is a one-shot comic created in 1986 by

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. It was published in C-Live magazine. In 1987

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was created based on the comic. It consists of one episode.

Original Video Animation

Production

Famous animator

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worked on key animation for the project. Mechanical and ship animation direction was handled by Hiroshi Osaka. Setting design by

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, with character designs by

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Voice cast

* Minako Arakawa as Althea *

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as Garorii *

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as LM * Tesshô Genda as Nikolai *

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as captain * Hiromi Yokota as Alice * Junko Ishida as Emily *

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as Brown *

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as Jennings *

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as Hacker

References

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