[LMB] Anime

[Peter Granzeau]

At 01:48 PM 5/31/2008, Karen L. Black wrote:

>"Paranoia Agent" -- Kon's 6-episode series. There's a kid on skates with a
>baseball bat attacking people -- or is he imaginary? The borders between
>reality, imagination, and insanity get pretty fuzzy in this series.

I think this one was a 13-episode series.

The 6-episode series was "Fooly Cooly" ("FLCL").

>"The Big O" -- Roger Smith is the top negotiator in Paradigm City, a place
>where machines work but everyone's lost their memories of forty years
>before. He can broker a deal with a kidnapper, find out why the power keeps
>going off, or find a man who has vanished to give him his severance pay. And
>if things get too tough, he can call up his 100-foot giant robot and do some
>serious damage. So why can't he sleep as late as he'd like?

I think I fell in love with Dorothy.

>"FLCL" -- You think growing up is tough? How about living in a town with a
>giant flatiron? Getting regularly clocked in the head by a guitar-wielding
>gal on a Vespa? How about having a large lump in the middle of your
>forehead? Life's not easy for Naota, and getting mixed up in an interstellar
>tug-of-war doesn't help.
>
>"Project A-ko" -- There is a whole bunch of series about girls who transform
>into superheros ("Sailor Moon," for one.) "Project A-ko" is a parody of
>them. C-ko is desperately in love with A-ko and wants to make her happy.
>B-ko wants C-ko, and would be happy to destroy A-ko to get her. Chaos
>ensues.

I saw it in an undubbed, undoubtedly very illegal, copy of a copy of a copy sometime in the 1980s on VCR tape.  I never actually saw the transforming girl cartoons, but evidently in Japan, all girls go to school wearing sailor suits (I'm thinking about the female heroines of "Evangelion" and "Inuyasha", for instance).


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Regards, Pete
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