A Small Sol Bianca Page
Space...the pirate frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Sol Bianca. Its unending mission: to explore new sources of wealth...to seek out and rob foolish cargo ships. To boldly steal what no one else has stolen before!
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Welcome! You've found(or stumbled into) a site devoted to one of the better, yet mostly overlooked, sci-fi OVA's to come out of AIC...Sol Bianca. Voted best OVA at the 1993 Anime Expo, Sol Bianca is probably best des
cribed by the Anime Primer as "sort of like a cross between BUBBLEGUM CRISIS (from the same studio, Artmic) and BLAKE'S 7." (unsurprising, since the director, Katsuji Akiyama, worked on Bubblegum Crisis as well)
For those of you who have no clue what those two series are, Sol Bianca is best described as the story of five female space pirates, and their amazing transdimensional starship(called the Sol Bianca, see.). Two episodes are available from ADVision, both lasting about 45 min. Sadly, due to lack of popularity, there was no third episode even though a large part of the second episode was a tie-in for a third.
So, you ask, what else is in this-here web site? Glad you asked.
NewsFlash! Mischa Campen wrote in to say that the new SB OAV
series
is indeed still in production, and almost done, at AIC. Screen shots should
be up as soon as I
get them from him.
Update! And here they are, straight from AX! : ax_sb1.jpg(with
Feb and Mei, and ax_sb2.jpg.
These look...interesting, to say the least. Mei looks a bit more
waifish, while Janny looks like she's on steroids. They seem to have kept
the "June's part of the ship" bit from SB2 as well..and what's with Feb's
glasses? (but at least she's still got her wine! ^_^) Anyone willing to
translate the Japanese blurbs next to each character?
2-22:The
transition to frames is done, along with a retread of the
image
section and various other bits. The straight text version has, for the minute, been disabled--if there are people out there that really really want it back, send me mail and I'll be
happy to. Happy surfing!
2-16: Well, at long last, it's time for the massive
site-update.
Observant surfers may have noticed the different format of the cast and Police Data pages, this is in preparation for the transfer to a framed site. Yes, I know, frames can be horrible, but
I've come to the conclusion that the site, especially the image and Cast sections would really benefit. So keep an eye on these pages, as soon as I get a nice afternoon, I'll be on them. Plus I decided to put these news/updates on the main page instead of
keeping them on the Credits page.
Here's the review of the Sol Bianca Dub.
Get some info on the differing personalities in the series with Cast
Descriptions. Frames/No
Frames Updated 2-22!
Want to know how dangerous the Sol Bianca is? Check out a Police Data File on the Sol Bianca. Warning: contains lots of pictures.
Rather interested in what happens in the episodes? The Synopsis Section has what you want. Warning: contains mucho spoilers.
New! The Not-So-Small Image Gallery is open for business,
containing many pictures of everyone's favorite female pirates.WARNING: Frames version is highly picture intensive. Frames/No Frames
A few more pictures...and a few funny captions...are available at the Page 'O Captions.Contains lots of pictures.(Does anyone really read this page?)
Miscellaneous stuff about the site, some stuff you may not have
known about
the series, plus what few links and CD soundtrack information there
is,are at the Miscellaneous
Page.
A small list of thank-yous to people that helped in some fashion with this site.
Or visit the author's crappy personal page here.
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(that should give you an idea of how I feel about counters)
All(or at least most) of the images on this page are copyrighted by AIC/NEC. Please don't start doing illegal things with them, 'cause that only leads to more trouble, more entropy and more bad karma in the universe. And we wouldn't want that
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Problems with this site? Give the maintainer a shout at mechaman@mail.wsu.edu
