It’s filled with weird-looking spaceships and metallic corridors. The visuals are one of the best parts of the film. Despite its obvious age, I can tell that the animators gave it their all, and I was very impressed with the result. There is a slow and deliberate pace to the animation, and it never hesitates to capture little gestures or often overlooked motions. But the animation is never lazy, tackling shots that are quite difficult to animate, and doing a fine job with shifting perspectives that can still cause problems for animators even with modern technology. The animation is what you might expect from 1980, and it can leave a clumsy impression at times. But with a more intellectual approach, I hope that more people will be able to appreciate the film. An action-oriented story would have been forced to rely more on the visceral impact of its imagery, and modern viewers would have been left unimpressed. Personally, I love the animation in this film, but people used to modern animation techniques will likely scoff at the outdated visuals. This focus is probably a good thing for modern viewers. It’s just that the story gives a moral and tragic overlay to the events, dealing with the reasoning and emotions involved rather than an intense struggle for survival. It slips in some cool dogfights in space, and how can you not love the scene where a psychic four-year-old tries to kill a man. It takes a while to develop, but the war does rage.
That’s not to say there is no action in this film. It’s a very speculative work of fiction, and it will appeal far more to someone looking for a thought-provoking film rather than an adrenaline-pumping one. It deals with the cultural and personal effects of a society run by computers, and the hatred developed over the course of the war. This might have led to an action-oriented story, but despite the ensuing warfare Toward the Terra is more philosophical. The film spans nearly two decades of struggle between the humans who strictly regulate access to the Earth, and the Mu who wish to return to Earth, knowing only a memory of it passed down by telepathy through the generations. The film centers on Jomy, a boy who becomes the leader of the Mu, and his rival, Keith, a highly skilled agent of the computer-run society. Of course some of them escape and live in hiding. These children are executed whenever they are discovered. Once in while, however, mutations occur, resulting in people called Mu who have psychic powers. Within this society children are grown in test tubes, and once they reach the age of fourteen their memories are erased. The real story is about a society completely regulated by computers that stifle human emotions. It sounds like an environmental awareness after school special, but this is just the basic setting, rather than a major theme.
In the future, humans exiled themselves from their homeworld once it became uninhabitable from pollution.
In the end I’m glad I picked this one, because it was quite a good film.Īs the title implies, this is a sci-fi epic about a quest to return to good old Earth. I am very fond of older animation, and it made me want to watch the film even more. At any rate, this was a pleasant surprise for me.
#Toward the terra anime trailer tv
It was probably meant to coincide with the release of the much more recent TV adaptation. It’s rather unusual for such an old anime to get an American release. When I first ordered this film, I had no idea just how old it was. Starring Junichi Inoue, Masaya Oki, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Akira Kamiya, Chiyoko Kawashima, Eiko Masuyama, Kyōko Kishida, Mami Koyama, Masako Ikeda, Tōru Furuya, Yasuo Hisamatsu
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