I didn’t even know this existed until a couple of days ago, when a bizarre screed about it got posted.
Apparently it was funded at least in part by NFTs, and apparently there was some AI involvement (which I would’ve presumed anyway, since it looks hand drawn, and pretty much nobody is willing to pay for that today), and the story involves a mysterious society of villains and a scattered group of heroes who have to come together to defeat them, and somehow that means that it’s Nazi.
Yeah… I didn’t get it either. I guess that means that everything from Lord of the Rings to Sailor Moon is also Nazi.
But anyway, what the screed did for me was Streisand it, so I tracked it down and watched it.
And I’d say mostly what it was was cheesy.
The animation was actually sort of neat, because it not only looked to be hand drawn but of notably high quality. And it had a very 80s/90s aesthetic.
The story - what there was of it - was pretty much pure tropes. In the distant past, some sort of hyper inelligent galactic “mother” maintained peace, but it was destroyed by the big bad evil group and it broke into parts, in the form of super warriors who for some reason represent every possible version of 90s gyaru culture, who were scattered across the galaxy and who must now come together to fight against the big bad evil.
And that was pretty much the extent of it. It showed a bunch of characters, but only really focused on two, and didn’t even reveal much about them other than that they apparently have complicated histories. And as I already noted, the artstyle was sort of neat. But nothing else particularly stood out one way or another.
I would presume that this was meant as essentially a pilot episode for a potential series/franchise, and if it happens, I’ll likely check it out, because it could be pretty good with the right balance of nostalgia and originality. But I don’t think that’s particularly likely, and I won’t miss it if it just fades away, because really, to me, all it was was… okay. Sort of intriguing, but no big deal really.
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Sounds perfectly period accurate to me, honestly. Almost all classic anime is cheesy and full of what have now become overused tropes. I will enjoy checking this one out.