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Welcome to FREELANCERS, the first English-Language Aquarian Age webpage available on the web. The purpose of this group is to provide a reasonable source of information on the Aquarian Age games, manga, and anime. Currently we have a mailing list on Yahoogroups, so please feel free to subscribe to it.

What is Aquarian Age?

Aquarian Age began as a collectible trading card game (TCG) in 1999, produced by Broccoli of Japan. It is a game similar in some ways to Magic: The Gathering, and often played against one or more opponents. One of the attractions of Aquarian Age is the fact that the artists working on the cards are all very well-known and respected Anime/Manga artists, and in many cases that alone is reason enough to collect the cards. The term "Aquarian Age" comes from New Age references, but the game (and franchise) itself has no connections to the New Age movement, and are thus unrelated.

A second series, Aquarian Age Saga II, has recently been released, involving characters dealing with a more fantasy aspect of Aquarian Age, but fully compatible with the older cards. More information will be provided as we receive it. The new series was premiered in 2002 with a fully-animated ad, and has proven popular enough that an OVA series will be released soon (See below).

As of this date, Aquarian Age has three official Manga, a TV series, an OVA series, two generations of cards, and a heavy fan following...

Aquarian Age: Juvenile Orion
The first Aquarian Age material to be officially translated into english, Juvenile Orion began as a boys-only add-on/stand alone series as opposed to the mostly-female characters in the original Aquarian Age card game. It also spawned a manga spinoff, popular among girls due to its Bishounen characters. Juvenile Orion is also the only set that has had at least four booster pack series. The five-volume manga has been translated by Brocolli Books in the United States. Juvenile Orion can be played alongside the normal Aquarian Age card, or separately with a simplified set of rules.Since Saga II now includes both female and male characters. As of Saga II all Juvenile Orion characters and Cards have been integrated into the main Aquarian Age game. Juvenile Orion
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Aquarian Age: The Memory of Wings

Aquarian Age: The Geneaology of a Star

In 1999, the second of two original manga series based on the Aquarian Age, The Memory of Wings (Tsubasa No Kiyoku) was originally marketed as part of Kadokawa's "Dragon Jr." juvenile manga, but later proved to be an instrumental part of the Aquarian Age universe, tracing back to the origins of the current Aquarian Age Conflict in turn-of-the-century Japan.

The original manga spawned only two Volumes, but a stand-alone one-shot volume "Geneaology of a Star" was released in 2002. The second series picks up where the manga left off, and is especially notable since it also takes place after the Sign For Evolution TV series.

More info on "Memory of Wings" can be found in the Manga pages.

Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution
Kyouta and Yoriko 13-episode TV series based on the game, animated by Madhouse, which also animated all the TV ads for the game. Most people who've heard of Aquarian Age for the first time will probably know of the TV series rather than the cards. We cover the TV series here, under Sign For Evolution in the Journal pages.

Aquarian Age Saga II: Don't Forget Me
OVA Character Designs One-shot OAV based on the Saga II cards of Aquarian Age, this is basically a 60-minute ad for the Saga II cards and not related in any way to the TV series.

Who Are The Freelancers?

We call ourselves "Freelancers". Basically we are a group of people who through sheer circumstance or otherwise, have come in contact with or observed the workings of the various forces at work behind the Aquarian Age. We are observers, recorders, and (to put it bluntly) spies. And as cheesy as this may sound to the intelligent reader, it is all for your own good. It isn't everyday one gets to peer behind the veil and see what forces are really at work in the world.
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All articles presented on this page are a work of fiction based upon the Aquarian Age Trading Card Game, comics, and animation. They are not meant to be representative of real persons, events, or situations. Aquarian Age (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003) by Broccoli is neither affiliated with the New Age movement nor does it claim to accurately represent it in any way. The webpage maintainer apologizes for any misidentification or misdireciton this may have caused.