Blue Gender

Blue Gender is a 1999 Japanese animated science fiction television series produced by AIC and creator Ryōsuke Takahashi. The series is set in the 2030s, where Earth has been overrun by alien insectoid creatures called the Blue, which have wiped out most of the human race and forced the surviving humans to flee to Second Earth, a huge space station that orbits the planet. It focuses on the relationship between Yuji Kaido – a Japanese civilian rescued from cryogenic sleep, and Marlene Angel – a soldier from Second Earth, as they participate in military operations against the Blue. The series was broadcast on TBS from 1999 to 2000 and spans 26 episodes. The series was followed by Blue Gender: The Warrior, a compilation movie with an alternative ending, in 2002. Blue Gender was also broadcast in the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2003 on the Sci Fi Channel. In 2003, Blue Gender was released on American television as part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, though it had originally been planned for a Toonami broadcast, and was thus edited to remove more of its graphic violence, nudity, and sex scenes than usual, even for Adult Swim's standards. However, it aired uncut on the Funimation Channel in the United States.