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Pilot Candidate
Pilot Candidate is set in a future where humaity is living in space and only one Planet is left. Attacked by enigmatic aliems called Victim. society is protected by 5 enormous Robots called Goddeses or Ingrids. There is one catch only People born with a special blood type and certain age can fly them for a certain period of time. (Fans of Evangelion will notice Blatant Simalarities) Volume One intoduces us to 3 main characters. Zero being the main hero with mysterious power and past. Clay Fortran set in the usual Smart sidekick role and Hiead as the equal mysterious rival. along with the current pilots and their instructor. Zero having the lack of focus and drive\ego the usual hero types have (think Tai from Digimon season 1--They even look alike and may have same english voice) finds himself in many incidents including: 1 displaying the mysterious power 2 seeing his past(he was saved by a goddess) 3 being accepted by a goddess and seeing a mysterious gril while inside) and 4 sets up the rivalry between Hiead and Zero. all in all a good video that will take time to build up as the follow the pattern.

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Watched it years ago on TV and still can't forget it.
I'm buying all four DVDs because I saw the series on Cartoon Network and simply cannot forget about it. Those who say there is no character development are quite obviously blind, because the entire series is about Zero's CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. You say it isn't about the action, so what is it about? Well, it's about the life of the characters and how at a young age they are thrown into a war against an enemy they can barely defeat! The music is excellent, and anyone who says otherwise just doesn't like orchestrated music. This is an anime fans dream soundtrack. The art is amazing, it's quite hard to find an anime with characters that look this good. I'm shocked and surprised at some people's insulting reviews about the series..but trust me: This DVD set is sooo worth it. Even if it does end suddenly, it's just great. I think it ended due to low budgets..but I'm not sure. We can only hope they will schedule more episodes in the future.

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Oy, I wish I had bought something else..
Yeah, I'm one of those people who isn't a big fan of Pilot Canidate. I bought it on a whim with Gundam Wing vl1 (which is a bit better then this) after reading a generaly positive review and suddenly comming into some money. Oy, do I wish I had bought something else. To some it up, this anime is just...corny. Corny characters (though I like their sensei), corny dialoge, (so far) corny plot....and most of all, corny music. Possibly the most annoying music I've ever heard in an anime. But on the plus side, the Mechas look cool (though they would have been even cooler if they were cell shaded instead of outright CG), and the show can be somewhat enjoyable at times. Unfortunetly, this is the type of show I will never finish unless i force myself to buy the rest just to see if it gets better, and more so to just have it finished. Anyway, this might just not be my type of show and for you it could be perfect, so i do reccomend checking it out, though I'd strongly advise not buying it till you've seen some of it beforehand. I don't want you to make the mistake I did.