Level E

Alternate Titles:  レベルE

Original Japanese Release Date: January 10, 2011

Episode Length/Run-time: 13

Summary:

There are millions of aliens on Earth, all sorts of aliens, but the Earthlings don’t know it.  One such alien is the Prince of a planet known as Doguria.  He is a very mischievous person who likes to make people do things for his own entertainment at their expense.

Review:

There are hundreds of alien species that co-exist with humans on Earth.  They exist in all kinds; peaceful, aggressive, on the brink of extinction, etc…  Everybody seems to be aware of this except for the humans.  We don’t know about the aliens.  This kid, Yakitaka, from Tokyo comes to a new school, Kisaragi high school, to play baseball (yay!).  Hes kind of a touch guy.  The kind of guy who was probably in a gang or at least somebody who wouldn’t take shit from people.  When he arrives at his new dorm room there is a blonde guy in his room wearing his clothes.  The man is named Prince.  He claims to be an alien that crash landed recently nearby and that he lost his memories due to the crash.  The presence of the space craft is confirmed by news reports since it was discovered. Some stuff happens, the alien runs off the check the space craft and gets hit by a car.  He has blue blood.  He rests after being hit and his body creates some kind of forcefield that causes all his wounds to heal and the cherry trees around him to bloom.

The next day, the alien goes and retrieves this device that displays the aliens pet.  He is a fluidic organism from the planet Jacqueline Ess.  Named Clive.   It has a really amazin ability to mimic things.  It’s really scary.  I mean this thing looks like a giant, screaming, slug thing.  In the second episode you learn that there are people from a laboratory associated with the government trying to find the alien.  At the same time, people from Prince’s home planet land in Japan, searching for him as well.  They stop by the home of another alien, a very violent race called Disclonian.  They ask him for information before continuing on.  The race of Disclonians have destroyed thousands of other races in the universe.

At the end of a very uneventful second episode, the aliens from Prince’s homeplanet find him and reveal that they were on the way to escorting him to a very important intergalactic conference when they lost him.  The largest such conference in the universe.  But there are biggest problems.  At the end of the episode you learn that Prince almost killed somebody on the planet when trying to help a girl that they were harrassing  and the victim was a Disclonian…this is likely certainly enough to start an intergalactic war.  They thought they had killed him but the Disclonians go into an instinctual coma like state as a defense mechanism when they are about to be killed.  Its called Thanatosis.  the Disclonian wakes up and then escapes from Yakitakas dorm…

The character designs are very pleasing to me.  They’re more mature looking and are reminiscent of older anime.  Mature designs, normal colored hair.

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