Anime Review: Choujuushin Gravion – Unleash the Obarism!
Gran Knights, Gasshin Seiyo!
In the anime industry, there are many talented and outstanding directors, some of whom had specialized training in film or art schools, and there are also directors who transitioned from animating to directing after years of experience in the industry. Masami Obari is one from the second type. After his animating talent and style became known, Masami Obari ventured into directing and directed his own anime. One of them is Choujuushin Gravion, a mecha anime full of Obarism and filled with references to the Brave series.
Choujuushin Gravion is a TV series produced by Gonzo and directed by Masami Obari, broadcast in 2002. The series follows Eiji Shigure, as he sneaks into Klein Sandman’s castle to find his missing sister but unexpectedly gets caught up in the war against a threat from space, Zeravire. From there, he and Toga, the pilot of the Gran Kaiser, and four other pilots must work together to fight against alien weapons using the guardian god Gravion.
Despite having a typical premise of the Super Robot genre, the plot of Choujuushin Gravion does not bring any new value. The majority of the episodes have an episodic structure, focusing on character building and establishing mysteries (which don’t get resolved until Gravion Zwei) rather than plot development, creating a rather slow storyline. Besides that, the overall plot is not very unique in my opinion.
Despite having a typical premise of the Super Robot genre, the plot of Choujuushin Gravion does not bring any new value. The majority of the episodes have an episodic structure, focusing on character building and establishing mysteries (which don’t get resolved until Gravion Zwei) rather than plot development, creating a rather slow storyline. Besides that, the overall plot is not very unique in my opinion.
//PLOT//
Personally, I think the writing of this series is not that bad. What really makes the plot of this anime boring is its delivery. Due to the lack of budget, Obari’s decision to pursue a complex artstyle, along with the common problem of Digipaint anime in the early 2000s, made the film’s animation extremely bad: with the exception of God Gravion’s special moves and fusion scenes (of course the most favored), most of the animation is very stiff and the image quality is inconsistent, sometimes blurry and sometimes clear. This leads to emotions in important scenes not reaching the hearts of viewers. Storyboards sometimes help and sometimes destroy, for example, the storyboard of episode 9 cleverly bypasses the animation limitations of the anime and conveys a lot of emotions, while the storyboard of episode 10 gets bogged down in the limitations of animation and makes the confrontation scene between Toga and Eiji extremely lacking in weight.
In short, an average script combined with lackluster interpretation creates the extremely weak plot of Choujuushin Gravion.
Personally, I think the writing of this series is not that bad. What really makes the plot of this anime boring is its delivery. Due to the lack of budget, Obari’s decision to pursue a complex artstyle, along with the common problem of Digipaint anime in the early 2000s, made the film’s animation extremely bad: with the exception of God Gravion’s special moves and fusion scenes (of course the most favored), most of the animation is very stiff and the image quality is inconsistent, sometimes blurry and sometimes clear. This leads to emotions in important scenes not reaching the hearts of viewers. Storyboards sometimes help and sometimes destroy, for example, the storyboard of episode 9 cleverly bypasses the animation limitations of the anime and conveys a lot of emotions, while the storyboard of episode 10 gets bogged down in the limitations of animation and makes the confrontation scene between Toga and Eiji extremely lacking in weight.
In short, an average script combined with lackluster interpretation creates the extremely weak plot of Choujuushin Gravion.
//CHARACTERS//
The characters in the series are built well, although a bit simple and cliché.
[EIJI SHIGURE]
Eiji is a classic protagonist in the Super Robot genre: an emotional and hot-tempered teenager. The special thing about this character is that he is built from the perspective of a “Supporting Protagonist” – the main character of the story but not the leader (the same type of character as Time Red in Timeranger). Starting out as a naive rookie, with his childish and impulsive personality, he was often scolded and sometimes looked down upon by his teammates. But gradually the training sessions, as well as the experiences throughout the series made him more mature in both strength and soul, and eventually Eiji became a strong spiritual support for the team. Although not unique, Eiji Shigure’s story is still interesting to me, because it is a story that honors emotional hearts.
[TOUGA TENKUUJI]
Touga, leader of the Gran Knights and controller of the Gran Kaiser, is the complete opposite of Eiji. Trained since childhood in the Saint-Germain castle to become pilot of the Gran Kaiser, he is extremely athletic and physically strong. Besides that, he has a gentle and tender personality when not fighting, and is disciplined and extremely focused when he is. Those characteristics make Touga seem like a perfect person, except for one thing: he has never left the castle in his entire life, and has never interacted with any humans except those in Saint-Germain. This makes him almost oblivious to human emotions, which leads to the situation in episode 10.
