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Synopsis
Japan engineered an armed powered exoskeleton "Infinite Stratos" (IS) and it became the mainstream of weapons. Since only women can operate IS, women dominate the society over men. Orimura Ichika is a 15 year old boy and accidentally touches an IS placed in the IS pilot training school. He is found to be the only man who can operate IS and forced to enter the training school. Ichika's busy school life surrounded by girls has begun.

Aired: Jan 2011
Producers: 8bit
Genres: Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi, Shounen,romance

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Oh! Edo Rocket
DVD - Season 1 Part 1
No-holds-barred comedy, a self-referential bent...that's right, Edo Rocket is yodeling from the top of Funimation's favorite mountain. And, as you'd expect, the dub gets up there and yodels right along. Meta-jokes are added, a snappy comic rhythm is developed, and the humor takes on a distinctive tenor: verbally nimble, perpetually self-aware, and eager to seize upon sexual innuendo. It isn't necessarily funnier than the Japanese, but it is distinct and worth a listen even for non-dub fans. The serious parts are adapted with utmost fidelity and surprisingly well-acted for a comedy, while the hairier translation issues are sometimes handled in novel ways (rather than replace one of Sora's puns, the script leaves it intact, to which Seikichi snaps: "That makes absolutely no sense in English!").

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Plot Summary: Infinite Stratos (IS), a weaponized exoskeleton system, has become the dominant tool of warfare and conflict. Unfortunately for the men in society, only women are able to operate Infinite Stratos... with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is ORIMURA Ichika, an orphan raised by his older sister who is herself a famous IS pilot. When his compatibility with IS is discovered after he accidentally touches an IS at the age of 15, he's given a scholarship and enrolled in a school that specializes in training IS pilots. Which of course means an... intersting life surrounded by girls for this shy, unassuming boy.

Opening Theme:
"STRAIGHT JET" by Minami Kuribayashi
Ending Theme:
"SUPER∞STREAM" by Yoko Hikasa, Yukana, Asami Shimoda, Kana Hanazawa and Marina Inoue

Our Home's Fox Deity
Sub.DVD 1 - Premium Edition
It may seem a small thing to remove the romance from a cohabiting-with-hot-girls premise, but in addition to simply being a refreshing change of pace, the series' disinterest in romantic bonds also frees it up to focus on infinitely more interesting family bonds. The trust and respect Noboru, Toru and their father have for each other infuses the episodic tales of attacking yokai. Ku's fierce protectiveness of the brothers grows until it is almost frightening, reaching perhaps its peak when she torches a local god rather than allow Toru to come to harm. In the meantime Noboru works to acclimate Ko to the informal ease of the Takagami house while Toru takes to Ku like a motherless child to a potential surrogate.

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Plot Summary: Infinite Stratos (IS), a weaponized exoskeleton system, has become the dominant tool of warfare and conflict. Unfortunately for the men in society, only women are able to operate Infinite Stratos... with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is ORIMURA Ichika, an orphan raised by his older sister who is herself a famous IS pilot. When his compatibility with IS is discovered after he accidentally touches an IS at the age of 15, he's given a scholarship and enrolled in a school that specializes in training IS pilots. Which of course means an... intersting life surrounded by girls for this shy, unassuming boy.

Opening Theme:
"STRAIGHT JET" by Minami Kuribayashi
Ending Theme:
"SUPER∞STREAM" by Yoko Hikasa, Yukana, Asami Shimoda, Kana Hanazawa and Marina Inoue

Our Home's Fox Deity
Sub.DVD 1 - Premium Edition

The fruits of those bonds can be very sweet, as when a Noboru-influenced Ko begins an adorably halting friendship with Misaki, and the light they throw on Ku's character even recasts some of the first episode's events in a more interesting light. Their real achievement, however, is the warm and often amusing dynamic of the Takagami household. Ko's appealing awkwardness, Ku's capriciousness, Noboru's well-meaning worries, Toru's unprejudiced acceptance, their father's smiling sangfroid, the regard they all have for each other—it all makes for a highly appealing home, a place that, if you can't live in, you can at least enjoy visiting. The series is smart enough to recognize that, and treats its potentially bombastic magical-action plots with a calmness that befits the easygoing nature of the Takagamis and leaves plenty of time to spend in their company.

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Plot Summary: Infinite Stratos (IS), a weaponized exoskeleton system, has become the dominant tool of warfare and conflict. Unfortunately for the men in society, only women are able to operate Infinite Stratos... with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is ORIMURA Ichika, an orphan raised by his older sister who is herself a famous IS pilot. When his compatibility with IS is discovered after he accidentally touches an IS at the age of 15, he's given a scholarship and enrolled in a school that specializes in training IS pilots. Which of course means an... intersting life surrounded by girls for this shy, unassuming boy.

