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'''Mai's Counterattack''' is a Lords of Ether OVA focused on Lost Ground produced by Artaria Animation who picked up the IP nine years after Season 7 of the original series was cancelled. Unlike its predecessors, it is originally produced in Japanese. Due to various copyright issues, many aspects of canon and the names of many characters were changed, alienating many fans of the old series. Others however, have praised the much higher production quality and modernization of the art style. | '''Mai's Counterattack''' is a Lords of Ether OVA focused on Lost Ground produced by Artaria Animation who picked up the IP nine years after Season 7 of the original series was cancelled. Unlike its predecessors, it is originally produced in Japanese. Due to various copyright issues, many aspects of canon and the names of many characters and places were changed, alienating many fans of the old series. Others however, have praised the much higher production quality and modernization of the art style. | ||
=Background= | |||
'''Lost Ground''' is a small gray planet orbiting largely alone around an unremarkable reddish-orange star. Until the reopening of the starways, the population of the world simply referred to their government as "the Empire". Following the return of interplanetary travel, the planet's sole polity gained the name '''Alter Empire''' after their advanced technomagical discipline (Advanced Liquid-metal Technology Engineered Resonance) or, apocryphally, a founding secret society, paramilitary group or political party that has since hidden itself within the imperial government's shadow. | |||
It is unclear what nations existed on Lost Ground during the previous era (when it probably wasn't called Lost Ground) but it minimally was the home of at least one major demihuman race: the aquatic '''Merai''' as well as human populations loyal to the Japanese pantheon and Greater Atlantis. This put the world directly on the front lines of the ensuing Godswar during which the planet was predictably and thoroughly devastated. Even as the violence wound down elsewhere after the collapse of hyperspace, the people of Lost Ground carried on their microcosm of the great war for eight more centuries, transcending the memory of their former affiliations, not to cease hostilities until their final, genocidal conclusion. Throughout and after this period, human presence continued to stagnate or decline and the once green and blue world turned fundamentally hostile to humans. In the present day, most people live within the confines of the great shielded city of '''Vector''' with most outlying areas abandoned to a deadly mutant biosphere. | |||
Revision as of 23:31, 23 January 2015
Mai's Counterattack is a Lords of Ether OVA focused on Lost Ground produced by Artaria Animation who picked up the IP nine years after Season 7 of the original series was cancelled. Unlike its predecessors, it is originally produced in Japanese. Due to various copyright issues, many aspects of canon and the names of many characters and places were changed, alienating many fans of the old series. Others however, have praised the much higher production quality and modernization of the art style.
Background
Lost Ground is a small gray planet orbiting largely alone around an unremarkable reddish-orange star. Until the reopening of the starways, the population of the world simply referred to their government as "the Empire". Following the return of interplanetary travel, the planet's sole polity gained the name Alter Empire after their advanced technomagical discipline (Advanced Liquid-metal Technology Engineered Resonance) or, apocryphally, a founding secret society, paramilitary group or political party that has since hidden itself within the imperial government's shadow.
It is unclear what nations existed on Lost Ground during the previous era (when it probably wasn't called Lost Ground) but it minimally was the home of at least one major demihuman race: the aquatic Merai as well as human populations loyal to the Japanese pantheon and Greater Atlantis. This put the world directly on the front lines of the ensuing Godswar during which the planet was predictably and thoroughly devastated. Even as the violence wound down elsewhere after the collapse of hyperspace, the people of Lost Ground carried on their microcosm of the great war for eight more centuries, transcending the memory of their former affiliations, not to cease hostilities until their final, genocidal conclusion. Throughout and after this period, human presence continued to stagnate or decline and the once green and blue world turned fundamentally hostile to humans. In the present day, most people live within the confines of the great shielded city of Vector with most outlying areas abandoned to a deadly mutant biosphere.