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FIRST BATTLE!
Taiyo Sentai Sunvulcan (opening) submitted by
@RT-55J
Let's do some extra research! OK so despite being some sorta U.N.-y multinational military initiative, the Sunvulcan team meet up in a little snack shack type thing with a secret military base in the back room and their commander is out front serving food when it isn't mission briefing time. That's pretty cool. Also they fight using their animal powers so Vul Panther is climbing trees and pouncing and stuff and Vul Eagle is just straight up flying around and Vul Shark is... uh... swimming through the air and using his hands to "bite" people. This is exactly as weird and goofy looking as it sounds.
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No No Give Up (Lady Battle Cop OP) submitted by
@Kishi
It's a bit hard to keep coming up with trivia about an 80 minute movie that's mostly just "we felt like doing a shameless gender swapped Robocop thing" but uh...
the whole movie's just sitting there on youtube? I can talk about how good this costume design is I guess. It's kind of halfway between the Robocop suit and a Bubblegum Crisis Hardsuit, with the stiff grey limbs but with the big bubble head. And the one big bauble earring just swinging around at all times prominently. It really is a pretty solid look. Also she has the ability to armor up her lips when needed which... yeah, kind of a big flaw in the standard Robocop design that.
NEXT BATTLE!
Zankoku no Tenshi no Thesis (Ichiro Kageyama cover) submitted by
@Torzelbaum
I could divulge so very much Eva lore, but you all know it. You also all know, I'd think, that the director of the series has, in recent years, kinda become like the Japanese J.J. Abrams, with everyone giving him the keys to all the classic sci-fi franchises and letting him do his own movies for Godzilla, Kamen Rider, and Ultra Man, and while we get a
bonkers promotional toy out of that, it's weird seeing all these through the lens of this one guy who's very much hung up on his own stuff and doesn't really seem to have paid attention to where these things have gone past their initial outings half a decade ago. Fortunately the canon continuations of these get to ignore these to a greater degree than their western equivalents.
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Rescue Fire (Tomica Hero: Rescue Fire OP) submitted by
@Vaeran
... OK so I just randomly pulled up an episode of this and skimmed through and we've got this whole all-fire-themed villain group hanging out with their little flame headed mook army and they're simultaneously attacking with a big flaming tank and a big flaming crab and the main guy is driving a firetruck up and whacking at the crab with the ladder and then later the crab and tank combine into a big flaming crab tank and so the heroes combine all their vehicles (the firetruck, a bulldozer and I think a helicopter) to make a "dragon" which is just... kinda... the firetruck with little buldozer claws on either side and a giant fan at the end of the latter lifting its hood to "roar" and scratching with its claws and during this whole big thing this here main theme is playing and that is some PRETTY GREAT STUFF. This was episode 9, for reference.
Today I am all about the robots mashing together to make a big mess. Sorry robots that are actually women.
I had a weird blackout so I'm late posting this. My apologies.