Gall Force

Gall Force
Original title	ガ ル フ ォ ー ス
transcription	Garu Fosu
genre	Action, science fiction
Anime movie
Original title	ガ ル フ ォ ー ス - エ タ ー ナ ル ・ ス ト ー リ ー -
transcription	Gall Force - Eternal Story
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	1986
Studio	Artmic , AIC
length	86 minutes
Director	Katsuhito Akiyama
script	Sukehiro Tomita
production	Mitsuhisa Hida , Nagateru Kato , Toru Miura , Yukio Nagasaki
music	Ichizo Seo
synchronization
Original video animation
title	Gall Force - Destruction
Original title	ガ ル フ ォ ー ス 2 デ ィ ス ト ラ ク シ ョ ン
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	1987
Studio	Artmic , AIC
length	45 minutes
Episodes	1
Director	Katsuhito Akiyama
music	Ichizo Seo
synchronization
Original video animation
title	Gall Force - Stardust War
Original title	ガ ル フ ォ ー ス 3 ス タ ー ダ ス ト ・ ウ ォ ー
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	1988
Studio	Artmic , AIC
length	60 minutes
Episodes	1
Director	Katsuhito Akiyama
music	Ichizo Seo
synchronization
Original video animation
title	Rhea Gall Force
Original title	レ ア ・ ガ ル フ ォ ー ス
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	1989
Studio	Artmic , AIC
length	60 minutes
Episodes	1
Director	Katsuhito Akiyama
music	Etsuko Yamakawa
synchronization
Original video animation
title	Gall Force: Chikyū Shō
Original title	レ ア ・ 地球 章
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Year (s)	1989-1990
Studio	Artmic , AIC
length	45 minutes
Episodes	3
Director	Katsuhito Akiyama
music	Kaoru Mizutani , Takumi Kawai
synchronization
Original video animation
title	Gall Force: Shinseiki Hen
Original title	レ ア ・ 新 世紀 編
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Year (s)	1991-1992
Studio	Artmic , AIC
length	45 minutes
Episodes	2
Director	Katsuhito Akiyama
music	Kaoru Mizutani , Takumi Kawai
synchronization
Original video animation
title	10 Little Gall Force
Original title	テ ン リ ト ル ガ ル フ ォ ー ス
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	1988
Studio	Artmic , AIC
length	22 minutes
Episodes	1
Director	Kenichi Yatagai
music	Ichizo Seo
synchronization
Original video animation
title	Gall Force: The Revolution
Original title	ガ ル フ ォ ー ス ・ ザ ・ レ ボ リ ュ ー シ ョ ン
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	1996
Studio	Artmic , AIC
length	29 minutes
Episodes	4th
Director	Hiroshi Fukishima
synchronization

Gall Force ( Japanese ガ ル フ ォ ー ス , Garu Fōsu ) is a series of an anime film and several original video animations from the 1980s and 1990s. It is based on character designs by Kenichi Sonoda , which appeared in the magazine Model Craphix in the form of a photo novel. The stories tell of a group of space-traveling women who fight for the preservation of their people and against the threat of war machines. The work can be classified in the genres of action and science fiction .

content

The Starleaf starship crew is all women. Elza, Catty, Rabby, Pony, Patty and Rumy belong to the army of the Solnoid people. This is at war with the android people of the Paranoids, but the Starleaf is on a secret mission to the enemy. Since the Solnoids are all female clones, the exchange with the genes of the Paranoids has become necessary for the preservation of the people. During the trip, pilot Lufy joins the crew in an accident. After meeting the enemy, Patty becomes pregnant and gives birth to the first living being of a new race. But the crew now has to protect them and the youngsters from danger. When this finally succeeds, years later Patty and her son Terra are on a journey again with his lover Rumy, only accompanied by androids . It turns out that it was Catty - whose adroid replica she still accompanies - who pushed the plan to create a new people years ago. The war is still raging between the two peoples and the three travelers have to protect themselves in order not to endanger the existence of their new people. Finally they try to pacify the conflict with their androids and a new team.

