Planet With

 Already at the letter P in my alphabet challenge this year, the choice fell to Planet With.

A Mecha anime, Souya is a young boy that dreams of dragons, which according to the tales is losing one in one's anger.

After a strange incident he is told he lost his parents and his memories, the dream is the only memory that remains to him.  The world has changed in a nightmare, a UFO attacks the city and when the military is not able to handle it, seven strange heroes appear defeating it in a rainbow coloured attack like in his dream.  But now they face a new enemy, Souya, who wants revenge against these so-called heroes for ruining his old life.

These warriors are seemingly humanity's defence against the aliens, called the Nebula.  One of their numbers is taken out in the first encounter, but he can also now merge with sensei, a giant cat that lives with him, into a mechanoid like the others.  He confronts two of them, defeating one of them and taking her object of power away like he did with Torai, the guy taken down in the first encounter.

 

But the others intervene and he has to face all of them, including the groups leader.  Souya doesn`t back down, sensing the leader is actually the dragon that destroyed his world.  He is saved by a giant version of Sensei, making the others retreat.  When he faces another of the warriors, she is pushed so far that her psychic powers awaken a dragon, forcing him to work with them to stop the beast.

But the ranks of the warriors crumble as the director wants to go to extreme measures if needed to defeat the Nebula.  When it is revealed he is actually an alien, raised by the elderly Takezou who remains a warrior to stay by his adopted child.  The director is challenged by his aide, who is actually an agent of the more warrior like side of the Nebula, engaging in a fight.  He wants to implement his justice on all to aquire peace, but the other warriors ask Souya to take his power away and return the director back to the kind boy he used to be.  he defeats them, but the director disolves in thin air...

But in the aftermath, other factions are being formed in a bid for control, including one called the Sealing Faction that wants to end the psychic evolution of mankind.  Souya doesn`t want to fight anymore though, seeing it as not his problem.  But he is convinced by his friend he needs to step up anyways, and solve the shism between the Nebula factions.  His brother appears as a higher being, telling him the dragon wasn't destroyed but just banished, sleeping on the dark side of the moon.

But when the world gets sealed to prevent humans develop their psychic potential, Souya is the only one remaining awake.  He manages to break the seal though, and together with his newfound allies, he challenges the Nebula commander.  The pacifist faction is succesful in the end in overcoming the more aggressive approach part of the Nebula, and now they must prepare to face the return of the dragon in a few years time...

Jumping forward 5 years in time, Souya and his allies, amongst them the Earth Defence Force warriors (bar the old man, who passed away in that time) are preparing for the awakening of the dragon.  When this day finally comes, the alliance faces off against the beast, who is revealed to be a long lost People of Paradise.  They push him into a dimensional hole, and as the beast crumbles after coming to insight of it's ways, it's tries to corrupt Souya, failing to do so.  Souya returns to the hole though to save the others from getting out, but thanks to his brother manages to escape to his old home planet, where he is picked up by his friends.

So this was a mecha show, but not one of my tastes to be honest.  For me it was more Tokyo Mew Mew with battlesuits, then the next Aldnoah Zero of Gundam, but never the less we did finish it.  The time jump was okay, albeit the whole finale just felt to short and rushed.