Toward the Terra Volume 1 : The Homeland is Far Away translated from Kodansha Anime Comics by Ann Nichols, Dr. K Yoshishige Shimada, and Sergeant Major Miller Retyped by William Chow Inside Front Cover: (under the photo): Original author (text): In the 500th year of Superior Domination, in Atarakusha, 20,000 light years from Earth, the absolute control of society had been established, and Mu (the new speices endowed with super ability) is suppressed harshly by means of an esper check. When he was 14, "Waking Day", Jomy was judged a Mu at the Adult Examination. Immediately before his obliteration, the Mu rescued him and welcomed him to their ship. Jomy, who did not think himself to be a Mu... Inside Back Cover: (introduction of the original author): {She was} born in Tokushima City. From her elementary school days, she liked to draw manga. In her sophomore year of high school, she won the COM monthly new author's prize. During the time at Tokushima University School of Education, she started a magazine serial. She left school after two years to become a full-time professional. Her most important works are "Wind and Tree's Poem", "A Variation", and "Pharaoh's Grave", etc... p.2 This story is reconstructed from the animated movie, "Toward the Terra", directed by Hideo Onchi. Reconstruction by Hideo Onchi. p.3 Animated feature film Toward the Terra Original Author Keiko Takemiya Movie directed by Hido Onchi Message: With in this story I wanted to incorporate the message: life is accompied by struggle, life and the right to love are equally give to every being in the universe. So therefore, we must also leave the grass and soil on this Earth which do not speak, etc,... How much meaning will be discovered depends on the reader. Please get as many message as you can. Please raise as as many questions as you can. I say so because thinning is the energizer of youthful energy. - Keiko Takemiya p.4 Character Guide Jomy (Marcus Shin): The hero. After the death of Blue, who was a Mu, following the will of Blue he became the chief of the Mu and proceeds to Terra which is the homeland. Phischis: The Mu diviner. This blind beauty, like Jomy, was to be eliminated at the time of the Adult Examination Test, but Blue saved her and she became his comrade. Soldier Blue: The Mu chief. For three centuries, he guided the Mu. He perceived the hidden Mu ability of Jomy, appointed him as his successor and died. Keith Anyan: Reputed to be Mother Eliza's heaven-sent child, he is a member of the VIP which are the Members Elite. His fated relationship with Jomy is connected in doom. Papa, Mama: Jomy's foster parents. Until the "Adult Examination Day", deeply loving Jomy, they reared him. Mother Eliza: Station 1077's mother computer. Mother Eliza watched over (like a prison guard) Keith, Shiroe, and the others. p.5 Seki Rei Shiro: The boy who hates the Terran system. He studies at the same education station as Kieth and Sam, but his hatred of the system become manifest as action. Leo: Mu comrade. Immediately before Jomy was to be eliminated for failing the Adult Examination, he rescued him with death-defying readiness. He had a weak constitution. Harley: Mu comrade. Captain of the Mu spaceship which lurks in the adepts of Atarakusha. He was the confidante of Soldier. Karina: Mu comrade. A very strong-minded girl who takes care of children and wraps Jomy with tenderness. Terazu No.5 : Atarakusha's mother computer. It gave this Adult Examination to Jomy, it failed, and Jomy escaped. Sam Houston: Jomy's childhood friend. After the test, he established a relationship with Keith at the education station. The Story p.7 (Mu underground) p.8 Phis: Soldier Blue, is that you? p.9 Blue: You like this room, don't you? Phis: I was just thinking of coming to inform you about a happy result. p.10 Blue: Divination? Phis: A premonition that somthing is about to change... Blue: It's enough! Phis: At its source... Blue: We can't put put our fingers on the result of the divination...what I want is a future that