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DS Wants You! To Watch Toku(-inspired) Anime!
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08-25-2020, 11:53 PM
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Magnugiga
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I'll definitely keep that mind! I'm actually leaning a bit more towards Garo at the moment, mainly due to a friend of mine who really loves the franchise as a whole, and also used the anime to get into it.
Neat!
I've now seen Episode 3-4 of the Kikaider anime. Love the addition of the detective character and his assistant to the cast, they provide great additional perspective and I can't help but be amused at how their way more caricature-ish design (they look like they literally came from Fujiko Fujio manga!) can coexist with Jiro, Mitsuko, and the show's generally gloomy visual tone.
Solid character work as always with more hilarious/sad moments from Jiro (love that scene with the busker), and Episode 4 has my favorite battle scene so far with the character from DreamSword's sig (based on the pic alone, I had thought he's actually a higher-up antagonist rather than a Villain of The Week :v Still a pretty memorable character!). It got quite melodramatic at the end, but it's the kind of melodrama I can get behind; I watched more than hundreds episodes of Astro Boy, after all, give me all the robotic existential crisis! The "mad machine" line is totally meme-worthy for how fond the show is at repeating that flashback scene (particularly during certain hilariously redundant sequence in Episode 3), but setting that aside, I actually like the progression of Mitsuko's character and thought process.
Also, this thread REALLY got me into the mood to check out more toku anime, so I started watching SSSS Gridman on a whim once I noticed it's on Netflix. It's based on the cyber superhero show Denkou Chojin Gridman (which I recognize through its American adaptation, Super Samuray Syber Squad), and the first episode was very solid with some distinct visual flair and direction. Really looking forward to watch more of that as well.
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