Earth Maiden Arjuna
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地球少女アルジュナ (Chikyū Shōjo Arujuna) |
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| Genre | Science fantasy, Magical girl |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Shōji Kawamori |
| Written by |
Hiroshi Ōnogi Shōji Kawamori |
| Music by | Yoko Kanno |
| Studio | Satelight |
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| Original network | Animax, TV Tokyo |
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| Original run | January 9, 2001 – March 27, 2001 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Arjuna: Into the Another World | |
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| Soundtrack album by Yoko Kanno | |
| Length | 66:51 |
| Label | Geneon |
| Producer | Yoko Kanno |
| Onna no Minato | |
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| Soundtrack album by Yoko Kanno | |
| Released | 23 May 2001 |
| Length | 39:54 |
Arjuna (地球少女アルジュナ Chikyū Shōjo Arujuna?, lit. "Earth Maiden Arjuna") is a Japanese animated television series created by Shoji Kawamori. The series follows Juna Ariyoshi, a high school girl chosen to be the "Avatar of Time" and entrusted with saving the dying Earth.
"Arjuna" refers to the legendary archer Arjuna from the Hindu epic Mahābhārata, which explains why Juna's weapon against the Raaja is a bow.
Arjuna aired on TV Tokyo from January 9, 2001 to March 27, 2001, totaling 13 episodes. The DVD release ("Arjuna: Director's Cut") featured remastered video and sound, and a previously unbroadcast "Chapter 9". Subsequent re-runs of the series on Animax include the DVD-only episode.
The story opens with Juna telling her boyfriend Tokio she feels too cramped in the city, and deciding to take a trip to the Sea of Japan. On the drive, they get in an accident caused by an invisible worm-like creature and Juna dies. As her spirit leaves her body, Juna sees the dying Earth. The planet's suffering is visualized by worm-like creatures similar to the one that caused the accident that killed her. Known as the Raaja, they vary in size, from microscopic bacteria to those entwining the planet. A young boy named Chris appears before Juna and offers to save her life if she will help the planet. She reluctantly agrees and is resurrected.
Supported by Chris, Tokio and SEED, an international organization that monitors the environment and confronts the Raaja, Juna must use her new powers to stop the Raaja from destroying Earth through humankind's destruction of the environmental systems of the planet, and Chris can only hope that she can fully awaken her powers in time to save the world.
In the near end of the anime, Chris is revealed to be responsible for summoning several Raajas and was taking rampage all over in Japan that causes all the other things including their modern clothes, gadgets and accessories to be destroyed as well as food, water and electricity and all the people are forced to wear traditional Japanese clothes and others became sick due to starvation and dehydration. This forces Juna to fight Chris and the Raajas for the sake of the people she cares about when SEED tries to put her to safety. When Chris defeated and after realizing his mistakes, he dies and disappears, Juna was satisfied to see her friends and her boyfriend Tokio one last time before dying for the second time and her boyfriend Tokio later discovers that the Raajas that she defeated was made by food and water nutrients as he grabs it stating that they can survive to live once more.
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