is more certain! Phis: Soldier! p.11 Blue: How long must we conceal ourselves, hiding in the darkness underground? How soon will we go to that star, to Terra?! I'm, sorry. It must be that I am not in my right mind. Phis: You must be frustrated. p.12 Blue: It maybe that I am tired of waiting, lurking in the ground how many years... I envy you having unseeing eyes. Seek (with unseeing eyes) for the brilliance of stars in space outside this window. But I can see only decay. p.13 Phis: (thinks) The telepathy is getting so weak. Blue: Terra is too far away for me right now. Under the ground poisons which cannot be broken down have collected themselves. Fish are vanishing from the sea which is life's source. From that day when it was realized that it was the people...who are suffocating the Earth, on that day it was decided that mankind should leave the Earth and wait for the recovery of life...and then, that day when it was decided that, in order not to cause the death of the Earth ever again, humans themselves ought to be reformed. From that day on when Mu were born... p.16 Phis: (thinks) So thin... Almost disappearing (hardly perceptible.) So...please become strong. You are...we Mu's chief. p.17 Blue: Phischis, would you show me again? I have not seen it for a long time...the memory of the Earth you inherited from your mother. Phis: Tune your telepathic wave to mine. That is the galactic system that we are able to see. p.18 Blue: Ah... It's beautiful...dazzling...that fire burning briskly is -- the sun... p19. Phis: Yes, it is... That world which pulsates with blessings...is Earth -- Terra. Blue: I will not make it to fly that far. My life is too short. I must entrust the task to someone else. My life, my memory...and then, we Mu's future. p.20 Toward the terra 110024 p.22 Jomy: (groans, cries out, and awakens) Ouch! Ah, it hurts, it hurts. Ahh, I am baldly affected by that dream. Why do I have that same dream over and over again? Ahhh -- yoo hoo... (brushing teeth) yoo - hoo... p.25 Mama: Jomy, eat quickly; you'll be late for school. Jomy: Yeess! Good morning, Mama. p.26 Mama: Good morning. Jomy: I had that drunken frenzy-like dream again. I don't have any appetite. Mama: Dream? Jomy: What? Yeah...it's not as strong as the one before. Looks good. (eats) p.27 Mama: Oh, yes. What do you think of this? (holds up jacket) Jomy: Mine? Mama: Tha's right. Isn't tomorrow "Waking Day"? This is a celebration jacket from Mama. What's the matter? Jomy: I heard that children of ancient times were not test tube babies produced at Central Control as we are now. They were born after being raised for 10 months in the mother's body. It is so written in the history book! Mama: What are you talking about all of a sudden? That irrational child birth system has been prohibited so we can carry on a comfortable life. Isn't it so written in the book? p.29 Jomy: To be rational, does it mean not to be lonely? You don't mind if I'm not going to be around anymore. Tomorrow, when the "Waking Day" comes, the examination for adulthood follows very quickly. Mama: That's so. But everyone follows that route to become an adult, studying hard and getting good grades... p.30 Jomy: No! I don't want to be an adult. Mama: Jomy...to people there are things they have to do even if they don't want to. Unless you keep what has been decided (follow the rules) society will go to pieces. Jomy: But when we do that, Mom, the time will be when I will not be able to see you anymore. Mama, won't you miss me? Mama: ... (at a loss for words) p.32 Jomy: Ah! I'm going. I'm tardy again. p.33 Intercom: This is (over here) Unversal Control. Citizen number AD6223 Jomy Marcus Shin's 14th birthday is tomorrow right? Mama: Yes, that's right. p.34 Int: According to the report from school he's a problem child. How is the situation at home? Mama: Yes, not anything special. (Jomy is running to school.) Passerby: (bumped) Oh! Don't! p.35 Jomy: Morning, Sam! Sam: Good morning, Jomy. Jomy: I had that dream of that girl again. Her