10.025 minSeason 2 • Episode 13
LatestCombined, the fleet of ships continues to destroy ship after ship of the harvest fleet. But the Main Mothership is another story, and even the combined Super Vandread is no match for it. With Hibiki captured by the leader of the Earth Harvest fleet, and the Dreads similarly restrained, all looks lost. But as the leader of the Harvest may find, it will take a lot more than a few wounds and losses to keep Hibiki and his friends down. With one last strike, Earth intends to end all resistance...and it may take the combined might of everyone with the will to live to stop the Harvest fleet once and for all.
Hibiki Tokai, a male third-class laborer from Taraak, ends up stuck on a battleship after a botched attempt at stealing a robot. When female pirates capture the Taraakian Vanguard, things don't look like they could get any worse.
Visual Effects
Creative mecha fusion sequences still slap.
Writing
Actually commits to its gender-segregated worldbuilding.
Michiko Neya
Barnette Orangello
Hideki Tasaka
Duelo McFile
Yuu Asakawa
Jura Basil Elden
Tomokazu Seki
Bart Garsus
Megumi Toyoguchi
Parfet Balblair
Hisako Kyoda
Magno Vivan
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Hibiki Tokai
Yumi Kakazu
Dita Liebely
Fumiko Orikasa
Meia Gisborn
Mayumi Asano
Gascogne Rheingau
Mitsuo Iwata
Pyoro
Sawa Ishige
Paiway Underberg
Sayaka Ohara
Ezra Vieil
Yoko Soumi
Buzam A. Calessa
Ai Orikasa
Meia no Ohma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show's title combines 'Vanguard' and 'Dread'—the two mecha types that fuse, just like the gender-divided crews must.
VanDread arrived at peak late-90s anime boom, when studios threw horny space operas at walls to see what stuck. It stuck weirdly well.
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