CANAAN

Overview

Canaan is an adaptation of the Wii visual novel 428: Fūsasareta Shibuya de by Type Moon, creators of the successful Fate/Stay Night series. It was first revealed at the 2008 Tokyo game show under the name of 428: The Animation but it was subsequently changed in December of that year to Canaan.

It’s directed by Masahiro Ando, animated by P.A. Works and produced by SEGA with character design by Kanami Sekiguchi. The music is done by Nanase hikaru, who also worked in Galaxy Angel and Phantom: Requiem of the Phantom.

Plot

Two years have passed since a terrorist group known as “The Snakes” attacked a small Asian village with a biological weapon known as the “UA virus”. The survivors of the attack are left with secondary effects that include eternal youth and two appendixes as a result of the mutation caused by the virus. These survivors are referred to as “borners” and are being used by the Snakes for their experiments.

In Shanghai, a mercenary known as Canaan has been hired by a secret organization to find out and stop the plans of the Snakes. Meanwhile, Maria Oosawa, a reporter and old friend of Canaan and her partner Minoru Minorikawa are also in Shanghai to cover the International Anti-Terrorism Conference in the city but soon find themselves trying to uncover the truth behind the borners and the snakes, making themselves targets of Liang Qi and Alphard, the heads of the terrorist organization.

Maria and Minoru team up with Canaan in their search for the truth, which makes them meet Santana, a former CIA agent who was part of the experiments made to the infected villagers and now runs a bar in Shanghai where he takes care borners and Umblooms (infected people who didn’t mutate but are extremely vulnerable to UV rays and any kind of outside noise) to find refuge. Hakkoh, an infected woman who can inflict brain damage with her voice and is now living under Santana’s care and Yunyun, an eccentric borner who didn’t gain any special ability and was being used by Liang Qi as a spy until she befriends Canaan and Maria.

Their quest takes them to a factory where the attacked village used to be, a place where the snakes conduct their experiments, among other places and will lead to the final decisive battle between Canaan and Alphard.

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Season/Ep#	Name		Airdate
1 - 13	Land of Hope	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	09/26/2009
1 - 12	Seasonal Train	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	09/19/2009
1 - 11	See Saw	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	09/12/2009
1 - 10	Lost	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	09/05/2009
1 - 9	Flower of the past	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	08/29/2009
1 - 8	Voice	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	08/22/2009
1 - 7	Gravestone	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	08/15/2009
1 - 6	Love & Piece	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	08/08/2009
1 - 5	Friends	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	08/01/2009
1 - 4	Darkening	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	07/25/2009
1 - 3	A Trivial Matter	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	07/18/2009
1 - 2	A Cruel Game	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	07/11/2009
1 - 1	Crimson Shanghai	0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5	07/04/2009

	Person Name	Episode Count
	Masahiro Ando	13
	Takashi Takeuchi	13

Name	CANAAN
Name:	カナン
Romaji:	Canaan
Publisher	?
Start Year	2009
Genres	Add a new genre Action Adventure Science Fiction
Themes	Add a new theme Guns Modern Military Espionage
Aliases	428 the animation

	Ergo Proxy
	07-Ghost
	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
	Noir
	Fate/stay night
	Madlax
	Black Lagoon
	Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage
	Solty Rei

Minoru Minorikawa first in Crimson Shanghai	13
Alphard first in Crimson Shanghai	13
Canaan first in Crimson Shanghai	13
Maria Oosawa first in Crimson Shanghai	13
Cummings	12
Santana first in Crimson Shanghai	11
Hakkoh first in Crimson Shanghai	11
Yunyun first in Crimson Shanghai	10
Liang Qi first in Crimson Shanghai	10
Taxi Driver first in A Cruel Game	6

CANAAN

Overview

Plot

Original US Poster Art

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