hair is extremely long!! Sam: Shhhh! Keep it down! If your mother tells the authorities, you'll be given the ESP examination. Jomy: Humph. Calm down! Calm down! First of all, I can't be a Mu. Papa: (Jomy's home) That child just can't be a Mu. The Mu have a frightful existence (since) they have super telepathy! p.37 Mama: Yes, I understand that. Somehow I'm very worried. pa: Anyhow, tomorrow Jomy will be 14 and it's "Waking Day". When the Adult Examination is over, our duty as foster parents also ends. Mama: Now that we have had our share of raising a boy, next time, let's have a girl. p.38 (in the cafeteria) Jomy: And then -- I don't know where -- but it's a room with a very nice feeling and there is this beautiful girl doing a divination, and you could hear music. Classmate: Music? p39 Jomy: Uh huh. It was probably a harp. Then, in there, a cool-looking one with his cape billowing came in. Boy: So, was that the girl's lover? Jomy: Well, it's not necessarily so -- but maybe, maybe not. Sam: Jomy, shut up! p.40 Small Listener: That room in a dream... (Sam grabs Jomy's tray.) Jomy: Hey! mph. Cut it out, Sam! (they fight) Ouch! Damn you! Oof! Cut it out you rascal (fool)! p.42 Woman: It seems that Universal Control citizen number AD6223, Jomy Marcus Shin, in various areas, he tends to criticize the establishment. p.43 Jomy: I thought is was strange. I am happy that you are concerned about me. Thanks but no thanks (he appreciates it, but he would rather be on his own). Sam: You're really a nice guy. You don't know how to doubt people. But if you do things like that, you'll get into trouble. p.44 Jomy: Oh, don't worry so much. I'm me and Sam is Sam. Well, I'm going this way. Bye! Sam: Jomy! p.45 Computer: This is not a crossing zone. Stop!! Stop!! Jomy: Nyeahh!! ("Akkanbe" - literally, "Red Eye") (Jomy's home) I'm home! Mama: Welcome back. Jomy: Ah, I'm starved. Can we eat right away? I say, Mama! Mama: It's ready, but we can't (eat) until Father gets home. Jomy: Phooey. Well, then, Mama, can I have something to drink? Hey, can I have some orange juice? p.47 Head Man: We have come from Universal Control. p.48 Mama: Control? Head Man: It's Jomy's examination. Mama: ...! Head Man: We are only going to do 30 series of psychology tests. Don't worry. The bedroom is this way, isn't it? Start the preparations. We are only going to anlayze his thoughts and feeling to see if he had any dangerous elements. p.49 Mama: Don't tell me that child is a Mu...that... Head Man: This is what the top men of Control are to decide. Our job is to examine and produce data. Underling: The preparations have been completed. Head Man: All right, the sleeping gas. However, from the school report, (he has the) same dream everyday. Not liking to become adult because that's a lonesome business. In general, he expresses his feelings, which are dangerous for the establishment. p.52 Jomy: Hey! uh... (he faints) Mama: Is he all right? Head Man: It's a little bit taxing because it's a psychology test, but we aren't going torture him. Jomy: Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Uwah!!! p.53 Head Man: Stabilizer. Jomy: oooo.... aaahhh... aaahhhh... (he sleeps) p.55 (next day) Mama: Here. Papa: Ah. Jomy: Well, I'm going. Papa: Ah, enjoy your "Wakening Day" - it's a once in a lifetime experience. p.56 Mama: I'm glad there was nothing serious in your examination but it must have been hard for you. p.57 Jomy: it was okay. Mama, will we never meet again...? Mama: Jomy... p.58 Mama: You are growing up into a fine young man. (he leaves) (thinks) Jomy... p.59 Jomy: (sniffle) p.60 Computer: From this moment, Jomy Marcus Shin's adult examination starts. The place is Panafik playground. This is a child who is suspect, so police rush over there and stay on the alert. The place is the underground roller coaster course. Jomy Marcus Shin... p.62 Jomy: Thank you. Comp: I will take you to your destination. Jomy: Well, let's go! Here we go!... Yahoo!... Here we go! Comp: Adult Examination Commence! Jomy: