Toward the Terra [VHS]
starring: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Sumie Noguchi, Banjô Ginga, Masaharu Satô, Eiko Masuyama
directed by: Hideo Onchi
directed by: Hideo Onchi
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- Shojo Space Opera... Er...
An ambitious full-length feature, Toward the Terra is intelligent, well-animated, and rather boring. Don't misunderstand me - I like cranial anime, but the plot here fails to keep one's attention, and meanders toomuch to be effective. And I never thought I'd say this about anime, butToward the Terra is just too long. 112 minutes to tell a story that couldhave been over in 75. Character development is inadequate, and theextremely shojo (girls' manga) character design is tiresome, and the music ... Read More
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- This Film is a Lost Classic of Emergent Anime.
TOWARD THE TERRA (aka TO TERRA) was produced in 1981 by Office Academy, the same studio that brought forth the watershed (and never equaled) SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO (aka STAR BLAZERS) films and TV shows so dear to manyAmerican hearts. TOWARD THE TERRA presents a staggering view of theunimaginably distant future, wherein humankind has been split into twocamps: those ruled by powerful Computers, and those on the outside, thefeared and hated "Mu," for MUTANTS. Outsiders, rebels. A peacefulminority ... Read More
- Shojo Space Opera... Er...An ambitious full-length feature, Toward the Terra is intelligent, well-animated, and rather boring. Don't misunderstand me - I like cranial anime, but the plot here fails to keep one's attention, and meanders toomuch to be effective. And I never thought I'd say this about anime, butToward the Terra is just too long. 112 minutes to tell a story that couldhave been over in 75. Character development is inadequate, and theextremely shojo (girls' manga) character design is tiresome, and the music ... Read More
- This Film is a Lost Classic of Emergent Anime.TOWARD THE TERRA (aka TO TERRA) was produced in 1981 by Office Academy, the same studio that brought forth the watershed (and never equaled) SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO (aka STAR BLAZERS) films and TV shows so dear to manyAmerican hearts. TOWARD THE TERRA presents a staggering view of theunimaginably distant future, wherein humankind has been split into twocamps: those ruled by powerful Computers, and those on the outside, thefeared and hated "Mu," for MUTANTS. Outsiders, rebels. A peacefulminority ... Read More
