Soreyuke! Uchuu Senkan Yamamoto Youko II

There is an ancient legend on a distant planet which states (among other things) that four goddesses will one day descend from the skies and all will be right with the world.

Of course meanwhile, Yohko and the rest of the Terra team (with one straggler) have crashed on a backwater world, and they have to figure out a way off before their new charge... gets hungry again!

Every so often, a celebration takes place in one of the most beautiful places in the Universe... a cosmic Sakura fest! Since the Terra Team has been doing so well, one of them is invited to the high command as they meet their opposite numbers from NESS. It's a time of celebration and a time of peace... but it seems that someone didn't get the message.

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Yamamoto, Yohko Main

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Midou, Madoka Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Hakuhouin, Ayano Elizabeth Main

Miyamura, Yuko Japanese

Kagariya, Momiji Main

Niiyama, Shiho Japanese

Leon, Zena ing

Katsuki, Masako Japanese

Lawson, Curtis ing

Matsumoto, Yasunori Japanese

Puchikin ing

Chafurin Japanese

Swift ing

Utsumi, Kenji Japanese

Dread, Sylvie ing

Neya, Michiko Japanese

Balzacc ing

Tobita, Nobuo Japanese

Abe, Michihisa Producer

Yonemasu, Hiroyuki Producer

Shinbou, Akiyuki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Oohashi, Yoshimitsu Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Mar 19, 2024

patkarunungan

Recommended

Even though I wrote this review for OVA II, it also applies to OVA I.

I learned of this OVA thanks to a video documenting Akiyuki Shimboh's works before working with Shaft, and somehow this interested me. I thought I would just appreciate it for some beautiful Shinboesque scenes and not much substance. Imagine my surprise that it's actually a good anime.

Yamamoto Youko is a high school student who was recruited in the 20th century to fly a space fighter. Even though she's just good in video games, her skills are immediately transferrable to flying space fighters.

She's a Mary Sue, but you'll like her ... in spite of it. She's a fun character.

It is said to be an isekai, but it's technically time travel. Yohko and her friends travelled 1000 years into the future. It features advanced technology rather than the usual isekai world of medieval Europe as seen in Escaflowne (old school) and numerous isekai nowadays. (Speaking of Escaflowne, the seiyuu for Yohko is the same seiyuu as one of the antagonists in Escaflowne, namely Dilandau.)

Two factions, Ness and Terra, are fighting for supremacy. But there's no death involved as the pilots are teleported back whenever their space fighter is destroyed.

There's no plot here, at least in the OVA. (Perhaps there is in the TV series.) It's silly if you think about it, but that's the point. It's not a serious anime where the stakes are high, where failure of our heroine means it's the end of the world. It's just a fun show with a fun character named Yamamoto Yohko. It's not a masterpiece by any means but good enough to be worth watching.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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