Chôjikû seiki Ôgasu 02 (1993) (V)

Director:

Fumihiko Takayama

Writer:

Fumihiko Takayama (story)

Release Date:

1995 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Animation | Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Space | Mecha | Anime | Sequel

Cast

Shinichirô Ôta	...	Lean
Naoko Nakamura	...	Nataruma
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yôsuke Akimoto	...	Kerachi
Phil I. Arndt	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Steve Blum	...	Supervisor, Gilliofer, Emperor Scallamanga, Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as David Lucas)
Ivan Buckley	...	Manning (voice: English version) (as Jack Emmet)
Steve Bulen	...	Minister Kerachi (voice: English version) (as Stevie Beeline)
Sonny Byrkett	...	Akamasu (voice: English version)
Susan Byrkett	...	Valetta (voice: English version)
Les Claypool III	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Hal Cleaveland	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Bryan Cranston	...	Imperial Officer (voice: English version)
Gary Dubin	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Dorothy Elias-Fahn	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Dorothy Melendrez)
Jonathan Fahn	...	Dungeon Guard (voice: English version) (as Jonathan Charles)
Tom Fahn	...	Gunner #1 (voice: English version) (as Tom Charles)
Michael Forest	...	Zante (voice: English version) (as Alfred Thor)
Jeff Frayer	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Lena Gale	...	Sill (voice: English version)
Victor Garcia	...	Olsen (voice: English version)
Gloria Gines	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Dougary Grant	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Arnie Hanks	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kazuhiko Kishino	...	Amakasu
Melody Lee	...	Nataruma (voice: English version)
Wendee Lee	...	Torria, Narrator (voice: English version)
Edward Mannix	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Ed Mannix)
Marlon Mann	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jake Martin	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Dan Martin)
Edie Mirman	...	Queen Miran (voice: English version) (as Penny Sweet)
Ted Rae	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Joe Romersa	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Yoshiko Sakakibara	...	Miran
Joshua Seth	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kôzô Shioya	...	Perion
Brianne Siddall	...	Ryan (voice: English version) (as Jetta E. Bumpy)
Kazuyuki Sogabe	...	Scallamanga
Peter Spellos	...	Parion (voice: English version) (as G. Gordon Baer)
Barry Stigler	...	Interrogator (voice: English version)
Doug Stone	...	King Mendez, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Sam Strong	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Jimmy Theodore	...	Lean (voice: English version) (as Rudy Luzion)
Kirk Thornton	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Spanky Roberts)
Mimi Woods	...	Prostitute, Nurse (voice: English version)
Dan Woren	...	Train Conductor, Assault Unit Commander (voice: English version) (as Jackson Daniels)
Kôichi Yamadera	...	Manning
Wakana Yamazaki	...	Torria

Directed by
Fumihiko Takayama

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Fumihiko Takayama		story

Art Direction by
Shichirô Kobayashi

Art Department
Takashi Hashimoto	....	additional designs
Mahiro Maeda	....	artboards
Yasuhiro Moriki	....	design works

Sound Department
Yasunori Honda	....	sound director

Animation Department
Kunihiro Abe	....	mechanical designer
Toshihiro Kawamoto	....	character designer
Haruhiko Mikimoto	....	original character designer

Production Companies

• Bandai Visual Company
• Big West
• Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS)
• Shogakukan

Distributors

• Manga Video (USA)

Also Known As:

Super Dimension Century Orguss 02

Runtime:

30 min (6 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Bandai Visual Company

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#35.11)" (2006)

ORGUSS 02 – Six exciting episodes of animated mecha combat

ORGUSS O2 is a six-part anime series made in 1993-94 as a sequel to "Super Dimension Century Orguss" (1983), a 35-part TV series often thought to be a sequel to "Super Dimension Century Macross" (1982), better known to American viewers as the series that formed the basis for the first 36 episodes of "Robotech" (1985). The two series were made one right after the other by many of the same people and they look very much alike, although there is no narrative connection.

ORGUSS 1 dealt with the effects of a Space Time Oscillation Bomb which caused four parallel universes to overlap, putting Japanese fighter pilot Kei Katsuragi into an altered earth where he finds himself in the company of a ship full of Emaan, a humanoid race with lots of pretty girls with whom he has lots of adventures. There was a lot of mecha combat in the Gundam and Macross styles. ORGUSS 02 takes place 200 years after ORGUSS 1 in a world in which the dimensions still overlap. Two sprawling European-style nation-states are at war and their armies are finding and digging up "Decimators," the giant robotic fighting vehicles used in ORGUSS 1. Each side also finds a massive mountain-sized Decimator and the two gigantic fighting machines, powered in unusual ways, eventually face off.

The young hero is Lean, of Rivilia, a mechanic who wants to pilot Decimators for the Rivilian army. He hooks up with a gorgeous female fugitive, Nataruma, who is wanted by both sides. She has a secret connecting her to the first series. Eventually a key character from the first series emerges to set things right and give the hero a rebuilt, refurbished Orguss, the fighting vehicle piloted by Kei in the original.

At six half-hour episodes, it's a lot shorter and more intense than the first series . More of it takes place on the ground as the characters battle back and forth across the borders of Zafrin and Rivilia, until the final episode when all the combat in the sky takes place. The design is darker, sleeker, more detailed than that of the first series. There is a lot of action and it's very well animated. This is a very good-looking anime series and it's consistently exciting and imaginative.

If there's any complaint I have about this series it's that it's too short. So many elements are thrown into play that the climax feels rushed as if they had to suddenly end it. It could have used a few more episodes.