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Stellvia...

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Recently, I took the opportunity to watch  Stellvia ... Foundation 1 In the year 2167, Mankind suffered from a cataclysmic disaster as a massive wave of electromagnetic radiation from a nearby supernova washed over the Earth. Yet, Mankind was able to survive by pulling together to support each other in this time of crisis. The year is now 2326 and the new generation of people are preparing for the second wave to hit. One young girl, Shima Katase, is going off to Stellvia, a space pilot academy, where she will learn how to protect the Earth and the family she loves. Foundation 2 Feel it. Feel as though you are the center of the universe. The coordinates reported by the data are nothing more than a relative value. Place yourself in the absolute coordinate. -- Kouta Otoyama A project that took 189 years to prepare, to create a barrier in the outer space with a gigantic generator and surround the whole solar system. This was the strategy to protect human beings from the Second

Last Unicorn...

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Recently, I took the opportunity to revisit the  Last Unicorn ... In the Last Unicorn, humankind has stopped believing in the power of unicorns, and a fearsome, fiery red bull has driven all of them ...except one ...to the end of the earth. The Last Unicorn embarks on a perilous journey through an unknown land in an effort to save her brothers and sisters. I picked up a VHS version sometime in the late '80s. In the early '90s, I tried for a number of years to track down the soundtrack using local sources to no avail. I picked up a handful of America's CDs hoping that one might contain some of the songs that I heard, but, no dice. In the late '90s, I stumbled into the information super highway and discovered that there was a German CD available on, of all places, Amazon . The first thing I ever bought on-line was the soundtrack for the Last Unicorn . To be clear, the songs are in English, but, the CD was made in Germany. The  Last Unicorn  soundtrack CD has 15 tr