Gall Force 1: Eternal Story

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Japanese: ガルフォース

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 28, 1986

Producers: Movic, Sony Music Entertainment

Licensors: Central Park Media

Studios: AIC, Artmic, animate Film

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Themes: Mecha, Military, Space

Duration: 1 hr. 26 min.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

Statistics

Score: 6.37¹ (scored by 2,944 users)

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Ranked: #7759²

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Popularity: #7304

Members: 7,990

Favorites: 16

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Synopsis

Two advanced civilizations, the Paranoids (a race of alien humanoids) and the Solenoids (who are all women) are waging a war that has gone on for centuries. When the Solenoid fleet leaves a battle to defend an experimentally terraformed world from the Paranoids, one damaged Solenoid ship, the Star Leaf, is separated from the fleet.

Only seven women remain alive on the ship: Eluza, the captain, Rabby, the solid more or less main character, Lufy, the brash pilot, Catty, the mysterious science officer, Pony, the pink-haired ditzy tech, Patty, a solid crew member, and Remy, the cute one.

After narrowly escaping the battle, the crew of the Star Leaf decides to continue with their orders and rendezvous at planet Chaos to defend it. It turns out, however, that their ship is the subject of a Paranoid experiment. In the end, it is up to the remaining crew Star Leaf to defend the artificial paradise of Chaos from the Paranoid fleet and the plans of the Solenoid leaders.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Catty

Main

Watanabe, Naoko
Japanese

Rabby

Main

Matsui, Naoko
Japanese

Patty

Main

Hara, Eriko
Japanese

Eluza

Main

Kawamura, Maria
Japanese

Rumy

Main

Yamamoto, Yuriko
Japanese

Lufy

Supporting

Tsuru, Hiromi
Japanese

Pony

Supporting

Tomizawa, Michie
Japanese

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Staff

Akiyama, Katsuhito

Director

Matsuura, Noriyoshi

Sound Director

Yatagai, Kenichi

Episode Director

Tomita, Sukehiro

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Ending Theme

"Ryoute Ippai no Johnny (両手いっぱいのジョニー)" by Kahoru Kohiruimaki

Reviews

Jun 28, 2015

RuriTenshi

Recommended

Ah yes the first installment of the Gall Force franchise. I never heard about this series until recently when I was talking about Bubblegum Crisis in an obscure anime group. Which GF is no where near as good as Bubblegum Crisis so let's get that out of our way. But its not wonder this franchise never took off. I'll start with the pros though.
Pros:
Overall the animation itself is pretty good. Which is no surprise since the guy who does the illustrations did illustrations for the more popular Bubblegum Crisis and Gunsmith Cats. So I was impressed by a lot of the art and effects.

For ... an old anime that is approaching the age of 30 next year the sound department is pretty good. It's got those 1980s nostalgia soundtracks that is hard to forget. The sound effects are a bit dated but that just adds nostalgia.

The action is pretty continuous. Really exciting to watch. Some of the scenes kind of remind me of some action movie scenes. Note some of the scenes seem to have ripped off some Hollywood movies but I'll get into that later in this review.

Cons:
Characters are pretty bland. Like theres not much about them except for maybe Lufy and thats for only a limited time. I wish they could have more character development for them and more interesting aspects to these characters but must of them are your typical anime girls. Rumy is basically your typical loli but I'm not surprised since the guy who wrote this has a fetish for lolis. Yes he really does watch Anime Abandon's review.

This series is missing a few answers to a few questions like why? and how? The begining has no explanation as to whats happening at all. Its all the sudden women in space battles with explosions. There are many scenes in this anime that don't have any explanation. So this anime has a lot of unanswered questions.

I can only find the English dub for this sadly and I really wish I could find the subbed version cause the dub is so bad. The voices feel forced and some even feel emotionless. Were the voice actors having to be forced to dub this at the barrel of a gun cause that's what it sounds like. Some of the dubbed voices seem out of place with the characters as well.

