Area 88: The Blue Skies of Betrayal (1985)★ 7.6/10
Area 88
- Action
- Animation
- Drama
- War
Directed by: Hisayuki Toriumi
Written by: Akiyoshi Sakai, Kaoru Shintani
A pilot must try to survive with his humanity when he is shanghaied into a mercenary jet fighter force.
- Original title
- Area 88
- Storyline
- A young pilot who is the fiance of the daughter of the owner of a airline is tricked into enlisting as a mercenary fighter pilot for a small nation's airforce by a malicious false friend. Now he battles to earn the money necessary to buy his freedom before he truly loses his humanity in the horror of war.
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 539
- Companies
- Pierrot, Project 88, ADV Films, Central Park Media, Chiqui Video, Discotek Media, Image Entertainment, Key Video, King Records, Man-ga, Mirage Entertainment, Pluto TV, RetroCrush, Tubi TV, U.S. Manga Corp., Yamato Video
- Release dates
- JP February 5, 1985
- US August 25, 1993