One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book
1978 • Tezuka Productions
- Format
- SPECIAL
- Aired
- 1978
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Tezuka Productions · Nippon Television Network
- Genres
- Action · Adventure · Comedy · Science fiction
To escape the explosion of their ship caused by a terrorist attack, the parents of a young baby put him inside an escape pod and send him out before dying. The pod ends up on a planet inhabited by beings able to transform themselves into animals by using a special ring. The young baby is rescued by the royal family, and grows up to become the prince.
When the planet is attacked by pirates, he will be brought by force to Earth and discover everything about his own origins, and forgotten brother.
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The One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book was produced as a television special by Tezuka Productions in 1978. It was adapted from Osamu Tezuka’s manga series Bander Book, which itself originated from a proposal Tezuka had been developing for years. This production marked a significant milestone as the first of Tezuka's annual 24-hour television specials, a series that would become a staple of Japanese animation and serve as a cornerstone for the studio's output throughout the late 1970s and 1980s.
The visual direction and character designs reflect Osamu Tezuka’s signature style, which balances whimsical, rounded character forms with ambitious, sweeping narrative stakes. Tezuka aimed to push the boundaries of television animation by integrating complex science fiction themes—specifically, a journey across the stars involving a young protagonist and his encounter with a distant civilization. Upon its broadcast, the special was widely acclaimed for its technical ambition and remains regarded as a foundational entry in the canon of long-form television anime specials.
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