[DeepL Translation - needs review] Introduction to Volume 1: The year is 2199 A.D. The Earth is on the verge of destruction by the planetary bomb of Gamilas, an invader from outer space! The Earth is on the verge of destruction by the planetary bomb of Gamilas, an invader from outer space! Earth's inhabitants thought they could do nothing but wait for the destruction, when a communication capsule arrives from the planet Iskandar. The capsule contained a message, "Come to Iscandar to retrieve...
Certified granddaddy of japanese space opera science fiction. You can especially see the roots of stuff like 自動戦士ガンダム. It was really hard to grade this difficulty-wise. My copy (which appears to be just totally different than the ebook version on bookwalker?) has furigana which helped a lot, and if you are good at kinda fuzzing out sci fi jargon, then this might not be a terribly terribly hard read? (Except for the one extremely heavy 関西弁 user and the 片言 robot)
There's a lot of war terminolo