Queen Millennia
1981 • Toei Animation
- Format
- TV
- Aired
- 1981
- Episodes
- 42
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Toei Animation
- Genres
- Drama · Mystery · Science fiction
The year is 1999. Amamori Hajime is just a normal, everyday elementary school student, trying to study and hanging out with his crazy pals. But then one day as his father is testing a piece of equipment he has been working on, something causes it to blow up, taking the house with it! Now orphaned, Hajime is taken in by his uncle, who is an astronomer. There at his uncle's observatory, he meets a girl he's seen before and developed somewhat of a crush on. He finds out her name is Yukino Yayoi, and her parents run a ramen shop in town. But even better than that, she's his uncle's assistant! What luck!
But Yayoi isn't exactly what she seems. There is a reason she helps out Amamori-san at the observatory. She is the Millennial Queen (Sen-Nen Joou), specially chosen by her home planet, LaMetal, to go to Earth and help prepare for the possible annihilation of the planet. What will cause this disaster? LaMetal has an extremely elliptical orbit, which sends it very, very near Earth every 1000 years. When it gets close enough, the earth reacts, causing all sorts of natural disasters. Although she was chosen with the idea of protecting LaMetal in mind, her personal plan is to evacuate as many humans as she can to LaMetal, so if their planet is destroyed, they will survive.
However, there is one person who strives to stop her plan, the head of the Millennial Theives. Why does he want to stop Yayoi? And how does he know about the Millennial Queen, anyway?
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Queen Millennia, also known as Shin Taketori Monogatari: Sennen Joō, was produced by Toei Animation and first aired in 1981. Conceived by Leiji Matsumoto, the series serves as a narrative bridge within his expansive Leijiverse, drawing thematic inspiration from the classical Japanese tale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter while reimagining it as a space opera. The project was developed during a period of high creative output for Matsumoto, aiming to blend folkloric archetypes with the melancholic, epic science fiction sensibilities that defined his earlier works like Galaxy Express 999.
The design of the series reflects the signature aesthetic of Leiji Matsumoto, characterized by slender, elegant character silhouettes and intricate, retro-futuristic mechanical designs. The visual direction aimed to evoke a sense of cosmic solitude, contrasting the vastness of space with the emotional gravity of the protagonist's duty. Upon its release, the series was received as a significant entry in the 1980s anime landscape, lauded for its ambitious world-building and the sweeping, dramatic musical score composed by Kitarō, which helped solidify its status as a foundational piece of space-themed animation.
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