In an odd twist of fate through traveling in null space (warping), Marin would end up appearing in front of our Earth in approximately the year 2100. Once Gatler leaves S-1, Marin follows in pursuit in an awesome spaceship, the Pulsar Burn. She is Aphrodia, or Afrodia, and her brother was the man Marin killed. That revenge killed a man who would put Marin into an interesting relationship with a beautiful female soldier. Marin’s father would fall victim to the rise of the military and in revenge Marin enacts revenge on his father’s murderer. Gatler’s solution is to leave the planet and find new a colony. This does not go well with the military who become the higher authorities under the control of the totalitarian General Gatler. After years of work his father, a top rate scientist, and his team have finally come to a solution. Scientists work diligently to find a method to clean the pollution and restore this planet to it’s former glory. The future and a heavily polluted planet known as S-1. Definitely a treasured piece in my collection.Īnother time, another place. I see a trend here? … The Baldios film is in my hands in two forms, the first being a fansub with the original Japanese dialogue and the second, a VHS release with an English dub by an early producer William James Ross. Although… the TV series didn’t finish on a proper note anyway and the film actually gave a more finalized finality. A compilation film would be released in 1981 and this is my only way, as of the moment, to enjoy the story as complete whole. I know on the mainland, and in particular Italy, you had this on your TV screens back in the day. If I grew up in Europe this would be a different story. I have only come across the first five episodes of the 1980 TV series with an English translation. I may forever have an incomplete appreciation of all that is Baldios. Whoa… where have you been all my life Baldios? The second, and the subject of this entry, was Space Warrior Baldios, a tale about time travel, unrequited love, planetary destruction and pollution. Space Runaway Ideon is the first, a show directed and created by Gundam’s Yoshiyuki Tomino (the year after Gundam to be precise) that took a mature stance dealing with themes of xenophobia and the awesome power of a collective conscious deity power. Only from researching and back cataloging through history, I found two of the most austere mecha space opera ever conceived. On a personal note, I turned a year old, so I don’t have much personal memory. For an updated perspective on Space Warrior Baldios, click here.ġ980 was an interesting year for anime.
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