Ôdîn - Kôshi hobune stâraito

"Legends once told of a paradise destroyed by a kingdom of fire."

Aug 10 1985 TV-14 2h 19m
Animation, Sci-Fi

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a young woman named Sara Cyanbaker. Unknown to the crew at this time, a mechanized space fleet approaches Earth and a scout vessel from that fleet was responsible for the destruction of Sara's ship.

Plot

It is the year 2099, and mankind has taken great advances in its development of space travel: people sail through space in ships powered by photon-laser engines, and parts of the solar system have been colonized. The newly-built space schooner the Starlight is launched on a maiden voyage to venture beyond the boundaries of the system and investigate a distress signal from a lost starship near Jupiter. Starlight comes across a wrecked spacecraft, holding a lone survivor: a mysterious young female amnesiac named Sara Cyanbaker. Starlight is then immediately attacked by some sort of weaponized probes and sucked into a vortex that takes them to a moon called Oberon near Uranus. There they find an artifact in the form of an ancient galactic map that points to an ancient Norwegian mariner's folk song which mentions the Norse god Odin. Sara starts to have strange dreams of a place called Odin; with these facts, the crew deduces that Odin may actually exist as a planet, the place of paradise that is so often spoken of in Norse mythology. And so a perilous journey begins towards the Canopus system in search of the planet Odin, which could be the possible cradle of life in the universe. What they find there puts everyone in grave danger.

Written by

Kazuo Kasahara, Toshio Masuda, Yoshinobu Nishizaki

Directed by

Takeshi Shirato, Eiichi Yamamoto, Toshio Masuda

Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Nippon Columbia, Aoni Production, Toei Animation, Toei Company, Bandai Visual, West Cape, Gakken

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Scores
# of Votes
242
Average Rating
5.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
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