Crystal Jewels the Movie: Kingdom of Survival

Crystal Jewels the Movie: Kingdom of Survival (known in Southeast Asia as Crystal Jewels: The Second Coming), and known in Japan as Crystal Jewels the Movie: Survival Kingdom (クリスタルジュエルの映画:サバイバルの王国 Kurisutarujueru No Eiga: Sabaibaru Noōkoku) is the 1994 feature film of the franchise. It is the second movie that follows Crystal Jewels The Movie: Thunderai Rage, and takes place during the second season of the anime series. The feature film have released in Japan in February 17, 1994, and is released between "The Eyes of the Tower" (episode 112) and "Obsession with the Flames" (episode 113) in the Japanese order. Like the previous movie released, it features many of the anime characters, and even characters that didn't appear in the movie series yet.

The English dub of the film (dubbed by Saban Entertainment) was released in February 15, 1995 in the United States, 1 year and 3 days after the original Japanese version of the film is released. It was released in English between "I'm Your Flower's Boy" (Episode 119), and "Mist in the Servants" (Episode 120, 2nd season finale) in the United States airing. It aired on television in Japan by TyataTV in September 23, 1994, and was aired on television for the English version in April 19, 1995. The film have also aired in Southeast Asia as Crystal Jewels: The Second Coming, in April 15, 2005 on Cartoon Network. The second movie of the series, it was as popular as the first one.

Plot
After Marcy, becoming a showoff, shows the ancient and rare gold shield to Kouchu (even though she got it from the Kingdom Quaters), he convinced Shari to go to the Kingdom Quaters for him to get one, much to Shauna's and Sakuro's dismays. So the Crystal Brawlers have suddenly travelled to the Kingdom Quaters as Shari and Dustin have drove them there for a tour led by Iccryst's daughter (Iccrysta), who is also created by Iccryst and led her to help him protect the Crystal World. Meanwhile, Kathern believes that there are Crystal Balls in the Quaters, so the Furious Five have followed them there as well at Hunter Grai's request.

Meanwhile, Marc appears at Iccryst's quarters and was told that there is a new threat coming from space to the Crystal World. A new threat makes an appearance of a new evil character, XYZ, who lives at the opposite side of the Crystal Universe. XYZ have finally defeated Marc and stolen his soul in order to do a favor for Devil J to gather all the Crystal Balls around the Crystal World. Meanwhile, after Kouchu Misako, Shauna Genga, Sakuro Himensho, Roaracryst, and the others stopped the bank robbery, at night time as the Evil Marc have tried to steal every Crystal Ball in the Kingdom. Kouchu was given a message from Marc that he is in trouble. He ordered Kouchu to gather the world's shield in Great Tower, the tallest tower in Jarbon, before the world is destroyed by XYZ. Meanwhile, Julia, Kathern, Genuan, Hiyon, and Katie have reached to the Great Tower first so they could swipe the world's Crystal Ball. However, their attempt to swipe the Crystal Ball have made the Great Tower go down. Kouchu races up with Roaracryst to gather the shield before it is too late. However, they have the shield, while falling to their death, only at the other minute Birdono have saved them from falling. Meanwhile, Shauna and Sakuro attempts to sneak into the lair to activate the switch in which it frees Marc, but they have already failed to do so.

Birdono have led Kouchu and Roaracryst to XYZ's location where he is torturing Marc. Marc was then tortured and turned into stone by XYZ. Kouchu must gather all the shields in order to revive Marc before it is 12 am and the world is in its end. Kouchu, along with Shauna, Sakuro, Dustin, and Professor Shari, all arrived at Great Tower (falling slowly) to find the 6 missing shields. After the 6 stones were collected, which was a hard task, Kouchu must face XYZ and his army. In the middle of the fight, the world Crystal Ball have already break, leading the whole world to be turned upside down, so Kouchu and his friends continues to fight before XYZ gathers all the world's worth of power. Once all of his army was defeated except for XYZ, the brawlers chases after him for the Crystal Ball. With the help of Iccryst's daughter, who saved Kouchu and Roaracryst from being killed by lava, Kouchu and his friends manage to defeat XYZ to save the universe, and Kouchu revived Marc afterwards with a Crystal Jewel that appears to be from the world's Crystal Ball.

