Echoes of Angels is dedicated to the series Please Save My Earth (Boku no Chikyuu o Mamotte) by Saki Hiwatari. Originally a 21 volume manga series, it later became a six episode OVA, a movie, and music video collection. The manga, while unimpressively drawn at first, progressively becomes more and more beautiful. The OVA is beautiful, but perhaps the best thing about it is the wonderful soundtrack, especially the end song.

The story is about Alice, a teenage girl with a young neighbor, Rin, who likes to tease her endlessly. She becomes friends with two strange boys who claim to share the same dreams where they are scientists watching over Earth from the moon. She and Rin later find that they too have these dreams because the four of them, as well as three other people, are reincarnations of people from another world on a mission to study Earth from the moon. Some of the Moon Scientists even had special powers like telepathy and teleportation. They all died of a strange plague, but one of them was left alone in the moon base for nine years before he died, during which time he went a bit insane. He created a weapon that could threaten the existence of life on Earth. Reincarnated on Earth, he decides that he must either control or destroy it, and even he doesn't know which choice he will make. Now the other Earth incarnations must stop the weapon from being used against their new home world and bring closure to the lives that were so abruptly ended.

Please Save My Earth is a sweet story of finding your own identiy, coping with a painful past, and learning to forgive. It is about seeking a home and a family. It is about love, hope, life, and happiness. It is about Earth.


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