The end of the thirteenth episode suggests that there is more to come although there have been plenty of better series that left things hanging as second series failed to materialise. The show has a rather muted colour palette and there are no cute moe characters which gives the entire series a distinctly gloomy feel. With each member of the team and different terraformars having different skills it felt rather episodic with each one getting to show their ability each week we even had a voice over explaining which creature's skills each had. The cast is fairly large and many got killed off before one could grow to care for them. When I started watching this it was a little difficult to see what was going on much of the time as the version available was so heavily censored thankfully things improved by episode three or four. We later learn that the terraformars have also genetically modified so they are even more dangerous than first feared. As each of the team has different animal abilities they each fight in a different way. In order to have a chance the team members have undergone genetic modification which gives then the abilities of other creatures. Decades pass before people will return to the Red Planet this time they will be multinational team given the task of eliminating the terraformars, which have been linked to a plague on Earth. Set in a future where mankind has terraformed Mars something has gone wrong during the process cockroaches were introduced and they have mutated into giant humanoid monsters dubbed terraformars! These attacked those who went to Mars five hundred years later. There's plenty of violence, but the censoring takes care of that. Without revealing spoilers, the ending only makes sense if a second season is planned. A few more episodes and a better resolution and it could have been a great show. While the storyline is interesting, there isn't enough depth into it. That's the general premise of the show, and I thought it was interesting. The humans need to bring back some cockroaches to aid in developing a vaccine for some disease that's killing people on earth. They have to battle giant, mutated, humanoid, super intelligent cockroaches (yes, really), who kill humans with the same indifference we have to killing cockroaches. There's an ensemble of characters from different parts of the world, who have banded together to fly to Mars and colonise the planet. Interestingly, there's no real central character, as in most animes. I don't know who censors these shows, but it gets so bad it's almost unwatchable.
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