This was another purchase from the asshole who sold me Hellsing, made at the same time. Fortunately, Vandread was higher quality. Unfortunately, during the commercial break, whomever actually did the fansubbing informed that if I paid money for this show, I had just been ripped off and it was not for distribution anywhere Vandread was licensed and that it was, under no circumstances, to be sold. It pissed me off enough that this asshole who sold me the cd’s was selling them saying they were VCD’s while they were just AVI files on a CD-R and just burning many many cd’s and selling them to make money that I actually reported him, especially after he replied to my negative feedback and said I read the auction wrong, then he reported me as not having paid for the auction. I e-mailed him and eloquently told him to kiss my ass.

            Vandread 2^nd Stage starts directly after the end of Vandread, and explains A LOT of what was left unanswered of confusing from the first one. The deal is that the big enemy thing was actually sent from Earth to harvest organs and body parts from those who left Earth before. The Earth people that sent off the harvesters need the organs to keep themselves going, because they fucked up. I don’t care to explain more than that. I also figured out that the robot and the fighters can join together because of that light thing they got pulled into during the first or second episode of Vandread. A new girl is also introduced, and luckily, the show doesn’t turn into Tenchi Muyo.

            The cell animation is pretty much the same as Vandread, which is quite good, but the CG animation is even better, I’m not sure how they did this, since Vandread had kick ass CG in the first place.

            The show also becomes a little more serious than the first half in some respects, dealing with issues like death and birth. The characters also reflect this, as there is much more character development than in the first half. Yep, Vandread 2^nd Stage has better animation, better character development, explains A LOT, keeps away from becoming predictable and turning into Tenchi Muyo, even though it almost looked like it would and is just better overall than the first half.

Genre - action/romance?/comedy

Animation - good animation and excellent CGI

Sub vs. Dub - only seen it fansubbed

the Good - explains a lot of stuff that was unexplained,  great action, good character development, entertaining, etc...

the Bad - I still don't really understand exactly how they can form other machines by combining jets and robots, some other unimportant stuff

Overall - quite enjoyable, more-so than the first half, partly because it was fansubbed much better... and it wasn't even professionally fansubbed like the first half I had, which was commercialized