiot Renton doesn't even manage to kiss her until the last episode >.>;

Bryce commented on Jan 19, 2008

eureka seven is the best new anime well in my opinion i mean who dose'nt love a good love story. especially one that contains war and all else but i dont think that transformation of nirvash is a very good idea for the story line i still love this anime

Arianna commented on Jan 07, 2008

This is the hottest thing in the entire world. I luv this show and i think that Dominic is the hottest cartoon character ever to walk on this earth!!!

Nether commented on Oct 22, 2007

This anime is not supposed to be "funny". It is supposed to be "touchy". The story runs around war, religion and different types of love. If you expect to watch a One Piece style anime, you will be disappointed. This anime is very "bones" studio style, and according to both fans and critics, it´s one of the best animes created in the last decade. Besides the sometimes too cheesy love stuff, this anime is at par with FMA.