Eureka Seven AO

The story is set on Okinawa's isolated island of Iwado, which has seen a growing movement advocating a return to an autonomous government. Ao Fukai, a 12-year-old boy with a missing father, lives on the island with an old doctor named Toshio and is about to enter middle school. Ao's mother was taken away a decade ago by unknown individuals. Naru Arata, Ao's 12-year-old childhood friend and the story's heroine, lives with her father, older sister, and grandmother. She has a "Yuta" power awakened within her due to an incident when she was young. A mysterious entity called "Secret" suddenly appears and launches an attack on the Scub Coral lifeform on the island. Ao launches a certain military FP called "Nirvash" aboard a Japanese military transport in his fervent desire to protect the island.

(Source: FUNimation)

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Background

Eureka Seven AO premiered with the launch of the new digital over-the-air television system NOTTV on April 1. It finished airing in its time slot with episode 22 on September 28, 2012. Episodes 23 and 24 were aired together on November 20, 2012.

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Adaptation:	Eureka Seven AO
Prequel:	Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven
Side story:	Eureka Seven AO: Jungfrau no Hanabana-tachi
Other:	Aratanari Fukaki Ao
Sequel:	Eureka Seven AO: One More Time - Lord Don't Slow Me Down

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Characters & Voice Actors

Fukai, Ao

Main

Honjou, Yuutaro
Japanese

Blanc, Fleur

Main

Ohashi, Ayaka
Japanese

Peoples, Elena

Main

Omigawa, Chiaki
Japanese

Arata, Naru

Main

Miyamoto, Kanako
Japanese

Eureka

Supporting

Nazuka, Kaori
Japanese

Thurston, Renton

Supporting

Fujiwara, Keiji
Japanese

Truth

Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko
Japanese

Tanović, Ivica

Supporting

Gotou, Tetsuo
Japanese

Secretary Of State

Supporting

Kwan, Maggie

Supporting

Fujimura, Ayumi
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

Producer

Maeda, Toshihiro

Producer

Amano, Naoki

Producer

Mukaichi, Motoki

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Opening Theme

	1: "Escape" by Hemenway (eps 2-13)
	2: "BRAVEBLUE (ブレイブルー)" by FLOW (eps 14-23)

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Ending Theme

	1: "stand by me" by STEREOPONY (eps 1, 3-12)
	2: "Iolite (アイオライト)" by joy (eps 14-21, 23-24)
	3: "Parallel Sign" by LAMA (eps 22)

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Nov 9, 2020

Doubleminor20

Recommended

I was a HUGE fan of the original Eureka Seven series, so I had to watch this when I first heard about it. I gotta say, I kinda liked it.

The characters were pretty decent, the storyline took an interesting route with the series, and it kept the same fast-paced action sequences from the original. Though confused with how everything tied into the original series at first, the ending was a pleasant one that had me satisfied.

I will admit, some will probably not like this because the show really does not fully explain what is going on in the world around them and kind ...

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Mar 17, 2019

Budstairs

Mixed Feelings

The story is realy gone down from original. They introduce all sort of uneeded aspects, like time traveling and universeal traveling. Also why did they make that Renton and Eureka can't have kids in their universe. I also hopped that the story would focus on more Eureka and Renton as adults. The only descent episodes were 23 and 24.
Renton only had screen time of 3 episodes, that really sad. I was hopping to see more of the original gekko crew.

Overall the Eureka Seven Astral Ocean was mediocre at best. Character Ao was kinda to into what is right or wrong. Astral Ocean shoulden't ...

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Jul 8, 2022

reginwel

Not Recommended

This could've been an amazing. I don't get mad when a series that has finished its story gets a sequel. Even though it's ended, it doesn't mean it cannot be built on to be better. And just because the original series was about counter-culture, it doesn't have to be same in the sequel too. Eureka Seven universe was good enough to be built on. There were a lot of things to tell about the world. But AO couldn't manage that. It is bad as a sequel and pretty below average for an anime. So much wasted potential...

TL;DR: It certainly does not add something valuable to ... the E7, actually takes from it. And as a anime, it really not worth your time if you've not decided to consume everything about E7.

Good things about the anime:
-MUSIC
-Animation and art style

Bad things about it:
-Everything else

Is is even sadder because the story could actually be amazing. It had a good premise and the later reveal about what was that world about made it better. It starts of just like the original, we have a growing boy living with an old man. Things get chaotic and the boy finds himself in a journey with people he don't know much about. There are a lot of different details but outline is pretty much this and so far so good. But as you are watching, you realize everything that made the original E7 good is not here anymore. As the story unfolds, you connect the dots with this world and original E7 and you learn about the main character. And, that was it. Without spoilers, this is pretty much what you can expect. The characters are not interesting at all. They are not even getting the one-tenth of the treatment the original E7 characters' have. Occasionally, you get some backstory for some of them but they are not in the least interesting. Ao is an exception because you actually wonder about him and when you think about Renton's development in the original series, you expect so much from AO. I can say he was interesting at first but he has not developed as the story progressed but the last two episodes or something. He had so much potential to make the sequel work but he just played the role of standart mc who makes the story progress.

The music is the best thing about the series and subjectively better than the original. OP's and endings are banger, music in the fight scenes makes you hype up, and the music in the emotional moments even makes you sad, even though you don't care about the characters.

I think the original E7's animations and art was better, but AO was not bad at all. Better looking than the anime of its time but it is disappointing that it is not as good as its predecessor released years ago.

Even though it had the potential to become an amazing sequel, Eureka Seven AO couldn't even become a good anime. Not because it has not blindly followed the principles of its predecessor, but because you can feel it hasn't been made with any love.

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