Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (海底超特急 マリン・エクスプレス, Kaitei Choutokkyuu Marin Ekusupuresu) is a made for TV anime movie created for the Nippon Television Network's annual 24-hour charity program, "Ai wa Chikyu wo Suku", which roughly translates to "Love Saves the Earth". The movie contained a veritable "Who's Who" of Tezuka's notable characters. Each one had an important role, and many of them had individual, intertwining stories which would o...
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Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (海底超特急 マリン・エクスプレス, Kaitei Choutokkyuu Marin Ekusupuresu) is a made for TV anime movie created for the Nippon Television Network's annual 24-hour charity program, "Ai wa Chikyu wo Suku", which roughly translates to "Love Saves the Earth". The movie contained a veritable "Who's Who" of Tezuka's notable characters. Each one had an important role, and many of them had individual, intertwining stories which would overlap with everyone else's. To coincide with the central theme of the charity program, the movie emphasized on the danger's of environmental destruction, and that such disasters can be overcome by banding together.
For the previous charity special in 1978, Osamu Tezuka and Tezuka Productions created One Million-year Trip: Bander Book. The year after, when the special was held again in 1980, Tezuka and Tezuka Productions created another film, Fumoon, based on Tezuka's manga called Next World.
The plot of Marine Express can be described in two...
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