ガルフォース エターナル・ストーリー, Sony Video Software (SVI) 00LS 4001. CLV, 2-sided, 100 minutes, STEREO, NTSC, ¥12,000. 1986. Distributed by 株式会社ソニービデオソフトウエアインターナショナル / MOVIC. Animation production: アートミック (Artmic) + AIC (アニメインターナショナルカンパニー). Director: 秋山勝仁 (Akiyama Katsuhito). Character design: 園田健一 (Sonoda Kenichi). Screenplay: 富田祐弘 (Tomita Sukehiro). Mecha design: 柿沼秀樹 (Kakinuma Hideki). Music: 瀬尾一三 (Seo Ichizo). Executive Producers: 岸井一 (Kishi Eiji) and 高橋豊 (Takahashi Yutaka).
Cast: 川村万梨阿 (Eluza), 松井菜緒子 (Rabby), 山本百合子 (Rumy), 鶴ひろみ (Lufy), 冨沢りちー (Pony), 原えりこ (Patty), 渡辺菜生子 (Catty). Insert songs: 鈴木聖美「歌え！レクイエム」, LOOK「Round at the night」, 小比類巻かほる「両手いっぱいのジョニー」. Theatrical premiere: July 26, 1986.
Two Sides
CLV, 2面DISC, 100 minutes. Two extras are included and listed on the obi as disc-only content not available on the VHS release: the 劇場用予告篇 (theatrical trailer) and a 13-minute メイキング・オブ「Song for GALL FORCE」. The second covers the production of the three insert songs performed by 鈴木聖美, LOOK, and 小比類巻かほる: three distinct mainstream J-pop acts brought in for the OVA's soundtrack, each contributing a full-length song rather than a background theme. Their names and song titles appear on the obi strip and on a separate large-format lyric insert printed in blue on white.
The package includes two additional inserts beyond the lyric sheet: the two-page エターナル・チャプター guide and the SVI LASER VISION DISC COLLECTION catalog. The chapter guide is specific to this disc. The catalog is Sony Video Software's 1986 home entertainment lineup on a single sheet.
Obi strip, 00LS 4001. 「2大特典特別収録 ①劇場用予告篇（ディスクのみ収録）②メイキング・オブ 'Song for GALL FORCE'（13分）」 Staff credits: 監督: 秋山勝仁 / キャラクター・デザイン: 園田健一 / 脚本: 富田祐弘 / メカニック・デザイン: 柿沼秀樹 / 音楽: 瀬尾一三. Songs: 鈴木聖美「歌え！レクイエム」▶ LOOK「Round at the night」▶ 小比類巻かほる「両手いっぱいのジョニー」. Format: CLV / COLOR / 100min. / STEREO / 2面DISC / ¥12,000. Sony Video Software.
Back jacket, 00LS 4001. English production credits at top: 'MOVIC-SONY VIDEO SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL PRESENT / ORIGINAL ANIMATION VIDEO GALL FORCE ETERNAL STORY / Directed by KATSUHITO AKIYAMA / Character Designed by KENICHI SONODA / Screenplay by SUKEHIRO TOMITA / Music Score by ICHIZO SEO / Based on The 3-D Photo Story by HIDEKI KAKINUMA.' Six episode stills in a grid at center. Songs listed: REQUIEM / ROUND AT THE NIGHT / RYOUTE IPPAI NO JONNY. SONY lower left.
エターナル・チャプター
The two-page chapter guide distributed with 00LS4001 is titled エターナル・チャプター and printed in blue on white. Its opening text states the premise: the disc has been organized so that highlight scenes can be accessed by theme using chapter search. Five categories follow. STORY CHAPTER covers the four named narrative sections (STAR FRONT / THE GIRLS ARE FEELING / HEARTBEAT OF LOVE / AFTER THE SPACE BATTLE) with chapter stops identified for both Side A and Side B. ACTION SCENE CHAPTER lists specific combat and maneuver sequences. 名セリフ CHAPTER indexes memorable dialogue: Rabby's line 「みんな嘘をしているわ。あなたの言いたいことは......」, Eluza's 「私は絶対に抵抗する。」, and others by character. シャワーシーン CHAPTER runs three entries across Side A and Side B, each identified by character name. MUSIC CHAPTER gives the chapter number for each of the three insert songs.
The guide was written by a named commentator (野中 直) who provided scene descriptions for each entry, not just chapter numbers. Twenty-six named chapter stops in total, across five thematic categories. The シャワーシーン chapter sits between 名セリフ and MUSIC in the guide, formatted identically to both.
エターナル・チャプター guide page 1 (STORY CHAPTER). 00LS 4001 insert, printed in blue on white. 解説: 野中 直. STORY CHAPTER: STAR FRONT / THE GIRLS ARE FEELING / HEARTBEAT OF LOVE / AFTER THE SPACE BATTLE, each with numbered chapter stops on Side A and Side B. Scene descriptions in Japanese. ©MOVIC/CBS・ソニーグループ.
