Last night I had the strangest dream...

[xyzzysqrl]

I dreamt that I was watching a sneak preview of the new Gundam series: "Gundam 00 Tournament Special". The crux of the dream/episode revolved around one of the pilots, a kid with long black hair and a bright red jacket, trying to catch one of his friends in the crowd that forms whenever giant robots fight each other. So he rode a rocket-arm, Mazinger-style, to the space station where people are watching and... Oh no! A match is starting RIGHT NOW! And he's not piloting the robot!

But wait! He's slightly psychic!

So he convinces the robot psychically to jam its one remaining arm into the cockpit and PILOT ITSELF, fighting off the enemy (a thinly disguised Zaku) using only Bruce Lee style kicking action, while watching the whole thing on a giant news video monitor. Unfortunately, every time he starts winning the crowd gets really loud behind him and breaks his concentration, which leads to the robot headbutting an asteroid or kicking itself in the back of the head.

Eventually he lost because of this, and sulkily went off to read a book. Then I woke up.

Man. Shortest Gundam series -ever-.

(Arguably amusing side note: Throughout the dream, the hero's mech was referred to as the "V Gundam". I woke up and the first thing I thought was "That's not the V Gundam, that was more like the GP-02..." Followed instantly by "...ow. How long did I sleep?")

Comments

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Are there any Japanese cartoons about roughly samurai sized samurai robots?

[xyzzysqrl]

That's a tough one. Offhand I know "Ninja Robots", which were not samurai, and "Samurai 7", who were only part robot (and their show was -terrible-). There's a lot of shows about smaller robots (Iron Leaguer comes to mind, about human-sized or so sports robots) and a lot of shows about samurai (Samurai Champloo being the current ur-example) but I can think of no shows that combine the two.

I will do Research to it.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I ask because for no reason in particular I seem to like large fighting robots to be inhuman looking, but adore man sized anthropomorphic robots.

[sirkalen.livejournal.com]

actually, wasn't there a samurai-robot in the cast of SD Gundam? He was comically terrified of ghosts, or something? And they were portrayed as being small enough to interact with humans, as I recall. Just a passing thought.

[xyzzysqrl]

I think there was, yes.

I'm also deeply amused that watching the trailer for the new Halo anime makes me go "Hey. They got Gundam all OVER Halo." Yay power armor and light-swords, I guess!

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

Also, there was The Steel Samurai, the Show-within-a-game in the Phoenix Wright universe. But, that probably doesn't count, I guess...

[xyzzysqrl]

Well, if that counts, so would... say, Tekkaman. The "metal-suited hero" archetype is a bit different.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Was Afro Samurai an anime? It had samurai sized samurai robots.