Anime like TWD EXPRESS Rolling Takeoff

Maps: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi

Studio: Japan Home Video , GAGA
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

While looking for the ledgendary Mapman, the last surviving member of the Nomad Star tribe, Lipumira finds him in Tokyo. His name is Gen Tokishima and he is the only one able to get one part of the starmap hidden within the Earth. After retrieving the piece, Gen must make a decision to follow Lipumira in her foolhardy search to find the remaining pieces of the starmap or stay on Earth. He makes his decision, only to find his girlfriend has beaten him to the spaceship as she wants to come as well. Unfortunately, as Gen learns the secret of the starmap, Lipumira's sisters have plans to stop her and will stop her at any cost.



Note: Shown in theaters as a double bill with the anime feature TWD EXPRESS Rolling Takeoff.

Tags: Space , Shounen

Maps

Also known as Maps.

Studio: KSS , Tokyo Movie Shinsha , ADV Films
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

While looking for the legendary Mapman, the last surviving member of the Nomad Star tribe, Lipumira finds him in Tokyo. His name is Tokishima Gen and he is the only one who can retrieve one part of the star map hidden within the Earth. After retrieving the piece, Gen must make a decision to either follow Lipumira in her foolhardy search to find the remaining pieces of the star map or rather stay on Earth. He decides to leave Earth, only to find out that his girlfriend has beaten him to the spaceship since she wants to come along as well. Unfortunately, as Gen learns the secret of the star map, Lipumira's sisters appear, planning to stop her at any cost.



Tags: Space , Aliens , Ships

EXPLORER-WOMAN RAY

Studio: AIC , Toshiba EMI
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

She's an archeologist AND a black belt and Ray Kazuki will need her brains and her brawn as she plunges into a thrill-filled adventure. Ray's examining an exciting new archeological discovery: a legendary temple located in an isolated area of the world.

As always, she has with her a strange mirror that belonged to her father; a mirror that may provide access to a vanished civilization. On the excavation, Ray meets Mai and Mami Tachibana, freewheeling pubescent girls who heedlessly court danger. And danger they find, in the form of Rig Veda.

Veda's after a big prize: Ray's mirror. But she will have to stop him at all costs, because if Veda gets his hands on the powerful object, he will possess secrets that could lead to disaster.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Lost Civilization

Venus Senki

Also known as Venus Wars.

Studio: Shouchiku , Gakken , Triangle Staff , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi

When an ice comet slammed into the planet Venus, terraforming its toxic atmosphere into one capable of sustaining human life, mankind’s dream of colonizing other worlds became a reality. Unfortunately for the colonists, Venus isn’t the paradise they’d dreamed of. As crops fail and competition for resources intensifies, hostilities grow until the two inhabited continents stand on the brink of war.

Reporter Susan Sommers arrives in the capital of Aphrodia just as Ishtar attacks and only the intervention of Hiro Seno and his Battle Bike team saves her from certain death… but now Aphrodia is under Ishtar’s control and Sue, Hiro, and his teammates find themselves on the run! However, their unique skill at Battle Bike, which combines motorcycle racing with roller derby, may just prove to be the secret weapon Aphrodia needs to win the Venus Wars.



Tags: Space , War , Motorcycles , Tanks , Military , Fugitive , Politics , Male Protagonist , Female Protagonist

High School AGENT

Studio: Toei Video , Agent 21 , J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Based on a manga by Tanimura Hitoshi, serialized in Comic Burger.

Teenager Kanemori Kousuke is a secret agent for the international VN spy network. Using his computer hacking skills, he tracks international criminals. Later he goes after Neo-Nazis to the Arctic were they try to raise a U-boat with a sinister secret.



Tags: Snowscape , Military , Espionage , Foreign , Guns , School