[dreamcastegirl]

I'm re-watching Imagawa Yasuhiro's Giant Robo, which is a short series of true, majestic beauty, a rare pearl amidst a sea of inferior imitators, drawing inspiration partly from the 1967 tokusatsu series, but primarily from the comic by Yokoyama Mitsuteru from which it was adapted.

The series is a joyous homage to Yokoyama's entire body of work, drawing characters from his adaptations of classics such as Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms—which were both likewise adapted into live-action shows, and I watched alternately with the series, Monkey as a child—a work of such importance that we could call it the Watchmen of giant robot cartoons, no lesser in value is its function in deconstructing the tropes and dynamics of the genre.

Suffice to say, I think you should all watch it, if you have not already.