Terra e / To Terra or Toward the Terra
Such a goddamn awesome manga (*_*)/ I haven't read a good old sci-fi manga since.. forever! The last time I had a similar feeling was with Robotech. To any of you who love sci-fi and manga check this out! It's a classic from the 70's Some of you many know that I'm a HUGE fan of anime and manga from this time period.
The manga starts out with a brief summary of what happened to human society. After years of destroying the Earth aka Terra. Humans instituted the SD order which controls all aspects of human life in order to help Terra reform itself. The SD order is put into place by massive computers which send telepathic messages to humans in order to keep them all as obedient, low emotion, HAPPY 9_9 Humans. In the present we meet a young boy who is *gasp* emotional! His name is Jomy (the blond boy above) and soon he'll have his maturity check. You see once a human hits puberty they are forced to go through a maturity check... These are in place to assure that all adult humans are mature, proper citizens of society :) And it you fail well...it won't go well for you. Through all this some children are being discovered to be Mu = a telepathic race which humans fear will take over and destroy them because they, unlike present day humans, are connected to their emotions. To save themselves from destruction 9_9... Humans are doing their best to destroy any child with ESP powers.
Jomy is showing odd signs of emotions such as sadness, regret and happiness goes through some psychology testing and his maturity check starts early... The results of this thrust him into a Sci-fi epic story which details about 50 years or pain, tension and possibly hope for a united future.
Problems with this manga: Although Epic this manga is only 3 Volumes which leads to confusing time jumps. Also due to the era it was written it can suffer from overly dramatic dialog. I admit although I loved this series I found myself chuckling at some of the lines.
I was able to find the manga on mangafox.com :) Here is the link for any of you who would like to check it out. http://www.mangafox.com/manga/terra_e/