KURAU Phantom Memory 1
KURAU Phantom Memory is the newest show from BONES. So let's get started already!
The year is 2100AD, on the moon. Kurau, 12 years old, lives with her father, a professor. Her birthday's tomorrow and she's not too happy that he won't take her anywhere... but he offers to take her to see an experiment that he's doing so she's happy now. What he's doing is an atomic collision experiment.. but something goes wrong, and two beams of light come out of the collision chamber and hit Kurau, making her disappear. But then she's back... but it's not exactly Kurau. She's glowing.. says that she's a Rynax (using the spelling on the show's site. In Japanese, it's RINAKUSU). Kurau's father doesn't know what's going on and asks the Rynax to give Kurau back, but she says she doesn't know a way. More importantly, she has to protect the other Rynax in Kurau's body, calling it tsui (meaning "pair"). The Rynax has some amazing super-human powers.. she also does have all of Kurau's memories, but Kurau's father has trouble accepting it for a while....
10 years later, 2110AD, Earth.
Kurau's working as an "Agent" now. She's been asked to retrieve some data that's been stolen. Her superhuman powers come in handy when she, along with her partner, go to get the data back, as she goes though doors, and fights a robot that shows up with not much trouble at all... However... she's been waiting for someone for the 10 years she's been here. She's lonely... then someone appears as she's sleeping, glowing.. Is it the other Rynax?
Interesting enough for a first episode. I'll keep watching and see if it keeps my interest :) For more information, see the official site at http://www.kurau.net/.
Urgh. I can barely keep up with the existing series that I'm chasing and now a new one that looks interesting pops up... Recently, I'd dropped Aishiteruze Baby because I simply don't have time to watch it anymore...
Speaking of which, since this is produced by BONES, I'm not sure if I'm going to give it a chance. Even though I love Full Metal Alchemist and Angelic Layer, my previous experiments with Wolf's Rain and Rahxephon had left me very very sorry that I even attempted watching them. Didn't really try Scrapped Princess and Kenran due to my innate dislike of mecha action.
But still this looks interesting from the few posts i see about it. (grumbles) Why did I spend most of my time finding info about that silly Minotaur...
I guess I'll just wait for the subbed to come out. ;D
I haven't watched Rahxephon yet, but that's only because I haven't been able to locate it anywhere in Malaysia. However, your summary has convinced me I need to at least give KURAU a try. Thanks for that, and keep it up! :)