Although not an interesting character himself, Touga and Eiji make a good contrasting character couple. Touga gives Eiji the motivation to stay on Earthgertz to fight and pushes him to train more, while Eiji helps Touga get to know real-life people and their emotions better, and the two of them go through a lot together. After this relationship is tested, it becomes even tighter, with Touga understanding the importance of human life and wanting Eiji to be the one to restrain him whenever he does something excessive. The relationship between the two main characters of Gravion is built quite naturally and is probably the best written + performed thing in this anime.
The characters in the series are built well, although a bit simple and cliché.
[EIJI SHIGURE]
Eiji is a classic protagonist in the Super Robot genre: an emotional and hot-tempered teenager. The special thing about this character is that he is built from the perspective of a “Supporting Protagonist” – the main character of the story but not the leader (the same type of character as Time Red in Timeranger). Starting out as a naive rookie, with his childish and impulsive personality, he was often scolded and sometimes looked down upon by his teammates. But gradually the training sessions, as well as the experiences throughout the series made him more mature in both strength and soul, and eventually Eiji became a strong spiritual support for the team. Although not unique, Eiji Shigure’s story is still interesting to me, because it is a story that honors emotional hearts.
[TOUGA TENKUUJI]
Touga, leader of the Gran Knights and controller of the Gran Kaiser, is the complete opposite of Eiji. Trained since childhood in the Saint-Germain castle to become pilot of the Gran Kaiser, he is extremely athletic and physically strong. Besides that, he has a gentle and tender personality when not fighting, and is disciplined and extremely focused when he is. Those characteristics make Touga seem like a perfect person, except for one thing: he has never left the castle in his entire life, and has never interacted with any humans except those in Saint-Germain. This makes him almost oblivious to human emotions, which leads to the situation in episode 10.
Although not an interesting character himself, Touga and Eiji make a good contrasting character couple. Touga gives Eiji the motivation to stay on Earthgertz to fight and pushes him to train more, while Eiji helps Touga get to know real-life people and their emotions better, and the two of them go through a lot together. After this relationship is tested, it becomes even tighter, with Touga understanding the importance of human life and wanting Eiji to be the one to restrain him whenever he does something excessive. The relationship between the two main characters of Gravion is built quite naturally and is probably the best written + performed thing in this anime.
[THE REMAINING GRAN KNIGHTS]
Although they control God Gravion, the remaining four girls in the team do not receive as much spotlight as Touga and Eiji. Luna, Eina, Mizuki, and Leele’s personalities all revolve around certain traits, while their character development is very superficial.
Luna Gusuku is a tsundere girl who is full of energy and enthusiasm, and cares about others (except Eiji). This girl is probably the character with the best personality among the four female Gran Knights for me. However, the only twist in this character is merely that her father once worked for Earthgertz and died in the first war with the Zeravire, and Luna also only experienced a tiny bit of character growth throughout the series.
Eina belongs to Klein Sandman’s team of maids, and has the opposite personality of Luna: she is shy and easily frightened, but still tries to fulfill her duties. Eina is the Gran Knight who received the least amount of attention from the writers as not even her background story was revealed, in addition to the fact that she had extremely little screen time.
Mizuki Tachibana is the oldest Gran Knight. Her personality revolves around her sexy body and alcoholism, until episode 9 where her other side is revealed. However, in my opinion, her character is still quite superficial as she is not developed any further after episode 9.
Leele, the most mysterious girl in the team, has a closed personality. Having lost her parents in a fire many years ago, she lost her memory and was raised by the Sandman. Leele has the best development of the four female protagonists, as she gradually opens up after interacting with the Gran Knights, and is ultimately the one who searches for Eiji when he leaves the castle.
A major shortcoming in Choujuushin Gravion‘s character building is that the connection between the Gran Knights is not clearly portrayed. The common bond between pilots in a mecha anime where the titular mecha is combined of many machines is always an indispensable element for me, but unfortunately this element is quite vague in Choujuushin Gravion. The general relationship between the Gran Knights is poorly developed, and their interaction scenes are not very impressive.
Although they control God Gravion, the remaining four girls in the team do not receive as much spotlight as Touga and Eiji. Luna, Eina, Mizuki, and Leele’s personalities all revolve around certain traits, while their character development is very superficial.
Luna Gusuku is a tsundere girl who is full of energy and enthusiasm, and cares about others (except Eiji). This girl is probably the character with the best personality among the four female Gran Knights for me. However, the only twist in this character is merely that her father once worked for Earthgertz and died in the first war with the Zeravire, and Luna also only experienced a tiny bit of character growth throughout the series.
