Age Appropriate: Any age
Emotional Response: What will happen next!? Oh. Ok.
Notable Features: sand, versions of humanity, sand, airships, sand
Language: Japanese
Length: 6 episodes
Overall Recommendation: Pretty Good
Earth has been changed dramatically in the future. All of the water has dried up, and the world is now covered in sand. Ozuma (or OZMA) opens with a young man on a sand-glider moving toward a young lady windsurfing across the sand while running from a military force. A giant creature heaves out of the sand, and creates an avalanche that threatens to take down the woman, and she is bravely saved at the last minute by the young man, Sam. As the fly off together, he learns that her name is Maya. He takes her back to his ship, where it is docked, and invites her into the mess hall. Shortly after their arrival the ship is beset with the military chasing Maya, and the Captain of Sam's ship takes a stand by running with Maya on board. In the process they use scientific technology to shift the sand beneath the ship and sink below it - almost like a submarine in the ocean. The military uses their own methods to find them under the sand, and they end up in a battle of wills -ending with the concession of the military at the last minute. This is the beginning of a strange story about Maya and what she represents for the world to come.
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Ozuma is only six episodes long - thus the very short synopsis. It's a good six episodes, though. The post-apocalyptic/advanced technology is actually fairly well done. It reminds me of something specific but I can't figure it out. Maybe by the time I post the review, I'll remember. Either way, this is a great sci-fi interlude. It would be great for a night in, when you just need to waste a few hours. It felt like it had more potential that what was realized, but I'm not sure if it would be solved by better writing, more episodes, or simply making it into a feature rather than a series. It's actually upsetting me that I can't really say much more for it, but there wasn't much to work with in 6 episodes - which means about 2 hours of viewing time. If Sci-Fi is your thing though, I would recommend it.
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