Blue Gender: Complete Series and Movie

Actual Review of the Product- List of Special Features, DVD Breakdowns, Etc.
Let me begin by saying that Blue Gender is a creative, well-done, edge-of-your-seat anime series geared towards a mature audience; Blue Gender is certainly one of the more unique apocalyptic, military sci-fi animes in my opinion. That said, if you want a synopsis of the show, you can easily find those elsewhere. Here is the breakdown of the actual DVD set:

Overall Breakdown:
-Total Running Time: 750 minutes
-Languages: English & Japanese
-Subtitles: English
-Region: 1, 2, & 4 NTSC
-Format Ratio: 4:3
-Sound: English 5.1 Surround, Japanese 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital

Disc 1:
-Episodes 1 through 7
-Episode 1 Commentary with commentary from Laura Bailey, Eric Vale (Eric Johnson), and Christopher Sabat (voice director and voice of Keith)

Disc 2:
-Episodes 8 through 14

Disc 3:
-Episodes 15 through 20

Disc 4:
-Episodes 21 through 26

Disc 5:
-"Blue Gender: The...

One of my favorite anime.
This is my favorite anime series. It's hard to explain why, but I'll try.

The series itself is nothing special, Giant robots ( 1-2 stories tall ), giant bugs ( height varies, lol ), giant battles, and a giant and involved plot with amazing characters.
The show itself is a strong 3-4 but the characters in this show feel very real, and are well developed within the story. By the end you really feel for the characters and you really remember them. When I first saw this show I was 13-14, and I still recalled nearly all of what the characters were like when I bought this only a few weeks ago, if I can still recall a character and his emotions after 5+ years I think that's saying something for the shows character development.
The plot itself is a new flavor of a post-apocolyptic world, The blue ( giant insects ) have taken over the earth and humanity fights to reclaim their world, and that's about it. The show revolves around this plot, which alone would be...

Big bugs attack
In the future, civilization has collapsed, because the earth is infested by big, big bugs.

It sounds like the stuff of utter mind blowing disaster, but thankfully "Blue Gender" succeeds in being a fairly intelligent, intricate sci-fi anime. Lots of horror, giant bugs and a fish-out-of-water hero who manages to be fairly interesting as he becomes a seasoned warrior, but the characters develop by leaps and bounds -- and the ending is completely out of left field, apparently in an attempt to be bleak and "deep."

Yuji Kaido was an ordinary teenager in the not-too-distant future, until he came down with a strange disease. The only hope for a cure is to be put into cryogenic sleep.

A few decades later, he awakes to a whole new Earth -- sparsely populated, civilization overturned, and with every continent overrun by hideous enormous insects called the Blue. Then two enormous mecha piloted by humans appear, and after many dangers Yuji is taken by a chilly...

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