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Brain Powered - Family Feuds (Vol. 2) |
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This mecha adventure suffers from both too much story and too little, and often feels like pieces of other series strung together. Shinji's troubled relationship with his father is one of the key elements of Evangelion; most of the main characters in Brain Powered have massive family problems that complicate the story line without really illuminating their motivations. One disquieting aspect of these subplots is the maniacal Jonathan's revelation that he's slept with both Yuu's sister and mother. Things are further complicated by the arrival of several new characters, including Kant, a boy genius who looks like a girl genius, and Nakki, who appears at the Novis Nova with a Grand Cher and three Brain Powereds in tow. After a battle with his sister, who blames him for her loss of status within Orphan, Yuu ends up stranded in the frozen north. He meets a dying girl who provides life lessons about Brain Powereds and not fighting with hatred--as they're being attacked by Jonathan in a fancy Grand Cher. The Baronz Cher belongs to Baron Maximilian, who wears a mask that resembles Frieze's in Gundam Wing and talks like the Zentraedi in Robotech. The mecha pilots of Novis Nova continue fighting Orphan but there's no urgency to the threat, even when the gargantuan structure begins to rise from the depths of the Pacific, causing tsunamis. Two-thirds of the way through the 26-episode series, there's no indication where the story is headed. Rated 13 Up: Violence, profanity, ethnic stereotypes. --Charles Solomon
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