Getter Robo 2014 Announcement! Unleash Dino Getter!

There’s going to be a new Getter Robo. Excuse me. I’ll be in the corner going fucking insane with excitement, but understand. There’s going to be a new Getter Robo!

Ok, so, what does it say? This is a new show because it’s Getter’s 40th anniversary. I fully expect a forward along the lines of “In Memory of Ken Ishikawa.” It’s a collaboration between Dynamic Pro and Sentinel Co, so there’s bound to be tons of figures. The “Concept Design” is credited to Go Nagai. I don’t know if that means he’s being credited with the original idea of Getter instead of Ishikawa or the two together, or if that means he created the idea for whatever the show will be about personally. The robot designs are credited to “NINNIN (XELFLEX)” who I don’t know anything about. It’s all coming out next year. Oh, and the bottom thing in quotes says “Dino Getter.” Dino Getter was a special Getter machine robot built by the new Dinosaur Empire to keep pace with the Getter Arc team. They would later go as support to that team when they went through the portal to see Getter Emperor’s war path across the cosmos!

Do you understand? If this is anime uses that machine, it might be using that storyline. If this anime is using that storyline, then we might not just be getting a new Getter anime. We might be getting a Getter Robo Arc anime, so we might be getting an ending to Getter Robo Arc. And if Go Nagai worked on the storyline himself, that means that it’s official from Dynamic Pro.

I can’t contain it. I’ll just let you know when something else comes up. I don’t like CG Robots, but I’ll deal if this uses them. I really hope that guy who worked on Gurren Lagann that really liked Getter, I think Kazuki Nakajima [Edit: Sorry, Kazuki Nakashima], works on this.

[Edit: All right, now that I’ve had some time, I’ve gotten a few new bits of information. NINNIN is this guy. He’s a designer, a lot of what you’ll see on that Pixiv are mosters for Cardfight Vanguard, and these are his designs. These actually are the “Dino Getter” mentioned in the quotes at the bottom, so that isn’t a tease for a later Dino Getter design. These designs were used for figures at Wonder Festival this year, but the poster still bills it for 2014, so we can still probably count on the anime. It just probably won’t be Arc like I was hoping. Oh well, I’m still into it.]

[Edit 2: Man, it’s been a while since this came up. Important news! Nothing so far has confirmed this as an anime for this year of 2014. When the poster came down the pipe, we all got a little overzealous about the prospect of a new Getter anime, and I got swept up in the tide. I didn’t think this story would have so much persistence, so I didn’t change it once news stopped coming out, but since it has, I’ll be clear. There has been no confirmation or official announcement of a new Getter Robo anime. Sorry for the confusion. I’m also pretty sad about it. I’ve also changed the title to further alter confusion.]

Koshiryoku Sunglasses! Mazinger and Devilman Anniversary Eyeware

People make the weirdest things. Fan things aside, even professionals make the weirdest things. So how do I react when ANN posts a story about Japanese sunglasses company Optical Coolens making sunglasses with Kouji Kabuto/Akira Fudo sideburns and Devilman eye lines and wings for the 40th anniversary of Mazinger Z and Devilman?

(Images © Go Nagai, Dynamic Planning, and Optical Coolens. From the Coolens Facebook page)

I have to react with a new Christmas gift idea for myself. So if any of you reading this are thinking about what to get us, Coolens is taking preorders starting on Monday. Of course, I wouldn’t expect that of anyone out there. These things are going for some really high prices. The Mazinger ones will be $218 and the Devilman ones will be $291. That’s a serious bill for some novelty eyeware. I’m guessing they’ll be a limited run item since it’s for the anniversary.

Fall Anime Season 2012: Super Sexy Edition

Fall season is most certainly still underway and there are just a few more shows that the public needs to know to avoid or watch depending upon your taste. Actually reading through the last reveiws made me just have this horrible thought, “Ya’ know, I’ve seen some bad shows so far, but nothing has made me want to kill myself.” As a result I went on a quest to find something awful. Also I watched the first two episodes of Robotics;Notes.

Robotics;Notes

Robotics;Notes is actually one of those shows that if the writing of it can stay at a consistent level, then it will be well worth any time put into it. Simply put, the story is about a rather energetic robot fan girl and her quiet, gamer friend trying to build a life sized super robot. Sounds simple, but it’s actually a nice idea because it ends up focusing more strongly on the hard process it would actually be if someone were building a super robot in real life. However, I’m not sure why this show tries to be more realistic since its pretty obvious that building a super robot would cost too much money, would take more than half a year, would be completely impractical, and there is no God damn way a group of two people would be able to pull this off without having the police getting involved. Seriously, they are building a super weapon and the school actively acknowledges this as a club activity. Hell, their school is even funding them to make this weapon!

Facts that disprove all realism aside, one of the things that makes me enjoy this show so far is the motivation for building a Super Robot. “Why the hell not?” At least that’s what the main hero thinks. The main heroine actually just thinks,”Well this robot show was really cool, so if I have a robot, then I will also be cool.” I can’t help but feel like the robot that is her inspiration is also a bit of a Gurren Lagann reference since it is supposedly the culmination of over 50 years of mecha animation with frequent referencing to older shows. Gunvarrel, as it is called, also had one missing episode, the final episode that everyone is curious about. If only Gurren Lagann had a missing episode…wait, then I’d just be pissed.

