AniWorthRoots Search
Introduction
When a research crew in deep space discovers the desolate ship "Green Planet" that warps into their area, they encounter Buzz, the commander and sole surivor of the ship. Being too incapacitated to make them aware of the situation of his ship, the research team will soon discover that they have found something far, far worse...
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 4.4/10 · 2066
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Audience reviews
4 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
TapeRot
Roots Search is a grubby little Alien knock-off that clearly wants to be eerie, psychological sci-fi horror, but mostly just feels cheap and cramped.
There is a decent sense of isolation buried in there somewhere, but the constant recycling of the same bland interiors makes the ship feel about the size of a suburban bungalow. The animation is pretty bargain-bin, the creature design is dreadful, and the characters are such complete non-entities that watching them get picked off carries roughly the emotional weight of deleting contacts from your phone.
There’s far too much crammed into 45 minutes, so nothing gets the space it needs. The central relationship appears out of nowhere, the psychological stuff never develops into anything especially interesting, and the ending wanders off into b…
Read at the sourceBuRizzle
The 80s OVA boom really was the gift that kept on giving. Wow! All original animation straight to your home on VHS! What could possibly go wrong? A lot, actually. For every Angel’s Egg, there was a Psychic Wars. For every Gunbuster, an Angel Cop. And for every Record of Lodoss War, there was a Roots Search.
Roots Search, or Roots Search: Shokushin Buttai X (“Life-Devouring Alien X”) is the stuff of legends. A primo bad anime. The stuff only talked about in hushed tones lest you invoke its unholy wrath. While there were no doubt bigger turds out on the market at the time, there’s just something about this 43 minute one-shot that draws people in with its crap factor. By all accounts, it should’ve been completely forgotten about, and for a while - it was. Nobody knew or gave a damn about thi…
Read at the sourceKanade-Arai
Straight from the heart of the OVA boom of the mid 1980s comes Roots Search, a weird sci-fi horror with a rushed, bland plot and the finest mediocre animation 1986 had to offer. I couldn't tell you were I found this one as it had been in my collection for quite a while but I could not recall where exactly I'd obtained it. Probably part of a larger batch with some other equally terrible 80s OVAs.
I watched a sub on Laserdisc. The best part was those sweet refraction effects that just don't look the same outside of Laserdisc.
The story was awful. Quite cliche. It was a blend of Event Horizon, Alien, and Solaris (I'm aware that two of those movies came out after). That sounds awesome but in practice it was far from it. Note that this is about 45 minutes while those are all around 2 hours.…
Read at the sourcetomateunmate
For many this just another piece in the long catalogue of AIC properties that were made by nobodies and can be only enjoyed by riffing on them. The two names that stand out in the production are the script writer, which is closer to what the US calls "script doctors" and just tries to make sense of the director's idea; and the mecha designer that you could know from Nadesico or Rayheart S2.
The production costs are divided between the gore scenes (with some decent blood splashes because 90's) and set designs. If there's something to enjoy here is the biologicaly infected spaceships, the later is what made me watch this in the first place. On the other hand the characters look like a poor imitation of generic anime designs, there are barely any inbetweens and the general plot could not be…
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