Opening Theme:
"STRAIGHT JET" by Minami Kuribayashi
Ending Theme:
"SUPER∞STREAM" by Yoko Hikasa, Yukana, Asami Shimoda, Kana Hanazawa and Marina Inoue

Our Home's Fox Deity
Sub.DVD 1 - Premium Edition
Now, no one will ever mistake Fox Deity for great anime. The characters are simple, and too often defined by their central quirks. Toru's much-remarked intelligence lapses conveniently whenever an excuse is needed to get him in supernatural trouble. Ku's personality can get abrasive, particularly when she starts throwing "I want ice cream! Now!" tantrums. The action sequences are frequent, but feel obligatory. They're generally pretty cheap, with shortcuts aplenty and little attention paid to impact, excitement, or the all-important coolness factor. Often they're exceedingly silly (magical Whack-a-Mole anyone?) and are even more frequently peripheral to the plot (which usually revolves around something like getting a part-time job or harassing Noboru at school).

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Plot Summary: Infinite Stratos (IS), a weaponized exoskeleton system, has become the dominant tool of warfare and conflict. Unfortunately for the men in society, only women are able to operate Infinite Stratos... with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is ORIMURA Ichika, an orphan raised by his older sister who is herself a famous IS pilot. When his compatibility with IS is discovered after he accidentally touches an IS at the age of 15, he's given a scholarship and enrolled in a school that specializes in training IS pilots. Which of course means an... intersting life surrounded by girls for this shy, unassuming boy.

Opening Theme:
"STRAIGHT JET" by Minami Kuribayashi
Ending Theme:
"SUPER∞STREAM" by Yoko Hikasa, Yukana, Asami Shimoda, Kana Hanazawa and Marina Inoue

Our Home's Fox Deity
Sub.DVD 1 - Premium Edition

But even if it isn't great, it is enjoyable. The fights usually have interesting strategic turns and occasionally allow Ku's beastly nature to burst from beneath her bishojo looks. Light-comedy veteran Yoshiaki Iwasaki rarely overplays the characters' quirks, letting them surface unexpectedly for knowing chuckles. He knows exactly how to animate Ko's impossibly cute habit of using hand signals and sound effects when her vocabulary fails her, and how to wring more laughs out of Misaki's internal tsukkomi/boke routine than should really be possible. He makes good comedic, and occasionally empathetic, use of both the charmingly light score and the equally charming character designs. Fox Deity may be little more than a diversion—Iwasaki directs little else—but it's a well-made diversion.

IS: Infinite Stratos Episode 9 Subbed Watch online Download

Plot Summary: Infinite Stratos (IS), a weaponized exoskeleton system, has become the dominant tool of warfare and conflict. Unfortunately for the men in society, only women are able to operate Infinite Stratos... with very few exceptions. One of those exceptions is ORIMURA Ichika, an orphan raised by his older sister who is herself a famous IS pilot. When his compatibility with IS is discovered after he accidentally touches an IS at the age of 15, he's given a scholarship and enrolled in a school that specializes in training IS pilots. Which of course means an... intersting life surrounded by girls for this shy, unassuming boy.

Opening Theme:
"STRAIGHT JET" by Minami Kuribayashi
Ending Theme:
"SUPER∞STREAM" by Yoko Hikasa, Yukana, Asami Shimoda, Kana Hanazawa and Marina Inoue

Our Home's Fox Deity
Sub.DVD 1 - Premium Edition
NIS America's release follows their now-familiar pattern: twelve episodes across two discs in a gorgeous box with a gorgeous hardcover booklet. Yeah, the large box will have to sit on top of your DVD shelves, and yes there's no dub, but suck it up—you won't find packaging this beautiful anywhere outside of Nozomi Entertainment. The booklet, by the way, is less comprehensive than those for Toradora! but it makes up for it with a wealth of promotional art.

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Oh! Edo Rocket
DVD - Season 1 Part 1
The beauty of it, of course, is that none of that matters. Edo Rocket's purpose isn't enchanting storytelling; it's unbridled fun. Yes, that requires a certain level of intelligence and a solid, likeable cast to get behind, but beyond that, who cares? Sora's fights are perfect opportunities for Mizushima and his MADHOUSE collaborators to break out the slick animation and cool monster designs (somehow monster-Sora manages to be both scary and loveable). The cycling character shtick is fertile grounds for meta-humor about anachronistic language ("that phrase didn't even exist back in these times") and the convenience of an animated life. ("Weren't we also s'posed to use it in episode 13?" one character asks about an exploded barn. "Hey, this is anime. All they gotta do's draw a new one," another replies.) And the whole thing—padded plot, tonal missteps, annoying characters and all—is so good-natured and playful that even when it stumbles it's impossible to hate.

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Oh! Edo Rocket
DVD - Season 1 Part 1
The stresses of adapting a madcap play into a 26-episode television series also make themselves known. The series uses repetitive behavior and events to pad out the plot, cycling through several iterations of Sora's fight with her criminal countrymen and more explosions and failed tests than anyone would care to recount. Seikichi mistakes Gin and Sora's relationship, mathematician Genzo frets about his social non-presence, little brother Shunpei is confused by his illogical heart, and mouth-face gets abused by his mouth-faced wife—all of it repeated over and over again as the main plot, namely Seikichi's rocket, advances in short, contrived spurts. The often substantial subplots notwithstanding, it isn't what you'd call a sophisticated narrative.

