Plastic Little

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Plastic Little
Original title プ ラ ス チ ッ ク リ ト ル
transcription Purasuchikku Ritoru
genre Science fiction
Original video animation
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 1994
Studio Animate movie
length 45 minutes
Episodes 1
Director Kinji Yoshimoto
idea Kinji Yoshimoto, Satoshi Urushihara
music Tamiya Terashima
synchronization
Manga
country JapanJapan Japan
author Satoshi Urushihara
publishing company Gakushu Kenkyusha
magazine Comic Nora
First publication 1993-1994
expenditure 1

Plastic Little ( Japanese プ ラ ス チ ッ ク リ ト ル , Purasuchikku Ritoru ) is an anime by Kinji Yoshimoto and Satoshi Urushihara from 1994.

Together with Akira and Sailor Moon , Plastic Little is one of the animes that initiated the spread of this art form in western societies and therefore achieved great popularity.

action

On the distant planet Jietta, 17-year-old Tita is the captain of the ship Cha Cha Maru. She is a pet shop hunter and, together with her crew, hunts for rare marine animals, which she can then sell for expensive money. On the way to Cha Cha Maru she meets the young Ellise Altmodich, the daughter of a well-known scientist, who is currently on the run from the military. Tita offers her help and takes her on the Cha Cha Maru. Ellise is being persecuted by the military because her father made an invention that the military general is supposed to use in a coup on the government. For this, however, he needs a code that Ellise's father has encoded in her DNA. Tita decides to help Ellise. Now the fight against the military begins and the decision about the future of the colony begins.

publication

This is a collaboration between the erotic mangaka and animator Satoshi Urushihara and the director Kinji Yoshimoto, who previously designed Legend of Lemnear together , and was released as the original video animation for the Japanese home theater market. The animations were made by animation studio Animate Film, assisted by Studio Pierrot . The script was written by Mayori Sekijima, the storyboards by Yoshimoto and Urushihara, the latter also doing the character design , the animation management and the scenic implementation.

The work was released on VHS and Laserdisc on March 21, 1994. A German version was published on VHS in 1995 by the then newly founded OVA Films , while a DVD version followed in 2001.

In 1999 a sequel called Femme Femme Buccaneers was announced, but it never appeared.

Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy point out that although the anime does not have a particularly deep plot, the visual implementation of Urushihara's lavish, perfected drawing style (“lush young flesh with glowing perfection”) was brought to life equally perfectly by the anime, without the usual ones to cut back on the animation.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was made by Aaron Synchros for ACOG's OVA Films .

role Japanese speakers ( seiyū ) German speakers
Elise Altmodic Hekiru Shiina Christine Schlembach
Titaniva Koshigaya Yuriko Fuchizaki Natasa Tolimir
Mikhail Diagilev Chikao Ōtsuka Thomas Witte
Gaizel Hiroshi Naka Joachim Rudolph
Nichol Kappei Yamaguchi Dinis Loures
Joshua L. Balboa Norio Wakamoto Carlos Gundermann
Roger Ryusei Nakao Frank Strobelt
May Keiko Yokozawa Anabel Schaffer
Nalerof Yōsuke Akimoto

The Japanese version also features Hidenari Ugaki and Shinichiro Miki .

Manga

For the anime, Satoshi Urushihara also drew a manga, which appeared in the magazine Comic Nora from Gakushū Kenkyūsha (Gakken) in 1993 and whose chapters were also summarized in an anthology in 1994 ( ISBN 4-05-600510-9 ). This was also published in German by Carlsen in 2000 ( ISBN 3-551-74403-3 ). In 2012, a completely colored new edition was published in Japan ( ISBN 978-4-05-607107-8 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation . 3. Edition. Stone Bridge Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-61172-909-2 , entry: Plastic Little .