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Agito was born into a world that is quite different than our own. Many years ago a brilliant researcher attempted to save humanity from its excessively damaged environment by altering the DNA of plants. However, these mentally-awakened plants recognized the inherent threat of humans, and attacked them; the end result was a stalemate between the forest and the few remaining human centers. Agito's home city is green with life because the forest controls it. There is an uneasy peace which is facilitated by a small number of humans that allowed the forest to alter them to be in concert with itself. Being that his father is one of those, Agito's view of the forest is not one of fear but rather one that respects the human dependency. Agito will be challenged to prove this relationship when a random event gives the humans, who still see the forest as an enemy, a new perceived advantage in their war.
Juna didn't think much about daily life beyond the archery club, high school, and boys. But when an accident sent her spiraling towards the arms of death, fate intervened by giving her a second chance at life, under one condition: humanity is recklessly polluting and destroying the world, and Juna, with newfound powers of the Earth, must dedicate her life to saving it. Now, an unthinkable evil she can see with her powers is threatening Earth's very existence, and only she has the power to stop it...
There is little similarity between the two titles apart from the obvious theme of environmental protection and preservation. Now, the two shows are hardly equals. Gin-Iro no Kami no Agito is a good example of how to take the aforementioned theme and create something novel and refreshing, whereas Earth Girl Arjuna is the bad example, the show that takes the theme, builds a minimalistic frame to serve as its medium and then attempts to indoctrinate the audience with appeals to morality and nature. Imagine the two titles like Carl Sagan (Gin-iro no Kami no Agito) and a PETA member (Earth Girl Arjuna).
You might ask 'So why should I watch Arjuna, then?' My answer is to compare. To compare the dogmatism of Arjuna that does science, progress and efficacy no justice to the more or less fair treatment these things receive from Agito. Of course, you may not agree with Agito either, but at the very least Agito is generous and pragmatic enough to condone fundamental changes to human society and life. Watching one of the two would contribute greatly to the analysis and understanding of the other.
A mysterious new hacker known only as the Puppet Master threatens to create chaos, erasing and rewriting the memories of his victims: humans who have cast away their physical body to become cyborgs. Is he an evil genius, or could he signal the beginning of a new age in the relationship between man and machine?
Two beautifully animated movies with brilliant music, interesting concepts, and a fantastic story. If you enjoyed one of these movies, make sure to watch the other.
In the world of Prestal, Noble men perform noble deeds for noble purposes. All of this is performed under the careful gaze of the Guild, a race apart who live in cities in the sky. We see this world through the eyes of Claus Valca and Lavi Head, as their travels take us above, beyond and through Prestal, and their actions cause ripples that shall never fade.
For starters, Last Exile and Origin have strikingly similar, beautiful, animation styles w/ elaborate 3D graphics, lush backgrounds, and rich, heavily shaded characters. Both Last Exile and Origin tell the stories of a small town boy (and his best friend in Exile) determined to understand and be a part of his world in which the common man is at the mercy of a fearsome greater power and resources are scarce.
Sion is intelligent, highly educated and lives a privileged life within the walls of No. 6, one of six city-states that was built after the world was destroyed from war. But Sion's comfortable existence changes forever when he meets Nezumi, an escaped convict, on the eve of his twelfth birthday. Due to his assistance in keeping Nezumi safe, Sion loses his rights and is forced to live in the lower town, where he becomes a normal citizen. Four years later, Sion finds himself back in Nezumi's company and in the midst of a dangerous conspiracy that leaves a trail of bodies in its wake. What is really going on in No. 6?
No. 6 and Origin are two futuristic anime that take place in a world gone wrong. Both take place in cities that are closed up to the outside and overly protective about their citizens, however, the main characters still venture outside the city into the forbidden land and discover that things are not what they seemed to be.
In a world where most of the planet has been taken back by Mother Nature and Tokyo has become the world's largest "Jungle-opolis," a young girl named Kuniko has to lead the Anti-Government group known as Metal-Age against Atlas, a powerful and pristine city of wealth and technology. Gradually, Kuniko begins to question whether or not Atlas and its people are really cruel; only when she and her guardians infiltrate Atlas does Kuniko truly gain perspective. Why is the government so set on letting the lower city of Duomo live off of scraps, when the tower city of Atlas has more than enough room for everybody?
In terms of the storyline they both are similar. Both revolve around large parts of the world being inhabited by plants and military/army trying to stop the spread.Both have a very similar visual designs and both plot-lines also have an element of nature having taken over.
