25 minSeason 3 • Episode 26
LatestAkira and Subete battle it out to save the world, and a new legend unfolds before everyone's eyes. Special Ending after credits.
Set in the future, a giant fighting machine called the Aquarion is humanity's only effective weapon in the fight against the technologically advanced species called the Shadow Angels.
Score
Yoko Kanno's operatic bangers that outshine the actual plot.
Direction
Shoji Kawamori's unhinged vision of mecha-as-metaphor.
Nobunaga Shimazaki
Akira Kaibuki (voice)
Ayane Sakura
Maia Tsukigane (voice)
Ari Ozawa
Karan Uminagi (voice)
Haruka Chisuga
Kokone Kikogami (voice)
Jouji Nakata
Sougon Henzaki (voice)
Ryoko Shiraishi
Sakurako Soda (voice)
Saima Nakano
Shouko Iwagami (voice)
Takayuki Asai
Tsutomu Domon (voice)
Yuuichirou Umehara
Hayato Kujo (voice)
Yuuto Adachi
Subete Kenzaki (voice)
Jin Yamanoi
Takashi (voice)
Masao Komaya
Hosonosuke Satou (voice)
Takahiro Yoshino
President Watanabe (voice)
Tomoe Hanba
Akira Kaibuki (Child) (voice)
Yutaka Nakano
Itou (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aquarion explicitly riffs on Genesis of Aquarion mythology, blending Jewish mysticism with Japanese mecha tradition in ways that confused everyone equally.
The infamous 'merging' cockpit scenes were so suggestive that multiple international dubs had to be heavily modified, with some countries cutting entire episodes.
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