First things first. What is a vandread? Well dread is a spaceship built primarily for combat. Van is a type of robot that serves the same purpose. The main difference is that the dread fights from a distance, and the van is usually restricted to melee comat.

When these combine they become a vandread. There is one van, and several different dreads. Different combinations create different dreads.

Oooh yeah mech power rangers, in space. That is just so super awesome that i probably don't need to say anything more to convince you to run out, and buy this!!!

Actually i would stare at you in a super awkward way if you actually did that :P

One of the most interesting aspects of this anime is the gender confusion. This is because here men, and women each have their own planet. The men, and women have been taught to think of the other gender as an enemy. This has been going on for so long that almost nobody even remembers that both men, and women originated from the same planet.

The story starts to unfold when a female pirate crew captures a spaceship from the men. There are a few men left on the ship. They become prisoners, but because of certain developments. As you would expect, they become crewmembers.

Like alot of other long space travels. This one is also features the standard "spaceship has been transported far away, and they need to get home". Fortunetly their traveling distance is far less than it has been for most others who have encountered this.

The action is pretty well done. Their presentation of the enemy does a fairly good job of aggrivating you. Even though the motivational lines for the good guys are a bit cheesy at times. A few times this actually felt like a combination of star trek, and new battlestar galactica.

After a while a few romantic developments start to appear. The main one between the main protagonist Hibiki(the van pilot), and one of the dread pilots. Nobody knows how to go about these kind of things. because of reasons stated above.

Even though the pattern is fairly standard stupid male in a harem fare.

This isn't anime that has alot of room for proper soundtrack. There are a few tunes that do stand out. They could have been better integrated in the scenes, but the effort is appreciated.

Score: 4/5 (total score for both seasons)

Great :D