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Narrative
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Kaido Yuji has been frozen for an unspecified length of time after being diagnosed with a strange and terminal illness to be awakened after a proper cure for his disease has been found. He is awakened to the year 2032 to a world that has been completely taken over by a giant insect-like species known as the Blue. He and Marlene Angel must find a way to survive onslaught after onslaught of the Blue and make it back to Second Earth, where Yuji must discover the true nature of his condition. In many ways it is a fish out of water plot, but without the humor as Yuji wakes up to a world completely different and is at first unable to cope with a world in which the Blue have taken over. He does quickly learn to fend for himself, but is still shocked by how the ethics, morality, values, and general outlook on life have changed so radically since his time. For example, sex is meaningless pleasure, and there's no point in forming close meaningful bonds because anyone can die at any moment. There is no longer any value placed on human life as every individual human is considered expendable.
The premise is similar to that of Starship Troopers but without the campy satirical feel. Unlike most animes, Blue Gender has very little humor and cuteness is nonexistent, though there is plenty of fanservice and other sexual moments. The series generally has a very dark and cynical tone; however, the series does end happily for the two lead characters and espouses the message that humanity can live happily provided they live in harmony with the Earth and nature and do not become advanced technologically again or become overpopulated. The idealist Yuji does turn out to be right in placing value on human life and helping others, and by the half-way point Marlene converts to his way of thinking; in a role-reversal, she ends up having to save Yuji's humanity as well during his bout of insanity brought on by the awakening of his B-cells.
The series has very in-depth character development on the parts of both Yuji and Marlene, who end up being completely different people by the end of the anime's 26-episode run than they were in the beginning.
Blue Gender contains examples of the following tropes:
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