Roots Search

Roots Search
ルーツ・サーチ 食心物体X
(Rūtsu Sāchi Shokushin Buttai Ekkusu)
Genre horror, science fiction
Original video animation
Directed by Hisashi Sugai
Produced by Kiyoshi Shoji
Written by Michiru Shimada
Music by Osamu Shooji
Released September 10, 1986
Runtime 45 minutes

Roots Search (ルーツ・サーチ 食心物体X) is a 1986 science fiction horror original video animation directed by Hisashi Sugai. It was released on September 10, 1986.[1]

The story is that of a research crew on a space station find a desolate ship with only one survivor. The crew is then stalked by a psychic alien who wishes to kill them. The plot and setting bears a lot of similarities to the 1979 film Alien.

Voice actors

Production

Roots Search is directed by Hisashi Sugai, whose only other credit is as a producer for the MD Geist.

Release

It was released on laserdisc and VHS in the United States.[2] The soundtrack was released on vinyl record.

Reception

On Anime News Network, Justin Sevakis said "There is simply nothing good about Roots Search. It's stupid, ugly, badly dated, and annoying."[2] Other reviewers noted the similarities to the film Alien, going so far as to call it "derivative dreck".[3]

References

  1. ルーツ・サーチ 食心物体X (1986). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Justin Sevakis (Mar 20, 2008). "Buried Garbage - Roots Search". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  3. "Roots Search". Forgotten Junk. 13 August 2009. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2016.


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