Recently a new anime is being simulcast called Terra Formars. Which can be found here http://www.crunchyroll.com/terraformars. The basic premise is that Civilization is planning on terraforming Mars by seeding the planet with algae/moss and cockroaches. The most takes root and feeds on the cockroaches which are resilient enough to survive during the terraforming process, but after a number of years the humans send a expedition to mars to see the progress of the terraforming. Creatures kill the entire crew, but not before they get a transmission to earth saying that giant cockroach-like creature were present. After a couple of decades humanity sends a combat crew to destroy what are now known as Terra Formars. This expedition is almost entirely slaughtered with the exception of two who vow to return to the cursed planet to avenge their friends. When they come back from Mars there is a strange disease that effects people and destroys internal organs, they come to speculate that it is a disease that does not affect the terra formars because they built up an immunity. Soon a third expedition is formed to go back to the colony, but this time they are genetically and physically modifying people to be able to survive on the surface of Mars and to be able to combat the terra formars, but the surgery that they must undergo has only a 30% rate of survival. Despite the odds this team comes together to take back Mars, avenge their friends, and save to human race from annihilation.
Now this Anime series actually come from a manga written in 2011 an published in weekly shonen jump magazine over in Japan and it aired its first episode on Sept 26 and the second episode was released yesterday Oct 3. I cannot make my initial impression of the show, but in a couple of weeks I might be able to have a decent notion of the series. If nothing else it is an interesting title that has a good chance of becoming a good sci-fi esc anime without reading the manga I look forward to continuing the series.
