Overview

A meteorite crashes to Earth, bringing with it a deadly virus known as M34 that infects humans, turning them into lethal beast-like monsters. The world's top organizations gather to form the organization CURE to combat the infectious disease. One organization, NOA, stands in the virus' destructive path by using soldiers implanted with super nanotechnology to fight the vicious disease. But as the virus continues to spread and mutate into different strains, mankind's only hope may be a sixteen-year-old girl, named Ai.

As the outbreaks of the M34 virus continue to worsen, the NOA soldiers face strengthening opposition. The virus continues to evolve, adapting itself against the nanotechnology, turning the very advantages of the NOA soldiers against themselves as the threat of the M34 virus brings havoc and death all around them.

Review

Well, hello again, I just finished watching all four episodes of Zaion, and boy are my eyes tired (nyuck,nyuck). Anyway, I am glad to say that I found the show very entertaining, perhaps a little on the corny side because of the mediocre animation and monsters but the overall idea and action sequences were alright in my book (sweet Jesus that's a thin book).

I immediately felt that the Nano Machine soldier suits seemed very reminiscent of the Bubble Gum Crisis power suits, except these suits manifested directly from the individual blood streams of NOA (hand picked combatants) troops. You see, the idea is that tiny nano bots swim around the blood of these very specialized soldiers and when it's time to kick butt, the bots rush towards the surface of the skin, break through and start to build armor instantaneously (AKA Power Ranger style). The bots also improve strength and durability. Cool stuff, huh?

Well the premise is this meteor lands and spreads this M34 virus that starts to gobble up humans and transforms them into all kinds of freaky zombie like creatures. The governments of the world, tries to hide this from the general public and the fact that they've formed these "special teams" of technologically enabled soldiers. A very cool part about the show is that NOA's are very expendable and suffer from a very high mortality rate, so you'll get to see a lot of these guys die.

The M34 virus turns out to be the 34th strain of an alien infection and it learns to adapt like the virus from the movie The Thing. It eventually figures out how to incorporate the nano-tech into itself as well. That's when all hell breaks loose.

There's this whole plot between this guy Yuugi, who hates being a NOA and this telekinetic girl who can control light or some such craziness, it's OK, if your into that sort of thing, but she hooks him up with advanced nano's that allow this guy to morph all kinds of s**t, like his motor bike. Hey, it's better than having your pet sidekick transform into a super jet like in Casshan Robot Hunter.

Look, if you have the time (2 hrs) and the money. Check it out.

Oh yeah, I read somewhere that these four episodes were originally made to be seen on the internet as a way to generate enough interest that the studios would pick it up and turn them into a full length TV series. Oh well, so much for the internet.

Review by David Marini
www.everythingevangelion.com