Via Gia via Moon Phase: Yasuhiro Imagawa, that underrated genius dude who directed Giant Robo, G Gundam and wrote Bartender, is doing a new Mazinger TV series.
Why is this important to us? If you don't know, you need to be taught. Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still is one of the best and, bizarrely, least-loved, anime ever made. I just gave you a bunch of superlatives coming out of the superlatively large LoGH, but Giant Robo is a whole other sort of awesome. If you want a beautiful piece of animation that will, perhaps, make you cry about guys who can light cigars with their minds and kill people by snapping their fingers-- plus a robot-- then you owe this to yourself. And you know what? That still doesn't do Giant Robo justice. The list of amazing things in this show just runs too long. If I were to sit there and read them off to you, you would be here reading this post for three hours. This is time better spent watching Giant Robo, which you can do for about $20, nowadays. Holy shit, is that a deal! Do it! Do it! One day I'll make a real post about Giant Robo!
What Imagawa is good at is really pouring it on. The BURNING GUTS SPIRIT and the overflowing sentimentality of a typical Imagawa work might put you off, but you can't fault the man for holding back. Of course, this is what super robot anime is all about, so he's a perfect match for the genre. Mazinger, meanwhile, is about as prolific a Japanese super robot as there is. We can reason, then, that putting Imagawa together with Mazinger will result in a magnificent fanboy dream project. As good as Mazinkaiser already was as a remake of Mazinger Z (not to mention the finest violence for those who fear not even God), I'm confident that Imagawa, as ever, will sprinkle in a special something. Make me proud!
I can't wait.
One of these days I need to get around to Mazinkaiser :(
Posted by: wildarmsheero | June 14, 2008 at 02:04 AM