TO

Category: OVA
Adult: No
Native: TO(トゥー)
Titles:
Nová vesmírná Odyssea
TO Movie
Orbital
TO - A Space Fantasy
Runtime: 45 minutes
Aired: Oct 2, 2009 [15 years 3 months ago]
Ended: Oct 2, 2009 [15 years 3 months ago]
Language: Japanese
Genres:
Action
Science Fiction
Tags:
Nudity
Gunfights
Shipboard
Space Travel
Other Planet
Hard Science Fiction
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* Adapting two stories from Hoshino Yukinobu's 2001 Nights (2001 Ya Monotogari) manga. The year is 2068. Humankind has established a moon colony with a population of 300,000 inhabitants. They need supplies and the easiest way to send them is via the Moonlight Bazooka, a gas-powered launcher that shoots the containers into lunar orbit. Then one day the 078962-EK ship, best known as the ghost ship Flying Dutchman, docks after a 15-year journey, carrying the most precious energy re by humanity. Space travel is cruel since the travelers only age two years while the rest of humanity ages 15 in the process. The second OVA takes place around 100 years later—humanity now is trying to establish colonies in other solar systems, but the colonists still don't travel as one, and they carry with them their national identities and the seed of war. The planet where they find the most suitable colonization terrain soon shows them that living as separate beings in the universe is not a good way to survive. Note: The distributor Avex began renting the two titles on DVD in Japanese video stores on October 2, 2009. The retail DVD and Blu-ray Disc versions shipped on December 18, 2009.

Episode 1: Elliptical Orbit
Runtime: 40 minutes
Air Date: 2009-10-02
Fifteen years after its last contact with our world, a space freighter known as the Flying Dutchman requests permission to dock at a remote moon base. This mysterious ship carries liquid protons: a power source essential to the survival of Earth’s population. But before the precious cargo can be delivered, the base is ambushed by galactic terrorists who seek to destroy the new form of energy and issue a death sentence to all of humanity. Source: crunchyroll
Episode 2: Symbiotic Planet
Runtime: 45 minutes
Air Date: 2009-10-02
Against a backdrop of intergalactic colonization and bizarre alien life forms, Aon and Elena – star-crossed lovers from rival countries competing for valuable natural resources – struggle to build a life together despite the objections of their superiors. Their budding romance is thwarted by an outbreak of alien fungus and the interference of a cutthroat militaristic madman.  To survive, the young couple must maintain their faith in each other and learn to trust the unique creatures which inhabit this strange and wondrous new world. Source: crunchyroll