Following an earlier home video release from GKIDS, Hayao Miyazaki’s classic Future Boy Conan TV anime now has a streaming home. The series will make its debut exclusively on RetroCrush starting on April 18.
After that, more episodes are set to drop every Friday.
If you’re unfamiliar with Future Boy Conan, that might be because it came prior to the Studio Ghibli days. Instead, it was an anime series from Nippon Animation that debuted in 1978, and Miyazaki directed it. In fact, it was his first time being able to direct something by himself. Future Boy Conan is loosely based on the American novel The Incredible Tide by Alexander Key.
Here’s how GKIDS describes the series:
Twenty years ago, a terrible war fought with magnetic weapons caused the earth’s axis to tilt, and earthquakes and tidal waves destroyed civilization. Conan is born into this new world, raised by his adopted grandfather on an isolated island. But his life is forever changed when a mysterious girl named Lana washes ashore, pursued by shadowy operatives who seek to use her in a new scheme to control what’s left of the world.
Source: RetroCrush