Ohhh!! (car stops) p.66 TN5: Welcome, Jomy. I am Computer Terazu No.5 Do you know where you are? This is not Earth. Jomy: It can't be... TN5: You don't need to speak aloud. THink in your head and we'll catch it telepathically. Now at the start, we will elimnate your memory. p.68 Jomy: Eliminate my memory?! TN5: Yes. You will be reborn in order to adapt easily to the perfectly systemized organization of the Earth. Jomy: Ooohh.. Aaah! p.69 Blue: (telepathically) We will not allow you to do this. Jomy, hang on to your memory. p.70 TN5: Who is this? Begone! Blue: (tele) Don't become rootless, Jomy! TN5: Begone! (literally, "vanish") p.71 Blue: (tele) Don't surrender yourself -- resist! (Blue attacks) p.73 Tech1: The voltage is rising too much! It's useless! p.74 Tech2: It's some sort of dreadful telepathy! Tech3: It's Soldier! p.75 Someone: Soldier? SD Man: The Mu's chief, Soldier Blue -- it can't be anything else! Comp: Contact failure. There is a possibility that Jomy will escape. SD Man: Go after him, Police Department! He's a dangerous element, so don't lose him! Eliminate him! p.76 Jomy: (thinks) What on Earth has happened? (reads) Crying mouse [rat] species of space animal. p.77 Police: He emits a minute amount of telepathic energy so there is a barrier around him. Don't touch. Jomy Marcus Shin, we execute you as a dangerous element. Jomy: Why...why...me? Police: It's Universal Control's orders. Leo: (always speaks telepathically) Simultaneously with the signal, flying to the right, I will assist you. p.79 Police: Get set! Jomy: Who is it...who? Police: Fire!! p.80 (Leo grabs Jomy and takes off) Leo: It was an excellent leap. It's wonderful to be able to jump that far under your own power. p.81 Jomy: Telepathy! Hey! Speak aloud! Leo: Sorry, I am mute. Jomy: Where are we going? Leo: We're going over the mountains. Jomy: That's prohibited! It's dangerous. Leo: You are being pursued. Jomy: It's you?! Okay, I'll go with you. Leo: Take a good look at the real picture of the world that, until now, you have believed to be the Earth. p.82 Jomy: But I... there is the grown-up society over the mountain... Leo: That's a lie. That's a lie made by the systemized organization of humans. (They are attacked) Danger! Lie down!! (He is injured) Oooh...oooh... oooh... p.85 Jomy: Ooooh... Leo: I changed to automatic control. We are landing. Jomy: Landing? Ahhh.. (thinks) Breathing is painful. (faints) p.88 ( Atarakusha Underground ) Har: He's all right now. Jomy: Hey! Ahhh! Where am I? p.89 Har: Atarakusha Underground. Jomy: Underground? Har: You are in our spaceship. I am Captain Harley. p.90 Kar: We directed your ship with our psychokinesis, although it was a bit rough for you. Male Mu: Karina's telepathic power exceeds that of men. Kar: Hmph. (the others laugh) Jomy: You can read my mind? Har: Excuse me. It seems that you are not quite perfect as a Mu. p.91 Jomy: Mu? Dr. Noldi: You'll soon grow accustomed to telepathic conversation. Jomy: I'm a Mu? Kar: Yes as a comrade to we Mu, in accordance to the will of Soldier Blue, we welcome you, Jomy Marcus Shin. Jomy: (slaps her) I am not a Mu like you!! p.92 Dr. N: !!! Har: !!! Kar: !!! p.93 Jomy: I'm not a Mu... not a Mu! I am not a Mu! I am not a Mu! p.94 (Education Station E1077) p.95 (ship docking) p.96 Comp: Attention please. Attention please. Welcome. You have arrived at Atarakusha D9. As soon as maintenance preparations have be completed... going to Mars through Uranus Station. New students who arrived by D9 enter floor B5 Grand Hall. p.99 Sam: Jomy!... Hey, aren't you Jomy?... Jomy!... Hey! Sorry, wrong person. Seki: Oh. I am Seki Rei Shiroe... Comp: New pupils, you have been admitted (into school). Congratulations. I am this education station E-1077 computer guidance. This station is no more than two light years form Earth. You are going to receive an education in order to become humans suitable for going to Earth. Since we humans abandoned the wasted Earth 5,000 years ago to scatter over the universe.... Earth's purification