Crunchyroll has picked up another interesting title through agreement with Nozomi Entertainment with the Toward the Terra anime feature. Nozomi acquired and released the film back in 2008 and this move exposes it to a whole new audience. It’s a solid bit of old school science fiction anime material that definitely captured our attention when it first came out. It’s based on the manga by Keiko Takemiya and origianlly came out in the spring of 1980 from Toei Animation.
The feature was previously released in North America by Nozomi Entertainment in 2008 while Bandai Entertainment previously released the more recent TV series remake of the original source material that the feature is based on.
Plot concept: In the future, mankind’s seemingly utopian society is strictly controlled by the government, and anything that threatens to disrupt the status quo is ruthlessly suppressed. When 14-year-old Jomy begins to question the way the society is run, he suddenly becomes a target for both the government and the Mu, an outcast race with extra-sensory abilities who have been fighting against the government for generations. Now, each is determined to hunt him down – one to kill him and the other to save him.