“Gender-segregated humans from warring planets must cooperate after wormhole strands them together in deep space.”
Vandread
ヴァンドレッド
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Synopsis
Gender-segregated humans from warring planets must cooperate after wormhole strands them together in deep space.
In Vandread, men are from Mars and women are from Venus! Well, not quite. Technology has allowed mankind to colonize the entire Milky Way galaxy, and in one star system, the men and women live on two different planets, Taraak and Mejere. A bitter and very literal gender war rages, to the point where they don't even see each other as the sames species anymore! Hibiki Tokai, a male third-class laborer from Taraak, ends up stuck on a battleship after a botched attempt at stealing a robot. When female pirates capture the Taraakian Vanguard, things don't look like they could get any worse for Hibiki. Unfortunately, they do; when the male crew of the Vanguard fire on their captured vessel out of desperation, they created a giant wormhole, which sucks the Vanguard and the Mejeran pirate's ships into itself! Now, stuck far away from their home planets, these men and women must learn to work together if they ever wish to make it back home.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 21 sampled reviews
What 21 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.46 · split reception
5.6 pts
Recommenders 8.6 · others 3.0
↑ 0.14
Running avg · Jul 2007 → May 2026
- 10 “Vandread is baically a really under rated mecha/romance [kinda] anime. It doesn't really seem all that arractive in the beginning, but it'll grow on you. There are alot of things you have to watch...”
- 9 “A war between men and women!!! wooooo hooo BRING IT ON. Set in the future, the age long contest between men and women will be fought in space and in mechas. Enters the hero where he finds himself...”
- 9 “Note: This review is for Vandread and Vandread Second Stage. Life sucks for Hibiki Tokai. Raised on a planet filled with just men, he is taught that women are the enemy. Working to build war mecha,...”
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- Format 13 × 22′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 46m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2000 – Dec 2000 Fall 2000
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-0158 catalog
Produced by
- GDH Producer
- Dentsu Producer
- Media Factory Producer
Licensed by
- Funimation Licensor
- Geneon Entertainment USA Licensor