The sequel Rhea Gall Force is about a devastated earth that Patty's descendants are about to repopulate. A colony of paranoids developed on the moon, whose fighting machines are now a threat to the new people. In Chikyū Shō the subsequent settlement of the earth is described, in which the protagonists have to fight off attacks by war machines again. Once again, Catty plays an important role as an android. The last sequel in the main series, Shinseiki Hen , then tells the story of a newly populated earth whose inhabitants live in peace with machines. But this is disturbed by the leader of the machines, who starts a war against the earth's inhabitants. Once again the survival of the people is at stake and Catty in the form of another android puts together a group of women who are supposed to prevent extinction. The remake Gall Force: The Revolution builds on this, but at the same time tells the story of the film anew, and thus links the beginning and the end of the story arc.

Production and publication

Based on the character designs, several animes were produced, the first of which was made in 1986 as a feature film: Gall Force - Eternal Story . In the production of the studios Artmic and AIC led Katsuhito Akiyama Director. Sukehiro Tomita wrote the screenplay and the character design was done by Kenichi Sonoda , as in the original for the film . Junichi Azuma was the artistic director and Mitsuhisa Hida , Nagateru Kato , Toru Miura and Yukio Nagasaki were responsible as producers .

The film was released in Japanese theaters on July 26, 1986. An English version was broadcast by the stations Anime Selects, Sci-Fi Channel and Teletoon and published on commercial media. It has also been shown in some cinemas. In the English translation, in contrast to the Japanese original, one of the crew members is a man.

The film was followed by a series of original video animations , largely produced by the same team:

• 1987 Gall Force - Destruction
• 1988 Gall Force - Stardust War
• 1989 Rhea Gall Force
• 1989 Gall Force: Chikyū Shō
• 1991 Gall Force: Shinseiki Hen

In contrast to the film, the script for the sequels was always from Hideki Kakinuma , who was supported for Chikyū Shō by Yoichi Tomioka and Yūichi Miyaoka. From the third part Mitsuharu Miyamae was the artistic director, with Shinseiki Hen then Hideaki Oba and Yoshitaka Fujimoto.

In addition, the short parody 10 Little Gall Force ( テ ン リ ト ル ガ ル フ ォ ー ス ) was released in 1988 , which was directed by Kenichi Yatagai and is held in the Super Deformed style. In 1992, Scramble Wars was a crossover with Bubblegum Crisis and Genesis Survivor Gaiarth and in 1996 the remake Gall Force: The Revolution followed in four parts, directed by Hiroshi Fukishima .

synchronization

role	Japanese speakers ( seiyū )
Patty	Eriko Hara
Rabby	Naoko Matsui
Rumy	Yuriko Yamamoto
Lufy	Hiromi Tsuru
Elza	Maria Kawamura
pony	Michie Tomizawa
Catty	Naoko Watanabe
Commander Dorn	Yūsaku Yara
Amy	Chieko Honda
Shildy	Waka Kanda
Spea	Yūko Mizutani

music

The music for the film was composed by Ichizo Seo , who was also the composer for most of the sequels. With Chikyū Shō the music was composed by Kaoru Mizutani and Takumi Kawai, with Shinseiki Hen then Takehito Nakazawa. The end credits of the film are backed by the song Ryōte Ippai no Journey ( 両 手 い っ ぱ い の ジ ョ ニ ー ) by Kahoru Kohiruimaki . The Look and Tatakae !! songs Round at the night were also released during the film. Requiem ( 歌 え !! レ ク イ エ ム ) used by Kiyomi Suzuki. The sequels had the following songs:

• Destruction: Cosmic Child by Shirai Takako (credits)
• Stardust War : Bottom Line by Pearl (credits)
• Rhea Gall Force :
  • Wakaki Goddess no Densetsu ( 若 き 女神 の 伝 説 ) by Naoko Matsui, Hiromi Tsuru, Eriko Hara, Maria Kawamura and Chieko Honda (credits)
  • Fly Me Away: Yume ni Fuku Kaze ( ＦＬＹ ＭＥ ＡＷＡＹ ～ 夢 に 吹 く 風 ～ ) by Naoko Matsui, Hiromi Tsuru, Eriko Hara, Maria Kawamura and Chieko Honda (insert)
• Chikyū Shō:
  • Broken Heart by Noriko Hamada (credits)
  • Endless Love Again by The Gall Force (credits)
  • Excuse Me by Noriko Hamada (credits)
  • Don't Leave Me Alone by Noriko Hamada (Insert)
• Shinseiki Hen:
  • Inori ( 祈 り ) by Miki Ishioka (credits)
  • Toki no Fune ( 時 の 舟 ) by Naoko Watanabe (credits)

The offshoot 10 Little Gall Force used the song Sugao no Spy-tachi ( 素 顔 の ス パ イ た ち ) by Maria Kawamura, Naoko Matsui, Yuriko Yamamoto, Hiromi Tsuru, Michie Tomizawa, Eriko Hara and Naoko Watanabe as credits. The opening credits for The Revolution are Namida Yorimo Toiki Yorimo by Kihara Satomi and the credits are underlaid with Naitemo Iiyo by Fumie Kusachi.

Manga

Parallel to the film, a manga by Hideki Kakinuma appeared for Gall Force .

Video games

On November 19, 1986, HAL Laboratory in Japan released a shoot 'em up entitled Gall Force for the Famicom Disk System. In the same year, Gall Force: Defense of Chaos was another shoot 'em up, for MSX and from the same manufacturer. In 1987 the adventure Gall Force: Eternal Story for MSX2 followed.

reception

In the Anime Encyclopedia , Gall Force is compared with series like Vandread (where purely female and male races also meet) and with the film series Alien . In this story, however, the heroic adventures of the female crew would be contrasted with their cute exteriors. In particular, the designs by Kenichi Sonoda were popular with fans. The motif of cute women fighting belligerent military men is reprinted in the series for each subsequent part, but it turns out to be quite productive. Many of the characters appear again and again despite the big leaps in time, especially Catty, who is behind all plans for survival, mostly as an android "rebirth".

Antonia Levi cites Gall Force as an example of anime titles with stories of emancipated women who no longer subordinate themselves to men according to traditional role models, as well as those that tell of a group growing together. Patrick Drazen names the series among the anti-war anime, as the focus is on preventing the annihilation of people by war machines. The Complete Anime Guide calls Gall Force in its selection of science fiction works a “wonderfully executed” story, full of everything that is expected from a classic space opera : action, state-of-the-art weapons, robots and artificial intelligence. The stories about conflicts between genders, peoples and political ideologies are timeless and, despite all the elements apparently borrowed from the Alien series, make Gall Force an independent work and one of the most important anti-war animes.

Web links

• Entry for the film and the sequels on Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 215 f .
2. ↑ Patrick Drazen: Anime Explosion! - The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2002, ISBN 1-880656-72-8 , pp. 24 .
3. ^ Gall Force - Defense of Chaos (1986, Sony) . Generation-msx.nl. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
4. ^ Gall Force - Eternal Story (1987, Sony) . Generation-msx.nl. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
5. ↑ Antonia Levi: Antonia Levi: Samurai from Outer Space - Understanding Japanese Animation . Carus Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0-8126-9332-9 , pp. 75 .
6. ↑ Patrick Drazen: Anime Explosion! - The What? Why? & Wow! of Japanese Animation . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2002, ISBN 1-880656-72-8 , pp. 198 .
7. ↑ Trish Ledoux, Doug Ranney: The Complete Anime Guide . Tiger Mountain Press, Issaquah 1995, ISBN 0-9649542-3-0 , pp. 69 .