Maetel Legend
Maetel Legend (メーテルレジェンド, Mēteru Rejendo) is a 2000 anime OVA based on characters created by Leiji Matsumoto about how the planet La Maetelle becomes the planet Andromeda, also known as Planet Maetel ("the mechanized world"). It serves a link between Matsumoto's previous series Queen Millennia and Galaxy Express 999. The series Space Symphony Maetel is a continuation. The OVA and series are supposed to follow Queen Millennia chronologically, and are prequels to Galaxy Express 999.
| Maetel Legend | |
 DVD cover of the Maetel Legend OVA | |
| メーテルレジェンド (Mēteru Rejendo) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Kazuyoshi Yokota |
| Produced by | Takaji Matsudo |
| Written by | Leiji Matsumoto |
| Music by | Masamichi Amano |
| Studio | Vega Entertainment |
| Licensed by | U.S. Manga Corps (USA) |
| Released | 2000 |
| Runtime | 40 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Space Symphony Maetel | |
| Directed by | Shin'ichi Masaki |
| Produced by | Leiji Matsumoto |
| Written by | Mugi Kamio |
| Music by | Taro Hakase |
| Studio | Vega Entertainment |
| Original network | Animax (PPV Premier) |
| Original run | August 6, 2004 – June 20, 2005 |
| Episodes | 13 |
Story
Once a rich and an abundant planet, La Metalle was now a cold, barren wasteland after it had changed its original orbit around the sun. The only way to survive was to get machine bodies. Hardgear, a mad cyborg scientist, transforms the queen and her subjects into mechanized beings. But Queen Promethium's daughters Maetel and Emeraldas, chose to stay human, fight Hardgear, and restore their homeworld.
Voice cast
| Character | Actor | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | English | ||
| Maetel | Younger | Satsuki Yukino | Lisa Ortiz |
| Older | Masako Ikeda | ||
| Emeraldas | Atsuko Enomoto | Kathleen McInerney | |
| Queen La Andromeda Promethium | Keiko Han | Rachel Lillis | |
| Hard Gear | Takashi Matsuyama | Jay Snyder | |
| Brant | Yuuji Kishi | Joshua Popenoe | |
| Cast | Naomi Shindo | Lisa Ortiz | |
| Dagar | Yosuke Akimoto | David Rankin | |
| Jam | Kohei Kowada | James Carter Cathcart | |