Set in a future where mankind has terraformed Mars something has gone wrong; during the process cockroaches were introduced and they have mutated into giant humanoid monsters dubbed terraformars! These attacked those who went to Mars five hundred years later. Decades pass before people will return to the Red Planet; this time they will be multinational team given the task of eliminating the terraformars, which have been linked to a plague on Earth. In order to have a chance the team members have undergone genetic modification which gives then the abilities of other creatures. As each of the team has different animal abilities they each fight in a different way. We later learn that the terraformars have also genetically modified so they are even more dangerous than first feared.
When I started watching this it was a little difficult to see what was going on much of the time as the version available was so heavily censored; thankfully things improved by episode three or four. The cast is fairly large and many got killed off before one could grow to care for them. With each member of the team and different terraformars having different skills it felt rather episodic with each one getting to show their ability each week; we even had a voice over explaining which creature's skills each had. The show has a rather muted colour palette and there are no cute moe characters which gives the entire series a distinctly gloomy feel. The end of the thirteenth episode suggests that there is more to come although there have been plenty of better series that left things hanging as second series failed to materialise. Overall this was a bit disappointing; if you want to watch people killing space-bugs just watch 'Starship Troopers'! These comments were based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.
When I started watching this it was a little difficult to see what was going on much of the time as the version available was so heavily censored; thankfully things improved by episode three or four. The cast is fairly large and many got killed off before one could grow to care for them. With each member of the team and different terraformars having different skills it felt rather episodic with each one getting to show their ability each week; we even had a voice over explaining which creature's skills each had. The show has a rather muted colour palette and there are no cute moe characters which gives the entire series a distinctly gloomy feel. The end of the thirteenth episode suggests that there is more to come although there have been plenty of better series that left things hanging as second series failed to materialise. Overall this was a bit disappointing; if you want to watch people killing space-bugs just watch 'Starship Troopers'! These comments were based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.