# toward the terra ![[towardtheterraldcover.jpg|300]] cover of laserdisc release of the film depicting soldier blue 地球へ… (tera e...) genre: space opera manga written by: keiko takemiya published by: - asahi sonorama (original)- square enix (reprint) english publisher: - na: manga planet (digital) - us: vertical magazine: gekkan manga shōnen original run: january 1977 - may 1980 volumes: 5 (3 in english) audio drama station: nhk-fm original run: july 23 1979 - july 28 1979 anime film directed by: hideo onchi written by: - chiho shioda- hideo onchi music by: masaru sato studio: toei animation licensed by: - na: crunchyroll released: april 26 1980 runtime: 115 minutes anime television series directed by: osamu yamazaki produced by: - hirofumi morotomi- ai abe- norihiro hayashida written by: satoru nishizono music by: yasuharu takanashi studio: - tokyo kids- minamimachi bugyōsho licensed by: - na: bandai entertainment original network: jnn (mbs tv) english network: - sea: animax asia original run: april 7 2007 - september 22 2007 episodes: 24 (list of episodes) manga terra e... ~ keith of the blue light~ written by: fumino hayashi published by: square enix magazine: gfantasy original run: may 2007 - march 2008 volumes: 2 'toward the terra' (japanese: 地 球(テラ)へ… hepburn: tera e...) is a japanese science fiction manga series by keiko takemiya. it was originally serialized in asahi sonorama's gekkan manga shōnen magazine between january 1977 and may 1980. in 1978 it won the first seiun award for manga and in 1980 also won the shogakukan manga award for shōnen/shōjo manga (along with takemiya's kaze to ki no uta) in 1980 it was adapted into an anime movie produced by toei animation and directed by hideo onchi. in 2007 the manga was adapted into an anime television series co-animated by minamimachi bugyōsho and tokyo kids and produced by aniplex sky perfect well think and mainichi broadcasting system. directed by osamu yamazaki and featuring character designs by nobuteru yuki it premiered in japan on mbs-tbs's saturday 6:00pm doroku time slot (previously occupied by other notable anime series such as mobile suit gundam seed fullmetal alchemist and blood+) on april 7 2007 and ended on september 22 2007 replacing the canceled bones series tenpō ibun ayakashi ayashi the story takes place in the distant future sometime after the 31st millennium(at least 301st century) where humanity exists under the rule of the political order controlled by supercomputers known as superior dominance and the carefully selected humans known as the members elite. centuries before the story begins the human race came to the conclusion that war and pollution rendered life on earth unsustainable. using warp travel the decision was made to leave a supercomputer artificial general intelligence and caretaker humans behind and colonize distant stars under the rule of superior dominance all humans are born in vitro and given to carefully selected parents. at the age of 14 all children are put through brainwashing where ir memories are wiped by superior dominance and overwritten to produce functional adults. a race of advanced humans with psionic abilities called mu (pronounced myuu μ) has evolved and the supercomputers that control superior dominance make every effort to exterminate them. led by soldier blue and then soldier shin the mu make every effort to locate and rescue as many mu children as possible before the children are discovered and eliminated. the mu have only one wish to return to what they see as ir promised land terra the series spans a large number of years jumping back and forth multiple times from soldier shin's life on ataraxia the various events on station e-1077 soldier shin's founding of a mu colony on a habitable planet neska the superior dominance war of extermination on the mu and finally to the mu's return to terra the manga series written and illustrated by keiko takemiya was serialized by asahi sonorama in gekkan manga shōnen between january 1977 and may 1980. the chapters were collected in five bound volumes which was reissued in august 1980 with the release of the movie. in 2007 on the day before the tv series began airing the manga was reprinted by japanese publisher square enix. in 2007 american publisher vertical released the manga in three print volumes in north america under the title to terra.... manga planet re-released the series digitally in 2019 under the title toward the terra. the series won two awards: the seiun award for best manga in 1978 and the shogakukan manga award for best shōnen in 1979 in 1980 toward the terra was adapted into an animated movie produced by toei animation and directed by hideo onchi. rightstuf released a hardsubbed version of the movie in north america. it was titled toward the terra and appeared on vhs in 1994 and on laserdisc in 1995. at anime expo 2008 the right stuf international announced that its nozomi entertainment division had licensed the toward the terra film for the north american market toward the terra was adapted into an animated tv series in 2007 co-animated by minamimachi bugyōsho and tokyo kids and produced by aniplex sky perfect well think and mainichi broadcasting system. it was directed by osamu yamazaki written by satoru nishizono and featured character and conceptual designs by nobuteru yuki (vision of escaflowne) and yutaka izubuchi (rahxephon) respectively. the first opening theme spanning episodes 1-13 was "endscape" performed by the band uverworld while the first ending theme is "love is" performed by miliyah kato. these were replaced from episodes 14-24 onwards with the second opening theme being "jet boy jet girl" performed by hitomi takahashi and the second ending theme being "this night" performed by chemistry the series premiered in japan on mbs-tbs's saturday 6:00 pm time slot on april 7 2007. that time slot was previously occupied by other notable animated series such as mobile suit gundam seed and fullmetal alchemist. it was replaced in this timeslot by mobile suit gundam 00 which premiered in october 2007. the series was also aired in japan on the bs network animax who also subsequently aired in its english language network in southeast asia and south asia // republic of bob