Eina belongs to Klein Sandman’s team of maids, and has the opposite personality of Luna: she is shy and easily frightened, but still tries to fulfill her duties. Eina is the Gran Knight who received the least amount of attention from the writers as not even her background story was revealed, in addition to the fact that she had extremely little screen time.
Mizuki Tachibana is the oldest Gran Knight. Her personality revolves around her sexy body and alcoholism, until episode 9 where her other side is revealed. However, in my opinion, her character is still quite superficial as she is not developed any further after episode 9.
Leele, the most mysterious girl in the team, has a closed personality. Having lost her parents in a fire many years ago, she lost her memory and was raised by the Sandman. Leele has the best development of the four female protagonists, as she gradually opens up after interacting with the Gran Knights, and is ultimately the one who searches for Eiji when he leaves the castle.
A major shortcoming in Choujuushin Gravion‘s character building is that the connection between the Gran Knights is not clearly portrayed. The common bond between pilots in a mecha anime where the titular mecha is combined of many machines is always an indispensable element for me, but unfortunately this element is quite vague in Choujuushin Gravion. The general relationship between the Gran Knights is poorly developed, and their interaction scenes are not very impressive.
//VISUAL//
As I mentioned above, Choujuushin Gravion‘s animation is quite lackluster: the image is blurry in some frames, the animation is very stiff, only the finishing blow and fusion scenes are a bit better due to priority.
Most of the budget and effort in the production process probably went into the mechanical design, because all the machines in this TV series are stunningly beautiful. The Gran Divas and Gran Kaiser designed by Masami Obari and other designers all have beautiful shapes, beautiful colors, while the decorative details inspired by South American culture didn’t feel out of place. I really dig the design of G-Attacker and G-Striker, because they are based on the design of Core Fighter from Mobile Suit Gundam. Combining the above machines, God Gravion was designed by legendary mechanical designer Kunio Okawara and then Barified which looks amazing in animation, and is one of my favourite Bari’d mecha designs. It’s basically a Brave but was given the Obari work-out.
One of the indispensable spices in the anime series that Obari directed is fanservice. So it’s not surprising that Makoto Uno, the character designer for many anime series full of fanservice and ecchi such as Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World, High School DxD Hero, Love Hina, etc, designed the characters for this anime, along with Junichi Takaoka. The characters are designed quite elaborately, especially their costumes, and most of them are very eye-catching. It’s just a shame that the fussiness of the designs hinders the quality of the film’s already low-budget animation.
Despite the poor animation quality, Choujuushin Gravion still proves that Masami Obari is a talented action director. One of his pretty good decisions is that the moves are not all revealed in one episode but are introduced in a spread manner, both surprising viewers and helping to limit the disadvantage of lack of funding. Besides, I also appreciate that the combination segments in each episode are edited so that no scene is 100% the same, there are always small changes so that viewers do not feel bored when they have to watch it every episode. The gattai scene itself is also very well executed: a sequence of fun and extremely dynamic animations with interesting little details, combined with strong and cool voice acting from Jun Fukuyama and Sho Hayami, and above all, Masaaki Endoh’s fiery voice, creating one of the best gattai sequences I’ve ever witnessed.
Gravion’s action scene can be described as both clunky and “realistically” weighted (since it’s based off of gravity after all). The special attacks are paid special attention to and they are all very badass. Otherwise the normal kicks and punches are pretty basic. Basically, if they yell the attack names, then it’s gonna look good. And of course, we can’t forget the Obari classics like the Brave Sword Poses, the Brave Mask, and the dynamic Rocket Punches.
As I mentioned above, Choujuushin Gravion‘s animation is quite lackluster: the image is blurry in some frames, the animation is very stiff, only the finishing blow and fusion scenes are a bit better due to priority.
Most of the budget and effort in the production process probably went into the mechanical design, because all the machines in this TV series are stunningly beautiful. The Gran Divas and Gran Kaiser designed by Masami Obari and other designers all have beautiful shapes, beautiful colors, while the decorative details inspired by South American culture didn’t feel out of place. I really dig the design of G-Attacker and G-Striker, because they are based on the design of Core Fighter from Mobile Suit Gundam. Combining the above machines, God Gravion was designed by legendary mechanical designer Kunio Okawara and then Barified which looks amazing in animation, and is one of my favourite Bari’d mecha designs. It’s basically a Brave but was given the Obari work-out.
One of the indispensable spices in the anime series that Obari directed is fanservice. So it’s not surprising that Makoto Uno, the character designer for many anime series full of fanservice and ecchi such as Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World, High School DxD Hero, Love Hina, etc, designed the characters for this anime, along with Junichi Takaoka. The characters are designed quite elaborately, especially their costumes, and most of them are very eye-catching. It’s just a shame that the fussiness of the designs hinders the quality of the film’s already low-budget animation.
