Lensman

Story

Synopsis

In this animated adaptation of E. E. Doc Smith's groundbreaking science fiction serial "Grey Lensman" from the 1930s-1950s, Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companion, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.

Directors

Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kazuyuki Hirokawa

Writers

Soji Yoshikawa, Edward E. Smith

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

7 June 1984

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Toshio Furukawa

  Kimball Kinnison (voice)

• 

  Mami Koyama

  Clarissa MacDougall (voice)

• 

  Chikao Ohtsuka

  Pete Van Buskirk (voice)

• 

  Nachi Nozawa

  Worsel (voice)

• 

  Katsuya Kobayashi

  DJ Bill (voice)

• 

  Seizo Kato

  Lord Helmuth (voice)

• Eiji Kanie

  Narrator (voice)

• 

  Hidekatsu Shibata

  Port Admiral Haynes (voice)

• 

  Koji Yada

  Greedle (voice)

• 

  Takeshi Aono

  LaVerne Thorndyke (voice)

• 

  Masaharu Sato

  Henry Henderson (voice)

• Yasuo Tanaka

  Blakeslee (voice)