midnighteye.com: "Wars in distant galaxies. Explorations of hostile worlds. Alien visitors bringing mankind messages urging for peace and co-operation, or campaigns of mass destruction. Averting inter-planetary disasters, and scientific conquest of the known universe: the Japanese space opera sub-genre, films in which space travel and the depiction of alien worlds play an important role in the narrative, has been a cornerstone iconography of the nation's science fiction cinema since its very beginnings."

» Japanese Space Opera, Teil 01 und 02