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Vu en français à la télévision, revu en vosta sur KissAnime.

A great movie illustrating the values Leiji Matsumoto often defended in his works, the scenarist really took the essence of the author to create this story. The parallels with the WWII are a pleasant way to add to those values. And the idea of a friendship destiny beyond generations is pretty romantic, even when they justify it through sci-fi elements.

The story keeps flowing, never letting you take a break while the movie doens't overflow you in some ruthless tempest of action or events.
The animation was decent for the most part, sparing itself for a few aerial sequences, but the scenery was always good, and most of the solemn scenes were very good thanks to it, the use of classical music and the direction. Those speeches and solemn scenes were part of the highlight of the movie, that will certainly annoy most young viewers from today seeing this as hard to swallow lessons.

Plaisir: 4/5
Score: 8/10

People seeing this as a meaning to provide a backstory to known characters or elements must have dismissed the fact that it is not part of any chronology besides its own (this being the prologue of the 83 TV series). The characters might be the same from one story to another, but they don't exactly share a common past.