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From: psc@lzmi.UUCP (Paul S. R. Chisholm)
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Subject: Re: Japanese Animation
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Date: Sun, 3-Mar-85 18:12:15 EST
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Summary:  Orbots are okay, but Lupin is better.



>   If you're really interested in excellent Japanese animation try watching
>*Mighty Orbots* on ABC Saturday mornings at 8:00am. . . .  The stories
>themselves are better than your usual saturday morning stuff.  One word
>of caution, the episodes at the beginning of the season are of slightly
>higher quality than those towards the end.

Gee, I must have seen late season stuff.

Let's be fair.  MIGHTY ORBOTS mostly seems like a take off on VOTRON,
with a good taste of . . . oh, felgercarb, that DC comic from the 60s,
with a buch of robots, each made of a different metal (e.g., tin, gold,
iron, etc.)  The robots are not to be taken 100% seriously, and I
assume, neither is the series.  Even if you did take it seriously (a
bad move for Saturday at eight in the morning), it wouldn't be too bad,
compared to its competition.

You want to talk *GOOD* Japanese animation?  In a word, LUPIN.  In two
words, "Lupin III", a Frence third generation thief.  He has a couple of
sidekicks, a Chicago hit man and a Japanese samuri, who were sent to kill
him and decided to join him instead.  More action than STAR WARS, more
adventure then James Bond, not quite as many laughs as Bugs Bunny.

Outside of SF cons, the only time I've seen Lupin is in the laser video
game "Cliffhanger".  This is made of scenes from two Lupin movies:
CASTLE CAGLIOSTRO (which is subtitled), and some other one (the one with
the helicopter in the sewer, which is dubbed).  Check out the "L" on
"Cliff's" belt buckle.
-- 
	-Paul S. R. Chisholm
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