Gall Force 2: Destruction is a 1987 science fiction OVA directed by Katsuhito Akiyama and written by Hideki Kakinuma, featuring the voices of Hiromi Tsuru, Naoko Watanabe, Yûko Mizutani, Waka Kanda and Chieko Honda. It’s a sequel to Gall Force Eternal Story (1986) and the second in the Gall Force original trilogy, made by a lot of the same creative team.
The seemingly eternal war between the Paranoids and the Solnoids it's still strong ten years after the Star Leaf incident. Fierce pilot Lufy is found and revived, long after being left floating in deep space during the last film. She is picked up by a Solnoid cruiser and after her recovery remembers very little outside of recognizing Catty, or at least someone who resembles her. She is then informed that the home planet for both factions at war has been destroyed and that they now plan to go to the 9th system and put an end to their conflict.
This time taking one of the more unique and stand out characters from the first movie, Lufy, this OVA follows her trying to cope with the events that took place in Eternal Story, with human life developing in Terra while Lufy and her new allies try to battle the Paranoids on their way to the planet where the unification of their species took place as the war practically destroys everything it touches. A lot of the epicness and fluid starship encounters are still awesome and breathtaking but you can tell this one went direct to video just by noticing the length of the film.
Once again, the collectivist attitude permeates the whole movie. Simply trading the colorful main group from the original with some similar-but-not-really new girls who, while not being badly designed, are not as particularly striking and visually arresting as the first crew. Most of them are not as remarkable and the color coding does very little compared to the rainbow rule that gave the original crew their iconic look. Another issue is that because the length of the OVA's from here on becomes so short you don't really have time to warm up to many of them and we end up with stories that end just before the conflict could get any more juicy and reach a greater climax. It's not like what we have seen seems bad, but it simply can't leave some space to develop even further, which I guess it's compliment to want more of something.
The action is again quite wonderful and inventive. We don't get as much variety due to the short duration of the OVA but the spacecraft battles with so many laser beams, missiles and explosions to dazzle you are more than enough to entertain. Makes sense that this type of combat would be the primary focus since Lufy is known for being an expert pilot and now that we follow her she can show off her talent in extended space action sequences.
Very recommended if you enjoyed the first one, even people who disliked that they got rid of Lufy in the first movie might like this sequel.
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