Even more Giant Robots...

It might as well have been giant robot theme week, but once you get into it... Grendizer is perhaps better know as Goldorak by French audiences, these two lovely videos pay testimony to it's enduring popularity:



If my spotty French is anything to go by: "Goldorak is dead, and my dad killed him."



Noted French Goldorak fans Metallica there, weighing in. Aside from these little gems, Grendizer was also the premier anime in the Arabic world, and Italian fans are now making the feature length remake themselves:

More Giant Robots!

After that giant Gundam Statue, another beloved Japanese giant Robot franchise gets it's life-size recreation. Considering japan's existing lead in Creepy robot technology, the hour draws nearer when they'll just attack China, and their crippling national debt be damned. If fake giant robots become ubiquitous, as they are now poised to, how long before real giant robots do? Sure, there's no point, but when has that ever been a problem?

Giant Robots Go!

In a typical 20 minute interval from work I looked up a cartoon I watched as a kid, because that's what you do with those intervals. I remembered this because of it's annoying/awesome theme song and bizarre Japanese dream logic storytelling, barely compensated by an English Dub.



It just looks a little weird, especially compared to the show, which just wasn't as filled with cool for 1985 flip-wipes, and seizure inducing colour effects. This is of course, because the Japanese opening is different and much weirder. Observe:



People who watched this show in America apparently had footage of this show, interspersed with footage of another Japanese giant Robot show, and some unconvincing 'alternate universe' explanation for these two different shows pasted together. Japanese stuff is difficult to make palatable to Western audiences, but there's no doubt in my mind which of these intros I would have preferred as a kid.