Venus Senki


Venus Wars

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: ヴィナス戦記
English: Venus Wars
German: Venus Wars
French: Venus Wars
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Information

Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Mar 11, 1989
Producers: Shochiku, Gakken, Bandai
Studios: Triangle Staff
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Theme: SpaceSpace
Duration: 1 hr. 43 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 6.761 (scored by 65646,564 users)
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Ranked: #54682
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Popularity: #5399
Members: 16,617
Favorites: 56

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Synopsis

In the 21st century, mankind lives on two worlds. Following the collision of an ice asteroid, massive terraforming has made Venus a planet now capable of supporting life. Colonists from Earth tamed the hostile world and have thrived for four generations. But they also brought the darker side of humanity. Venus is about to get hostile again.

Hiro Seno, a hotshot motorcycle jockey, witnesses the first strike against his country Aphrodia, by the rival nation of Ishtar. Huge battletanks and warplanes quickly lay waste to the city. The Aphrodian army is quick to mobilize and retaliate... and despite his opposition to warfare, Hiro finds himself fighting for his life on the front lines.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Seno, Hiro

Main
Uekusa, Katsuhide
Japanese

Sommers, Susan

Main
Hara, Eriko
Japanese

Maggie

Main
Mizutani, Yuuko
Japanese

Jeff

Supporting
Yamadera, Kouichi
Japanese

Miranda

Supporting
Sasaki, Yuuko
Japanese

Jack

Supporting
Yanada, Kiyoyuki
Japanese

Gary

Supporting
Naya, Gorou
Japanese

Donner, Gerhard

Supporting
Shiozawa, Kaneto
Japanese

Kurtz

Supporting
Ikeda, Shuuichi
Japanese

Will

Supporting
Ootsuka, Houchuu
Japanese

Staff

Yasuhiko, Yoshikazu
Director, Script, Original Creator, Character Design
Chiba, Kouichi
Sound Director


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Ending Theme

"明日への風 (Asu e no Kaze)" by George Yanagi




Reviews

Feb 8, 2024
This honestly may be my favorite war movie of all time simply because it manages to be both a highly gripping take on war but also very entertaining. You don't have to endure the extremely harsh and frankly dull monotony of death that actually makes up most of war yet you are still shown realistic fates of those thrust into a conflict in a beautifully realized world. Venus Wars excels in showing the individual in war, not just at their most futile but at their most powerful. The climax of the movie had me almost breathless and the ending made was one of the ...
Feb 16, 2024
Mixed Feelings
「Venus Senki」 proudly describes itself as a war movie with a strongly pronounced anti-war sentiment.
Unfortunately, it doesn't quite understand what that phrase means.

The story is set in the near future on a partially terraformed Venus, a fact that matters for the opening text blurb and never again: the planetary environment, which might as well be vaguely post-apocalyptic Tokyo metropolitan ruins for all the difference it makes, never plays into the story in any meaningful way, and looks just like every other drab exoplanetary landscape of its contemporary sci-fi anime.

The sci-fi elements of this movie are of the hard and grounded variety, to the point ...
May 4, 2022
Honestly. Nothing special.

Beautiful animation, a lot of gifs from this movie cycle all over anime aesthetic and vintage anime type forums.

But the story is as cliche as it gets. Your basic boring "war is hell" drama cept it can't even get the HELL part right. Hardly anyone dies, zero gore. The protagonist "Hiro" is just a jerk who disagrees with everyone around him all the time no mater what unless the plot absolutely needs him to honour his word or get involved in something stupid.

The plot also doesn't kick in until way too late, and for the dumbest reasons. The protagonist just decides ...

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Recent Forum Discussion

Poll: Venus Wars Episode 1 Discussion
Jacut - Sep 28, 2008
29 repliesby Beatnik »»
Jan 3, 3:37 PM
Subs? Download?
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May 17, 2008 5:12 PM