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Future Wanderer Guldeen
Jan. 22nd, 2025 07:30 pmFuture Wanderer Guldeen volume 1, Hiura Koh, 1986
A fairly standard 1980s giant robot fare in a rather non-standard package for its time (a novel, rather than an anime). Hiura Koh is a comic writer (that is to say, he writes comedy—not comics, although he's written a few of those as well), and despite the general thrust of the plot (an action-driven revenge story), the overall tone is held in check by regular injections of irony and simple gags. If one were to construct a "gag mecha" spectrum, Guldeen would probably fall somewhere between ZZ Gundam and Xabungle, rather than exhibiting the forceful irreverence of something like Ramune & 40 or the cartoonish levity of Time Bokan.
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A fairly standard 1980s giant robot fare in a rather non-standard package for its time (a novel, rather than an anime). Hiura Koh is a comic writer (that is to say, he writes comedy—not comics, although he's written a few of those as well), and despite the general thrust of the plot (an action-driven revenge story), the overall tone is held in check by regular injections of irony and simple gags. If one were to construct a "gag mecha" spectrum, Guldeen would probably fall somewhere between ZZ Gundam and Xabungle, rather than exhibiting the forceful irreverence of something like Ramune & 40 or the cartoonish levity of Time Bokan.
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