Galerians: Rion

Synopsis:

Episodes:

• Episode 1: Awakening (Aired: 04/24/2002)
• Episode 2: Memory (Aired: 04/24/2002)
• Episode 3: Destruction (Aired: 04/24/2002)

Characters:

• Steiner, Rion (Main) - Voice Actors: Ishida, Akira, Wittenberg, Dave
• Birdman (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Koyasu, Takehito, Doyle, Peter
• Cain (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Ishida, Akira, Wittenberg, Dave
• Dorothy (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kinomiya, Ryouko
• Dr. Pascalle (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Mallow, Dave, Oka, Kazuo
• Dr. Rem (Supporting) - Voice Actors: McConnohie, Michael, Nishimura, Tomomichi
• Dr. Steiner (Supporting) - Voice Actors: McConnohie, Michael, Arimoto, Kinryuu
• Lilia (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Wahlgren, Kari, Kikuchi, Shiho
• Rainheart (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Suzumura, Kenichi, Mallow, Dave
• Rita (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Imai, Yuka, Sargent, Lia
• Steiner, Elsa (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Wahlgren, Kari, Yamada, Miho

Staff:

• Kan, Chinfa (Script, Original Creator)
• Tajima, Shouu (Script, Character Design, Assistant Director)
• Skinny Puppy (Theme Song Performance)
• Hamamura, Hirokazu (Executive Producer)

Reviews:

• User ktulu007 (Score: 2/10):
  Welcome, my friends. To horror anime month. We begin the festivities with a look at an OVA based on a video game. Galerians: Rion is a three episode OVA based on a Playstation survival horror game from Crave Entertainment, ASCII Entertainment and Polygon Magic. The OVA was handled by Enterbrain and Polygon Magic, coming out a full three years after the game’s release. Probably to coincide with the sequel for the Playstation 2. I have never played the game, nor had I heard of it before looking up information about the OVA, so I’m going into this one blind. Story: The narrative opens with a young manwith super powers named Rion breaking out of a laboratory. Continuing the trend of totally original and not at all common plot points, he has amnesia. During his escape he manages to learn about his parents and goes to find them. Their house is devoid of life and he finds out that his father was a scientist working on a project to make a super powerful computer, which they called Dorothy. But Dorothy went rogue and the only way to stop it is for him to find a girl named Lilia. Rion has a program hidden in his mind that, when combined with a similar program in Lilia’s, will destroy Dorothy.nnThat brings me to the first issue with the OVA. It’s incredibly cliché, and I do apologise to anyone who didn’t detect the earlier sarcasm and find this a bit confusing. There’s nothing done in it that’s original or even executed in a somewhat unique way. To make matters even worse, there’s a massive plot hole that opens up when Rion actually encounters Dorothy. It’s a spoiler so I can’t really extrapolate on it, although if you don’t mind spoilers and you want to know, send me a message and I’ll tell you. There are also some moments that are just head scratching. Like Rion instantly realising what a particular drug he finds on the ground will do with no reasonable explanation for how he knows that. Another shows up when Rion encounters a drug dealer who says he looks like he does drugs even though there’s nothing about Rion’s appearance or what he’s doing that indicates that. This dealer proceeds to give him drugs, that are supposedly fatal, for no reason. It would be one thing if he had sold them to Rion, but giving them away just makes no sense. It’s not like he’s trying to get Rion addicted so he’ll come back for further fixes since the drugs are reportedly lethal. Then we have the pacing. It’s pretty easy to tell that this was based on a video game since the story runs from boss battle to boss battle with very little setup for them or happening between. The horror elements, at least in the OVA, are pretty much non-existent. Truth be told, I’m not even sure what parts were supposed to be scary.nnCharacters:nnThere isn’t much to say about the characters.…
• User ArcFloof (Score: 4/10):
  If you stumbled upon the page for this anime and are somehow thinking about giving it a shot, just don't. It's a waste of time. Awe man, this one. I believe I watched this on MTV or something a few years back. I didn't understand it then and after reading synopsis now, I still don't get where they were going with this. The story is atrocious and goes nowhere. The protagonist is a twat. The animation, oh god, the animation. The graphics for the game this is supposed to be based on look better. It's almost like the result of a performance art piece to seehow one could complete an animated work with as little effort as possible. There are some anime that are entertaining because of how bad they are. This is not one of those anime. It's just not fun or entertaining at all to watch. Simply gross. nOverall a total drag and there isn't much else to say.

Forum Topics:

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• Galerians: Rion Episode 1 Discussion
• Galerians: Rion Episode 2 Discussion

External Links:

• AniDB
• ANN