The Five Star Stories
| The Five Star Stories | |
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| Format | Manga / Anime (Movie) |
| Original Manga | Nagano Mamoru |
| # of Volumes | 12+ |
| Director (Movie) | Kazuo Yamazaki |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Movie Length | 66 Minutes |
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Sum it up in a Sentence:
In a star cluster consumed by war and strife, battles are fought by mecha known as "Motor Headds" piloted by psychic humans along with their genetically-engineered Fantima co-pilots; but this unchanging history of war is about to be changed.
Main Description
The Joker Cluster was once ruled by an ancient "super empire" that enjoyed a level of technology beyond comprehension and spread their influence throughout the Joker Galaxy. However, after nine thousand years, the empire collaypsed under internal strife, and the civilization degenerated into one of feudal strife. Much of technology was lost, and civilization seemed doomed.
Two thousand years after the fall of the empire, Amaterasu, the Emperor of the Amaterasu Kingdom Demesene, is born, full of supernatural psychic powers. Together with his fantima companion, Lachesis, he will seek to end war in the Joker Cluster and finally bring it to peace.
There is a rather long and ongoing manga, and a single movie adaptation. The movie is an encapsulated version of the first volume.
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Personal Opinions
musouka
Recently got done watching Five Star Stories.
Man, if ever there was an anime movie made for me, it's this one. Combine my rampant 80's sci-fi nostalgia with an almost overbearingly lush violin score, and it was an hour of pure heaven for me. I also loved the pervading feeling that what we were seeing was a very small slice of an enormous whole; there aren't many anime that can really make me believe that there is an entire world out there, beyond the scope of what we're shown.
I'm also a sucker for a certain aesthetic. My all time favorite anime OAV has one of those moments where the music, direction, and animation come together and I start to get misty-eyed just by the execution of the scene. This movie had several of those moments for me--the scene where Clotho makes her escape and is running down the road, for example. (Yes, I know, it's a slightly odd, ridiculous reaction to have to scenes like that, but I can't help it.)
This is definitely a series I want to explore more in depth.
AnonSubHuman
I fucking love the manga for this, I've never watched the animated feature. It's a real shame that the localization of the manga lost steam stateside, I have volumes one through ten, and after that I couldn't really find them for sale in stores anymore so my pursuit waned. If there was ever something that I wanted to finish, it's this.
linall
I can't speak to the quality of the manga, but I just finished with the movie and got nothing out of it aside from a few chuckles at some of the plot twists. It seems like the movie was made solely for the enjoyment of people who have read the manga, so consequently nothing is ever explained. Seriously.
The opening credits are spent watching a display counting up to 35, which might be Fatima model numbers, but don't expect that to have any relevance to the plot. Seriously it's never referenced ever, we only ever meet three(?) Fatima in the movie and none of them make reference to their model number. Also if you were wondering why Fatima had to be women to make giant robots work, well they don't. They can just be brain looking things. Why doesn't everyone just use the brain looking things? Good question! Anyway, the movie is a goddamn mess of unanswered questions, plot holes and time wasted on things that feel like they should be important but aren't.
The giant robots are on screen for barely ten minutes and the rest of the time is spent with characters I never even began to understand. I mean, the plotting and characterization are no worse than a One Piece or Bleach movie, but at least those come with a few extended action scenes to make up for it.
