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: Bandai
: Anime, Science Fiction Anime
: 100 min.
: English, Japanese
: English
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Lafiel and Jinto find themselves on the front line of the battle, in a small, agile assault ship known as the Basroil. But will they be able to survive the battlefield and the politics that goes on behind the scenes?
In the midst of the fighting, Lafiel and Junto are scheduled to have dinner with their commander, to celebrate her late brother. But this dinner is anything but casual. After that, they soon find themselves back on the Basroil and engaged in battle once again. However, due to a new enemy weapon, the Basroil and another ship find themselves stranded in Plane Space whith minimal functioning ship systems. The fleet's major battle is approaching. Will they be able to return in time to join the fight for the Empire? Will they be able to return at all?
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| The importance of remembrance by the living
by hneline1
April 17, 2003 - 10:34 PM PDT
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7 out of 7 members found this review helpful
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Think epic space saga. Think classic science fiction. Think chess-like strategy. Do NOT think slapstick or super-deformity or cutesy sidekicks or fan service or gratuitous violence or convenient plots twists that bend logic. Banner of the Stars is a thoughtful SciFi series that takes complex characters and worldly situations (space empires at the beginning of war), then doggedly follows the development of those situations, even if it means to personal crisis for the characters and even if it means to death.
What I find fascinating about these episodes is the poignant theme of life being transitory. From the first, where Jinto and Lafiel dine with Commander Atosuryua to celebrate her dead brother's birthday, to later episodes where we follow ships that may have just become sitting targets for the enemy, there is a strong exploration of facing death and the importance of remembrance by the living. Jinto and Lafiel's quiet conversation about their childhood dreams looks into a future that may never come for them, while Samson and Sobaash's shared drink on the night before battle looks back at lives lived too long as soldiers. As creator Hiroyuki Morioka said in the previous disk, this sequel to Crest of the Stars follows the "shape of battle in this space", and the personal philosophizing about death by soldiers is a part of battle.
Of course, once the breathless waiting is over, philosophizing does nothing when an enemy is shooting at you -- which will happen on the next disk. Augh! Cliffhanger!! This is one of my favorite space anime right now, because of the psychological drama and the clean storytelling and the detailed world-building, and I can't wait to see what happens next.
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| Crest of the Stars / Banner of the Stars |
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| An excellent Hard SF offering well-developed in all respects thanks to its great narrative depth. As one of a handful of anime series to be based on a series of novels, it has a distinct SF-novel feel. |
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