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Gall Force 1 - Eternal Story

My friend gave me a bunch of his old downloaded anime and this was on there.

There isn't a whole lot to say about Gall Force- Eternal Story. Its your standard old school space anime.

It had its high points: The ship designs, some of the fighting scenes and effects, ok music.

But there was also quite a bit of bad. There is almost no character development whatsoever. I found myself not really caring about any one character more than the others and so I wasn't really even sure who the heroes were.

When the cast starts getting killed one by one and each time its pretty much the only character you were interested in at that time, its usually not a good thing.

There was also very little background given on WHO these people were, antagonists and protagonists alike. All in all, it was enjoyable enough for me to watch and finish. But I highly doubt I will ever watch it again. read more

For a start I have to paraphrase “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. I judged it that way all these years and having finally watched it now, I have to say that regret not having done it earlier.

-------Little Spoilers on the beginning of the story bellow----------
In the middle of a space war, our all female team on their spaceship unite themselves to run away from what looked like a lost war, by doing that, they gained some unexpected members on their crew, females of course. But they were unable to escape safely, they were pursued by their enemies, an alien race, in their attempt and that led to some confronts later on.
-------End of the Spoilers----------


Well, the premise wasn’t anything extraordinary, in fact the premise and the cover image made my interest decrease, “an all girl force fighting in some galaxy…”, in fact it was quite lame and it got me away of Gall Force all these years, but fortunately this was one of those cases when “there’s more than meets the eye”.

The characters weren’t nothing extraordinary too as I had expected, except the lead one, which we assume it is the lead, that was pretty dependable and actually developed into a great character.

The story and the plot twists that it led were the strong points of the film, perhaps some twists weren’t well explained and detailed and there were a lot of background story to be told, but the fact how the story ran away from it’s initial course and done in an interesting way leading us to a completely unexpected and pretty cool ending makes for all the flaws of the anime.
Ah, I’m a sucker to those types of endings, I loved it.

The animation was pretty nice and proper for a ’86 OVA, the music fitted well. Some characters really annoyed me, but the great lead made for it.

It’s a pretty good recommendation for a mid to late 80s sci-fi anime title. You’ll not regret it.

Rate; 7.4/10 read more