Yomigaeru Sora -Rescue Wings-
Alt titles: Rescue Wings
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Kazuhiro Uchida has always dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot, but has been forced into the helicopter-training program instead. Embittered and discouraged, he still completes the training and is given his first position in a helicopter rescue unit. The catch? It’s located in a new town, far away from his loved ones. But the job of a rescue worker is incredibly demanding, both mentally and physically, and Kazuhiro’s less than enthusiastic attitude just won’t cut it. In order to succeed in his new career, Kazuhiro must survive the harsh reality of rescue work, and rediscover his dream.
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Twin Spica
Alt titles: Futatsu no Spica
When Asumi was just a baby, a space shuttle accident changed her life, and the lives of the townspeople of Yuigahama, forever. As a young woman, the spirited Asumi has only one desire: to someday travel to the stars in a rocket, with her father and ghostly friend Lion-san along for the ride. With heartache, happiness, and plenty of determination, Asumi and dozens of talented teenagers now face the greatest challenge of their lives: the test to enter a prestigious space academy, so that they may one day reach out and touch the stars...
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add recAlthough Rescue Wings is more or less one long advertisement for the excellence and faithfulness of the JSDF, it also contains the elements of a personal growth story, as Kazuhiro meets the challenges of the crises that his rescue unit is presented with.
Similarly, Twin Spica tells a personal growth story of a slightly different kind, but with the same undertone of the individual striving against the impersonal forces of nature. If you like one of these anime, give the other a chance.
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In present day Japan, during what should have been a routine training exercise, Captain Umeza and the battleship Mirai are suddenly hit by a storm, sending them back in time to the middle of World War 2. Armed with state-of-the-art technology, the Mirai could alter the course of history; but for its crew, the situation presents a moral dilemma: do they have the right to meddle with history, even to stop the most dreadful tragedies of the war, when even the smallest acts could have unforeseen consequences?
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add recAlthough their themes are quite different (one a time-travel story borrowing heavily from the plot of the 1980 US movie The Final Countdown; the other a story of personal growth in trying circumstances), both these stories are fundamentally paeans to the excellence and professionalism of the JSDF. Interestingly, one of them shies away from politics entirely, while the other meets the special political implications of Japanese militarism vs. pacifism head-on. In any case, viewers who found one of these anime interesting will no doubt find the other equally fascinating.
Asatte no Houkou
- TV (12 eps x 24 min)
- 2006
Karada is an elementary school student who acts mature for her age, and asks that people treat her like an adult. While praying at a wishing stone (negai ishi), she meets an older girl named Shouko. Shouko had moved to this small town to start a new life, but the same day she meets Karada, she encounters her brother, Hiro. Tension builds as Shouko and Hiro reflect on their past relationship while sending Karada home alone, and by the end of the day, both Shouko and Karada end up at the wishing stone hoping for change. Karada wishes to become an adult, while Shouko wishes for things to go back as they were in the past. That night under the bright moon, the wishing stone grants their wish, and an unbelievable transformation occurs: Shouko becomes a child and Karada becomes an adult. Now the two girls must struggle with their new bodies while finding a way to return back to what they once were.
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add recPeople who liked "Asatte no Houkou" would also like "Rescue Wings". Both series are very "slice of life" and deal with normal people doing normal stuff. The reason for suspense is different (wish coming true against fighting bad odds to rescue endangered persons), but the main characters grow by their experiences and in the end, the resolution of the stories are nothing extraordinary in particular, but leave a lasting memory.
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