Heroic Age Personifies Greek Mythology in Anime

"Heroic Age" is an anime series that has aired from April 1 and will finish airing its original run on September 30, 2007 in Japan. It's currently airing on TV Tokyo, TV Setouchi, and TV Osaka. The series will run for twenty six episodes. Heroic Age starts out as the narrator explains the existence of a race of beings known as the "Golden Tribe" whom are primeval with powers to create planets and seeing into the future. It says that the Golden Tribe named the three other tribes: Silver Tribe, Bronze Tribe, and the Hero Tribe. Then the narrator proceeds to talk about the Iron Tribe.

As the Golden Tribe leaves to explore the rest of space, humans are threatened with the possibility of extinction. After the Golden Tribe leaves, the Silver Tribe becomes the dominant of the other tribes calling themselves their successors. Mankind is dubbed as the Iron Tribe. The main protagonist in the beginning is a princess named Deianeira who is looking for the only human to be raised by the Golden Tribe. It seems to be inspired by Greek and Roman mythology with the Golden Age, Silver Age, and Bronze Age.

If anybody that is familiar with mythology should know what those ages meant. Golden Age represents the perfect humans. The Silver Age of humans weren't that perfect. The Bronze Age of humans were the more savage counterparts. In a sense, these are what those tribes seem to represent in Heroic Age.

The other protagonist is a boy named Age who seems to be the only human on the ruined Planet of Oron. He lives on a crashed spaceship as the ship's computer acts as the "mother" figure. Whenever Age asks the computer something like a person would ask a parent, it answers with "the code is invalid" or "the statement is invalid, please speak more clearly." Having of heard about the only human that seems to be raised by the Golden Tribe, Deianeira along with soldiers go out to find him.