Zone of the Enders, as well referred to as Z.O.E, occurs as video game that was developed and published by Konami in 2001 for the PlayStation 2. It was by, & is closely associated by owning, Hideo Kojima. A game is depending in the area of mecha combat. A mechas were designed by Yoji Shinkawa, also a character & mechanical designer for the Metal Gear Solid series.

Z.O.E was at the start freed inside virtually all territories by using the playable demonstration version of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the 2nd installment of Kojima's popular stealth-depending action game. Because of this association, initial sales numbers can be counted when deceptive when numerous purchaser just wanted a demonstration. Shortly prior to a stake's release, a popular webcomic Penny Arcade wrote, "the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo will be released to stores very soon, and it even comes with some other game, which I thought was real nice of Konami." A great several copies of Z.O.E appeared in "pre-owned" shelves of major gambling places while a fully version of Metal Devices Firm Two was freed.

Series

Of these sequel lives, Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (known as Anubis: Zone of the Enders around Japan), besides for the PlayStation Two. There was likewise the spin-byproduct turn-depending strategy title known as Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars for the Game Boy Advance.

2 anime series were produced: one-episode direct-to-streaming video story titled ZOE: 2167 IDOLO, set before the cases of the foremost game (it was originally created as a few dozen-within premium for a "Special Edition" release of the number 1 ZOE bet on, & to supply a bit of of the game's back story), & the 26-episode television series titled ZOE: Dolores, i. Each anime series were animated by Sunrise, the Japanese animation studio best known for the legendary Mobile Suit Gundam anime franchise.

A lot trio games, & each anime series keep around been commercially freed outside of Japan.

Piece ZOE focusses mostly on the loss of innocence of the tyke faced by getting having to put to death to hold out, "IDOLO" & "The Fist of Mars" choose issues surrounding colonialism, independence, political & household power & ambitions, & revenge -- numerous of the equivalent themes explored in the various Mobile Suit Gundam series. "Dolores, i" adds the emotional conflicts & tensions of a personal, split by few feet away & circumstance, when it try to close to overcome their differences in the face of an at hand conflict.

Mechanics

Jehuty
Class: Nature and severity C Orbital Frame
Purpose: General
Piloted By: Leo Steinbuck, Warragal Egret
Weapons: Primary - Arm Cannon, Steel, Psych up Optical maser, Burst Attack, Grab
Sub Weapons - Decoy, Javelin, Sniper, Phalanx, Geyser, Comet, Halberd, Gauntlet, Bounder, Mummy, Vector Cannon, Hype up Missle, F-Mine, Zero Shift

Anubis
Class: Orbital Frame
Purpose: General
Piloted By: Nohman
Weapons: Unknown

Cyclops
Class: Made Orbital Frame
Purpose: Melee
Piloted By: Unmanned
Weapons: Arms

Mummyhead
Class: Made Orbital Frame
Purpose: Long Range Support
Piloted By: Unmanned
Weapons: Halberd, Phalanx

Neith
Class: Orbital Frame
Purpose: General
Piloted By: Viola
Weapons: Steel, Burst Attack, Fire Trail, Arm Cannon

Phantoma
Class: Made LEV
Purpose: General
Piloted By: n/a
Weapons: Vulcan Machine Gun

Raptor
Class: Made Orbital Frame
Purpose: General
Piloted By: Unmanned
Weapons: Javelin, Brand x Two, Geyser

Tempest
Class: Orbital Frame
Purpose: General
Piloted By: Slash
Weapons: Sixer arms & mighty energy chargeman.

Tyrant
Class: Orbital Frame
Purpose: General
Piloted By: Unmanned
Weapons: Unknown

Nebula
Class: Orbital Frame
Purpose: General
Piloted By: Nightraid
Weapons: Unknown

Characters

Leo Stenbuck
a withdrawn youth world health organization has difficulties acquiring along by having others due to his have tumultuous life home, he inadvertently boards a Orbital Frame Jehuty when trying to become out of the rampaging forces of BAHRAM. Though he is against killing, he might fight inside self-self-defence whilst a situation calls for it. Although he never says it aloud, it's fairly perceptible that he cares for Celvice Klein when to the higher degree a elementary friend.

Fallowing establishing radio call for sustaining Atlantis, he is tasked by owning transporting Jehuty across Antilia then that it potty meet higher sustaining Atlantis & produce its way to Mars. Though merely 14 years old, he hwhen an astounding synchronization rate using Jehuty which is never fully explained except as an additional mysterious property of Metatron.

Celvice Klein
The girl working as a volunteer for the church. She is each devoted & handsome. She looks when a orphans, despite existence single Fourteen herself. She is very matured for her age & seems to have a soft spot for the immature Leo Stenuck. A loss of two of her parents in the period of their expatriation to Antilia has left her tons alone in the globe.

Patch on her way back to the church when you took the Antilia Rhelp, she is found by a little class action of Raptorial bird, world health organization come seasonably destroyed by Leo when he comes to her aid around Jehuty. She so joins Leo & ADA when it travel across Antilia in their mission to bring Jehuty to Atlantis.

Viola
She occurs as adorned officer for BAHRAM's primary offensive unit. The belligerent fighter, she has driven problems for numbers of experient UNSF pilots. Oddly plenty, she finds an match around Leo Stenbuck, world health organizatiin refuses to put to death her on 2 seperate occasions despite her aggressiveness towards him & Celvice Klein.

Non afraid of demise due to her prolonged lives on a field of battle, she is universally at a forefront of a battle, waiting to call for a single world health organization has a ability to destroy her then that she become using the individual she cared just about virtually all prior to he died a few years prior to the Antilia Raid.

Brock Thunderheart
The worker & LEV pilot on the civilian conveyance vessel "Atlantis". Ab initio hwhen his doubts just about permitting Leo to pilot Jehuty across Antilia, he finally comes to recognize Leo as Jehuty's admittedly Runner, admitting that possibly he would non own been suspire to kill Neith & Viola.

He loves a unsafe underingesting of taking in dangerous tasks, & he hopes to fulfill his mission of bringing Jehuty to Mars. At length, he might get a model to the immature Leo Stenbuck & teach him training pilot LEVs fallowing the cases of the number one game.

Elena Weinberg
Commander of the civilian transportation vessel "Atlantis", she occurs as rational & variety woman. Originally, her lover Alan was slated to pilot Jehuty, however sadly he was flushed piece on his way to the manufacturing plant in which Jehuty was built. Despite learning that he'd died & that a mere son was okay, the Runner of Jehuty, she persevered across her grief & helped Leo inside his mission to escape Antilia. She afterwards becomes Leo's commanding officer & something resembling the wise human to the young man.

She commands a company trying to assure Jehuty for shipping to Mars.

Colonel Nohman
a Colonel in a Bahram military machine, he acquired the orbital frame Anubis shortly fallowing the raid in Antillia began. Anubis is said to become a virtually all right Orbital Frame ever built. Colonel Nohman & a motivations of his actions remawithin shrouded in mystery.

Staff
Yoji Shinkawa - Mechanical Designer

Hideo Kojima - Producer

Nobuyoshi Nishimura - Original Character Designer

Shuyo Murata - Assistant Scenario Director/Render Demonstration Supervisor