Features:
- Animated
- Color
- Box set
- Dolby
Description:
Although this 1999 six-episode OVA continues the adventures of the space pirates of the Sol Bianca, the character designs and stories have been completely reworked from the 1990 original. Captain April and her unruly crew--Feb, Jun, Jeni, and young stowaway Mayo--set out to recover a rare "Frontier Age" flintlock stolen from her years before. They find it at an auction on a distant planet, and snatch it from the grasp of the sinister Gyunter of the Terra Force. Gyunter and brash lieutenant Ranny pursue the Sol Bianca across the cosmos. Both crews eventually find their way to Earth, which is now encased in a Dyson Sphere, a metal shell approximately the diameter of the orbit of the moon. The Admiral, who serves as Gyunter's commander, regards the pirate ship as a fabulous artifact and is determined to capture it at any cost. Inexplicably, Gyunter turns on the Admiral in the heat of battle and fires a nuclear missile. The Sol Bianca not only survives the blast, it's resurrected, with enough power to vaporize the evil Admiral--although Gyunter somehow survives. The sketchy storylines and flat character interactions do little more than tie together the sky chases, elaborate effects, and shoot-'em-up action. Writer Hideki Mitsui's stolid dialogue lacks the outrageous espirit de corps that won the earlier incarnations of Sol Bianca so many fans. (Rated 13 and older: violence, occasional profanity, nudity, sexual situations) --Charles Solomon
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