Jomy's awakening hits harder because the world around him was designed to keep him asleep. The Mu aren't saviors or villains, they're refugees with telepathy and their own agenda, which means choosing sides means betraying someone. The 1980 animation holds a groovy, retro-futuristic dread that modern dystopias can't touch, and the conceptual weight of test-tube births and government-controlled consciousness never gets old, even if the execution stumbles into shallow character moments that undercut the premise's potential.
A perfectly ordered future hides a sinister truth. Centuries after Earth was ruined, humanity lives in space under a system run by computers, where children are grown artificially, handed to randomly chosen parents, and have their memories wiped at fourteen. Fourteen-year-old Jomy makes a dangerous mistake: he starts to question how society works. When his doubts surface, he becomes hunted by two forces with opposing aims. The government wants him dead. The Mu, a persecuted race of psychics who have resisted the regime for generations, want to rescue him. Fleeing aboard a Mu ship, Jomy learns that he is a psychic himself and that the authorities have condemned him. Chosen by the dying Mu leader Soldier Blue to succeed him, he must decide whether his people stay hidden or wage war on humanity to return to Terra. The film is a dramatic sci-fi action story adapted from Keiko Takemiya's manga.
