Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Wing of Royal Space Troop Honneamise, Star Quest Japanese: 王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼 English: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise German: Royal Space Force: Wings of Honnêamise French: Les Ailes d'Honnéamise More titles InformationType: Movie Episodes: 1 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Mar 14, 1987 Producers: None found, add some Licensors: Maiden Japan, Manga Entertainment, Bandai Visual USA Studios: Gainax Source: Original Genres: Action, Award Winning, Drama, Sci-Fi Themes: Military, Space Duration: 2 hr. 1 min. Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity StatisticsScore: 7.461 (scored by 17,510 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #20892 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #3318 Members: 48,508 Favorites: 303 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Jan 3, 2016 Master-Murrummba Mixed Feelings **THIS REVIEW HAS SPOILERS** I’ve never actually been compelled to actually sit down and write a review, until now. I simply cannot fathom how a seriously flawed movie such as Wings of Honneamise could have pretty much universal 9s and 10s here on MAL. For the positives: the animation is top tier and holds up even today; on level with works such as AKIRA. The art and design also seems to have had a lot of care taken into them, with distinctive designs for especially the clothing and vehicles. The sound for the film is also great, although unfortunately, apart from a few pieces of music, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 16, 2008 SpiralKing Recommended Wow. I can't believe no one has written a review for this movie yet. I'd have to say that, based on its current 7.8 rating, it's slightly underrated. I myself would call it a masterpiece, but keeping other people's tastes in mind, I give it a conservative 9/10. (See bottom for a quick summary) STORY Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 24, 2008 RangFlash Recommended Wings of Honneamise is a perhaps one of the most underrated and under-appreciated animes ever made. It is clearly made for adults, not due to vulgarity or gratuitous violence, but due to its moral ambitions and its seriousness. STORY ART SOUND Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 1, 2011 DrChristmas Not Recommended I...I just don't understand. I went in to this movie on the backs of dozens of glowing reviews expecting to be, if not blown away, at least in agreement that this was pretty good. It absolutely was NOT. This movie is unique in that no scene has ANY effect on the ones after it. None of the characters are developed at all and none of them have any identifiable motivations. The main character suddenly goes from a bored, lazy guy to CAPTAIN GUNG HO SPACE MAN. With NO explanation as to WHY. I simply cannot fathom the praise for this movie. It is simply awful! For your own ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 5, 2018 literaturenerd Recommended Overview: Wings of Honneamise is a great film, but it also has some serious flaws. For me though, an anime can do lots of things wrong if it also does some things really well. Wings is a loveable underdog story. It's an anti-war film. It's a coming of age movie. It's a steampunk, alternate history retelling of the early Space Race from the POV of the Soviet Union. It also has at least 2 plainly stupid scenes that detract from the film and have no business being there. It can be more than a little sappy and it is happy to trade realism for emotion, which ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 17, 2017 Fear_the_Reefer Not Recommended Honneamise is a country at war. It’s conflict with a neighboring country has been going on for longer than anyone can remember, and the ongoing battle has shaped it’s society as well as it’s economy. Many lives have been affected by this war, but a certain unit called the Royal space Force likes to think of themselves as above the conflict... So above it, in fact, that their lifelong mission is to break through the sky and take mankind to the stars! And they’re so enthusiastic about that... Well, that they have no drive whatsoever. It’s unclear why they ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 28, 2008 Bishounen_Hunter Recommended Main Art-Style Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 28, 2018 DasuArosu Recommended In order to actually explain why "Wings of Honneamise" is an absolute cinematic masterpiece I shall have to delve into the main features which it does outstandingly-and those would be the worldbuilding,characterization and themes. To begin with the worldbuilding,I have to say that the way the setting of this movie is presented and shown makes it look normal and casually everyday,regardless of the fact that it's outlandish and alien in how it looks and cannot be reliably related to any contemporary culture on Earth(except in its' purely human aspects,and its' human goals),thus displaying originality without attempt. Every single little detail is tailored and customized towards showing ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 28, 2021 Ciaran_Zagami Mixed Feelings This is without a shadow of a doubt the single most beautiful looking movie I've ever seen. Unfortunately I can't say quite as much nice stuff about the rest of the movie. The story is very cliche, boy meets girl. Girl changes his world view and he undergoes some kind of deep seated change. Very standard stuff, just with a heaping tablespoon of religion and moralizing. Honestly though, the art is so outstanding. It more than makes up ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 21, 2016 MrHawky Recommended Personally, I would like to fly some more into space. I like flying. My biggest wish is to fly toward Venus, toward Mars, which is really flying. - Yuri Gagarin the first man to go into orbit around the earth On my quest to watch every available Gainax work I first stumbled upon Ouritsu Uchuugun or Royal Space Force. A social commentary on various things but most of all our role in the universe, and what our role has been until this very moment, quite surprised that unlike other works like gunbuster or EVA not much is known about this little gem. Story The story isn't hard to ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 27, 2012 barcaman101 Recommended Shiro Lhadatt is an average guy who wasnt able to fullfil his dream of being a pilot .Instead the road of life placed him in the the Royal Space Force (RSF),an organization that very existance is a enigma and is a source of much ridicule and scorn and is seen as a huge waste of funds in a country with so much social problems.Shiro Lhadatt live day to day with no real expectation or hope for the future,as he see's nothing that can change his state of mediocrity. His life changes when he meets a young god-fearing woman who encourages him to look beyond ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 4, 2012 r4ytrace Recommended Everything about this just oozes art and creativity - the slightly alternate world to our own is so intricate it is utterly believable - little details like how the strips in the middle of the road are painted differently show the attention Gainax threw at this masterpiece. The costumes, backgrounds and even the car design are all 'believable' alternative entities to our own. In my opinion, this film is worth watching even if only for those elements, but on top of that it has a great plot, and utterly believable characters. Absolutely perfect. Read more Open Gift Report
May 11, 2013 gwern Recommended Rewatched _Wings of Honneamise_, which was as excellent as I remembered. I noticed a number of things this time around that I hadn't the first time, like the protagonist employing his sword training in dealing with an assassin - echoing the general theme of him drawing on the training & space program he had previously considered useless. I also think I understand his attempted rape better: throughout the movie appear dichotomies between peace & war, good and bad - the space program is peaceful but used to spark war, technology is what lifts up man but also used to hurt and kill, etc. The protagonist ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 8, 2018 urgentmeow Recommended Royal Space Force is one of the most unique animes I've ever seen. It's certainly flawed, and narratively it didn't really come together for me, but it has this outstanding quality as a pure creative endeavor that allowed me to enjoy it regardless. The art is just spectacular. The level of detail, vividness, and imagination is something rare and special. The strongest part of this movie, for me, was probably its visual design. How often do you get to see a unique and thoroughly imagined alternate world portrayed so faithfully? I wish the story had told us more about that world. Unfortunately, most things are left ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 12, 2018 intextimo Recommended I was staring at the new season TV simoucasts trying to decide what to watch with my brunch when a spontaneous "archealogical dig" led me to royal space force. finished to two hr movie in one sitting in awe, can only say that they dont make'em like this anymore. the art is of superb quality, the kind that appear in but a few cuts in todays commercial productions, and sustained throughout the work. the presentation of the story have room for improvement but i shallent complain. Also it is important to know that GAINAX may have been disbanded should RSF was a commercial success, and ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 1, 2017 young_kappa Recommended Best known as Gainax's first commercial work, Wings of Honneamise is a peculiar movie that acts as something of a commentary and retelling of one of mankind's boldest undertakings - sending our own into the great void of space. The method of storytelling is quite unique and makes you consider the perspecitve of someone living far into the past where the idea of going into space is considered unnecessary and foreign. The film has its own surreal little world set in a time that's something like the economic expansion following the WWII era. In this world the "Royal Space Force" are a group of people ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 21, 2020 DanTheMan2150AD Recommended "When I was a kid, I wanted to be a navy pilot. For me, there could be nothing better than flying." Royal Space Force is the debut film of the legendary studio Gainax. Probably best known for their later success (and massively overrated mess) Evangelion. Originally a box office flop it later went on to become regarded as a cult classic due to the success and reappraisal it had on home video. Taking place on an alternate world where a disengaged young man, Shirotsugh, inspired by an idealistic woman named Riquinni, volunteers to become the first astronaut, which becomes a decision that draws them into both ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 9, 2024 Crosley-Bendix Recommended REVIEW WRITTEN ON 29 SEPTEMBER 2022 "Like the oceans and the mountains before, space too was once just God's domain. As it becomes a familiar place for us, it'll probably end up as bad as everywhere else we've meddled. We've spoiled the land, we've fouled the air". A technical achievement if there ever was one, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. It doesn't feel like a stretch to call Honnêamise one of the most elaborate and creative settings of the medium. Yeah there's its own currency, unique architecture and transportation, but there's also its own units of time and length, as well as neat little ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 30, 2022 Superdsg00 Not Recommended The animation and designs are amazing. Those are really the only good things I can say about the movie. Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 22, 2024 ComfyRainyDay Recommended “Ideas grow; sometimes bigger than life.” - Marty Tohn Story Development ★★★☆☆☆ Okay Royal Space Force is very clearly the first major work of a group of people who are monstrously talented, but have not quite gotten their artistic footing. It was clear that this was a story they truly cared about, sending a message they believed would broaden peoples' view of the world. Yamaga and Okada refused to compromise on it in the face of corporate pressures, acknowledging that even if paring down the movie would increase the profits by millions of yen, it would not be worth destroying what they were trying to accomplish. The ... Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
