Outlaw Star 2: Sword of Wind.
The titular grappler ship, the Outlaw Star. Towards the end of the 90s, Sunrise made two shows that managed to go global in a big way. One of these was the hugely popular Cowboy Bebop and the other being Outlaw Star.
So Outlaw Star has all of the trappings of a Harem show, but this seems to be more of an aesthetic choice than a thematic one. It looks like Tenchi Muyo, but it doesn't feel like it.
Did Firefly Rip Off Outlaw Star? Officially, Joss Whedon said that the inspiration to create Firefly came after he read the book The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.
If you want to go back and see how they pulled this off, the unfortunate news is that it's almost impossible—that version of Outlaw Star has been lost to time, which is extremely unfortunate from a historical and preservation sense, since I would have loved to go back and compare those versions with the unedited ...
Both Outlaw Star and Bebop featured mismatched crews of vagabonds in eclectic science-fiction settings; both relied upon a precarious rhythm of action, reflection and rapture.
Melfina is the love interest of Gene Starwind in the anime series Outlaw Star.
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20-year-oldGene Starwind (ジーン・スターウインド, Jīn Sutāuindo) is a 20-year-old man who developed a fear of space flight and a hatred of pirates during an attack when he was 15.
Based on the 1990s anime series that premiered stateside in 2001, Netflix's live-action adaptation was abruptly canceled by the streamer less than three weeks after premiering in November 2021. Now, lead star Cho, who played charismatic criminal leader Spike Spiegel, revealed his reaction over the announcement.
In 2002, when Joss Whedon's Firefly — a live-action series about spaceship-flying bounty hunters called cowboys — began airing on Sci-Fi, it drew immediate comparisons to Bebop and helped spread the earlier show's influence even further.
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The Outlaw Star television series was aired in Japan during a late night timeslot because it was not likely to obtain more than one or two percent viewership like prime time shows. Outlaw Star was voted as the 20th best anime of 1999 in the Japanese Animage Anime Grand Prix.
Character designs were handled by Hiroyuki Hataike ( Detonator Orgun, Armored Trooper Votoms) and Takuya Saito. The show's vehicles were designed by Juniya Ishigaki [ ja] and Macross and Gundam mecha artist Shōji Kawamori, the latter of whom designed the Outlaw Star ship itself. Kow Otani composed the musical score for the Outlaw Star anime. The series features the opening theme "Through the Night" written and performed Masahiko Arimachi, and two closing themes, "Hiru no Tsuki" (昼の月, lit. "Daytime Moon") and "Tsuki no Ie" (月の家, lit. "House of the Moon"), both written and performed by Akino Arai. "Through the Night" was chosen for the opening among several candidate songs. Itō and Sunrise agreed that the theme should be one that had not been used in a recent animation and that it should feature male vocals. Arimachi wrote the song to resemble a story, took into account its long-term impact, and felt it fit Outlaw Star perfectly.
A hardcover guidebook titled Muhōmono no Kioku – Seihō Bukyō Outlaw Star (無法者の記録―星方武侠アウトロースター, lit. "Outlaw Record – Starward Warrior Knight Outlaw Star") was published by Fujimi Shobo as part of its Dragon Magazine imprint in November 1998. The guide contains summaries of the manga and anime, character profiles, sketches, animation cels, and interviews with the production staff. In 2001, Bandai released an Outlaw Star action figure set as part of a line based on its licensed anime franchises. The set contains the Outlaw Star ship and the characters Gene and Melfina. Asako Nishida, one of the show's animation directors, compiled her contributions to the Toward Stars Era franchise in a 2009 art book.
Outlaw Star was originally serialized in the monthly Shueisha magazine Ultra Jump between 1996 and 1999 for a total of 21 chapters. Three volumes of collected chapters were published in Japan between August 1997 and January 1999.
Outlaw Star is a space opera / space Western set in the fictional "Towards Stars Era" (到星歴, Tōseireki) universe. During its past, an asteroid containing a material known as "dragonite" crashed in the fictional Arashon desert of northern China. Scientists found that the dragonite contained properties related to "ether", an energy source that would allow spacecraft to travel faster than the speed of light, and thus traverse large distances of the universe in a short time. As new colonies were formed throughout the vast reaches of outer space, pirates, assassins, and outlaws began to threaten humanity's new frontier. To create order, the Earth Federation established four empires: USSA, Einhorn, Piotr, and Tenpa. However, internal power struggles within the factions and conflicts amongst one another become abundant, leading to inevitable lawlessness. The storyline starts shortly after an infamous outlaw named "Hot Ice" Hilda flees from the Kei Pirates, a branch of the Tin'Pa. Hilda has stolen from them a highly-advanced prototype ship dubbed the XGP15A-II and a suitcase containing a bio- android called Melfina, the only being capable of interfacing with the ship.
The Outlaw Star Complete Collection was the 21st best-selling anime DVD in the United States in 2006 and the 25th in 2007. In 2012, Bandai's North American division, Bandai Entertainment, listed Outlaw Star as one of its top five most successful anime properties.
The series was again re-released on March 28, 2006 as the Outlaw Star Complete Collection. Outlaw Star additionally received DVD releases in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment on June 23, 2004, and in the United Kingdom by Beez Entertainment on April 25, 2011.
Based on a manga by Takehito Ito, the first show in Sunrise 's Toward Stars universe, Outlaw Star is an old-fashioned Space Opera writ large. In the distant future, after mankind has spread across the universe, there are three major powers: the Space Forces who enforce the law, the Space Pirates who defy it, and the "outlaws" who owe allegiance ...
The Leader: Gene — The Captain of the Outlaw Star, good with guns.
Gene Starwind and his kid partner Jim are technically odd-job men rather than bounty hunters, not least because bounties occur far too infrequently for them to make a living on hunting alone. And in the rare case where a bounty is put out, the reward they get is usually far less than the trouble they spent on it. In the end, most of their time is spent on unrelated activities like treasure-hunting and squaring off against the pirate clans.
Animal Theme Naming: All members of the Anten Seven are named after Japanese beetles.
Expy: The Outlaw Star itself is an expy of the Real Life pseudo-spaceship the X-15A-2. In the first few episodes the Outlaw Star even has a strikingly similar color scheme and its designation of XGP-15A2 is no coincidence either.
The Dreaded: The Ctarl-Ctarl. They're feared and renowned for their natural born beast strength and their ability to transform into werebeasts. Ctarl-Ctarl as an entire species are even banned from taking part in the Universe's Strongest Man tournament, and its counterpart for women, because the previous time a Ctarl-Ctarl entered, it went berserk and nearly killed its opponent, did kill HUNDREDS of other people, and injured THOUSANDS. That said, the species' people are not impossible to get along with as a hard and fast rule, as Aisha's friendship with the rest of the Outlaw Star crew can confirm.
Ley Line: The Galactic, uh, Leyline. MacGuffin Location: The Galactic Leyline. Mad Scientist: Gwen Kahn , the designer of the Outlaw Star and Melfina. Just one conversation with him is enough to show that he's a bit off.