Set to the techno-style music of the mysterious rock band Daft Punk and based on their Discovery album, Interstella 5555 tells the story (through music) of a rock band from another galaxy who are kidnapped by an evil manager (because as we all know, managers are evil), and forced to play for Earth.  A soldier from their home planet is sent to rescue them.

Review: I was in heaven!  I first heard about Interstella 5555 years ago from the Cartoon Network website.  Unfortunately, my computer at the time was a piece of crap and kept stalling in the middle.  So I searched high and low and almost a decade later, found not only the parts that I wasn't able to see, but ALL OF IT.  I first rediscovered it by buying the Daft Punk Discovery album... which I immediately lost... so I bought another one (it wasn't that cheap, ten bucks at Best Buy).  Anyway, fast forward a whole bunch of years and I found the DVD.  The animation looked familiar, that was when I discovered that it was the legendary Leiji Matsumoto (Star Blazers and the like).  I had to buy it.  It was fantastic, the suspense kept you hanging and the music was perfect (considering how the music was created first, it better be).