I remember when I first heard about this I thought it was a huge conspiracy lol. I've loved daft punk since the very first time hearing them which was one more time in a car ride to elementary school and I loved the whole vibe of it and it was easy to get the lyrics and I sang along straight away and i'm not the kind of guy to sing let alone around others but daft punk had me from day one and
I listened to every song I could get my hands on when I started going on youtube and saw the music videos for the songs in the discovery album and I thought they all had the blue aliens with the blonde hair or things that looked like them and it wasn't til a while later that I found out that the reason I kept seeing interstalla 5555 in all the videos that were anime was because they actually made a whole anime movie out of their discovery album and I was like wow.
I don't know a single other artist that made a whole anime out of one of their albums which makes this unique and very avant garde. So as you guessed it this is an anime about blue aliens played to daft punk songs. If you don't already know daft punk is actually a french house music group that started in the 90s and is still going strong today. They are the techno guys who wear the robot helmets and this whole movie is house and breakbeat style music from france. It's a silent film in that its all just music no scripting but still tells a good story.
Before I go any further this was produced by Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo), Cédric Hervet and Emmanuel de Buretel along with Toei Animation, under the supervision of Leiji Matsumoto. It was released in 2003 and its japanese name is インターステラ5555 Intāsutera Fō Faibu, "Four Five". The name is a bit strange the full english title is Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. That's what the 5555 is its the S's in the title using 13375p34k. It is also dubbed the title "The animated House Musical" as you'll be able to see in the image.
The story of the film is about this space rock band that are blue aliens with blonde hair right and they get kidnapped and made into humans to be the next hit band on earth but is controlled by this evil guy who like does this weird occult ritual thing you'll just have to see it but they kind of regain themselves and try to escape to freedom and go back being blue alien dudes from outer space and stuff. Nice little story great use of colors true to raver culture, lovely music you can just chill to this anime its really a cool experience if you like house music and anime its just great. A real gem of a film i'm really glad daft punk made it. If you can get the bluray I would get the bluray to see it in that higher quality it enhances the experience and make sure you got a decent sound system with a subwoofer to get that nice bass going on with the house music and if you have a decent sized tv all the better and that will make the best of this special film. If not its whatever its still great but blu ray etc makes this even better.
If you don't like house music or anime or colorful things you might not enjoy this as much. Because of the fact that there is no dialogue minimal sound effects and all music and anime it makes it different to most other films so if you have a really short attention span and need multiple lanes of stimulus to stay entertained you might not be able to get through this one either. The people who watch this have to be the ones who wanna see how the story plays out and enjoy the music that's being played. You have to have an open mind or you will think this is boring and dismiss it, i've seen it happen. Some love it some don't care for it. You be the judge the film is available for free on youtube right now and has been like that for a while now not sure if the link I put up will stay up forever or if things with copyright change but I do know that daft punk has a more relaxed view on piracy. In fact their latest album at the time of posting this: Random Access Memories got leaked months before release and was already on youtube and torrent sites before it even came out anywhere and daft punk I guess figured it would happen and wasn't bothered by it it still sold well of course because it's daft punk <3. So there you go that's my review.
and if you were wondering this is what the discovery album cover looks like:
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