Innocent Venus

Innocent Venus
Opening title's logo from episode one
イノセント・ヴィーナス (Inosento Vīnasu)
Genre	Drama, Mecha, Dystopian
Anime television series
Directed by	Jun Kawagoe
Produced by	Norihiko Fujisawa Kazumitsu Ozawa Yoshinaga Minami
Written by	Shinsuke Ōnishi
Music by	Tomohisa Ishikawa
Studio	Brain's Base
Licensed by	NA ADV Films (expired)
Original network	WOWOW
English network	UK Propeller TV US Anime Network
Original run	July 26, 2006 – October 25, 2006
Episodes	12

Innocent Venus (Japanese: イノセント・ヴィーナス, Hepburn: Inosento Vīnasu^?) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction anime TV series which began broadcasting on the WOWOW network in Japan on July 26, 2006 at midnight. The series makes use of some 3D cel-shaded animation, which achieves a more "hand drawn" look than traditional 3D animation. At Anime Boston 2007, ADV Films had announced they licensed for the show (for $120,000). On July 11, 2008 ADV Announced that it was discontinuing print of the DVDs.

In the near future, after the world population and economy is devastated by a series of simultaneous hypercanes, many different factions and fledgling nations appear. In Japan, an elite class called Logos appears, controlling special zones in the country which have most of the wealth and resources. These special zones were created with the help of Power Assist Technology, which allowed Japan to recover from the consequences of the worldwide disaster (which included a combination of land subsidence & rising sea levels resulting in the permanent submerging of low-lying areas and a subsequent ice age in much of the Northern hemisphere), albeit to a strictly limited degree. The Logos exercise control over the Revenus, a lower class who mostly live in devastated & often poverty stricken zones (urban or in close proximity) and areas (rural) known as Levinas (e.g. Levinas Sector Six, Area 18) and who struggle from day to day in order to stay alive. The Revenus are generally restricted from entering the special zones, causing tension which creates a resistance movement which fights back against the Logos.