Maetel Legend
Maetel Legend (メーテルレジェンド, Mēteru Rejendo) is a 2000 anime OVA based on characters created by Leiji Matsumoto about how the planet La Maetelle becomes the planet Andromeda, also known as Planet Maetel ("the mechanized world"). It serves a link between Matsumoto's previous series Queen Millennia and Galaxy Express 999. The series Space Symphony Maetel is a continuation. The OVA and series are supposed to follow Queen Millennia chronologically, and are prequels to Galaxy Express 999.
| Maetel Legend | |
 DVD cover of the Maetel Legend OVA | |
| メーテルレジェンド (Mēteru Rejendo) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Kazuyoshi Yokota |
| Produced by | Takaji Matsudo |
| Written by | Leiji Matsumoto |
| Music by | Masamichi Amano |
| Studio | Vega Entertainment |
| Licensed by | U.S. Manga Corps (USA) |
| Released | 2000 |
| Runtime | 40 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Anime television series | |
| Space Symphony Maetel | |
| Directed by | Shin'ichi Masaki |
| Produced by | Leiji Matsumoto |
| Written by | Mugi Kamio |
| Music by | Taro Hakase |
| Studio | Vega Entertainment |
| Original network | Animax (PPV Premier) |
| Original run | August 6, 2004 – June 20, 2005 |
| Episodes | 13 |
Story
Once a rich and an abundant planet, La Metalle was now a cold, barren wasteland after it had changed its original orbit around the sun. The only way to survive was to get machine bodies. Hardgear, a mad cyborg scientist, transforms the queen and her subjects into mechanized beings. But Queen Promethium's daughters Maetel and Emeraldas, chose to stay human, fight Hardgear, and restore their homeworld.