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Ichika Orimura (織斑一夏)
The Protagonist of Infinite Stratos, the younger of the two Orimura siblings, when Ichika accidentally activated an IS, he becomes the subject of international news, being 'the only male in the world who can activate IS.'. He is known to assess every situation he is in as well as his friends and those closely related to him are usually able to guess what he is thinking on given situation, causing him to suspect whether they are mind readers. He pilots the I.S Byakku Shiki

Voice Actors
Uchiyama, Kouki
Japanese

Oh! Edo Rocket
DVD - Season 1 Part 1
The curious thing about it is that its pedigree doesn't really suggest fun. Its primary writer is Shou Aikawa, the mind behind the solemnly ridiculous Ayakashi Ayashi. Its director is Seiji Mizushima, best known for his bleak adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist, on which he collaborated with Aikawa. And MADHOUSE isn't exactly famous for comedic excess. Where the anarchic comic impulses come from is a bit of a mystery. Until you look at the original creator. Edo Rocket, it turns out, is based on a play (yes, a play) by Kazuki Nakashima, the scribe behind...wait for it...Gurren Lagann. Suddenly things make a lot more sense.

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Oh! Edo Rocket
DVD - Season 1 Part 1
That said, the wacky/sober balance is far from flawless. The serious developments that escape the self-parodic chopping block can wend on too long—specifically Gin's decision to join the Men in Black—and a couple of comic characters are given freer reign than they should have been. The mouth-headed roof tiler in Seikichi's row house is one of them, though even he pales in comparison to Tetsuju the Fuse, a grotesque collection of twitching pecs, rubbery lips, and overblown ego whose torture of Seikichi, and us, is allowed to continue for a criminal stretch before he is blessedly launched into oblivion atop a makeshift rocket. At other times certain elements sit ill together, most notably when Akai shifts between explosions of diseased hatred and sympathy-garnering pratfalls.

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Ichika Orimura (織斑一夏)
The Protagonist of Infinite Stratos, the younger of the two Orimura siblings, when Ichika accidentally activated an IS, he becomes the subject of international news, being 'the only male in the world who can activate IS.'. He is known to assess every situation he is in as well as his friends and those closely related to him are usually able to guess what he is thinking on given situation, causing him to suspect whether they are mind readers. He pilots the I.S Byakku Shiki

Voice Actors
Uchiyama, Kouki
Japanese

Oh! Edo Rocket
DVD - Season 1 Part 1
If the busy cartoon art on the cover didn't tip you off, the illegally infectious opener announces the intent of Oh! Edo Rocket with foot-tapping clarity: to deliver an energetic good time. And, a few hiccups aside, it delivers most generously.

From its first minutes, during which it hops hyperkinetically from grueling beast action to period-film slapstick, it's obvious Edo Rocket is one odd duck of a show. Its Edo is a funhouse amalgam of period architecture and modern culture, much the way its plot is a free-wheeling mixture of deadly intrigue and base physical humor. Some characters are proper humans, while others, who admit freely to being comic relief, are caricatures so extreme that they're only nominally human. Real history combines amiably with shape-shifting extraterrestrials and cheerful anachronisms, while outrageous character shtick alternates with unpleasantly authentic psychology. Wind that all up to a fever pitch and throw it off a cliff wrapped in visuals that push MADHOUSE's supple animation to loony extremes and you have Oh! Edo Rocket. And man is it fun to watch.

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Ichika Orimura (織斑一夏)
The Protagonist of Infinite Stratos, the younger of the two Orimura siblings, when Ichika accidentally activated an IS, he becomes the subject of international news, being 'the only male in the world who can activate IS.'. He is known to assess every situation he is in as well as his friends and those closely related to him are usually able to guess what he is thinking on given situation, causing him to suspect whether they are mind readers. He pilots the I.S Byakku Shiki

Voice Actors
Uchiyama, Kouki
Japanese

Oh! Edo Rocket
DVD - Season 1 Part 1
Medieval Edo: The Tempo Reforms have curtailed all forms of entertainment, including fireworks. Young fireworks prodigy Seikichi Tamaya dreams of launching the world's largest firework. He'll get his chance sooner than he thinks. When one of his masterworks inadvertently saves the life of an alien monster, she takes on the form of a beautiful girl to conscript him into making a firework that will carry her to the moon. Unfortunately, in doing so, Sora, as she calls herself, inadvertently drags Seikichi into an extraterrestrial struggle that will set him at odds with prejudiced policeman Nishinosuke Akai and most of the local government. And a blood-sucking galactic serial killer. And a troop of funkily-clad Men in Black. And perhaps even his neighbor, dissolute playboy-with-a-heart-of-gold Gin. Explosive!

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