Kind of Aurora: I watched the 2010 movie "Space Battleship Yamato" today, which seemed much like an Aurora movie. Earth radiated in a way that extinction can be predicted at some point; War with a powerful NPR; Fighters and huge beam cannons, but missiles only for the aliens it seems; then they discover jump drive technology, though it works everywhere.
Japanese people as always haven't really figured out the whole acting thing still, and the development in the writing is as quirky and forced as even a intentional parody could fabricate it.("damn, we need the captain to pass the position. I know, just let him have deadly cramps out of nothing right after some completely unrelated exposition.") It's like they tried to stuff in every trope that they could find in US acting books, as if some formula that 'has it all' would practically guarantee a good movie.
Kind of baffling how there can be people with undeniable professional skill involved (effects, cgi, props), and yet the main cast and writers never got beyond highschool dropout understanding of 'things in general'. How do they not claw on each other at the set all the time? Some people here actually work or have ambition, you know?
Still, this movie was great, exactly for all the effects and action. They should just make it without actors. Oh, wait! Is this why they have more anime than movies there?