
The three AAST girls, whose names I can’t even remember, spent most of the time shooting their guns. Takeru states that he doesn’t want to fight, but does nothing to back up his words and is no different at the end of the anime than he was at the beginning. A flashback in the hospital tried to copy Shinji’s relationship with his father from Evangelion, but copying others’ work for the sake of copying is just poor taste.Ĭharacter development is nonexistent. As you can imagine, with all of this fighting, there is no real story to develop. After a brief hospital scene, they are fighting the Ancients again, followed by a brief explanation of the story and one final fight. Mars of Destruction starts off with the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere and then fast forwards to the future when AAST is fighting the Ancients. The setting doesn’t sound too bad considering how strange anime can get, but the execution of the story was horrible. Unfortunately, conventional weapons are useless against the Ancients and they must rely on a man named Takeru to fight them using a “Mars Suit”. Shortly after that, monsters called Ancients begin attacking people in and around Tokyo and it’s up to an organization known as AAST to stop them. The story is set in 2010 after a spaceship carrying samples from Mars breaks up in the atmosphere.

Released back in 2005, Mars of Destruction is a short 1 episode OVA produced by Idea Factory (Generation of Chaos, Run=Dim). It is known among anime fans as one of (if not the) worst anime ever produced and so I decided to give it a watch. One of these anime is Mars of Destruction.


On the other end of the spectrum are anime that are so bad that they should not have seen the light of day. There are a lot of well-known and respected anime titles out there that seemingly everyone knows about, such as Neon Genesis Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop.
