This show is 130% imagination. More imaginative than anything that's been on American TV in at least a generation.
It's Japan of the 60's so that's already a plus. Relatively empty city streets, bullet shaped cars, drab Japanese home interiors...
...and that Jazz! Every episode is PACKED to the gills with an absolutely surreal jazz score that can't be explained. You NEED to experience it. I don't even
A villainous army of Japanese Che Guevara clones (shades, berets, goatees and all), ridiculously over-sized machine gun props, jet packs, toy tanks which shoot sparks. Giant Robot's head bears a mechanical approximation of Gulliver's face adorned with an abbreviated ancient Egyptian headdress.
It sounds like something that would get you fired, then assassinated by your former studio exec employers. But it's all fascinating! The entire production is just fascinating and some of the imagery has been etched permanently into my mind since childhood.
This show was massive when I was a child and it's still amazing when I look back on it as a mature adult.
This could never be made again.
It's Japan of the 60's so that's already a plus. Relatively empty city streets, bullet shaped cars, drab Japanese home interiors...
...and that Jazz! Every episode is PACKED to the gills with an absolutely surreal jazz score that can't be explained. You NEED to experience it. I don't even
A villainous army of Japanese Che Guevara clones (shades, berets, goatees and all), ridiculously over-sized machine gun props, jet packs, toy tanks which shoot sparks. Giant Robot's head bears a mechanical approximation of Gulliver's face adorned with an abbreviated ancient Egyptian headdress.
It sounds like something that would get you fired, then assassinated by your former studio exec employers. But it's all fascinating! The entire production is just fascinating and some of the imagery has been etched permanently into my mind since childhood.
This show was massive when I was a child and it's still amazing when I look back on it as a mature adult.
This could never be made again.