She has to remind him to brush his teeth and wash his face, to cook and clean and do pretty much everything except work on the Hyperdrive. Last Hope ( Juushinki Pandora 'Unit Pandora') is a Japanese-Chinese anime television series produced and animated by both Satelight and Xiamen Skyloong Media. Hopefully he pays her well.Ĭhloe, who can’t be more than twelve years old, is forced to mother Leon, who can’t even remember to put on his tighty whities before wandering outside. The woman invariably feels exasperated at just how helpless this man is, but she does it because she knows he can’t live without her and she’s faithful, just like a woman should be, and she secretly gets satisfaction out of caring for him, because women are just natural caretakers. It’s typical gendered division of labor, wherein a man is too busy doing man things to do boring domestic drudgery like doing laundry or making appointments or feeding himself properly, so he needs a woman to take care of him. They’re the Pepper Potts to Tony Stark, the Joan Holloway to Richard Sterling. But there are better versions of such things, and Last Hope Part 1 doesn’t do enough to differentiate itself from its peers, even if it is probably worth a look.Usually, these women are paid-maids or assistants or secretaries, whose job it is to care for their employer as they would a child. is a functional dramatic ticking-clock, and it’s very difficult to dislike a show about robots punching monsters, just on principle.
Humanity being evolutionarily outpaced by the B.R.A.I. Set in a near-future world where the boundary between human being and AI is vague, a rapid biological evolution, similar to Cambrian Explosion, is caused. You can’t fault it for pace, and it wrings a lot of imagination out of its creature designs, even if plot-wise it’s noticeably lacking. You’ll know better than I do whether Last Hope Part 1 is for you, then. And you have the usual anime stalwarts of precocious young girls, women with giant t**s, gruff men doing a lot of swearing and weirdly discordant slapstick humour. The giant mechs within which humanity fight against the B.R.A.I do the whole Transformers bit of morphing from skating bipeds to motorcycles and back again, and the pilots miming their actions from a neon-lit cockpit is very Pacific Rim. The series first aired on September 14, 2018. The backdrop of ecological ruin is nothing new, and neither is the fusion of organic and synthetic for nefarious purposes. Last Hope is a Anime Drama series that is currently running and has 5 seasons (83 episodes). The art is exceptional and the story, though lightweight. Last Hope Part 1 is the kind of cautionary sci-fi that lets you know this is the future by having almost everyone speak in mouthfuls of overwrought technobabble, which gets grating early on and never really lets up.Ī lot of this stuff you’ve seen before. Last Hope is very good, considering the fact that it is an Original English Language (OEL) manga. Leon is living in exile with his non-biological “sister”, Chloe (Nao T?yama), and rigorously applying a scientific approach to every aspect of his life – and experiencing mixed results. The resulting hybrids, known as the B.R.A.I., drove humanity to near-extinction. Needless to say it went haywire and cooked the atmosphere, resulting in bizarre evolutionary changes and rapid amalgamation of the biological and the mechanical. Enter the Quantum Reactor, the brainchild of brilliant boffin Leon Lau (Tomoaki Maeno) – the titular last hope for humanity. It’s the future again, and as explained by an introductory voiceover, humanity’s hungry gobbling of resources put them in drastic need of revolutionary, renewable energy. A Japanese-Chinese anime series created and directed by Sh?ji Kawamori, it’s nothing you haven’t seen before, but it’s breezy and action-packed enough to offset some of that familiarity. A stunning conclusion to the sci-fi romance duology by writing duo K. Starring: Tomoaki Maeno, Kana Hanazawa, Kenjiro Tsuda. Last Hope Part 1 is decent-enough robot-punching fun, but its lack of originality makes it difficult to latch onto.ĭebuting worldwide on Netflix today after having done the rounds in Japan since late March, Last Hope Part 1 delivers thirteen half-hour episodes of the usual robots vs. Read 173 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. After causing the near extinction of mankind seven years ago, genius scientist Leon Lau must now fight the ecological disaster he unwittingly created.