Art of the Venus Wars
/The Venus Wars is an animation movie produced by Bandai Visual, Gakken and Shochiku and directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko in 1989. The anime was based on the homonym manga series also written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this movie.
THE STORY
In the year 2003, a comet designated Apollon collides with the planet Venus and disperses much of the planet's atmosphere adding enough moisture to form acidic seas and speeding up its rotation to give it a day that matches its year. This unlikely yet scientifically sound accident enables humanity to partially terraform Venus, sending the first manned ships in 2007 and beginning colonizing it in 2012. By the year 2089, Venus has a population in the millions and is divided into two separate nation-states, the northern continent of Ishtar and the southern continent of Aphrodia. Susan Sommers, a bubbly reporter from Earth, travels to Venus hoping to get a scoop on the military tensions that have arisen between the two nations. She arrives in the Aphrodian capital of Io shortly before the city is invaded by the forces of Ishtar, led by General Donner.
Meanwhile, a brutal, Rollerballesque racing game is being held in a local stadium. One team, the Killer Commandos, is led by hotshot Hiro Seno. The game is disrupted by the invasion and the team quickly evacuates. Hiro's teammate Will picks up Sue on the way and takes her to the garage where the rest of the team is lying low. The invasion of Io is completed in one day, and the politicians, police, and press submit to Ishtar's authority. The city is put under martial law and a curfew is imposed. Many of Io's citizens, including Hiro's girlfriend Maggy, try to pretend that nothing has changed since the invasion, but Donner's iron grip on the city is too tight to ignore. Hiro visits his teammate Jack, who's staying in his uncle's high-rise apartment. However, the police see them as trespassers and lead an unprovoked assault against Hiro, who makes a daring escape from their custody. However, his leg is pierced by a bullet and he barely makes it to Maggy's home before he collapses. Hiro reveals many of the terraforming farms funded by the Aphrodian government were frauds simply meant to secure land away from Ishtar and that their crops continually kept failing since the plants couldn't endure the constantly changing weather conditions of the planet, despite the planet's politicians saying otherwise…
