So, today’s L-A-D post mentions Yu Yamamoto, creator of the J9 series of mecha shows that I though I was completely unfamiliar with. So I thought I’d check their openings.
Turns out I wasn’t entirely unfamiliar with them.
I’ve seen the above opening animation in MAD videos collecting Yoshinori Kanada animation, so presumably it contains his work.
This third series involved Lupin III creator Monkey Punch on the script and manga adaptation. It was based on Around The World In 80 Days. There’s another post for another day – 80s sci-fi based on classic literature. The bastard love children of World Masterpiece Theatre and Yamato.
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Can’t say the mecha designs are setting my world of fire in all of these, but the Kazuo Komatsubara character designs look great. All the openings are fairly stonking too. I’m guessing in order to see these in anything resembling English, you’re going to have to go the HK bootleg route.