The Family's Defensive Alliance
| The Family's Defensive Alliance | |
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地球防衛家族春 (Chikyū Bōei Kazoku) |
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| Genre | Comedy, Science fiction |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tetsu Kimura |
| Produced by | Minoru Takanashi Hiroshi Sakurai Tsutomu Onishi |
| Written by | Shōji Kawamori |
| Music by | Shigeo Naka |
| Studio | Group TAC |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | WOWOW, Animax |
| Original run | January 9, 2001 – March 29, 2001 |
| Episodes | 13 |
The Family's Defensive Alliance (地球防衛家族 Chikyū Bōei Kazoku?, lit. Earth Defence Family) is an anime series, created and written by Shōji Kawamori and directed by Satoshi Kimura. The series premiered in Japan on WOWOW between January 9, 2001 and March 29, 2001, spanning a total of 13 episodes. It centers on a dysfunctional family tasked with defending the Earth from alien invaders.
The series was aired by the anime television network Animax across its respective networks worldwide, including its English language networks in Southeast Asia and South Asia under the title The Family's Defensive Alliance. It was released on DVD in North America by Geneon under the title The Daichis: Earth Defence Family, but was not broadcast across the region.
The opening scenes of the anime show the Daichis in a furious argument over a divorce petition. Suddenly a bright flash of light blinds them completely and they are shown their future roles to be played as defenders of the earth.
Reluctant at first, they are forced to accept the responsibility, as refusal means a court-martial from the Galaxy Federation (their employers) and a hundred years of penal servitude. Seiko always gets infuriated at the end of every mission as every weapon they use costs them more money than they are paid for doing their job(s). In fact, this reason is used as a basis for one of the later episodes in the show.
As earth's defenders, they have to fight against threats the earth faces from extraterrestrials. Extraterrestrial design is frequently bizarre, ranging from floating eyes, to alien toys, to heart shaped spacecraft, to a floating weapons factory, to a giant plant. Notably, one is an alien in the form of the Soviet Emblem that uses a hammer-and-sickle attack. The anime ends fairly predictably, with the Daichis becoming a close knit family once again, despite the hurdles faced by them as earth's defenders and their future responsibility as the same.
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