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ledaYohko Asagiri's an ordinary high school student, and she's in love with a boy who doesn't know it. To help things along, she's written a song to explain how she feels... but that song has quite a bit more then a couple of good bridges and a strong middle-eight. Yohko learns this when she's listening to it and is magically transported to Earth's other-dimensional sister world "Ashanti".
It turns out that her song is quite popular with the locals... one might say they're breaking down the doors to get the only copy and a stereo to play it. It would also seem that this song has the potential to open a dimensional gateway between Earth (called "Noah" by the locals) and Ashanti wide enough for a conquering force to invade and take over. This is exactly what someone wants to do. And, it's exactly why it was forbidden eons ago by the legendary warrior Leda who saw this coming.
It falls to Yohko and a few of her newfound friends to stop the onslaught and return the two worlds to balance. There are three on the side of order and an impressive army on the other (who fully understand the power of this discovery)... and the army's scared.
Maybe Yohko isn't so ordinary after all.
Details
LEDA: FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF YOHKO (Eng. title for GENMUSENKI LEDA, Lit. Leda Dream War)
Anime Movie Guide by Helen McCarthy (page 35). ISBN# 0-87951-781-6
Commentary
Join Yohko as she romps through Ashanti and tries to save Noah (Earth) from certain doom. It's a mix of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Planet Busters"- fast-paced and with lots of odd characters. Actually, it's a bit slow in the beginning, but, after "Alice" goes through the looking glass, things get more interesting. No gore or naughty bits- strictly family fun.
I used to have the subtitled VHS version. I took the time to transfer my VHS version to DVD.