has continued. We humans, in order not to wreck the Earth a second time, reconstructed themselves of artifical wombs, test tube babies, and foster parents rather than blood relationship for child care. p.101 Seki: Hmph! Comp: Earth children are guaranteed perfect equality. The inferior elements are screened out by the adult examination. Those who pass (the test) you new students as successful candidates then Education Station E-1077 (cont.) p.102 (Seki leaves and encounters Keith) Seki: Why aren't you watching? Kei: Escaping? Seki: I'm sick of hearing it! I'm not going to become a puppet. Kei: You criticize the system the moment you arrive, which shows courage, but its a little childish. Seki: What! Kei: It's not such a fragile system that it will be shaken by your criticism. p.103 Comp: (cont.) ... I give you welcome from the heart. From now on, for four years you will be at this education station. Kei: You'd better stop doing trivial things (such as criticizing). Boy 1: Wow, it's tremedous, isn't it? Keith is far ahead at the top. Boy 2: It's wierd when somebody gets this far. Girl 1: Hey, did you know? When professors talk about him they say... Girl 2: He's too perfect - just like a heaven-sent child of the computer Mother Eliza. p.104 Kei: Mother Eliza, this is Keith Anyan. I received your summons signal. ME: Come forward, Keith. Your mind is unstable, which is why you were summoned. Do you understand the cause? Kei: Yes. I argued with a classmate... I got so angry and engaged in violence. ME: That matter was trivial. Something different is tormenting your mind. Entrust your heart to me and sleep. p.105 Kei: Yes. ME: Searching the bottom/depth of doubt for those who are here and to restore serenity to the heart is my job. Go to sleep deeply...more depeply... p.106 (Keith sleeps) p.107 (Atarakusha underground) Prof: We Mu were a new race born from mankind. In the year 336 SD the Mu were discovered. Jomy: That's enough! I told you that I am not a Mu. Prof: Mankind viewed with hostility the Mu with their superior power. The Mu who were taken in under the custody of Universal Control were killed except for a few who were left for experiments. The Mu who barely escaped, desiring a safe refuge, came roaming space. And then, finally, obtained this ship. Jomy: That amounts to saying that humans are cruel, cold-blooded animals. Prof: That's exactly so. Do you understand why we have this super ability? Each of us is different from the human race in some way. Jomy: You mean with the human race? Prof: This, for example... (removes his artificial arm). There are those who cannot see with their eyes...there are those who cannot talk because they have been unable to hear from the day of their birth. Leo, who rescued you, is the same way and, in addition, has a weak constitution. You are completely restored to heath but Leo is still sick and it will be about three months before he returns to ordinary life. We are generally timid and gentle, but our power to think is strong. That power, surpassing ordinary man's ability, became telepathic energy. But we also desire a homeland. p.114 Jomy: (thinks) Say! What shall we do? p.115 Kids: (running down hall) Wah!! hahahahah! Kid: (trips) Ow!! Kar: There. Are you all right? Kid: It hurts! Kar: Don't cry! Don't cry! Kid: It hurts! It hurts! p.116 Kar: Regretting that you held us in contempt, yes? Then you are very perplexed...now you don't understand what you should do... Jomy: Don't read another person's mind without permission. It's like a thieving cat! Kar: What do yoou mean? I've been trying to help you by becoming a confidante to you. Jomy: It's a big help! A sigh of relief comes! p.117 Kar: (coughs) You are a caring person. Rat: Kyoton. Jomy: Bleah. (harp music) What's that? That music I'm sure... p.118 Kar: Miss Phischis. Jomy: Miss Phischis? p.119 It's Jomy Marcus Shin. Jomy: Hey... you have been... in my dreams many times... It is so! In this room. You were talking with a man who brought me here. Phis: That's