July 31, 2003: WHOOPS! Well, I should have checked first, but the old and original Unico mailing list IS in use! And I was just made the new owner of it! Talk about shock! I guess someone saw my new updates and/or saw I had made the new list, so figuring that I'd maintain the Unico mailing list, they made me owner...I guess that's why! Well, go join the old list if you haven't, or post on it! And I'll be deleting the new one I just made, since me being the owner of the old list has now made it defunct.

Unico Lovers

July 27, 2003:
WOW. Almost two years since the latest news about Unico.

The latest info! About the Unico 4th movie! Well, the new better English version of the site has been up for awhile now, but here's the newest info about this mystery movie!

ENGLISH TITLE: Saving our Fragile Earth: UNICO Special Chapter

CHARACTER NAMES:
Unico
Tsubasa (tree boy)
Sphinx
Time Fairy (pretty much is Astro Boy (Atom)
Goddess (lady with the robes)
Water Fairy (mermaid like chick)
Yokuno-Katamari (red monster-like dude)
West Wind (Zephyrus)
Phoenix

MOVIE SUMMARY AND OTHER INFORMATION (edited by myself for obvious translation mistakes): Tezuka Osamu World, located in the Kyoto Station Building, features a 300-inch (?) theater that shows his original short animated films. One piece capturing the essence of his most famous work, and another that depicts historical episodes of Kyoto, are shown as a double feature with "The Phoenix" as narrator. This is the fourth original animated piece for the Tezuka Osamu Animation theater that takes up Tezuka Osamu's message of "Saving our Fragile Earth" as its theme, and together with Unico's adventures commemorates the theater's first anniversary. Unico, a unicorn's child, has dropped down from heaven. During his journey on with the West Wind, he meets Tsubasa, a tree boy who can speak. The Earth has become totally ruined to the extent that no creature can live there, because humans have drained it of all resources and destroyed the environment. Unico and Tsubasa go on a journey to find a way to make the Earth inhabitable again. They finally meet the Sphinx and the "time fairy" at the end of their hard journey. They decide to go back to the past and prevent humans from taking the wrong path. However, they can stay in the past for only five minutes. Will they be able to alter the future of the Earth in such a short time? Their adventures to restore the Earth begins...

OOOooo! This is an interesting sounding Unico epic, completely melded into Tezuka's Life Theme story with the Phoenix, like I thought it was a year or so ago. I guessed right! Go, me! Sounds like it is a cross between a movie and an ova, and possibly only shown in that theater (at least at first!). If you want credits of this movie or want to see the original translation of the movie summary, check out Tezuka Osamu @ World! Or, if you want the specific address to the page about this movie, click here!

Now for the rest of the news! Since the Unico internet community has gone dead, I thought it was high time I really updated and freshened up the site. More importantly however, is the new Unico mailing list at Yahoo, called Unico Star. I myself maintain it, and while this list may not get many posts, don't you worry about me not maintaining and checking on it! You may not know it, but even though this site looks like it isn't updated often, I do check up on it and fix up things, even if I don't note about it in my updates! I plan to do the same for this new mailing list! Please feel free to join it!

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If you want, take a look at the mailing list before you join!: Unico Star

December 10th, 2001:
Unico Mystery Movie: News from Shana Scott (www.japan-a-maniac.com)

I got the list of the voice actors and some of the people who worked on the 4th film. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be! If anybody wants to know who they are please email me. I recognized some of the voice actors are the same ones who worked on the Japanese version of Sailor Moon! (Artemis=Wing and Sailor Jupiter=Goddess), or at least they have the exact same name.

I use the online dictionary at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html to help with some of the translations of kanji. It is the only online dictionary that I know of that can translate names!! A friend (Guido) and I own the software program that helps translate the paragraph. To help translate the website, I use www.worldlingo.com it doesn't do a very good job, but at least it is better than nothing!

December 7th, 2001:
Unico Mystery Movie: News from Shana Scott (www.japan-a-maniac.com)

I was looking up the title of the fourth movie at a japanese bookstore, this has been a manga back in 1989/04!! The isbn number is 4334051618. It has been redone in 1996/09. Its isbn number is 4334722881. I am going to try to order it to see what it looks like, and if it is the same thing. We are getting closer to solving this mystery! ^_~ Oh and by the way the romanji for this manga is "garasu no chikyuu o sukue nijyuuisseiki no kimitachi e" and it is by Osamu Tezuka. It is the exact title that is on the website so it has to be the same thing.

