Glass no Chikyuu wo Sukue Unico Special

This stack will feature anime with broad ecological and environmentalist themes.

For an anime to be considered environmentalist, it must primarily communicate a message regarding the condition of nature; moreover, it should portray nature as suffering, whether from pollution, deforestation, ecosystem collapse, or similar crises, in a manner that resonates with the Japanese environmentalist movement.

Feel free to recommend another anime I might miss.
Let's start with anime that is not in the database.

From Seitarou Kitayama lost anime: Physiology and Ecology of Plants (Shokubutsu seiri seitai no maki) 1922
source: Promiscuous Media_Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945; pp.160

*Note: For this interest stack, The Anime Encyclopedia has been extensively used.
*Also, gratitude to anime-planet.com for their environmental tag. Without it, a considerable number of anime would be included here.
*Most of the descriptions were co-written using LLM technology, specifically Microsoft Bing Copilot, with the generative prompt: "Hi, can you write me a short synopsis about an anime named ..... with environmentalism themes?"

Update: On 18.8.2024, after watching the third part of the @WooKong1 anime history documentary, I added a few anime titles that were discussed in its ecological section. Overall, I highly recommend the video. A not fully animated movie mention in the video Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)

"Unico brings happiness to people he encounters while traveling from one place to another."

"He travels around the world beyond time, taken one place to another by the spirit of West Wind, but his memories of people and animals he encounters are deleted on visiting the next place."

Debut: 1976
Mangaka/Original Creator: Tezuka, Osamu https://myanimelist.net/people/1938/Osamu_Tezuka
(Source: Tezuka Osamu Official)

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Unico Watch Order:
(2 OVAs, 4 Movies)
1. Tanpen Unico: Kuroi Kumo to Shiroi Hane (Apr 5, 1979) | OVA | 1 episode × 26 min. - Parent Story / Alternative Version / Prequel
2. Unico (Mar 14, 1981) | Movie | 1 episode x 1 hr. 30 min. - Alternative Version / Prequel / Parent Story
3. Unico: Mahou no Shima e (Jul 16, 1983) | Movie | 1 episode x 1 hr. 31 min. - Sequel
4. Glass no Chikyuu wo Sukue Unico Special (Jul 20, 2000) | Movie | 1 episode x 16 min. - Side story
5. Black Jack: Dr. Pinoko no Mori no Bouken (Dec 17, 2005) | Movie | 1 episode x 7 min. - Character
6. Ravex in Tezuka World (Apr 29, 2009) | OVA | 1 episode x 18 min. - Character

Note: Unico may be on the cover of 'Kitty to Mimmy no Atarashii Kasa' but Unico didn't appear in the stop-motion anime.

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Unico: https://myanimelist.net/character/3043/Unico | https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/150/Sanrio

Official Sites: https://tezukaosamu.net/en/manga/511.html | https://tezukaosamu.net/en/manga/718.html
EN: https://tezukaosamu.net/en/character/828.html | JP: https://tezukaosamu.net/jp/character/828.html
https://tezukaosamu.net/jp/unico/ | https://tezukaosamu.net/jp/unico/character/index.html
Twitter (X): (公式)手塚治虫・ユニコ倶楽部 ((Official) Osamu Tezuka Unico Club) @UNICOclub https://twitter.com/UNICOclub
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unico
Fandom Wiki: Hello Kitty Wiki https://hellokitty.fandom.com/wiki/Unico?so=search
Sanrio Wiki: https://sanriowiki.com/wiki/Unico
My Unico Fans: https://www.myunicofans.com/ | https://www.myunicofans.com/anime-profiles/

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Genres: Adventure, Fantasy
Demographic: Kids

Tags: Sanrio, Tezuka Productions, Franchise, Unico, Unicorn, Venus, West Wind, Kodomo
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🎀 Club: For The Love Of Sanrio♥ https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=7942 (Active)

Sanrio Characters: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35354

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手塚治虫「ユニコ」PＶ (Osamu Tezuka “Unico” PV) [10 Dec 2015 | 0:53]
https://youtu.be/EgXQ0Lyg7Uc?si=bmRj4wwk8cyLbMsv

Source: 手塚プロダクション公式チャンネル (Tezuka Productions official channel)
https://www.youtube.com/@tezukaproductions

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🆕 Update!

There's an all-new Unico manga to be released by Scholastic's Graphix imprint on August 6, 2024; it'll be their first manga publication. Unico: Awakening, a reimagining of Osamu Tezuka’s unicorn character, is a 224-page full color manga by Japanese illustration team Gurihiru—Chifuyu Sasaki (pencils, inks) and Naoko Kawano (coloring) and author Samuel Sattin.

Official Site:
https://kids.scholastic.com/kid/books/unico/

News:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2023/09/20/scholastic-debuts-kid-friendly-manga-line-with-a-reimagined-classic/
https://fangirlnation.com/2024/07/22/scholastic-announces-their-first-published-manga-unico-awakening/
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/07/scholastic-launches-first-manga-tezuka-inspired-unicorn-awakening-with-animated-trailer/

Book Trailer:
Unico: Awakening | Official Scholastic Trailer | Graphix Books [Jun 6, 2024 | 2:00]
https://youtu.be/o1EZr4u28Zo?si=ujPC8VSlqDhktAfD

Source: Scholastic's Official YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/@scholastic

From the synopsis and trailer, it looks like the story is closer to the 1981 Unico movie in this list. Chao (Katy) is just renamed as Chloe for Western audiences.

Hoping the manga will be in the DB as "Gurihiru is an illustration team based in Saitama, Japan that has worked extensively in manga-oriented work published in the west (Source: Forbes)." They already have a page in the DB too (https://myanimelist.net/people/48563/Gurihiru).

“Though Unico is a lesser known property, it has the potential to reach an audience like My Little Pony."—Zack Davisson, manga translator and scholar

✔️。