Heroic Age
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:45 pm
Has anyone seen this one? Waiting to see it? I attended FUNimation's premier of Heroic Age at my local anime convention, and I enjoyed it so much that June 12th (the series' release date) suddenly seems like an eternity of waiting.
Heroic Age is a newly-dubbed series that relies very heavily on character development. The plot appears to be loosely based on the Hercules legend, in that the titular boy Age must fulfill a series of 12 tasks or "labors" for humanity, assigned to him by the series' equivalent of gods. And like most anime adaptations of classical works, it takes place in the future, with our hero having the ability to transform himself into an awesome mecha that can blow stuff up by punching really hard.
Here is the FUNimation page on the series, with kind of a cool trailer, but please don't get me started on how oxymoronic it is for a "complete series" boxset to have two parts to it, because I've made that rant before.
Heroic Age is a newly-dubbed series that relies very heavily on character development. The plot appears to be loosely based on the Hercules legend, in that the titular boy Age must fulfill a series of 12 tasks or "labors" for humanity, assigned to him by the series' equivalent of gods. And like most anime adaptations of classical works, it takes place in the future, with our hero having the ability to transform himself into an awesome mecha that can blow stuff up by punching really hard.
Here is the FUNimation page on the series, with kind of a cool trailer, but please don't get me started on how oxymoronic it is for a "complete series" boxset to have two parts to it, because I've made that rant before.