(L) Mars Red

[Stark700]

Plot

MARS RED takes place in 1923, and vampires have existed for quite a while. But now, the number of vampires is increasing and a mysterious, artificial blood source called Ascra has appeared.

The Japanese government, in turn, creates “Code Zero,” a unit within the army tasked with taking down the vampiric forces. And what better way to track vampires than by using vampires?

Created by Lieutenant General Nakajima, this unit has historically been in the business of information war, but has been re-assigned to solve the vampire crisis.

"Mars Red" TV anime by SIGNAL.MD announced for 2021.

https://twitter.com/AIR_News01/statu...50799803981824

Edit: Funimation is co-producting it

https://www.funimation.com/blog/2020...oduction-2021/

[Stark700]

Official trailer

[Stark700]

Funimation announced for streaming.

https://www.funimation.com/blog/2021...ends-with-you/

[Stark700]

First episode is up on Funimation today

Takes place in 1923 and we got the debut of an vampire woman right off the bat. I want to say that the overall environment and visual quality does gives me the feeling of the time setting.

Seems the show features adult characters with military roles and they fear that the vampire community may become a prominent threat. It feels like an episode that sets up for many events in the future and I hope it'll be good. Has potential imo although I'm not sold on the main cast yet.

Also, this anime seems to have a way of words, some of the dialogues sounds like it comes from actors. First episode had moments that looked more like a play. Wonder if this is going to be a recurring trend.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Stark700

Also, this anime seems to have a way of words, some of the dialogues sounds like it comes from actors. First episode had moments that looked more like a play. Wonder if this is going to be a recurring trend.

It's because it was originally based on a series of stage plays that has been running since 2015.

[nojay]

Originally Posted by Stark700

First episode is up on Funimation today

Takes place in 1923

1923 was the year of the great Kanto earthquake that killed over 100,000 people in the Tokyo area. It's one of those defining dates in Japanese history and a number of other mangas are set in that year.

[Guardian Enzo]

Just this season anime has two originals set then.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Just this season anime has two originals set then.

This show is not an original work, it's an adaptation of a 2015 stageplay. There are other originals to come this season as far I'm concerned: Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood, Megalobox 2: Nomad, Bakuten!!, Zombieland Saga: Revenge and Odd Taxi.

[Guardian Enzo]

Oh my, I think I loved that premiere.

[Marcus H.]

I've seen some footage of it too. My god, it has some Kizu vibes in it too. Almost looks and feels like a theatrical movie.

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

Honestly this show doesn't quite sold on me as much as I expected to: the eerie feeling of the setting looking like a set in a cinematic studio seems pretty cool and being based on a stage play, the script and visuals give off a very theatrical vibe. The cast so far doesn't leave off a strong impression on me yet but who know if that will change later on, personally Defrott leaves me with the most appealing first impression because he's a blonde shota vampire and is a bit cheeky. Maeda is pretty cool but we don't know much about him other than he has an hesitating attitude towards vampires, hopefully they'll introduce the rest of Code Zero with a variety of personalities to balance it out and comedy would be very much appreciated, too. I'm curious to see what kind of direction it'll take.

[Blueknight78]

ok i'm confuse here, need some help

1 - the girl suffered a accident during the stage play and before she died someone turned her in a vampire or she already was a vampire from the get go?

2 - she lost her memory??? because i means they told which she had a lover(boyfriend or husband or something like that) and they told which she wanted to performance in front of him, but instead she got a sort of love at first sight and wanted to perfomance in front of the mc??? he is her lover?? or she know him??

i really got confuse by this start, someone which maybe watched the stage play or got better what happened can explain me because i really could not understand what happened here.

[grecefar]

Originally Posted by Blueknight78

ok i'm confuse here, need some help

1 - the girl suffered a accident during the stage play and before she died someone turned her in a vampire or she already was a vampire from the get go?

2 - she lost her memory??? because i means they told which she had a lover(boyfriend or husband or something like that) and they told which she wanted to performance in front of him, but instead she got a sort of love at first sight and wanted to perfomance in front of the mc??? he is her lover?? or she know him??

1- I believe she was turned after the incident, but I have my doubts too.

2- For what I got, she was the fiancee of the coronel but they never met, but she was looking foward to meet him and wanted to show him her perfomance in the stage but she died before that, coronel didn't know her face but he realized at the end that she was his fiancee.

[Blueknight78]

Originally Posted by grecefar

1- I believe she was turned after the incident, but I have my doubts too.

2- For what I got, she was the fiancee of the coronel but they never met, but she was looking foward to meet him and wanted to show him her perfomance in the stage but she died before that, coronel didn't know her face but he realized at the end that she was his fiancee.

hmmm thanks, now it's make sense, because i was under the impression she had forgot about her fiance and had fall in love with the coronel somehow like wanting to cheat on the fiance, i didn't catch the coronal being her actually fiancee, it's really make sense she want to go to him, i really feel bad for her because she wanted to sacrifice herself because probably she knews which they could had tried to kill her, it was a really sad start.

[Dop]

Yeah, I really liked that first episode, but I guess we won't get to the main thrust of the story until the second episode, so I'm looking forward to that. It all seems very promising.

Oh, and the MUSIC! I suspect I'll have to buy the soundtrack album when that comes out.

[Friday]

see how the next 2 episodes go.....

[Guardian Enzo]

One thing that jumped out at me was the soundtrack. Really great.

[SeijiSensei]

Did the actress also have the surname Tsukishima? I got a bit confused.

Originally I was confusing Tsukishima Island with Tsushima Island which was the setting for the show Angolmois. The Mongols attempted to invade Japan via Tsushima but failed after typhoons sank the Mongol ships. There was no way the characters in Mars Red could have driven to Tsushima, which was the source of my confusion.

Tsukishima is a district in Tokyo; it's name literally means "moon island," a fitting setting for this show. Is the bridge in the anime still in existence, or was it rebuilt after the war?

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Along with the Great Kantou Earthquake, a number of other disturbing events happened in the latter part of 1923. There were the anti-Korean riots after the quake and the imposition of martial law, along with the Amakasu and Toranomon Incidents. The first concerned the murder of two prominent anarchists by members of the military; the second was an attempt to assassinate Crown Prince Hirohito. Lots of good material there I suspect, if they choose to make use of it.

This episode probably deserves a second watch; it was pretty dense.

[Guardian Enzo]

Tsukishima is legendary as the home of monjayaki (Tokyo okonomiyaki, basically) and the setting for Sangatsu no Lion. I did a blog post on a visit there some years ago.

Also, apparently the vampactress was the Major's fiancee, which is why he was assigned to try and turn her (and maybe why he got promoted, though I can think of other logical reasons). I confess I didn't make that connection on first viewing.

[SeijiSensei]

Hmm. The way Rei talked about his little town made me think it was somewhere other than Tokyo. Had I read the description at MAL, I would have seen the error of my ways.

In the photo above, was he crossing the smaller bridge on the left side of the picture? And the Kawamoto sisters lived in the area to the left?