Later the same day...^_^

There is also a book about Osamu Tezuka with the same name "Save the Glass earth" so it might not be the movie. :( But the book is a record of the final remarks of Osamu Tezuka who passed away in 1989. From what I read about the book the last chapter describes "his sincere hopes for children of the future, who will soon live seeing Earth from space, to promote peace on Earth." Maybe the film was done in his honor?

November 30th, 2001:
Unico Mystery Movie: News from Shana Scott (www.japan-a-maniac.com)

I am on the Unico mailing list that is runned by mappyman, and I believe I have a few things that might help. This unico film looks definantely like another Unico movie, called "Rescue the Earth of the Glass" - Unico Special Compilation. The tree man is called Wing? The lady with the long blonde hair is a goddess, the astro boy look alike is a Time Spirit, the mermaid is a water spirit. Oh yeah and the tan-skinned blonde is the Sphinx. (I remember seeing her in the Unico manga! But i thought she died in the manga.) I haven't looked at the plot very much yet, it is very hard work translating! :( But I will help the best I can!! I can translate kanji pretty good, I have problems with grammer of japanese language.

I hope I was of some help!!

October 30th, 2001
Unico Mystery Movie: News from Mappyman (www.fujikoma.com, Unico in the Island of Magic)

translating from that site is going to take a little time but so far my friend and i gathered...

*the title is "The Glass Earth (something)"
*the plant guy's name is Wing

so far so good eh? ^_^

Unico Mystery Movie:
Unico Movie #4

Exciting new details for American and English speaking Unico fans revealed on Japanese Portion of Tezuka Osamu @ World! Look at what I found out about! Did anyone else know about this?

During my usual raiding (yes, raiding, I'll admit it. I get pictures for my gallery from official sites, but not without saying that's where they came from and never from other Unico fan sites w/o permission) of the official Tezuka Osamu @ World site, I came across something very interesting! There has always been rumours on the net among English speaking Unico fans that there was more than the two movies we all know and love that were dubbed into English back in the 80s. Sure enough there was the pilot film. A picture from it is at right. But there has always been continued rumours about short 5 minute TV episodes of Unico that weren't very good. I've been wondering about that even more since I've seen this video cover at right, and to what it could possibly be, since it was listed as something like a "character video" unless this is acutally the cover for the pilot film (probably isn't. Unico from pilot film doesn't look quite like this one, and I don't see the pilot film's title anywhere on this cover unless I missed it). It seems that something more interesting and exciting has popped up for us! It seems that there is a 4th Unico movie that also features Astro Boy (or a similar facsimilie) and Tezuka's Phoenix from his life theme that appears at least once in a lot of his work. I'm VERY sure that this is a movie for Unico in the lead. His name is listed in the title of the movie (I can tell that much from the Japanese hirigana and kanji) and he's the first character listed on the page about this movie, and the first character listed is most usually the main character. This movie was listed as a theaterical release (yes another movie, not tv show or OAV) in Japan, but a year was not listed (it only said None). I'm guessing that it was about '91 to '93 release, or some later 90s date. I guess that because I believe the other three Unico movies were re-released onto video and DVD in '91, '92 and '93 because of the copyright year listed on the webpages devoted to them at Tezuka Osamu @ World. If a new Unico movie came out, any profit that could be made off the other Unico movies would happen at best then. And I think it has been released in theaters already; it must have been in theaters already because I don't think they would have put up a video clip from the movie up on the webpage if it was. (YEAH! Movie clip! Go down below to the link to go see this webpage at Tezuka Osamu @ World and the video clip!)

Closing Words

I don't know very much about this movie at all yet. Even when the English version about this movie is released at Tezuka Osamu @ World, the translation from Japanese to English stinks. But when it does, I maybe able to piece together a summary about it and get its title. Till then, we'll have to keep wondering!

You can find out what I know about each of the characters from this movie by resting your mouse icon on the pictures of the characters at left.

NEATO!

If you want to download a 19 second movie clip of this Unico movie, go to the 21st movie listed in theater section of Anime Station of Tezuka Osamu @ World. Now mind the fact that there isn't an English version of the Anime Station yet, so you'll have to look through Japanese lettering.

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