Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight

Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight
Directed by	Takeshi Shirato Toshio Masuda
Produced by	Tomoharu Katsumata Yoshinobu Nishizaki (Executive Producer)
Screenplay by	Eiichi Yamamoto Toshio Masuda Kazuo Kasahara
Story by	Yoshinobu Nishizaki
Music by	Akira Takasaki Fumitaka Anzai Hiroshi Miyagawa Kentaroh Haneda Masamichi Amano
Cinematography	Shigeyoshi Ikeda
Edited by	Yutaka Chikura
Production company	Toei Animation West Cape Production
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	August 10, 1985
Running time	140 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight (オーディーン 光子帆船スターライト, Odin - Koshi Hansen Starlight^?), also known as Odin: Starlight Mutiny is a 1985 Japanese anime film produced by Yoshinobu Nishizaki's West Cape Corporation which was previously known for Space Battleship Yamato (also known as Star Blazers). It was directed by Toshio Masuda with a music score by Hiroshi Miyagawa, both of whom worked on the Yamato series.

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a young woman named Sara Cyanbaker. Unknown to the crew at this time, a mechanized space fleet approaches Earth and a scout vessel from that fleet was responsible for the destruction of Sara's ship.

Sara begins to have strange dreams about a place called Odin and a series of artifacts discovered on a lonely asteroid point to an ancient Norwegian mariner's folk song which mentioned the Norse god Odin. The crew decipher these artifacts and deduce that Odin may actually exist as a place, the paradise planet so often spoken of in mythology. The young crew is eager to make the journey but the captain and the ship's senior officers observe the need to follow the orders of Earth Command and return to Earth immediately. The crew mutinies and locks the senior officers in the officer's lounge and warp the ship to the location given in the artifacts. Upon arrival, the Starlight meet a cosmic being who appears before them in space. He identifies himself as Asgard and declares that he will block the gateway to paradise against corrupt beings of flesh and all other non-believers. As a result, the Starlight faces an almost endless swarm of mechanized attack ships. The Starlight crew successfully fights its way through to land on what appears to be a mechanized world only to face hordes of mechanized soldiers. Surviving the onslaught, Sara and the crew is horrified to learn that these soldiers are actually part living beings. A dying soldier hands a crew member a crystal memory chip and asks him to insert it into a computer display readout. Through it, the crew learn of the soldier's memories of Odin and the entire story of the alien people's exodus.