Although credited to Leiji Matsumoto, the show was originally created to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Kansai Electric Power Company, who sponsored and produced the film.
[2] The events of the story are centered on a Japanese solar power plant based in the planet Mercury called "Saint Elmo".
This phenomenon occurs in electrical weather at which high points (like masts on ships) will charge and give off a glow.
Japan builds a large space power plant called Saint Elmo in the planet Mercury.
The show features two theme songs, "Prometheus Futatabi" and "Tomoshibi wa Eternity", both performed by Yūko Ishikawa.