Crest of the Stars
1999 • Sunrise
- Format
- TV
- Aired
- 1999
- Episodes
- 13
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise · Bandai Visual · WOWOW · BeSTACK
- Genres
- Action · Romance · Science fiction
The story follows Jinto, whose world was taken over by the largest empire in the galaxy: the Abh. Jinto's father, the planet's prime minister, handed their world over to the Abh in exchange for a standing in the Abh Empire. As a result, Jinto became a prince and was shipped off for an Abh Education. There he meets a princess of the Abh Empire, Lafiel, whom he quickly befriends despite her cold exterior. The Abh Empire is plunged into war soon after and the story continues from there...
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Crest of the Stars, produced by Sunrise in 1999, is an anime adaptation of the space opera light novel series written by Hiroyuki Morioka. The narrative follows Jinto Linn, a young man who becomes a subject of the interstellar Abh Empire, and his evolving relationship with Lafiel, an Abh princess. It was produced during a period when Sunrise was exploring nuanced, character-driven science fiction, diverging from the more action-oriented mecha staples often associated with the studio.
The visual design and direction, overseen by Yasunari Nitta and others, aimed to capture the deliberate, linguistic, and political complexity of Morioka's world-building. The series was well-received by critics for its focus on diplomacy and culture over spectacle, and it remains a respected entry in the genre for its sophisticated adaptation of the source material's unique concepts, such as the constructed Abh language.
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