This series also has seems to have ripped off classic scenes from big franchises. It rips of scenes from Star Trek, Star Wars, Rambo,Space Odyssey 2001, and even the Adam and Eve from the book of Genesis.

Overall with all the cons it's still a enjoyable anime. Good time cruncher and if your ever curious about the past and anime of the 80s this one may be of interest. You could say I liked this movie even with all of its flaws. It could even have a good laugh. Also if you watch this anime be prepared to see death cause it will surround you.

Story: 6
Art: 8
Sound: 7
Character: 5
Enjoyment 7
Overall: 7

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Feb 13, 2021

Bizancio

Mixed Feelings

Excuse me, I'm Spanish and I don't usually write in English. If you want you can read my review in Spanish.

One of the most popular and profitable franchises within the realm of the OVAs of the 80s was Gall Force, which for a lot of people is totally unknown due to its minor impact in the West. The origin of this multimedia franchise is in Star Front Gall Force, a 3D photonovela that appeared in the monthly Model Graphix magazine. Here were presented several of the characters that star in the film, which was produced and animated by the AIC and Artmic studios. Between the ... most prominent members of the staff are those responsible for Bubblegum Crisis (1987-1991) such as Katsuhito Akiyama or Kenichi Sonoda. Without reaching the splendor of the cyberpunk title, the quality of the animation is close to outstanding when the action erupts in the form of space battles.

Gall Force: Eternal Story (1986) is a war drama about the eternal conflict between two alien races. Despite the fact that this question has been addressed, to a greater or lesser extent, by several previous titles, among which Space Runaway Ideon (1980-1981) or Macross (1982-1983) stand out, what strikes me is the idea that both sides seek an agreement to avoid their mutual destruction. A peace agreement that would be carried out through the creation of a third alien race, which would be born thanks to the genetic combination of the two. From my point of view, this idea is sensational since among those destined to hate each other, the only one who can mediate between them is a third party who is both alien, but also aware of the conflict. An idea that reminds me of a later film like Wicked City (1987), although Kawajiri's film has a more interesting thematic and symbolic construction. What it does not have, however, is a failure that will be repeated cyclically in the following films.

Although I applaud such a solution I believe that this issue together with the war drama does not reach its highest point due to a series of inconveniences. In the first place, the action sometimes overshadows this theme due to the excessive attention it receives with long and abundant sequences of chases, space battles, etc. Second, the film's tone is inappropriate on multiple occasions, incapacitating the work to represent the seriousness of the conflict and explore the issues at stake. Comedy —generated above all by Rumy's comic relief— and eroticism —partial nudity, here and there— end up subtracting more than adding. Not extremely serious, but it clearly affects your presentation. Third, the background to the war is somewhat poor, with very little about the reasons that drive both sides to fight to the death.

Finally, the war drama is less effective than it should because the subjects of this misfortune are of no interest to the audience. Despite the attractive designs, the characterization of the characters is mediocre. They hardly define his character and personality correctly, except for Lufy. Among the group members, this tough and reckless aunt is distinguished by her personal background which reveals how hurt she is over the death of her former companions. In addition to this background, her personality caused friction in the group that, in turn, generated a strong dynamic. Unfortunately, Lufy is the first to fall so we run out of interesting characters. Perhaps she does not catch anyone by surprise that from now on many feel indifference to the fate of the rest of the crew. Although the aforementioned inconveniences do not completely detract from this historical title, had it not been present, we would speak of a remarkable or even excellent work.

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May 5, 2009

Hexorb

Not Recommended

My friend gave me a bunch of his old downloaded anime and this was on there.

There isn't a whole lot to say about Gall Force- Eternal Story. Its your standard old school space anime.

It had its high points: The ship designs, some of the fighting scenes and effects, ok music.

But there was also quite a bit of bad. There is almost no character development whatsoever. I found myself not really caring about any one character more than the others and so I wasn't really even sure who the heroes were.

When the cast starts getting killed one by one and each time its pretty ...