Puranzetto (2010)

Puranzetto: Directed by Jun Awazu. With Greg Ayres, Luci Christian, Tiffany Grant, Josh Grelle. In the year 2047, an alien life-form codenamed FOS invades Earth and smashes through the world’s major cities in one wave. The earth unites to fight back and puts up a Diffuser in place to stop further invasions 3 years after. Now in 2053, a plan is made for a last counterattack that must disable the Diffuser for an offensive…and Akeshima Taishi, who lost his father to the FOS when they first invaded, may finally get his revenge.

“A simple mechas vs. aliens story like weu0026#39;ve seen dozens of times before. A bit too simple, actually – it is short, linear, lacks any real plot twists, and some strange things are left unexplained. The characters and the dialogues are clichéd and sometimes dumb. There are too few characters: in all we see 6 people. The whole Japanese army is 3 pilots and a captain. The aliens are never shown, only their ships. The music is okay but nothing great.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe only redeeming features are the quality of the graphics and the one real fight scene in the middle. That, and maybe you could call the captainu0026#39;s appearance a kind of fan service if youu0026#39;re into tough girls in military short skirts.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt might worth spending 48 minutes on if youu0026#39;re a mecha fan and you donu0026#39;t expect much, otherwise avoid.”