Simoun (2006)

Original title

シムーン

Directed by

Junji Nishimura

Genre

yuri, drama anime and manga, LGBT-related television series

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 26 episodes

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a world where all people are born female, young priestesses must fight a war by piloting magical flying machines. The series follows a group of these pilot girls as they grapple with their duties, their relationships, and the choice of a permanent gender after they come of age.

melancholiccontemplativeslow-burnphilosophicalbittersweetcharacter-driventragicatmosphericwistful

What happens

Simoun (Japanese: シムーン, Hepburn: Shimūn) is a Japanese anime television series created by Shō Aikawa, Yoshizaki Sasa and Gō Mihara. It ran for 26 episodes on TV Tokyo from April 3 to September 25, 2006. A manga adaptation was published in three issues of Comic Yuri Hime. The manga shared the same characters and setting as the anime, but presented a different storyline. A second manga was serialized in Megami Magazine, with a radically different setting and a comic rather than serious and dramatic tone. There is also a two-volume light novel adaptation, which unlike the manga has a storyline close to that of the anime. In May 2007, Simoun was licensed for release in North America by Media Blasters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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