Introduction
Two advanced civilizations, the Paranoids (a race of alien humanoids) and the Solenoids (who are all women) are waging a war that has gone on for centuries. When the Solenoid fleet leaves a battle to defend an experimentally terraformed world from the Paranoids, one damaged Solenoid ship, the Star Leaf, is separated from the fleet.
Only seven women remain alive on the ship: Eluza, the captain, Rabby, the solid more or less main character, Lufy, the brash pilot, Catty, the mysterious science officer, Pony, the pink-haired ditzy tech, Patty, a solid crew member, and Remy, the cute one.
After narrowly escaping the battle, the crew of the Star Leaf decides to continue with their orders and rendezvous at planet Chaos to defend it. It turns out, however, that their ship is the subject of a Paranoid experiment. In the end, it is up to the remaining crew Star Leaf to defend the artificial paradise of Chaos from the Paranoid fleet and the plans of the Solenoid leaders.
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Audience reviews
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VortexOfLight
A product of its time: overambitious, underdeveloped, and a general mindscrew, but not without charm.
Gall Force 1 is a strangely contextualised piece of media, as it leans heavily into the prevalent tropes and sensibilities of a bygone era. While it drips in self-indulgent technobabble and laughably transparent fanservice, what stands out is its uneven narrative progression. Gall Force 1 tries to pack a lot (inarguably too much) into its runtime, clearly aiming for a grand narrative that doesn’t receive enough build-up and exposition to be functional, resulting in a Gainax-style ending that amplifies its stylistic and narrative flaws but still speaks to a daring scale of initiative.
Read at the sourceBizancio
Excuse me, I'm Spanish and I don't usually write in English. If you want you can read my review in Spanish.
One of the most popular and profitable franchises within the realm of the OVAs of the 80s was Gall Force, which for a lot of people is totally unknown due to its minor impact in the West. The origin of this multimedia franchise is in Star Front Gall Force, a 3D photonovela that appeared in the monthly Model Graphix magazine. Here were presented several of the characters that star in the film, which was produced and animated by the AIC and Artmic studios. Between the most prominent members of the staff are those responsible for Bubblegum Crisis (1987-1991) such as Katsuhito Akiyama or Kenichi Sonoda. Without reaching the splendor of the cyberpunk title, the quality of the animation i…
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This one is pretty cool if you're into that 80s style mechanical design and general anime style and stuff from the period. If you already know that you like that stuff, the kinds of special effects they only used in the 80s and the early 90s, the kind of music they only had in the 80s and the early 90s, then you should probably check this one out, because it is one. And it's far from the worst one in absolute terms so, yeah, there it is.
Where my criticism comes in is in terms of the story and the characters, which is a fairly big problem. There is also some uneven animation going on, instances of frames of art not holding up the standard of quality, characters end up with derp faces from time to time, that sort of thing. That kind of stuff, the animation and art shortcomings, I really ca…
Read at the sourceRuriTenshi
Ah yes the first installment of the Gall Force franchise. I never heard about this series until recently when I was talking about Bubblegum Crisis in an obscure anime group. Which GF is no where near as good as Bubblegum Crisis so let's get that out of our way. But its not wonder this franchise never took off. I'll start with the pros though.
Pros:
Overall the animation itself is pretty good. Which is no surprise since the guy who does the illustrations did illustrations for the more popular Bubblegum Crisis and Gunsmith Cats. So I was impressed by a lot of the art and effects.
For an old anime that is approaching the age of 30 next year the sound department is pretty good. It's got those 1980s nostalgia soundtracks that is hard to forget. The sound effects are a bit dated but that just…
Read at the sourceShura-shurato
Classic review as well for this one, an ALL female cast in this saga that spans from 1986 till 1996. First of all the animation u loved it or hate it (looking at the more older anime fans, 25+) to accept it , ot u are used to it, the story is interesting if u want to continue the whole story, and yes it has lots of big space battles, wich was a big thing in the 1980's anime, mainly by the macross influence. But the movie starts somewhat in the middle so there's not many leads to previous things that happened, and they have some faults here and there , but still quite ok nevertheless
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Two advanced civilizations, the humanoid-like Paranoids and the all-women Solenoids are waging a war that has gone on for many centuries. The Star Leaf crew must must now defend the artificial paradise of Chaos from the Paranoid fleet and foil the plans of the Solenoid leaders.When youu watch this you definately get the feel of this anime being part of a much greater story,there isnt any backstory on the characters but the anime does portray them together for a ong time,especially when someone dies.
OK may i just say for an anime from the 80's,the animation at times were better than must of the crumbs that studios feed us today.Especially scenes of space,battle scenes and special affects.Overall a good anime.
Read at the sourceMr_Panda
~Mr. Panda's VCR of Doom: #2~
Gall Force (likely a language perversion of "Girl Force"), details the ending stage of a great war between two races. Without going as far as spoiling certain parts of the work, Gall Force seems to be a conceptual ancestor to the 21st century work Vandread--essentially pitting an all female race of beings against a (presumably) all male species of aliens.
The story has one of the more interesting Sci-Fi twists I've seen out of the 80s. To a certain degree, you can see it coming (if you've got a good Sci-Fi imagination that is). However, it adds an interesting dynamic regardless. The main focus of the story involves a team from the female race carrying out provisions of a secret project. Really straightforward and--let's face it--dull to most people familiar…
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Gall Force First 3 OAVs
Well!
One thing is sure, Kenichi Sonoda is a Master in regards to Science Fiction
This anime from the late 80's is sure a Piece of Art, both in its animation and plot itself
Pure science fiction, with a bittersweet taste to it, it might have inspired even those who created Babylon 5 or the lastest Battlestar Galactica series, as some of the ideas and concepts seen on those series are easily seen on these first 3 OAVs.
Sad and yet with hope for the characters, it makes a nice critic to our own aggressive ways and the stupidity of war, where no one really wins.
The last OVA, having a sad end to both warring races still sends a message for the future, and it had a something that Galactica failed to possess, a reason d'étre, a true validation to all the sacrifice…
Read at the sourceRobdeFR
For a start I have to paraphrase “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. I judged it that way all these years so I ended always postponing my visualization of Gall Force. I have to say that I regret not having watched it earlier.
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In the middle of a space war, our all female team on their spaceship unite themselves to run away from what looked like a lost war, by doing that, they gained some unexpected members on their crew, females of course. But they were unable to escape safely, they were pursued by their enemies, an alien race, in their attempt and that led to some confronts later on.
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Well, the premise wasn’t anything extraordinary, in fact the premise and the cover image made my i…
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