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DS Wants You! To Watch Toku(-inspired) Anime!
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01-28-2021, 02:39 PM
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DreamSword
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Detonator Orgun
is certainly an interesting, yet tricky piece of anime history for me to talk about. The biggest hurdles being that it's a very obscure OVA, even moreso than what
Android Kikaider
is, and the other being that I can't read Japanese, so finding information on this thing is pretty tough. But, I'll do my best to share what I know with you all I cover this.
From what I've grown to understand, this 3-Episode OVA, was originally pitched as reboot of Tatsunoko's' more popular production:
Tekkaman the Space Knight
. If you have no idea what that is, well, here's all you really need to know:
Isn't it great!? Anyway, Tekkaman took alot of inspiration from Toku shows(like many of Tatsunoko's' shows did), and both it and its eventual reboot are considered cult classics in both Japan and among anime hardcores alike. But, that reboot is decidedly Not
Detonator Orgun
.
As I understand it, Tatsunoko actually turned down the initial pitch in
Orgun
, and as such, the minds behind the project then went on to create the OVA we have now. The OVA ended up doing well enough that Tatsunoko would actually in turn use it as inspiration for the actual reboot that
Tekkaman
would eventually receive:
Tekkaman Blade
.
So yeah, if anyone reading this is a fan of
Tekkaman Blade
(localized as
Teknoman Blade
), then you have
Detonator Orgun
to thank, making this a really interesting watch if only for the sake of comparison.
But! This OVA has more going for it than that, which I'm hoping I'll be able to highlight over the next few days.
This is gonna be tricky though, because every episode is an hour long, and I wanna try to hook you all into checking this show out. So, I'm not not gonna do a huge play-by-play. I don't wanna spoil too much, and if I DID do that, every post would be like a novelette in terms of length, so instead, I'm gonna go for a slightly different approach and instead do a more sort of generalization of each episode. And if at any point any of this sounds interesting to you, then please, feel free to check this OVA out and post your thoughts!
I also recommend watching the subbed version if you can find it. Because while I don't think the dub is out and out bad, it is definitely on the more mediocre side of things.
With that, let's begin!
Episode 1
The show starts off intense and remains that way throughout most of the first episode. While I couldn't find a rip of Orgun's' main theme,
Super Robot Wars W
(the best SRW game) actually managed to do a really faithful recreation of it with the NDS sound card. Check it out:
Detonator Orgun
takes place in the far off future of the 80s, where life seems pretty good. Humanity has expanded its reach across the solar system, having colonized various planets. Modern technology means everyone's' daily needs are met no problem, and the Earth Defense Force is made up of soldiers who wear Transformers as armor.
Enter our protagonist, Tomoru. He's a young man with way out of date fashion sense who doesn't know what he wants with his life. While he's making it through college fine, and certainly has family connections that make finding a career not much of a hassle, he appears lack any clear focus or passion, and instead finds himself spending most of his days sleeping and playing videogames. He considers joining the EDF, but feels it rings hallow compared to the military of thousands of years ago.
Things have gotten rather weird in recent times though. Tomoru begins getting these odd visions as he sleeps, and a local psychic predicts that a great disaster is about to befall the Earth. Ontop of that, EDF scientist Professor Kanzaki and her supercomputer, I-ZACK, receive a transmission from space; A set of blueprints allowing them to build an incredibly advanced suit of armor that they have no idea the purpose of.
And sure enough, they're gonna need it because an alien race known as the Evoluder begin to invade Earth, on a mission to recover that suit of armor specifically. The episode does a great job at selling just how dangerous just one of these creatures actually is too. It lays waste to the city at large, takes no damage from any of the EDF's' current weaponry, and appears to be a sort of living weapon in and of itself. It is only by Tomoru accepting his destiny that the threat is able to be dealt with.
The episode overall is really heavy on mysterious atmosphere. From the mystery of what the Evoluders are, to Tomoru's' visions, to how exactly Orgun is involved in all of this, the OVA is very definitely following a defined 3-Act Structure, and as such, the first episode is all about build up. It has good animation, well directed action scenes, and the music, while not amazing, does a fine job at getting you in just the right mood for whatever is going on. It definitely did its job in capturing my interest and getting me to watch the other two episodes, if nothing else.
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