#Giant Robo the animation

[characteroulette]

YO so @ageofzero and I went ham on making a Giant Robo introductory powerpoint because we love GR so much. (I came up with the base and she got all the screenshots and refined everything)

if you were ever confused about this Giant Robo thing she and I talk about, here you go!! hope this helps!! go watch it!!!!

[artistmitchy]

Would anyone be interested in purchasing a GR themed acrylic keychain with this design? If I make them, I'll probably sell them for about 12$ USD. I want them to have a glitter effect, which costs more to produce.

The big watermark won't be on the final keychain by the way, I just don't want anyone to steal this design. You can find the poll here.

[maurofonseca]

daisaku kusama 草間大作

ginrei 銀鈴

from giant robo the animation

[ageofzero]

In response to your GR couples post: Alberto had a wife that’s mentioned a couple times in a few GR books. Her name is Kosanjou, and she died sometime after Sunny was born. They don’t say how, but I headcanon there were complications following Sunny’s birth. She looks like this:

oh wow, she’s really pretty! Second diversity win, Sunny the magician is mixed race like Genya and Ginrei are. :3

I suspected I might hear from you about Alberto, though he’d also fall into the category that Von Fogler falls into. She existed, he’s got a kid, but since she’s not actually *there* I wouldn’t count her for the sake of the joke. This is super neat to know, though.

[they-have-the-same-va]

Ginrei from Giant Robo: The Animation shares a voice actress with Mia from the .hack series.

Voiced by Debra Jean Rogers

[animenostalgia]

Art from Giant Robo: The Animation (1992)

[akudzava]

song: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - O Children

[keyblack]

Some illustrations from recent episodes of Off the Cuff!!

I've been forgetting to post these individually, so here's eight of 'em at once! I spend about 30 minutes on each drawing for this series, always talking about something I take inspiration from. Here's some stuff from Sonic, Snatcher, RoboCop, Mystery Skulls Animated, Trigun, Giant Robo, and Tetsujin 28!

You can check out all episodes of Off the Cuff so far over here!

[natsukashii-naa]

1992 anime

[paxesoterica]

So, since getting into mecha more than I used to (thanks again Witch from Mercury), I've learned that the trio of anime dudes grinning like unhinged gargoyles are the OG Getter Robo team (Hayato, Musashi, and Ryoma, pictured below).

I can see why it's been popular for memes and fan art (there's even one featuring Miorine Rembran, Suletta Mercury, and Chuatury Panlunch in these poses), but having just watched Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo, I'd like to voice my appreciation of the Go Team's version in the first picture, being both a callback to their predecessors while also distinguished from them.

(I particularly like that, while I don't know yet know how well Getter Robo in general handles its female cast, at the very least Sho Tachibana's expression here is just as unhinged as her male peers' [Gai Daido and Go Ichimonji], and while I appreciate that's not a very high bar to clear, it's still better than too many media ever do).

[hoard-of-plushes]

Banpresto Misteru Yokoyama character catalog items (1998)

[artistmitchy]

Happy (early) White day! 🖤🤍

White day is a holiday in which people give reciprocal gifts to those who gave them gifts one month after Valentine's day. I wonder who's lucky enough to get gifts from these two.

[yurisorcerer]

The Weekly Orbit [4/15/24]

It's mostly smooth sailing as we enter the second week of the season. Coverage for Mysterious Disappearances and Himitsu no AiPri premieres, plus Dungeon Meshi, Train to the End of the World, Pokemon Horizons, Giant Robo, and an intriguing Pixiv manga.

The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week, mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and assume familiarity with the works covered. Be wary of spoilers! We move into our second week of the new season, and things are mostly going steady with only a couple of comparative curveballs. Plus; an interesting…

[ageofzero]

Response to your ask: I remember finding a fan doujin on The Internet Archive that has fan art of Kosanjou. I thought it was official artwork at first, but it's like a "what if" scenario for what she could've looked like in the OVAs.

Text says:

""Ten Feet of Blue" Kosanjou"

"Wife of Alberto the impact (deceased) and mother of Sunny/Sally. In Water Margin (Suikoden), she's the only woman among the heroes. Therefore, she has many male fans."

“She has many male fans” jkadshfl indeed, though idk if Youshi has the same appeal as Ginrei clearly does, so maybe she wouldn’t have as many fans as that.

I couldn’t see her standing side by side with Alberto in the OVA itself, maybe it’s a lack of creativity on my part, but I think it’d be out of place within the context of the story being told. But she’s still awesome and I think she would’ve been very cool in motion!

[that-guys-anime-archive]

Took a brief hiatus on cleaning the Giant Robo settei to scan this doujinshi! This was first published in 1994, but was later revised in 1995. This doujinshi is mostly 4koma comics, but the middle section contains character biographies, along with a newspaper parody!! You can read it here:

[animenostalgia]

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 110: Giant Robo with MinovskyArticle

Last month, the beginning of a well-loved OVA series turned 30 years old:  Yasuhiro Imagawa’s love letter to mangaka Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s career, Giant Robo: The Animation (aka Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still)! And to celebrate this momentous occasion, Casey (aka MinovskyArticle) has returned to talk about all things Robo with me! For the first part of the podcast, we discuss in a spoiler-free way what exactly the series is, it’s history, why it’s special, and why you should check it out! After that, we go all out in the spoiler-zone to gush about our favorite characters, scenes, and answer all your listener questions! (Spoiler talk starts at around the 1:34:17 mark.) So sit back, relax, and celebrate one of our favorite anime series with us in this GIANT-sized, nearly 3-hour long episode! 

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Relevant links:

Buy Giant Robo on bluray at Rightstuf or Amazon!

Read about a Yasuhiro Imagawa lecture in the US from 2002!

Watch the Imagawa-directed Tetsujin 28 remake at Retrocrush

Check out this Giant Robo cosplay group page, “Experts of Cosplay”, still up and running on AngelFire! Some pictures are back from the 90s!

If you want to learn more about The Water Margin, one of the stories Yokoyama used as the basis of some of his manga, check out the Chinese Folklore Podcast!

Follow Casey on Twitter!

My theme song music was done by Kerobit! You can find more about them on their Twitter!

Support the work I do on this podcast by leaving me a tip on Ko-fi! Want to have your name read in the special thanks segment on the next episode? All you need to do is buy me 2 or more “coffees” on Ko-fi! As always, feel free to leave me your thoughts on this episode or ideas for future episodes here—or email me directly at AnimeNostalgiaPodcast@gmail.com.

Thanks for listening!