Junk Stage

There are several companies that provide Japanese animated titles to the US market. One of them is AnimEigo. I recently reviewed a couple of their titles, Boah and AD Police Files. I had one last title from them that was sent for me to check out. I just finished watching it and was pleasantly surprised at the animation in the show. It wasn’t half bad, although I would have preferred an English dubbed version of the film. The title of this film is Genesis Survivor Gaiarth: Stage 1.

The film opens up with a young blonde man finishing up a bath in a lake. He gets ready for a fighting lesson, being given to him by a robot warrior. The young man is Ital and the robot is known as Randis. Some other robotic warriors come to where they are at and attack Randis. He is destroyed. The other warriors appear to be members of the Republican AutoSoldiers.

Ital makes his way out of the area and finds himself watching a battle involving other humans. He tries to connect with them, only to be left behind in a bot junkyard. He quickly repairs an android and together they move through the desert.

Ital and the android( which for some reason is called a war-roid) Zazon end up getting to a city called Bangor. It is in this city that Ital finds the girl Sahari who left him in the desert.
We find out that the war that Randis had been training Ital to fight had been finished for over a hundred years. Now Ital vows to get back at the BeastMaster, the renegade warrior who destroyed Randis.

The BeastMaster attacks Bangor and both Zazon and Ital battle it out with him.
This storyline has a lot of holes in it. Why did Randis think the war was still going on? How did he end up with Ital, who couldn’t have been old enough to have been part on the way? These things are kind of touched on but not really explored.

The animation is really good and the subtitles made following along fairly easy. The sound effects were pretty standard for this type of film. As I mentioned above, this was a Japanese language video with English subtitles, which were synced fairly well.

I checked around for other reviews of this title and could only find a couple. This seemed to indicate that this series was not as popular as it might have seemed.

For a slightly convoluted story of a young man taking revenge on his destroyed android, this isn’t too bad.

To get other information on this title, visit the AnimEigo web site at www.animeigo.com..

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