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Those business ventures caused Japanese cars, personal electronics, and entertainment to reshape the world and people’s lives. This was the time of the “Bubble” as historians have coined it and from 1986-1991, the Japanese extended their economic power around the world with real estate holdings and business ventures. This was also a time in Japan that were Japan was of the key economies in the world and their technologically advancements shaped the world we still live in. Advances in home media technology exploded faster in Japan than anywhere else and LaserDisc was a common form of home media more than the States and a majority of the OVAs from the 1980’s were in LaserDisc (LD) format. So, I think we should discuss the mid-1980’s Japan anime industry and market at the time of Gall Force’s release. The captain of the Star Leaf was on the flagship of the Solenoid fleet when the battle goes down and the order comes to jump to lightspeed to the planet Chaos.įor years, Gall Force: The Eternal Story remained in Japan and was only pirated to the shores of the West. Onboard the Star Leaf is 2nd in command Eluza, 3rd in command Rabbi, along the rest of the crew: Rumy, Pony, Catty, and Patty. This vessel carries space combat fighters and mecha, along with a massive mobile planetary base module called “Blossom”. The audience also then learns the main focus of the anime, is the Star Leaf, an Kularis class cruiser/carrier hybrid 280-meter-long warship. This is to be the new homeworld of the Solenoid due to the loss of their own homeworld at the hands of the Paranoid. During the space battle, the audience learns that the focus of the Solenoid central fleet is to jump to the 9th Star System and protect the newly terraformed world called “Chaos”. While the Solenoid use technology that seems familiar to us and design that are also familiar to most Terran sci-fi cultures, the Paranoids seem to use organic technology. We soon learn that one side of this fleet engagement is the (assumed) all-female human race called the “Solnoids” and the amorphic “Paranoids” are the other side, who can reorganize their bodies to take other shapes as needed or even inhabit mecha. The OVA literally opens up onto a massive space battle between two fleets of warships near a Earth-like world. The Gall Force Star Front feature ran in the magazine on a monthly basis from March 1985 to July 1986 when the feature film came out. Similar stuff has run in other Japanese hobby magazines like Hobby Japan, but this idea was truly an anime fan garage kit make's dream come true. The idea was to scratch build figures and mecha for the monthly magazine as part of a photo serials.
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Either way, Kakinuma and Sodona were the primary forces behind bring the garage model kits female warriors, mecha, and aliens into a military science fiction anime.
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Only after that did Artmic take notice of the concept and hired Kakinuma and Sodona to develop Gall Force has an anime property.
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Other sources stated that noted writer/artist Hideke Kakinuma was inspired by the first Terminator film (seen more in The Earth Chapter) and created the genesis of Gall Force and partnered with Sodona to develop the photo-comic series for Model Grafix. Some sources claim that female space warrior characters were developed by Kenichi Sodona while working at Artmic studios for their client Model Graphix magazine. However, there some conflict between sources about how Star Front Gall Force came to existence. From the few imagines I've seen, there was a great deal of talent involved in Star Front Gall Force. The characters and mecha were garage kits that became packaged model kits of their own during the run with cartoon-like talk balloons in bad English.