Stratos 4

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Japanese anime television series

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Field	Value
name	Stratos 4
image	Startos_4,_DVD_Cover.jpg
caption	Cover art of the DVD
ja_kanji	ストラトス・フォー
ja_romaji	Stratos4
genre	Action, comedy, science fiction
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Stratos 4 is a Japanese anime television series by Studio Fantasia and Bandai Visual, and directed by Takeshi Mori.

Story

Fifty years before the series begins, scientists learn that a group of comets will enter the Solar System on a collision course with Earth. The United Nations set up a two-tiered global defense system against the threat: the primary one being a space-based Comet Blaster group and the secondary being a ground-based Meteor Sweeper group. Most of the series takes place on an airbase on Shimoji Island in 2024, where Mikaze and her friends are tasked with defending the Earth from large fragments left over after a failed attempt by the Comet Blasters, who are based on one of seven space stations, to annihilate a comet. All is going well until a large meteorite crashes into a lightly populated island leading the girls on a run to find out the truth about the comets.

Release

Originally spanning a 13-episode anime TV series, which premiered across Japan between January 5, 2003 to March 30, 2003, two additional episodes were later released direct-to-video in 2004. The series was then followed by an OVA series called Stratos 4: Advance (retitled as Stratos 4: Advance Final in the last two episodes), which spanned eight episodes that were released from March 25, 2005 to October 22, 2006.

The series has been broadcast by the anime satellite television network, Animax, across its respective networks worldwide, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and other regions. The original 13-episode television series and its first subsequent two-episode OVA series were licensed for North American distribution by Bandai Entertainment USA. However, when Bandai Entertainment USA shut down, the series became unlicensed.

The series is one of the "main JSDF collaborative anime works", as noted by scholar Takayoshi Yamamura. The show's producer, Sugiyama Kiyoshi, is said to have conducted "extensive research about JSDF" with Yamamura saying that Kiyoshi is considered an "industry expert regarding collaboration between anime and JSDF."

Episode listing

''Stratos 4'' (2003–2004)

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CODE	Title	Original air date
EpisodeNumber = 101	Title = Initial Point	2003
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''Stratos 4 Advance'' (2005–2006)

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CODE	Title	Original release date
EpisodeNumber = 201	Title = Wave Off	2005
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Music

The music for Stratos 4 was composed by Masamichi Amano.

References

"Stratos 4 - Stratos 4: The Complete Box". [[Bandai Entertainment]].
"New Anime in Japan".
(2005-02-11). "STRATOS4 OFFICIAL WEB SITE".
(2017). "Cooperation Between Anime Producers and the Japan Self-Defense Force: Creating Fantasy and/or Propaganda?". Journal of War & Culture Studies.

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