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Zegapain

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: ゼーガペイン
English: Zegapain
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Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 6, 2006 to Sep 28, 2006
Premiered: Spring 2006
Broadcast: Thursdays at 18:00 (JST)
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Original
Genres: RomanceRomance, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Theme: MechaMecha
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.311 (scored by 1181311,813 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #30392
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #4193
Members: 36,896
Favorites: 176

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Synopsis

Average high school student Kyou Sogoru is an avid swimmer living in beautiful Maihama City. He spends his days hanging out with friends, swimming, and playing video games. However, his normal life turns upside down when a beautiful and mysterious girl named Shizuno Misaki approaches him with a strange request—jump into their school's pool together.

This fateful leap transports Kyou into a war-torn world where humans pilot impressive humanoid robots known as Zegas to fight against malicious aliens known as Gards-Orm. To spearhead this endeavor, humans have formed Cerebrum, a rebel organization working to prevent the Gards-Orm from eradicating humankind.

As Kyou participates in combat operations, meets his fellow Zega pilots, and witnesses countless deaths, he begins to question the true nature of this world as well as his own life.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Abyss

Supporting
Katou, Masayuki
Japanese

Avenir, Chris

Supporting
Yanaka, Hiroshi
Japanese

Tomigai, Kei

Supporting
Watanabe, Akeno
Japanese

Kaminagi, Kouji

Supporting
Ootsuda, Hiromi
Japanese

Isola

Supporting
Murai, Kazusa
Japanese

Staff

Yamakawa, Norio
Producer
Shimoda, Masami
Director, Storyboard


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1: "Kimi e Mukau Hikari (キミヘ ムカウ ヒカリ)" by Akino Arai (eps 2-25)
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Reviews

Dec 20, 2023
Zegapain is definitely a hidden gem. If you enjoyed The Matrix then I believe this anime can offer you an experience as deep if not deeper than that trilogy, personally I'm leaning towards Zegapain.

The episodes do a great job of plunging you from slice-of-life happiness into despair, and every single episode has unpredictable plot twists that will push the symbolic knife deeper into your heart, inch by inch. Usually, I don't appreciate how nihilism is portrayed in anime and manga, but Zegapain portrayed hopelessness beautifully and dealt with it in the only proper way it could've been dealt with in the context of the world ...
Jul 24, 2025
Mixed Feelings
(warning:This is going to be one of the most unstructured reviews I have made but just wanted to post something so bare with me.)
Zegapain is a 2006 anime made by Sunrise, brainchild of the infamous Hajime Yatate, a pseudonymn for a collection of Sunrise creative staff. Zegapain is a mecha, that was ahead of its time but behind at the same time. All art, especially media reflects the period of time it was made while also remaining wholly unique. When I think of the 2000's, this was the rise of the slice-of-life genre with works like Haruhi, Aria, Azumanga Daioh, and various other, non plot ...
Jul 24, 2025
This show is unfortunately very average.
It was not easy to watch all 26 episodes.

There could be mild spoilers below by way of inferring from the context of my review, but nothing will be revealed/spoiled directly in the text below.

Interesting plot, mysterious mysteries. When all is revealed in the end, it makes perfect sense, there are no plot holes that I could find in the plot itself. If you have experienced a lot sci-fi works however, you are likely to guess very early on what is actually happening.
This can be either good or bad, depending on viewer perspective - things are foreshadowed in a good way, ...

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