Moonrise

Moonrise – Stop Making Me Defend It! (FAP-375)

Producers
Netflix
Studio
WIT STUDIO
Source
Original
Aired
April 2025 to April 2025
Genres
Action Adventure Sci-Fi
Number of Episodes
18
Jack's Score
4 / 10
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Rick's Score
2 / 10
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This week we talk about Moonrise, and it immediately turned into a heated debate. We start by tearing into the show for its confusing plot, and nonsensical world-building. And Rick tore into the terrible dubbed voice acting. We both clash heavily over the anime's mechanics, with Rick frustrated by the logic of weapon cards transforming into grenades out of thin air, and Jack reluctantly playing defense, arguing that the show's technology makes sense if you actually pay attention to it. We agree the series feels more like a video game adaptation complete with double-jumps and zero-G combat, but that is where the agreement ends. Rick slams Moonrise as a boring, poorly executed Gundam wannabe. Jack, on the other hand, finds himself defending the show out of sheer spite.
Set in the far future, Moonrise takes place in a world where humanity has established a loosely organized world government with all major decisions delegated to a single AI network known as Sapientia. And while Earth enjoys its peace and prosperity, the Moon has become a dumping ground for criminals and pollutants, a deliberate policy that has driven the lunar colonies into poverty and resentment. When the Moon's rebel faction, Moon Chains, launches a devastating terrorist attack destroying Earth's orbital elevators, the lives of countless people are changed forever. Jacob "Jack" Shadow, a privileged adopted son of the family behind the elevator project, loses everything in the attack and finds himself framed as a suspected terrorist who helped take down the elevator. Driven by grief and his thirst for revenge, Jack "enlists" in Earth's special military unit VC3 and is deployed to the Moon to hunt down those responsible. But as he gets deeper into the conflict, the clear-cut lines between enemy and ally begin to blur especially when he discovers that his long-lost childhood friend Phil is a key figure within the very resistance he was sent to destroy.
Tou Ubukata
Tou Ubukata Original Creator
Hiromu Arakawa
Hiromu Arakawa Original Character Design
Masashi Koizuka
Masashi Koizuka Director
Mai Teshima
Mai Teshima Assistant Director
Masashi Koizuka
Masashi Koizuka Series Composition
Tomomi Kawaguchi
Tomomi Kawaguchi Literary Arts
Ayumi Yamada
Ayumi Yamada Character Design
Megumi Tomita
Megumi Tomita Sub Character Design
Takuma Ebisu
Takuma Ebisu Mechanical Design
Kai Sugiyama
Kai Sugiyama Title Logo Design
Takaaki Chiba
Takaaki Chiba Main Animator
Taisei Kudou
Taisei Kudou Main Animator
Yuuko Sera
Yuuko Sera Action Animator
Satoshi Kimura
Satoshi Kimura Action Animator
Takuma Ebisu
Takuma Ebisu Action Animator
Ken Imaizumi
Ken Imaizumi Action Animator
Junichi Higashi
Junichi Higashi Art Director
Kazushi Fujii
Kazushi Fujii Art Design
Satoshi Takabatake
Satoshi Takabatake Art Design
Yo Shimizu
Yo Shimizu Concept Art
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