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Odin Screenshot: Sailing ships, in space! Why not?
Sailing ships, in space! Why not?
Odin Screenshot: This isn't a picture of Lord Dio standing behind an Atari Avenger. That'd be kind of cool though, someone should write a fanfic.
This isn't a picture of Lord Dio standing behind an Atari Avenger. That'd be kind of cool though, someone should write a fanfic.
No other anime that I know of so perfectly captures the feel of a classic science fiction B-movie as Odin. The Starlight is a new state of the art spaceship with laser sails and a new experimental engine. On its maiden voyage, the Starlight receives a distress call from Jupiter. Responding, the crew ends up in a fight against a large sentient fortress. Traveling through gaps in space, they disregard orders to return to earth and go in search of Odin, a mysterious planet.
The crew of the Starlight toss around treknobabble like it's going out of style. Thinking about a logical fallacy creates a black hole, energy absorbed from asteroids in a magnetic storm allow the ship to escape a forceless alternate universe, and spacesuits that obviously aren't sealed protect the wearer from temperatures up to 3000 degrees; it doesn't take a strong knowledge of physics to know that none of this makes a lick of sense.
The antagonist, when the crew finally meets him, spills out his plan in such detail that I'm not sure how he ever conquered anyone or anything - he should still be gloating over his initial victory at the point we see him.
Despite all of this, you have to hand it to Odin; it has an incredibly interesting premise. In what other anime can you see a glowing sailing ship shooting a laser beam at an asteroid in a dimension ostensibly without the physics that would make any of this make any sense at all?

Rating: 2/5 - Not bad
Format: MOVIE
Added to FanCruft: March 15th 2006
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A crying face, indicating angst A villainous character with a cape, indicating the presence of an evil overlord A flask, indicating experimental Mech A globe with wings and stylized hands playing a keyboard, indicating weirdness or the universe resetting A gun, indicating action
Angst: 1 Overlord: 6 Experimental: 1 Mech: 8 Weird: 1 Action: 6
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