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Title (English) Earthian
Title (Japanese) Earthian (ashian)
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Fantasy Novel

Notes From a manga by KOUGA Yun, published in South magazine.
Short OVA series, 40min x 4.
Classification shoujo
Synopsis As the people on earth are getting worse and worse, the head angels decided to award a negative mark for every 'bad' thing humans do and a positive score for every 'good' thing humans do. If the negative points reach a certain point, earth will be destroyed. Angels who support earth are paired up with angels who dislike earth and were then sent to earth to accumulate the points. Chihaya and Kagetsuya are two very close friends who paired up together to accumulate points. In their adventures, Chihaya and Kagetsuya found themselves unwillingly involved with an evil scientist and other undesirables. (LAP)
Review (From a manga by Yun KOUGA). EARTHIAN #1 opens with an attractive credit sequence involving the Earth, red roses and angels' wings, and then moves to aerial views of what is evidently modern Tokyo, a pigeon flying among skyscrapers, and the apartment where two young men live, seemingly in some sort of gay relationship. This is an altogether superior-looking opening for an anime. The younger man helps a violet-haired girl who is chased by three thugs. She stays at their apartment, provoking a certain jealous tension. She has bad dreams, and beyond this point the anime becomes odder and odder, till one wonders if there are any characters who don't have supernatural powers, aren't part of a secret organisation or aren't androids!
The two young men are 'angels' who have a watching brief over humanity, to see if the Earthians (us) are a race worth saving or not. Chihaya is a 'plus checker' and Kagetsuya is a 'minus checker'. Judgement day is close.
EARTHIAN #2 has a different credit sequence with feathers falling on various ancient monuments ie the Pyramids, Stonehenge, etc and then opens in modern Paris with two main characters, Chihaya and Kagetsuya from episode #1. The action moves to London, and involves a sick musician (actually another dark Angel) who composes a magical song for a girl. However a corrupt music producer who forces them to hand over the material for the song and, since the demo disc is accidentally destroyed, forces the musician to re- record it in a studio which seems to be at the Marquee in Wardour St. The animators get most of the London details right, except for apartments with outwards opening doors, but somebody ought to tell them that Western music producers use pens, not guns, to rip off musicians! I thought episode #2 was inferior to #1.(GC)

Credits Dir: Nobuyasu Furukawa, Kenichi Onuki.
Des: Kenichi Onuki.
Episodes 4
Release US:DVD
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Date 1989
Production JC Staff
Broadcaster
Animation
References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
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or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
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