Maetel legend (Video 2000)

Director:

Kazuyoshi Yokota

Writers:

Mugi Kamio, Leiji Matsumoto (story)

Stars:

Yôsuke Akimoto, Atsuko Enomoto, Tristan Goddard

Cast

Credited cast:
Yôsuke Akimoto	...	Dagar
Atsuko Enomoto	...	Emeraldas
Tristan Goddard	...	Dagar (voice)
Dan Green	...	Hardgear (English dub)
Keiko Han	...	La Andromeda Promethium (Yayoi Yukino)
Masako Ikeda	...	Maetel (voice)
Yûji Kishi	...	Brant
Rachael Lillis	...	Queen La Andromeda Prometheum (voice)
Takashi Matsuyama	...	Hardgear
Yoshikazu Nagano	...	Mechanical Soldier
Lisa Ortiz	...	Maetel (voice)
Kôhei Owada	...	Jam, Count Mecha
Joshua Popenoe	...	Brant (voice)
Tony Salerno	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Agent Zero)
Naomi Shindô	...	Cast

Storyline

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Genres:

Animation | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Avex Mode

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Company Credits

Production Co:

Avex Mode

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows Sen-nen joô (1982)

User Reviews

The Rise Of The Machines

A planet adrift in interstellar space -- dying. This is the story of technological and social evolution gone wrong. With her world no longer able to sustain life, the Queen of the planet LA MAETAL turns to the technician named Hardgear for a way for her people to survive. His solution is a procedure that comes right out of Clarke's novel 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY -- to transform the people of the planet into machines. The Queen, believing this to be the only way, foolishly submits to the procedure and commands all her people to submit to it as well. But it is not as beneficial as she was lead to believe. His techno-conversion technique has driven Hardgear insane. He intends to use the conversion of the people to conquer the Queen and her planet. Soon, the Queen realizes (too late) the horror of what she has done. As the machinery spreads through her (tele-screens popping out all over her like cancers) she feels herself (like her people) slowly loosing her soul and her sanity; even death is no longer an option for a machine. All that remains of her people in the end are her daughters Emeraldis and Maetel. They must escape the technological hell that has become their world -- and the monster that was their mother. They must escape, and warn the other worlds about the machines -- and one-day return.