“Only male D, Yuu, joins all-girl Midgar academy to fight Dragons alongside super-powered female students.”
Unlimited Fafnir
銃皇無尽のファフニール
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Synopsis
Only male D, Yuu, joins all-girl Midgar academy to fight Dragons alongside super-powered female students.
Midgar, all-girl academy, would have been notable just for the action of accepting its first and only male student, Yuu Mononobe. But Midgar stands out for much more than that: it's a school exclusive to a group of girls known as D's. Each of them have extremely powerful abilities in generating dark matter and manipulating it into powerful weaponry. The D's didn't exist twenty-five years ago, and only appeared after a number of mysterious, destructive monsters known as "Dragons" started appearing around the world. Strangely, just as suddenly as they appeared, they vanished. In their destructive wake, some girls started being born with symbols on their bodies and powers similar in nature to those wielded by the Dragons themselves. Now the D's attend this school, hoping to harness and utilize their powers against the Dragons. Yuu is their latest member and is extraordinary for being the only known male D in existence. Now he must forge relationships with the girls around him, including his long separated sister who attends the school as well, and work with them to investigate and eliminate the threat of the powerful Dragons.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 21 sampled reviews
What 21 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.03 · split reception
4.4 pts
Recommenders 7.3 · others 2.9
↓ 1.05
Running avg · Mar 2015 → Jan 2022
- 7 “The initial concept of trading memories for power showed promise, but the story quickly became boring enough to induce sleep. The memory-loss mechanic felt wasted since it only caused minor...”
- 7 “The inventive hook—memories traded for power and the lone male amid female-only abilities—keeps the story engaging, while the soundtrack does its job competently. Outdated 2010 visuals and murky 3D...”
- 8 “The anime deserves credit for giving its dragons actual missions beyond mindless destruction and featuring a refreshingly self-aware protagonist who knows exactly what he's doing, paired with...”
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2015 – Mar 2015 Winter 2015
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-9188 catalog
Produced by
- TBS Producer
- Kodansha Producer
- DAX Production Producer
- Nippon Columbia Producer
- Daiichikosho Producer
- RAY Producer
- Nichion Producer
- NichiNare Producer