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This series has a cyborg swordswoman who is the sole survivor of her planet as the main action character, and an infant who throws rocks at birds to catch dinner and tames dragons. There is a high probability that a significant portion of the people reading this now know whether or not they want to read the series.
Andromeda Stories is a shoujo manga from 1980 about Sekrit Twins and the galactic robot apocalypse. For spoilery reasons, I am convinced that Kaori Yuki has every page of it memorized, despite the fact that her shoujo series bear little resemblance to this. And the “dinosaurs in space ships” dream at the beginning of Please Save My Earth is way more fun now. And it was already lots of fun!
The series kicks off with Princess Lilia of Ayodoya's marriage to Prince Ithaca of Cosmoralia, something that doesn’t sit well with her brother, Milan. Milan appears to be in love with Lilia. Along with every other male in the series less than a thousand years old. Going into this with almost no idea what it was about, I thought the series would be about a bizarre love triangle amidst the galactic robot apocalypse, especially once Ithaca was possessed by robots and insane. (Don’t worry, this happens fairly early, and is actually a relatively minor factor!) But no! Because then there were twins and royal twins are Very Very Bad and one was smuggled out of the city before it could be killed, and then the galactic robot apocalypse wiped out half the planet.
Or something. I was still going “Sekrit Twins! Sekrit Twins!” at that point, so I may have missed minor plot details..
There’s a lot of epic scifi action and (melo)drama packed into these three volumes. Many of the plot twists were standard fare for the genre, but it managed to never be predictable. There’s also a lot of bizarre plot twists and “OMG what did that really just happen?” plot bits, combining to make something both awesome and bizarre. There also seems to be a bit of a skewed take on classical myth at the core. In particular, I can’t help but draw some comparisons between Lilia and Helen, the Elder and Prometheus, and the twins with Athena and Apollo. I’ll let you learn for yourselves if the last is a gender-appropriate comparison. This series did make me question my crossdressing manga character radar a couple times.
In short: galactic robot apocalypse, Sekrit Twins, action infants, and cyborg swordswoman who is the sole survivor of her planet and is wandering the cosmos. All with manga hair from 1980!
Comments may include spoilers.
Andromeda Stories is a shoujo manga from 1980 about Sekrit Twins and the galactic robot apocalypse. For spoilery reasons, I am convinced that Kaori Yuki has every page of it memorized, despite the fact that her shoujo series bear little resemblance to this. And the “dinosaurs in space ships” dream at the beginning of Please Save My Earth is way more fun now. And it was already lots of fun!
The series kicks off with Princess Lilia of Ayodoya's marriage to Prince Ithaca of Cosmoralia, something that doesn’t sit well with her brother, Milan. Milan appears to be in love with Lilia. Along with every other male in the series less than a thousand years old. Going into this with almost no idea what it was about, I thought the series would be about a bizarre love triangle amidst the galactic robot apocalypse, especially once Ithaca was possessed by robots and insane. (Don’t worry, this happens fairly early, and is actually a relatively minor factor!) But no! Because then there were twins and royal twins are Very Very Bad and one was smuggled out of the city before it could be killed, and then the galactic robot apocalypse wiped out half the planet.
Or something. I was still going “Sekrit Twins! Sekrit Twins!” at that point, so I may have missed minor plot details..
There’s a lot of epic scifi action and (melo)drama packed into these three volumes. Many of the plot twists were standard fare for the genre, but it managed to never be predictable. There’s also a lot of bizarre plot twists and “OMG what did that really just happen?” plot bits, combining to make something both awesome and bizarre. There also seems to be a bit of a skewed take on classical myth at the core. In particular, I can’t help but draw some comparisons between Lilia and Helen, the Elder and Prometheus, and the twins with Athena and Apollo. I’ll let you learn for yourselves if the last is a gender-appropriate comparison. This series did make me question my crossdressing manga character radar a couple times.
In short: galactic robot apocalypse, Sekrit Twins, action infants, and cyborg swordswoman who is the sole survivor of her planet and is wandering the cosmos. All with manga hair from 1980!
Comments may include spoilers.
