Taiyou no Mokushiroku: A Spirit of the Sun

Introduction

On August 10 2002, the eruption of Mount Fuji, as well as a series of large-scale earthquakes tsunamis inflict tremendous damage to Japan, sending the country into a state of emergency. Furthermore, another massive earthquake hit Japan on August 15, splitting the country into two. While Japanese refugees were taken in by various countries, the Japanese government accepted aid from China and the United States, which eventually caused China to govern the North, and the USA to govern the South. 15 years later, the Japanese refugees residing in Taiwan and the Taiwanese citizens find themselves clashing with one another, due to job competition and the unimproving conditions of the Japanese refugees. Genichiro Ryu is a survivor of the catastrophic events that took place in Japan, but was raised in Taiwan by a couple who adopted him. He gets himself involved in the situation between the Taiwanese and the Japanese, hoping that the two parties will be able to coexist with one another. (Source: ANN)

Audience ratings

MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.79/10 · 998

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immosha

A contrived argument on nationalistic politics by Japanese refugees in Taiwan, animated by Koreans. The writing is not good. Most of the time you will end up bursting in laughter because every event is contrived and the direction is not generally good enough to convey seriousness when someone gets shot up or dies in a whirlpool. That said, there are very few anime that delve into Taiwanese politics like this movie series does, so I feel compelled to take it at face value. Following a Japan Sinks or Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 take on a post-apocalyptic Japan, we follow the stories of Japanese refugees trying to eke out in an increasingly nationalistic Taiwan. The political thriller moves extremely fast and often jumps from genre to genre within the span of 20 mins, from Japanese trying to become…

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lisnoire

Wow. Talk about an under viewed, underrated wonder. I'd been wanting to watch this since I noticed it as a "similar to" recommendation in relation to Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 but it took a long time to find it streaming and subbed. Although the animation started off pretty stiff, I instantly recognized the hand of Kawaguchi, Kaiji, the creator of my beloved Zipang as well as a number of other sophisticated seinen manga. It doesn't take long for the impact of the story and the characters to overtake the rough animation, animation that does, by the way, show definite improvement in the second half of this two part TV Special. Each episode is 77 minutes long. The first half focuses brilliantly on devastation, death, heroics, self-sacrifice, and survival as a series of earthquakes and volcanic…