correct... I have been waiting for you with Soldier Blue... Jomy: Been waiting? p.121 Phis: Yes. As a comrade who will pour new strength into we Mu. Jomy: Let me meet him! Where is he? (Enter Blue) Soldier Blue. p.122 Blue: Jomy Marcus Shin. At long last we meet. p.123 Jomy: I have seen/met your image many times in my dreams. Blue: Please excuse the violent manner in bringing you here. Unless we acted in that way, your memory would have been erased by the Adult Examination. p.124 Jomy: No, I think that is was good for me to have met you. I understand clearly that the Mu are not the enemy of human beings, but, rather, brothers. I will publicize this to everyone when I get back to the surface. Blue: Return to the surface? Jomy: I will assist you/lend you power so that one day the Mu will come out of the depths and can make a living together with the human race. Blue: Jomy, you cannot go back! Jomy: Can't go back? Blue: If you go back, you will be obliterated by Universal Control as a Mu. p.125 Jomy: But... Blue: You still do not understand? You are a Mu. Jomy: That's wrong! I am ... oh, let's stop it. Blue: So you are human. Well then, we Mu are also human. All are the same chidren of Atarakusha. We only have a little sharper senses. To compensate for the weakness of the body, the mind became sharpened. That became telepathic ability. But you are different in that you have a perfect body and also have super ability. Many times I sent messages to Earth. However, the humans who control the Earth reject the Mu as the enemy always and, whenever they find Mu, they killed... In outward appearance I seem young, but I have lived a pretty long time... I will be burned out very soon. However, that apparently is my alloted life span. p.128 Jomy: Blue! Blue: I have been waiting for you a long time... I will die, but my will will continue. (switches to telepathy) It is my will that you become that next chief of the Mu. Jomy: No!! Blue: (telepathically) The memory of the Mu that extends the three and a half centuries that I have lived... and about Phischis... I am entrusting all to you, Jomy. p.129 Jomy: No! No!! (his powers awaken) p.130 Mu 1: Aieee! Mu 2: What's the matter? What is it? Mu 1: There's been a shock in the central bunker room! The cause is unknown! Mu 3: Somthing pierced the barrier and is heading for the surface of the Earth. Mu 4: Soldier Blue! Please respond! Har: Soldier Blue! Please respond! What on Earth is going on? p.132 Blue: Jomy exploded - fantastic energy... Don't you understand? Jomy's power has awakened. Har: Well then he... Blue: He pierced the barrier with wonderful speed and is heading for the surface. But, probably, he himself is not aware of what happened. As soon as he gets to the surface, he'll be counterattacked. We have to bring him back. p.133 Har: But how? Blue: I am going. Phis: Please stop. Your body is weakening. If you engage in something rash... p.134 Blue: I understand. p.135 (Jomy ascending, Blue chasing after) p.136 Blue: (telepathically through the rest of book) Wait! Jomy, where are you going? p.137 Jomy: (telepathically) No...no! Blue: Be aware of your own power. You have climbed this far by yourself. p.138 Jomy: !! p.139 Blue: This is the evidence that you are Mu. Jomy: I am?... (Blue begins to fall) Blue: Use... it's useless. I don't have the power to take you back... (falls) aahhh! p.141 Jomy: Blue! Blue!! BLUE!!! p.142 (Atarakusha underground - Blue is dying) Blue: I depart now. I have to leave many things unfinished... I entrust you to Jomy Marcus Shin... I entrust to him my spirit. Many of you oppose this, but trust me... Entrust all to Jomy for me. Jomy, come remove my earphones. (they are) It's quiet... (Blue dies) p.150 Jomy: I've not yet grasped all, but... (rises) One thing that counts is that Soldier Blue's spirit is flowing into mine. Now that Soldier is dead, his spirit is your will and mine. We will take off for Terra. To our homeland, Terra... To native Terra -- to native Terra -- (ship taking off) end of Volume 1.