Milly Schaefer

Why in the world would a seventies science-fiction manga be turned into anime in 2007?

This is the question I’ve been pondering since I first heard that the anime Terra e was in production. The manga ran from 1977, ending in 1980, in which year an anime movie of the same title was released. Thirty years later, in April of this year, we have a remake in the form of a TV anime, again with the same title: Terra e, or To Terra.

Sometimes it takes a story about children to deal with adult issues.
Bokurano, an on-going manga and now an anime, is such a story.
What makes it special? The premise of the plot seems simple: 15 very ordinary children at a summer camp stumble upon a strange man, Kokopelli, who invites them to play a game, […]