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Captain Earth (2014)

Captain Earth poster
Original title
キャプテン・アース
Directed by
Takuya Igarashi
Genre
mecha
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 25 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 19 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A high school student named Daichi Manatsu pilots a giant robot for a group called Globe to defend Earth from alien invaders called the Kill-T-Gang. The aliens want to drain human life force to make themselves immortal.

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What happens

Captain Earth (Japanese: キャプテン・アース, Hepburn: Kyaputen Āsu) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Bones, directed by Takuya Igarashi and written by Yōji Enokido. It was broadcast for twenty-five episodes in Japan on MBS from April to September 2014. The series follows high-school student Daichi Manatsu who starts working for the Globe organization to pilot a giant robot called the Earth Engine Impacter to protect the Earth from the invading alien force known as the "Kill-T-Gang", that intends to drain all the life force of mankind to empower their immortal existences. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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