XYZ
XYZ, also known literally in Japanese as Eckoso Waizett (エックスワイゼット Ekkusu Waizetto) as full name, is the antagonist of the film, where he attempts to control the Crystal World using Marc.

Evil Marc
Evil Marc is the character who is born from Marc's egg, but immediately escaped to build the Great Tower, in which he centers himself in.

Music
The opening theme for the English Dub is "Every Crystal Has a Power". The ending theme for the English Dub is "Everyone's Dream".

(女性のひも Josei no himo) - OPENING Psycho Moon (サイコムーン Saikomūn) - ENDING
 * Kase Mieko (artist)
 * Himi Iemochi (lyrics)
 * Satow Yoshitoki (producer)
 * Yadama Yoringa (music)
 * Henmi Ryosei (artist)
 * Gima Satoru (lyrics)
 * Taniuchi Yorikanei (producer)
 * Tazawa Rkuemon (music)

Production
The production of this movie have started between August and September 1993, around the first monthly publications of the manga.

Box office
It is also the 27th highest grossing film in the Japanese box, and yet the 3rd highest in the United States of the Crystal Jewels franchise, 24 ranks away from the first movie, making it one of the high grossing films in the United States because of it's more viewers, however, it have still became popular among Japanese viewers of the film.

Release
The movie was remastered in high definition and aired on TyataTV seven months later after it's original release, and now it is available for some home releases. The movie was released on DVD by September 19, 1994, and is available for home releases. The movie was also released in November 2, 1995 in DVD for home releases for the United States. The movie was remastered for high definition and was shown on YellTV, JunkCable, ToonerBOMB, and AnimeCable.

Trivia

 * Even though Elliott haven't appeared in the first movie, he made his film debut in this one, but in his first film appearance, he have only spoken a very few lines.
 * This marks Iccryst's daughter's first appearance in the movies as well, even she have appeared in the regular episodes of the series. In the later series of the franchise, she appeared less frequently.
 * This movie was skipped from Austrailia for unknown reasons.
 * The English Dub name for XYZ was going to be Exwaizy, but the translators of the English Version of the series finds it too "cheesy" to the English dub, so they have sticked with the XYZ name. XYZ was named after the last three letters, meaning that the character have three Crystal Monsters among them.
 * This movie was also the first movie to be aired in-between the episodes in YellTV in 1995.
 * This is also the last movie in the English version which have used the "Every Crystal Has a Power" original version until the 10th movie, which uses a remastered version of the song for the series' 10th anniversary.
 * From this film, the rest of the films will start releasing every February of the year. The previous movie have released 7-8 months before this movie have released in Japan.
 * The Great Tower is the tallest tower of the Jarbon Region than any of the tower. In the Original Japanese dub of the film, Marc have stated that one person have died to his death from falling in the tower.
 * All the blood, swearing, and the sexual innuedo was edited, cut out, and modified for the English dub so the film could be more kid-friendly. Like the bath scene with Shauna and Mouselette is all cut out.
 * There was originally going to be a scene where Marc have died, and was killed by XYZ, which prompt Kouchu to avenge him, but there is a plot change, which that scene didn't make it through the release.

Manga adaptation
The manga version of the movie titled Crystal Jewels: '''Marc vs. XYZ! Crisis at Great Tower!' (クリスタルジュエル：マークvs.！ グレートタワーの危機！Kurisutarujueru: Māku vs. Ekkusu Waizetto! Gurētotawā no Kiki!'') was released in BangBang Comics magazine before this movie was released. It is also a side story manga that will be adapted in the film. The manga version of this movie with five parts released in September 1993 through January 1994.