![]() ![]() Both these plots converge in the final, climactic assault on Gattler’s space fortress as all hell breaks loose on Earth. All the while Marin frequently confronts Aphrodia, and as they grow closer and closer and Aphrodia’s faith in Gattler is shaken, Gattler’s army becomes increasingly desperate to conquer Earth. Marin in turn tries his best to protect the planet despite its population’s mistrust of him, and with the aid of the military organization Blue Fixer he battles Gattler’s forces by forming the super robot Baldios. They, of course, arrive at Earth, where Gattler begins his siege of the world, wreaking devastation on humanity with the aid of S-1’s advanced technology. Marin, in fear and anger, kills Aphrodia’s brother, and the enmity between Aphrodia and Marin is set as he flees to his starship, following Gattler’s army and the refugees of S-1 through hyperspace. Aphrodia and her brother lead the massacre of the scientists, with the latter killing head scientist Dr. In the process, Gattler destroys all the progress S-1’s scientists have made to save the planet. The larger conflict is kicked off with a coup enacted by the subtly named Fuhrer Gattler, who executes S-1’s emperor with the intention of taking the people of his world and fleeing to the stars in search of a new home. And yet, despite this, I have a sincere affection for both the original film and its English adaptation, and really do think it’s worth a viewing.īaldios: The Movie tells the story of two young people from the dying planet S-1, Marin and Aphrodia, whose fates are linked by mutual tragedy. The film’s lovingly remastered English adaptation is itself laden with issues typical of older adaptations of Japanese animation. A highly flawed effort, Baldios: The Movie takes many of the existing issues from the series and combines them with the limitations of the compilation film. It’s mostly made up of animation from the series, with some new scenes added and a handful of scenes redone in higher quality. The film is a heavily truncated version of the TV series, one that tries to squeeze 34 episodes into a roughly two-hour runtime. Despite this poor reception, the melodrama and romance between the series’s leads helped develop some measure of a fan following, whose requests for a better conclusion to the series resulted in today’s subject.īaldios: The Movie comes to us on Blu-Ray courtesy of Discotek Media. The series was cancelled before it could finish its 39 episode run, with 34 episodes completed and only 31 aired. And by “exploded” I mean “bombed”, in a big way. In the year 1980, the super robot anime Space Warrior Baldios exploded onto Japanese airwaves.
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