Product Description

In the peaceful theocracy of Simulicram, everyone is born female. At age 17, each maiden undergoes a special ceremony where she chooses her sex.  However, only Pairs of maiden priestesses can synchronize with the ancient flying ships known as Simoun needed to defend Simulicram. These Pairs refrain from undergoing the ceremony as long as they wish to keep piloting their Simoun. Aeru is recruited to be a Simoun pilot after a terrifying attack by an enemy nation decimates the squadron known as Chor Tempest. To earn her wings she needs to find her way into the heart of Neviril, Regina of Chor Tempest.  But Neviril s heart still belongs to her previous Pair, lost in the battle when she attempted a forbidden Simoun maneuver.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55437 in DVD
• Brand: Media Blasters
• Released on: 2009-06-16
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: Japanese
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 650 minutes

Customer Reviews

Awesome in a thin package
Simoun is a series that I've run across reviews on and either the people love the series or hate it.

I personally love the series and when media blasters/anime works finally put out a box set of the 5 disk series here in the US I snapped it up eagerly.

This story is about war and the affects of war on the innocent people drug into it. It's a story about growing up in the chaos that is war and a story about figuring out what you want to do, or be, and taking the first steps into that direction of your life. I personally love the series completely and it is one of my all time favorites.

Now this boxset format disappointed me a little bit. I love simoun and did buy this set as soon as it was offered but they stuck all 5 disks into a single normal dvd case. I understand that media blasters like everyone else has to cut costs somewhere but there is just something nice about holding a nice box with slimpacks of your favorite series (with the cover art they released the single editions of) in your hand instead of one dvd case.

Overall if you don't mind the yuri content(everyone in this world is born female till 17 when they choose their gender) it is an awesome series and this boxset is a cheap way to get the complete collection.

Good Animation, Good Music, But Storyline Is A Little Disappointing
The set is a pretty good deal for this price and even though it comes only subbed it doesn't subtract from the overall entertainment of the series itself. The only problem for me was that most of the characters where either to melancholy or bipolar in the series to truly have any feelings for on what happens with them. The question on whether choose to be either male or female after your seventeenth birthday was a pretty good story-arc and you'll see the questions that each of the pilots are asking themselves about that throughout the series, especially the couples that form between the pilots and their crew in the series. If you watch the show from start to finish than the ending shouldn't come to much as a surprise and while there is some disappointment at how some of the characters ended up it's still a pretty decent ending for the series. The only other thing is while there are battle scenes there not really the exciting fast paced action scenes you'll see in other series like Gundam or Naruto, also it was a little humorous to hear the male characters in the series be voiced by female actresses. So if you like yuri animes or more of a somewhat philosophical and with a dash of romance anime here's one to check out for your home library..

A good none hentia yuri anime
I bought this with my cousin just yesterday since I got money for my graduation that same day, now I bought this at Best Buy not Amazon because of the price tag, (it was $10 dollars cheaper).
I am enjoying it so far because it is nicely drawn with a good pull in.
What would you pick to be when your 17 years old, male or female?
I picked it up just for the story and so far it is very good.
If you want a compelling story that would make YOU even think if you would like to stay female or become a male during a war, than go with this anime! Its a very different take on war and how war effects innocent people.
If you can stand the yuri content than I would say get it, besides who doesn't like yuri?:P