The Five Star Stories
| The Five Star Stories | |
Logo of "The Five Star Stories".
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ファイブスター物語 (Faibu Sutā Monogatari) |
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| Genre | Space opera |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Mamoru Nagano |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
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| Magazine | Newtype |
| Original run | April 10, 1986 – present |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Kazuo Yamazaki |
| Produced by |
Haruki Kadokawa Masuo Ueda |
| Written by | Akinori Endo |
| Music by | Tomoyuki Asakawa |
| Studio | Sunrise |
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| Released | March 11, 1989 |
| Runtime | 66 minutes |
The Five Star Stories (Japanese: ファイブスター物語 Hepburn: Faibu Sutā Monogatari?) is a manga series created by Mamoru Nagano, building on his work on the anime series Heavy Metal L-Gaim.
The story is staged at an alien cluster of four major planetary systems. Amaterasu, the immortal emperor of the Grees Kingdom on the planet Delta Belune, is destined to rule the whole Joker System. He and Lachesis, his bride and fatima, an artificial life-form, are the main characters of this epic story.
An anime film adaptation of the first volume, directed by Kazuo Yamazaki, was released in 1989.
The Five Star Stories takes its name from the Joker Star Cluster where the stories take place. The star cluster is made up of four stars: Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern. The "fifth star" is a large comet named Stant that passes through that sector of space every 1,500 years pulling with it its own collection of orbiting planets.
In the distant past the Farus Di Kanon Empire, now commonly known as the "Super Empire", controlled all 4 solar systems of the Joker Cluster. They enjoyed a level of technology much higher than is currently known and sent explorers to the far reaches of the Joker Cluster. Around the year 9000 AD (Ammon Duul) the empire collapsed due to internal strife. The explorers were called home and what remained of civilization focused mainly on survival. Much technology and knowledge was lost by the time the imperial families of Amaterasu, Fillmore and Hathuha gathered and established the JC era. JC stands for "Joker Calendar" and was meant to give a common frame of reference to all nations to help foster a lasting peace. The JC calendar was adopted but the dream of peace was never realized.
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