Despite the poor animation quality, Choujuushin Gravion still proves that Masami Obari is a talented action director. One of his pretty good decisions is that the moves are not all revealed in one episode but are introduced in a spread manner, both surprising viewers and helping to limit the disadvantage of lack of funding. Besides, I also appreciate that the combination segments in each episode are edited so that no scene is 100% the same, there are always small changes so that viewers do not feel bored when they have to watch it every episode. The gattai scene itself is also very well executed: a sequence of fun and extremely dynamic animations with interesting little details, combined with strong and cool voice acting from Jun Fukuyama and Sho Hayami, and above all, Masaaki Endoh’s fiery voice, creating one of the best gattai sequences I’ve ever witnessed.
Gravion’s action scene can be described as both clunky and “realistically” weighted (since it’s based off of gravity after all). The special attacks are paid special attention to and they are all very badass. Otherwise the normal kicks and punches are pretty basic. Basically, if they yell the attack names, then it’s gonna look good. And of course, we can’t forget the Obari classics like the Brave Sword Poses, the Brave Mask, and the dynamic Rocket Punches.
//AUDIO//
The music in Choujuushin Gravion is perhaps the series’ best quality.
The anime featured JAM Project in the opening song and gattai scene background music, and this legendary band did not disappoint at all, on the contrary, “Gasshin! God Gravion” has become one of my favorite gattai theme songs. The ending song “WISH” performed by singer Yuria is extremely gentle and relaxing, suitable for ending episodes full of dramatic action. Hikaru Nanase, composer of Infinite Stratos and Zone of the Enders (anime), composed the entire soundtrack of the series – a soundtrack that, although not too outstanding, fulfilled its role.
The series’ voice cast includes many talented and famous actors, such as Mai Nakahara, Yuu Asakawa, Jun Fukuyama, Hikaru Midorikawa, Sho Hayami, Junichi Suwabe. However, their jobs are quite simple and there are no scenes that really require them to show off their full range of talent, so there’s no acting that really leaves an impression in this anime, although they still did their roles well. I especially like the way Sho Hayami voices Klein Sandman – you can feel that he was having a lot of fun voicing in a disguised Brave series ever since his role as Exkaiser.
My biggest complaint about the audio is that the sound editing quality of Choujuushin Gravion is not very good. Sometimes the sound effects come slower than the animation and there are some punches and kicks in the anime without sound effects, causing the viewer’s mood to drop terribly.
//CONCLUSION//
Choujuushin Gravion is an okay-ish anime, if you come for entertainment and Obarism (since it is as Obari as it gets on “safe” TV). Otherwise, from a general perspective, this is not a good anime series. This series is a clear demonstration that, as joked in Pop Team Epic season 2, Masami Obari is truly a powerful super robot, but can only exert its full power when given enough budget. For Gravion, Obari is just having a blast with turning some of his style into animation while kinda glossing over the other aspects.
The music in Choujuushin Gravion is perhaps the series’ best quality.
The anime featured JAM Project in the opening song and gattai scene background music, and this legendary band did not disappoint at all, on the contrary, “Gasshin! God Gravion” has become one of my favorite gattai theme songs. The ending song “WISH” performed by singer Yuria is extremely gentle and relaxing, suitable for ending episodes full of dramatic action. Hikaru Nanase, composer of Infinite Stratos and Zone of the Enders (anime), composed the entire soundtrack of the series – a soundtrack that, although not too outstanding, fulfilled its role.
The series’ voice cast includes many talented and famous actors, such as Mai Nakahara, Yuu Asakawa, Jun Fukuyama, Hikaru Midorikawa, Sho Hayami, Junichi Suwabe. However, their jobs are quite simple and there are no scenes that really require them to show off their full range of talent, so there’s no acting that really leaves an impression in this anime, although they still did their roles well. I especially like the way Sho Hayami voices Klein Sandman – you can feel that he was having a lot of fun voicing in a disguised Brave series ever since his role as Exkaiser.
My biggest complaint about the audio is that the sound editing quality of Choujuushin Gravion is not very good. Sometimes the sound effects come slower than the animation and there are some punches and kicks in the anime without sound effects, causing the viewer’s mood to drop terribly.
//CONCLUSION//
Choujuushin Gravion is an okay-ish anime, if you come for entertainment and Obarism (since it is as Obari as it gets on “safe” TV). Otherwise, from a general perspective, this is not a good anime series. This series is a clear demonstration that, as joked in Pop Team Epic season 2, Masami Obari is truly a powerful super robot, but can only exert its full power when given enough budget. For Gravion, Obari is just having a blast with turning some of his style into animation while kinda glossing over the other aspects.
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