Sol Bianca - The Legacy - Limited Edition Boxed Set
Although this 1999 six-episode OVA continues the adventures of the space  pirates of theSol Bianca, the character designs and stories have been  completely reworked from the 1990 original. Captain April and her unruly  crew--Feb, Jun, Jeni, and young stowaway Mayo--set out to recover a rare "Frontier Age"  flintlock stolen from her years before. They find it at an auction on a  distant planet, and snatch it from the grasp of the sinister Gyunter of the Terra  Force. Gyunter and brash lieutenant Ranny pursue theSol Biancaacross  the cosmos.Both crews eventually find their way to Earth, which is now encased in a  Dyson Sphere, a metal shell approximately the diameter of the orbit of the moon.  The Admiral, who serves as Gyunter's commander, regards the pirate ship as a  fabulous artifact and is determined to capture it at any cost. Inexplicably,  Gyunter turns on the Admiral in the heat of battle and fires a nuclear missile.  TheSol Biancanot only survives the blast, it's resurrected, with  enough power to vaporize the evil Admiral--although Gyunter somehow survives. The  sketchy storylines and flat character interactions do little more than tie  together the sky chases, elaborate effects, and shoot-'em-up action. Writer Hideki  Mitsui's stolid dialogue lacks the outrageous espirit de corps that won the  earlier incarnations ofSol Biancaso many fans. (Rated 13 and older:  violence, occasional profanity, nudity, sexual situations)--Charles  Solomon