エターナル・チャプター guide page 2. ACTION SCENE CHAPTER: specific combat and mecha sequences listed by chapter number and side. 名セリフ CHAPTER: character dialogue organized by speaker, chapter stop given for each. シャワーシーン CHAPTER: three entries across Side A and Side B, each identified by character. MUSIC CHAPTER: chapter stops for 「歌え！レクイエム」, 「Round at the night」, 「両手いっぱいのジョニー」.
園田健一
Artmic supplied character and mecha design to Gall Force through Sonoda Kenichi (characters) and Kakinuma Hideki (mecha). Artmic's concurrent productions in 1986 included Bubblegum Crisis (beginning production) and Megazone 23 Part II. For Gall Force, Sonoda designed seven women with color-coded hair: Eluza in red, Rabby in black, Rumy in a blonde/green combination, Lufy in short blonde with a green streak, Pony in pink, Patty in brunette, Catty in purple. Seven principal characters, no male cast in the main narrative, and each identifiable at a glance by hair alone. His name appears on the jacket as character designer and as the jacket illustrator, both roles confirmed on the same packaging.
Gall Force was his first prominent anime character design credit. He stayed at Artmic through 1991, then began manga work with Riding Bean (1989) and Gunsmith Cats serialization in Monthly Sunday GX. The design vocabulary he used here (long-limbed women, very specific hair color/length combinations, pilot suits that function as character silhouettes) appears consistently across both the anime and manga work for the following decade.
Song lyric insert, 00LS 4001. Large-format sheet, printed in blue on white. Upper half: color illustration (Lufy weeping at communications terminal, side profile). Lower half: three song lyrics in columns. 「歌え！レクイエム」(詩: 岡田恵美子 / 曲: 松木宗弘 / 鈴木聖美). 「Round at the night」(詩: 辻圧正宏 / 山本浩彦 / 曲: 山本浩彦 / LOOK). 「両手いっぱいのジョニー」(詩: 小比類巻かほる / 曲: 沢村好隆 / 小比類巻かほる). CLV / COLOR / STEREO / 2面DISC stamped at lower right.
Alternate back jacket, 00LS 4001. English chapter headers across top: STAR FRONT / THE GIRLS ARE FEELING / HEARTBEAT OF LOVE / AFTER THE SPACE BATTLE. Six-panel episode still grid at center: mecha combat, character group shots, space exteriors. Full cast and staff in English at top. SONY logo lower left. ©MOVIC / CBS・ソニーグループ.
SVI, 1986
The SVI LASER VISION DISC COLLECTION catalog included with 00LS4001 is a two-sheet insert: one side a full printed catalog, the other a mail-order response card addressed to ソニービデオソフトウエアインターナショナル 第2事業部マーケティング係 at 東京都新宿区市谷砂土原町2丁目4番1号 KSビル3階. The catalog lists Sony Video Software's full 1986 home entertainment lineup: live concert recordings (矢野顕子 BROOCH, MEDIA BAHN LIVE), travel and aviation films (B-747 Super Flight, West Coast), international art films (エスペラント, 田舎の日曜日), and anime. The anime column includes Gall Force at ¥12,000, 超獣機神ダンクーガ 〜失われた者たちへの鎮魂歌〜 at ¥9,600, and 吸血鬼ハンターD at ¥9,600.
In 1986, Sony Video Software's framework for Gall Force was premium home video, not a category unto itself.
SVI LASER VISION DISC COLLECTION insert, side A. Sony Video Software, 1986. Full-page catalog listing all SVI releases: concert films, jazz and rock performances, international live-action features, and anime. Column headings: タイトル / アーティスト / 価格 / 品番 / 仕様. アニメーション section at lower left lists ガルフォース/エターナル・ストーリー (00LS 4001, ¥12,000) alongside ダンクーガ and 吸血鬼ハンターD.
Obi strip reverse, 00LS 4001. NTSC / digital SOUND legend at top. 「ビデオディスク絶賛発売中!!」 with images and details for companion SVI anime releases: 吸血鬼ハンターD (964G101, カラー/80分/ステレオ, ¥9,600) and 超獣機神ダンクーガ 〜失われた者たちへの鎮魂歌〜 (96LS84001, カラー/90分/ステレオ, ¥9,600). Legal disc-care and anti-copying notices at bottom.
Later home video releases preserve the 100-minute program. The エターナル・チャプター guide distributed with 00LS4001 (the categorized viewing map, the commentary-annotated chapter stops, the shower-scene chapter between dialogue and music in the index) is specific to this pressing. So is the SVI catalog, which places ガルフォース alongside Dancougar, Vampire Hunter D, and a 矢野顕子 concert as Sony Video Software's premium home entertainment tier at ¥9,600 to ¥12,000: titles that happened to include anime.
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