HI NO TORI: EDEN NO SORA

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  LaFeniceEterna

  85/100
  What would you do once you realized your eden was not what you expected but you are stuck there?

  Disclaimer #1 This is my very first review, and I will personally try to do my best to highlight all the things that matter in this anime.
  This is a review about the animated version of the Nostalgia chapter in the Phoenix series penned by none other than the God of manga Osamu Tezuka himself, published during the 70's.

  
  Our main character Is a young woman named Romi who left Earth to reach Planet Eden 17 along with her boyfriend George and their domestic robot Shiva. Really, really soon, they find out that this is __a deserted planet and they are the only ones there. From here on, I would like tò recommend you the manga: the story will diverge and skip a lot of events, not even revealing a main key plot of the chapter.

  

  Disclaimer #2 This chapter was rewritten by Tezuka on different times, so the events I will talk about come from the most famous version.

  I give this warning once I will open the Pandora's box of spoiler from the manga so keep calm

  Because of obvious implications that I wouldn't dare to mention, Romi has only one son -Cain- and she gets hibernated for a thousand years, so a Moopy/Moopie took Romi's likeness and the time skip begins (even the trickster who recommended her the Planet was removed). Eden 17 is fully colonized. Also Romi is visibly older when she is in her 60's as in some older chapter versions. The the story proceeds reprising from the manga though the ending is very different: We don't fully get Makimura's past here, Romi's fugitive day on Earth (also from newer versions) and the pact with the Moopies that Zudarban dared to break. The ending leaves a ray of hope since Romi doesn't die (most famously by rejuvenating but also by being shot by Makimura in older versions) but Earth and Eden are both annihilated. I wish they kept the original ending.

  End of spoilers

  I really loved the animation and the waiting was well paid. Romi is a strong main character but well... not really in this animation but we see how her Dreams and ideals are strong and how she is human.
  Tezuka loved to highlight this value: that humans are the evil ones though Romi has a pure heart and she only wants to reach her very true goal in her life.
  The Phoenix was redesigned and she is not the iconic one that Tezuka created, and she got only a few seconds of screen.
  Remember that the studio had to cut some content because it would have been too over the line for today's standards, maybe they liked to follow the older versions of the chapter, and they only had four episodes to work on, but still, I must point out there will be a new movie airing in November.
  The ending song was very relaxing. I was hoping they would insert a remix of the original Phoenix theme, the one going by the lines of "You carry us on your silver wings, to the far reaches of the universe", but it's still a beautiful melody that did its job.
  As a closing note, well, I hope this animation of Eden 17/Nostalgia will open the Door to the animated version of the Life chapter :).

  LaFeniceEterna

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