Series Title: AQUARIAN AGEEpisode 1: DEEP BLUE PRELUDE
Premise: Kyouta, a twenty-something guy who has a moderately successful band works in his parents grocery store while trying to figure out his feelings about Yori, a cute girl, his age, who just might be interested in him. Oh yeah, and there are these strange energy sashes that ocassionally show up, shake things around and produce women or monsters who are fighting each other or trying to talk to Kyouta.
ThePete's Review: Well, as it turns out, I only have two episodes of this show in my collection and after watching the second ep, I must say I'm glad. The second ep seemed to almost forget that there was a fantasy element involved in the show at all. There were a couple scenes, that dealt with these strange energy sashes, but nothing clear was discussed. The story progressed but ended on a completely unthrilling note. If I stumble across another episode of this show, I'll definitely give it a try, but I gotta say that the second episode simply does not inspire me to search it out. 
Over all, the show isn't badly made, or boring in the least. I just wonder where things are going in a "okay, we get that he's in a band and that the ocassional odd thing happens" way, but beyond that we don't get any major answers. At least, none that make me want to rush out and find more eps.In closing, I think this series has potential, but in the first two eps, it falls way short of that potential.
SPOILERS: Kyouta performs on New Years Eve and gets picked up by a record producer. He meets his very feminine (male) singing idol and discoers he's a real dickweed. Meanwhile, we meet the pop singer Kanae who also seems to have mystical powers like those weird chicks in the energy sashes. Kanae is being enslaved by her manager who holds a little remote control which is the only thing that can turn off this collar she wears that will kill her if she uses her powers. Kanae is obsessed with Yuri, Kyouta's maybe-girlfriend. Apparently she has super powers like the other women in the sashes.
Sadly, those powers don't manifest in this episode. What this episode boils down to, mostly, is Kyouta recording his new album and Kanae and her manager talking about Yuri's powers. FUN....
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