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6.3/10   24 votes
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Director:
Hidemi Kubo
Writer:
Hidemi Kubo (writer)
Genre:
Animation | Sci-Fi more
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Better than I expected of this older film more

Cast

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Barry Banner ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Walter Barnes ... Jay (voice: English version)
Tim Breese ... Galliego (voice: English version) (as Timothy Breese)
Ben Coates ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Wally Cole ... Captain (voice: English version)
Shannon Conley ... Paula (voice: English version)
Ringo Farkas ... Randy (voice: English version)
David Fuhrer ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Toshio Furukawa ... Jay M. Jay
Curt Gebhart ... Borgie (voice: English version) (as Kurt Gebhart)
Tristan Goddard ... Alf Dolf (voice: English version)
Megumi Hayashibara ... Kina
Keith Howard ... General Yun (voice: English version)
Akira Kamiya ... Onbu
Jane Lancaster ... Min (voice: English version)
Ross Lefko ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Lotus ... Kina (voice: English version)
Alannah Molloy ... Heran (voice: English version)
Jennifer Newell ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Michael Palan ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)

Ami Shukla ... Farla (voice: English version)
Frank J. Sullivan ... Kisarl (voice: English version)
Tom Wayland ... Additional Voices (voice: English version)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:100 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Company:
Aubeck more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Better than I expected of this older film, 6 December 2001
7/10
Author: Carlos Ross (Miwa Satoshi) from Mesa, Arizona, USA

Though not a great anime, Garaga was actually worth the rental price, featuring surprisingly slick action sequences with a decent storyline and characters.

Of course, one wouldn't expect this after seeing trailers of this title which feature the main character (Jay M. Jay, unfortunately one of the worst hero names conceived of in anime) slicing through a bunch of incommunicado apemen. ("Get the spaceman!")

It's not exactly like that, with the apelike Umlanga actually being a very important part of the plotline, and almost every character having some sort of ulterior motive or dark secret. Jay certainly has his hands full figuring out the secrets of the mysterious planet Garaga, and it's actually neat seeing an intelligent plot in a late '80s anime.

Unfortunately, the movie ends too abruptly, with an ending that's a bit of a letdown, but apart from that (and some utterly awful background music), it actually escapes being fodder for MST3K and ends up as a worthwhile viewing after all.

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