Anime fans have reason to celebrate: AnimEigo is bringing a legendary classic to home media. The distributor revealed its latest acquisition during its panel at Anime NYC, promising an HD Blu-ray release of the fantasy adventure A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose. Collectors and longtime anime enthusiasts alike will have a chance to experience one of Osamu Tezuka’s most imaginative works in high definition.
From The Press Release:
Osamu Tezuka is widely celebrated as the “Godfather of Manga,” and is renowned for revolutionizing the Japanese manga and anime industries with his imaginative characters, pioneering storytelling techniques, and prolific output, which included more than 700 manga works and 500 anime episodes, including groundbreaking works like Astro Boy, Princess Knight, and Kimba the White Lion.
In A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose, a powerful entity known as Death Mask hurls Kujukuri City, Japan, and Dallas, Texas, 10,000 years into the future, reshaping them into a ruthless battleground where only the strongest survive. Determined to shatter this tyrant’s hold on time itself, Gai Tanbara ventures into the dystopian future. Along the way, he meets Emiya, a fierce warrior fighting to reclaim her city from the darkness. Together, they confront the horrors of a shattered world and the sinister forces threatening humanity’s fate!
The film originally aired as part of a Japanese TV charity event called 24-Hour Television: Love Saves the Earth. The main character, Prime Rose—also known as Emiya Tachi—became a popular recurring character in the Tezuka universe.
The Prime Rose manga originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion from July 1982 to June 1983. When the anime project was first proposed, the manga had not yet finished, so Tezuka wrote a new story specifically for the film.
During the early 80s, fantasy-adventure manga featuring cute girls gained widespread popularity in Japan. Tezuka, intrigued but cautious, resisted many reader requests for additional “fan service” featuring Prime Rose. He eventually moved on to other projects, but in 1983, his manga adaptation became a feature-length animated film, with Prime Rose portrayed as he originally intended her.
Prime Rose also appeared in Astro Boy: Omega Factor, where she had a prominent role as Daichi Tokugawa’s girlfriend and the daughter of Acetylene Lamp.
Prime Rose Promotional Trailer (UK Release)
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