Despite all this, the show does have one significant draw back, It’s not Mazinkaiser nothing truly substantial has happened. It’s the same issue as From the New World, where the plot doesn’t really happen until a few episodes have passed. Then again, at least there is a plot as opposed to a long series of nonsequitor plot points stringed together by a long series of over saturated color schemes in an overly flashy show that doesn’t know what the fuck is going on, K. So in short, Robotics;Notes has more potential than it really should considering the simple ideas that are its backbone. The characters are likable, the story is decently told, and the main characters are doing exactly what I would do if I had more money, and a degree in electrical engineering, and a robot design, and a lot of other stuff.

Code:Breaker

In the apparently continuing trend of having a symbol splitting the name of your show, we have here Akimine Kamijyo’s Code:Breaker. Now, i’m going to be honest here, despite how I wanted to find piles of shit shows, Code:Breaker isn’t actually that bad. Don’t get me wrong, it has quite a few Shonen stereotypes in both characters and plot, but it does some things that are just rather well done. It has a rather normal shonen set up, girl meets boy, boy has magic powers and is a bit of a dick, girl wants to fix that. Rather normal set up for the demographic this is supposed to appeal to. However, the main character is actually what has made this show a bit decent. He has the rather simple power of making shit burst into flames, but his method for doing so is by grabbing someone’s face and then they explode into fire. I just love it.

It’s not even like he only does that on occasion, it happens all the time. The only times that he doesn’t do it are when it’s physically impossible for him to do so. Not only that, his constant air of being a dick is actually a bit enjoyable because it makes him very desensitized to the world around him. Instead of being all like,”Oh my God! I’m gonna have to kill this dog because it’s going to die anyway,” he’s more like, “I will end your misery.” That’s how you know he’s supposed to be dark, or at least shonen dark, which for some reason works for him. His dickishness is actually most prominent when he is in the presence of the main heroine who is quite a bitch and needs to learn how to shut the fuck up about justice and the proper way to punish criminals. It’s fun to actually watch a character be treated the way I would treat them, assholishly.

Unfortunately, he can’t be too good, afterall this is a shonen show we are talking about. The main character does have one verbal tick that royally pisses me off. “Eye for and eye, a tooth for a tooth, an evil for an evil.” The real issue with him saying that, is that he does it every time he is about to kill some people, so the only saving grace I suppose is that the statement will always be followed by face grabbing and I’m always in the mood for a face being grabbed. Really I just want the show to be a looping gif of him grabbing faces in progressively cooler ways.

Onii-chan dakedo Ai sae Areba Kankei Naiyone!/

As Long as There’s Love, It Doesn’t Matter If He is My Brother, Right

Hahahahahaha. Pornography. What? This show has Onii-chan in it’s name, what did you expect it to be? It’s just another by the books harem where one of the girls is the main character’s twin sister. The only thing redeemable about this show is that the main character isn’t a complete dumbass seeing as how he reacts to everything in a calm way, and has created a system based on her little sister’s fucked-upedness that earns him money. If you don’t believe me about this show, watch the opening and tell me it’s not exactly what I just called it.

So yeah, I wanted to offend myself and as a result I watched porn, a rather good show, and a surprisingly ok show. I guess that’s just how anime works nowadays. It’s unfortunate, in the past, if you wanted to make porn you could just go and contact Go Nagai and he would make your porn cool, but now we just have to put up with this bullshit. It also used to be that if you wanted to make an all right shonen show, your name was Akira Toriyama and you made Dragon Ball, so maybe the past wasn’t that great.

Mazinger Z, now with sound!

So, you know about the recent Mazinger Z DX Soul of Chogokin figure?

Image from the official DX Soul of Chogokin Mazinger Z site, so please give them all the credit.

Yeah, I’m not a figure collector and I think that’s one sexy beast. It’s the first Chogokin figure to feature light up and sound, including for the “Pilder On!” sequence, light up eyes for Photon Beam, light up fins with exchangeable translucent plates so you can see Breast Fire in action, Drill Missiles in the arms with exchangeable arms for a firing pose, joints for Rocket Punch, and, honestly, it’s just good looking in general.

It’s so good that Soul of Chogokin did an interview with Go Nagai getting his thoughts on Mazinger Z from creation until now and how the figures have grown with the franchise. Even now he continues to look to the future of figurines, lamenting the serious cost that a one meter figure would have. But back in the day, the light up and sounds were too much, so maybe one day, one day, we can all have a little waist high Mazinger.

Super Robot Awesome – Kotetsu Jeeg: Mach Drills Shoot!

When your fists aren’t enough, change them out for giant, rocket powered drills.

Episode 4 of Steel Jeeg. Song is “Song of Kotetsu Jeeg” performed by Ichirou Mizuki with Columbia Yurikago-kai and Koorogi ’73. Thanks to The Skaro Hunting Project for the subtitles.

MTAC Omega 2012 – English Dub Power Video Segments

Told you’d I’d do this. Here’s all the bad dubs with their own video so you don’t have to load up the whole thing if you just want to see a specific one. Also, there’s a 3rd party content notice on the MD Geist video. I guess that’s a property someone really wants to protect, but it shouldn’t impede your viewing of the video.