
The 2720s: The Earth is in decay and so are many of its colonies. A young and terrible kid is growing up by himself in a single-room "kindergarten cell" surrounded by the high-tech of the new millennium. For one of his birthdays, he receives an android nurse: beautiful woman-transformer, programmed to teach and protect the kid. Eventually the kid grows, gets accepted in the Space Academy and discovers enemies and friends as he races through the known Universe in the search fo... (Full plot summary below)
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The 2720s: The Earth is in decay and so are many of its colonies. A young and terrible kid is growing up by himself in a single-room "kindergarten cell" surrounded by the high-tech of the new millennium. For one of his birthdays, he receives an android nurse: beautiful woman-transformer, programmed to teach and protect the kid. Eventually the kid grows, gets accepted in the Space Academy and discovers enemies and friends as he races through the known Universe in the search for the Space Firebird, a semi-mythical creature of energy. In an effort to know the race of such a tenacious explorer, the creature "enters" the android and falls in love with its master and friend.
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| User ReviewNeil LQuite a disappointment. The film has been co-scripted by Osamu Tezuka and has been marketed as an anime version of his excellent _Phoenix_ manga series, yet I couldn't quite see why (except that it also features the immortal Fire Bird). The film has a good match of music and pictures (it's sometimes reminescent of Disney's _Fantasia_), but the plot is pretty slow, and the cartoonish aliens are a nuisance. |