Blue Gender

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In the near future, Yuji was an average guy diagnosed with a serious disease and put into cryogenic stasis. When he is roused, he discovers a race of insectoid beings called the "Blue" have overrun the Earth, and that he may very well be the key to the survival of the human race.

Yuji's hibernation was ended when a group of soldiers from an orbiting space colony called Second Earth were ordered to recover "sleepers" around the Earth. Among them, the soldier Marlene Angel develops a strong bond with Yuji over time. As Yuji and the soldiers try to escape Earth, Yuji meets many of the humans still left there. The Blue eventually kill all the soldiers except for Marlene, who is devoted to her duty to get Yuji to Second Earth. As the story continues, Yuji falls into a deep depression as he sees the destruction around him and his own inability to save those he cared about. Eventually Yuji and Marlene come across another group of soldiers from Second Earth, which leads them to a ship in Russia that can take them to Second Earth.

Upon arrival, Marlene and Yuji are separated, and Marlene is sent back into training. She rebels and is bent on finding Yuji. When she does, she finds he is being trained to use a new Armor Shrike (A.S), a battlesuit that is much stronger than the originals used in war against the Blue. Scientists also reveal the nature of the illness that put Yuji in stasis and the source of the insect monsters called the Blue are the same. In an effort to wipe out humanity, the Earth activated "B-cells" in humans and animals, which in turn led to the creation of the first Blue.

Yuji returns to Earth with two other "Sleepers" named Tony Frost and Alicia Whistle. Tony is a very experienced A.S pilot, while Alicia is only a young teenager with no combat experience. They and the other forces of Second Earth battle the Blue, and while they destroy a large number of them, they too are seriously crippled by the Blue. When Tony and Alicia return to Second Earth, they bring a colony of Blue with them as their B-cells are fully activated and they believe their destiny is to aid the Blue. Yuji's B-cells are activated as well, turning him into a berserker, but Marlene helps him overcome this.

When they return to Second Earth, they find it has literally been divided into two halves by Tony. One side is the medical station, and the other is the military station. Tony plans on ramming the medical station into the military station, which would therefore destroy Second Earth. He sees this as the "Grand Will of the Earth", in which he will become a "messiah" and cleanse the planet of humanity forever. However, Yuji, Marlene, and a group of other soldiers infiltrate the station and eliminate the threat of Tony and the Blue, though Alicia is inadvertently killed when the military station sets detonation charges on the medical station.

After the deaths of Tony and Alicia, Yuji contemplates his existence and fears that he was the true cause for all their deaths, but Marlene eases his mind.

A new mission sends them and other survivors to Earth when satellite images show a Blue migration pattern that leads to South America. The team discovers a massive nest, but it cannot be penetrated. A young child tells them that when the Blue migrated to the area, they had cleared down many trees, and that leads the team to a massive cave.

The cave turns out to be a tunnel into the nest. Piles upon piles of dead fossil-like Blue occupy most of the space inside the nest, and the team also finds a large sphere that is composed of a gel-like substance in the middle of the nest. A massive Blue is birthed from it and kills everyone except for Yuji and Marlene. Yuji kills it, and comes to the conclusion the sphere will hold all the answers he wants. Before he tries it, Marlene tells him to come back because she loves him, and for the sake of their child. Yuji vows to return, and heads into the sphere; it is implied he is inside the Earth's consciousness. A light ascends from the sphere and heads into space: Yuji is seen hovering in nothingness while he apparently gets his answers. What he asks and hears isn't shown as Yuji is granted visions of the past.

It seemed as though Earth's control went beyond the planet's surface and influenced human population regardless of where they resided (but in more likely events, the crew aboard Second Earth lost purpose in space, and as time passed, anger and isolation took root; further hints are shown by the gray looks of the crew. The earth (B-cells) attempted to destroy Second Earth, but the humans on board ultimately killed themselves off as they tried to escape in the shuttles in midst of the infighting.)

Yuji returns to Marlene, and as the final scene fades out, the voice of the Earth speaks. What it states isn't clear, as its voice is distorted.


Blue Gender was created by the Japanese animation studio, AIC and is distributed in the United States by FUNimation. In 2003, Blue Gender was released on American television as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, though it had originally been planned for Toonami, and was thus edited to remove its graphic violence, nudity, and sex scenes. There is also a compilation movie (Blue Gender: The Warrior) available on DVD. The series was also shown on the Sci-Fi Channel in the UK in 2002-2003 (from wikipedia).