2008 May 03 | Deranged Minds

This isn’t Anime. That’s right… I sinned! Instead of watching Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone which I recently picked up, I instead went outside into the nice sunny outdoors (it wasn’t raining today for once, pretty odd) to transverse to a indoor location to watch a Movie. That’s right, I sinned and it was good. Very good!

I remember talking a while back about being a fan of SciFi a while back in relation to Macross Frontier, and talking a bit about one of the biggest pulls of the genre for me was fine attention to mechanical detail and imaginative works. Iron Man delivered all of that to me as well. The suit was done so well, the armour moving plates to accommodate different working parts and Jarvis, the funniest and coolest AI with holographic interface computer system ever. I so want that is real life.

I did hear some complaints of bad acting but who can concentrate on that when Iron Man in all his mecha glory is being badass on screen. My favourite part being when he is caught by his assistant in his Iron Man Suit, and he retorts, ‘Well, you have caught me doing worse things…’ to which I completely cracked up. I like the AI and the bots working in his private lab. Who needs Haro’s when these were so much cooler and funnier, what with the putting out a non existent fire.

Iron Man has always been my favourite Marvel-verse Super Hero. He is somewhat like the Batman of Marvel, a hero with no outright powers at all, using technology to bring the edge up and I always loved that idea since I could maybe identify with that more. I loved Iron Man more because of the mechanical aspects. Things like that have always intrigued me. Growing up, I loved the Megazords of Power Rangers (I nearly had them all!) and Transformers (the best part was getting it working and transforming it without instruction) and when I first came across Gundam Wing in my Youth I was blown away. I guess there was the birth of a Mech Anime fan.

In all, this movie was fantastic and deserves multiple viewings which is what I plan to do… This has also made me really want to build some more Gunpla, especially a Perfect Grade which was what I was thinking about as the new Iron Man suit was tested in the movie, with the armour flaps moving to expose the interworking parts… I need a perfect grade so badly now… I will just have to content myself making my master grade Stike Noir…

While I am at it, I so desperately want this figure… It is damn expensive but would be so worth it…

I think they forgot that they went serious from episode 2 onwards… Although the content was almost fillerish, I did quite enjoy it for its comedy.

Interest points were the ‘the anime costume trap’… featuring Kaaya in a bunny suit (to which she appears in such later as well), the ‘Coopa’ trap coupled with the ‘Change-back-everyone-but-their-clothes’ trap and what had me laughing the most was the ‘Magical Gender Reversal Device’. And when Jil and Melt try to take advantage of the situations to peek at a hot spring, the pixel trap happens and we are all denied fan service-y goodness. The pixelated animation brought me back to what I remembered of old games, although i started when the quality got marginally better. I was a laugh though.

My favourite part was Jil’s ‘The devil made me do it I swear!’ to which Kaaya asks, ‘The Devil made you perverted!?’ From all the craziness, Kaaya, Melt and Ahmey really shone through and were so funny. It was damn well enjoyable… and the roper dance rocked. Too bad Neeba beat them to the punch… Possibly next episode will get back to seriousness again…