I've got an old tape of an anime called Maps.
It's got spacecraft designed like art deco hood ornaments.
It's produced by KSS films in 1993.
Producers Takao Asaka and Rikio Yoshida.
And I can find NOTHING about it. The only evidence I've got that it ever was made is a VHS tape of it. Subtitled in French.
The Anime News Network encyclopedia has a page for it:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... php?id=694
As for a lack of other information... well, it wasn't that good a show.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Oh, we had that on VHS, too. I remember we liked it quite a bit, way back in the 90s.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
I likewise had — probably still have — it on VHS, English subs, two cassettes. I remember it mostly because the male lead's girlfriend looked to me as if she'd been modeled after an Army officer I worked with at the time ... who wasn't at all Japanese....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
If I'm remembering correctly, Maps had the massive starships with immense female figureheads, right? Practically full-body sculptures hundreds or thousands of feet tall?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
"Figureheads"? Each whole ship is shaped like a woman. And has a human-sized avatar.
ATT page "Spaceship Girl" confirms:
Quote:Lipumira is the interestingly dressed avatar of a starship that looks like a giant statue of her. For bonus points, her human-sized self becomes wounded as the ship is damaged.
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Big Brother is watching
you. And
damn, you are so bloody
BORING.
Do recall I'm digging up a 20-year-old memory here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Apologies; it wasn't my intent to sound chiding.
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No, it ISN'T what it is!
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
Maps adapted only like the first volume or so of a much longer comic. It went on for quite some time after the animated stuff ended. But I don't think the comic was ever translated.
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead
Watched the entire the some time ago. Remember quite a bit of it. Was pretty decent, for something so short.
-People may die, but ideas are forever. Je suis Charlie.