An Intriguing Adaptation: The Lensman Movie (1984)!

A little while back, I decided to sit back and finally watch the Lensman animated movie, released in Japan in 1984. It is a very loose adaptation of Galactic Patrol, which I've reviewed here along with all the other main Lensman novels by E.E. "Doc" Smith.

The original cut of the movie is largely abandonware these days, so you can easily find it online if you want to. There's a cut by Harmony Gold (butchers and imprisoners of Macross) that shifts things around a bit and cuts out some of the Japanese weirdness.

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