Translated/Written by Yoshi Yukino

What's this Aquarian Age?
Aqurian Age is a popular bishoujo trading-card game (TCG) by Broccoli that's been around for a few years. One feature of the game--especially since it's a 'bishoujo' (pretty-girl) one--is that the cards' artwork feature cute-looking girls done by well-known anime/manga artists like Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross), Aoi Nanase (Angel Dust, Seraphim Call), Narumi Kakinouchi (Vampire Miyu), Mitsumi Sasaki (Memories Off), Koge-Donbo (Digi Charat), Keiji Goto (Nadesico), and Kia Asamiya (Silent Moebius). For a sample of some of the game's artwork, check out our Aquarian Age wallpapers here.

The World of Aquarian Age
All too often, history is penned with the blood spilt by men on the battlefields. But unbeknownst to many, young girls (shoujo) from three factions have been secretly battling it out for global hegemony for ages: the Arayashiki, an alliance from the Orient known for its mystical powers; WIZ-DOM, a secret society from the west adept in the art of sorcery; and Darklore, descendants from an ancient race.

After ages of conflict, an end to the power struggle is still far from sight even as the year 2000 approaches. And then with the coming of the 21st century--the age astrologists call the Aquarian Age--a new generation of girls born with psychic powers came into this world. Declaring themselves as the new human race, these girls banded together to form the Evolutional Girls Organization (E.G.O.) against the three previous factions.

But that wasn't to be the only change. Men were now directly involved in the war. Calling themselves mindbreakers, these individuals have the power to control the girls, awaken the powers within them, and then use them as they seek domination of the world for their own.

As the four factions and the mindbreakers fought for control, they soon came under attack from an alien fleet that had just entered the earth's orbit. No one knew who or where they came from, nor their purpose for invading Earth. But the ferocity in which they carried out their attack--and their ability to wipe out enemies in an instant--quickly earned them the name Eraser.

Thus we enter the age of chaos; Armageddon which will finally decide on the fate of Earth and the galaxy. The Aquarian Age has now begun.