NOTE: THIS REVIEW IS OLD! IT WAS RECOVERED THROUGH ARCHIVED FILES!

Uchuu no Senshi (also known as Starship Troopers in English) is a 1980s Sci-fi Mecha OVA Anime created by Sunrise. Set in a futuristic setting where humanity finds itself in a conflict against aliens who pose a threat to the world and potential all of humanity itself. Johnny Rico who is the main protagonist of the show enlists himself in the military with his crush Carmencita enlisting herself in the military as his main reason to join the military. Together him with select crew mates are deployed into the most notorious training facility, and thus they work their way all the way through the pain and suffering from the notorious training. It is based on the actual 1959 novel written by Robert A. Heinlein, who died before the first part of the OVA was released. In other words, you can say this OVA is a tribute and dedication to him, as even the first episode of the OVA literally stated “in the memory of Robert A. Heinlein.”

Uchuu no senshi’s concept sounds interesting at first hand and sounds great on paper, and truth be told they did quite a good job with the concept and premise. Unfortunately, this Anime suffers greatly from too little and too late. What do I mean exactly? It’s very simple, you make the first 4 episodes to a very slow paced experience and then finally put all the action squeezed into the two last episode. This is an unfortunate issue with the Anime. An even harder problem is Sunrise tried their utmost best to adapt a very epic critically acclaimed Sci-fi novel into a modest budget OVA Anime with very extreme limits and budget problems for this already doomed project. While hardly a disaster and far from being a bad Anime at all, its legacy certainly speaks volume as here we are 3 decades and a half after its release, and it has mostly faded into obscurity.