Boku no Chikyuu wo Mamotte

Zen Question: When you obviously run out of budget, is if better to just cut your losses and leave the anime incomplete, or would you rather just animate the rest of the show with a significantly lower budget? Basically, should an anime be a "Please Save My Earth", or should it be an "Uzumaki"?

This show was actually really good. It had great characters. The show was a healthy mix of slice of life and sci-fi. The premise is that there were 7 scientists on the moon. They reincarnated as 7 students on Earth, and they're all having dreams ... of their past life on the Moon. The show has interesting and complex characters who have a similar goal of looking after the Earth, but they each have their own feelings and dynamics with each other.

It's a drama, it's a tragedy, it has fights, it has romance, it has unrequited love, it has war, and themes of loneliness. The show beautifully moves the plot along and it slows down and paces itself perfectly at crucial moments where it wants you to have empathy for the characters and to explain certain plot points, but there's also enough interesting things happening to keep you engaged.

The only issue with this anime is that it was clearly cuf short at 6 episodes. Perhaps the funding ran out, and they decided to just cut it there. It's such a shame because the art is beautiful, the characters were great, and the show was perfectly paced. Just as we were getting into another arc, the tape ran out. Such a shame, because it could've been a 10/10, had it kept going. You could tell that whoever made this OVA, has a lot of love for the series.

Initially I was looking for reference poses to draw, for some reason I found pictures of 2 characters from this anime, namely Issei and Shusuran. At first I thought this was an ordinary old anime with a story that wasn't good, but it turns out that after episode 2 the story got even more interesting. The characters' personalities are very unique, making me curious about their respective stories in their previous lives. Actually the story is quite predictable, but if we just watch the anime we don't know what ending Shion will achieve in Rin's body at the moment.

If only this anime could be ... re-adapted with today's animation technology, I would really watch it with my friends hahaha
Really a recommendation to watch, even though it's only 6 episodes and I really want to read the comic hahaha

Starting off with the simple, face value stuff: The art is standard to it's era. There's nothing separating this anime style from most of the others in the 90s. The sound was sub-standard. The voice mics seemed regular, but the some sound effects were missing in "lesser" scenes and some of the sounds effects were lackluster in more "epic" scenes.

The story is terribly boring. With a title like "Please Save My Earth" and knowing it was about people being reincarnated I originally thought there was a threat that killed the last people, and they were purposefully reincarnated to address the threat. It turns it that ... it's a very unnecessarily tragic-weird slice of life anime. There's no threat outside of the self/ destructiveness of the main characters. And then, for all they went through emotionally they ended up not doing anything.

The characters are carbon copies of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" with past life retrospectives. Everyone does hardly anything and no one gets what they want, in the end. Really, everyone is worse off than when they started, but it's so inconsequentially because most of them didn't do anything. What's really boring is that there's 7 characters and they only went into the life of one of them. One of the characters that did something stop doing it and is suddenly redeemable characters for no connected reason. The other character that did something really didn't do much of anything until the very end, and it now regretting his new life for what he did in his previous one.

The character that got a lot of camera time at the start is very weak character that fades in and out until the end, and doesn't have much value. The person that character was before has more value than the present day character. However, because this person didn't engage with past life stuff as much as the others, she's the only one that has more screen time that's the least tragic. There are the 2 tragic gay guys, because one of the women came back as a man. The other 2 characters are cheerful and normal mooded teenagers, so they're not important.

It's an anime about people that choose to be traumatized by things they didn't do. They live on Earth as normal people (more or less) and they don't do much of anything that anyone cares about. I wouldn't suggest this anime to anyone.