Brave Exkaizer Team

There are not many online facts I could find with regard of this mecha anime.   Very uncommon mecha show that anyone hardly knows (including myself, which is sad to say the least).

All my googling efforts ended nowhere until I later discovered that they were actually far more popular in Asia, than it was in European, USA, South America and Oceanic countries.

It’s fair to say  the content was more geared to suit Asian audiences.   After searching its material via Google Trends (and reading this link from Wikipedia.org), I could be right.  Here’s the following excerpt from Wikipedia.org

“Brave Exkaiser is a Japanese animated television series that began in 1990, created by Sunrise under the direction of Katsuyoshi Yatabe, and is the first of the long running Yuusha or “Brave” metaseries funded by Takara and produced by Sunrise. The story takes place on a present day Earth that was secretly visited by a group of space police led by Exkaiser who were chasing after an evil gang of energy beings called The Geisters (led by Dino Geist). Upon arriving on Earth, Exkaiser and his team called the “Kaisers” put their spirits (Similar to Sparks of the Transformers mythos) into vehicles all over Japan so that they could convert them into transformable bodies for themselves.”

Here’s the intro theme.

Some pics from the series

Exkaizer Hero Crew

Brave Exkaizer wall poster

Exkaizer

And here’s the list of heroes and villians.

Our Heroes

Exkaizer – Our Hero Intro

King Exkaizer

Dragon Exkaizer

Great Exkaizer

Dash Max

Sky Max

Drill Max

God Max

Blue Raker and Green Raker

Ultra Raker

The Villians

The Four Geists

Dino Geist – Ringleader of Geists

Lots of uncanny resemblances with Transformers G1 animated series. Here and there. In fact, it is said that they’re the new designs of Transformers G1 and they’re meant to showcase the “enhanced” design aspects of Transformers that were superior. Because of this enthused marketing ploy Takara wanted to do so much, that’s why it’s part of that long lineage of super robot series during the 90s.

Very intriguing.

Well, that’s all for now. I’m sure there’s plenty of facts to go I’m keen to find out why the series was only good amongst Asian audiences in the far east.  More will be posted in the future.

If anybody out there who knows better about the Brave series, feel free to guest post here.  I’m looking forward to hear your thoughts on it.

Just read exciting news!

Sunrise is going to bring back one of the great 80s classic mecha anime show back into this modern century.

Armored Trooper Votoms is here! THEY’RE BACK!

A new promotional video of this classic series is out!

And after a while, I was browsing for it on Youtube yesterday…  And lo and behold, I found it!

This is fantastic! And with only less than 30 days to go, it’s going to be one heck of an exciting ride to relive the essence of 80s great anime classics!!^^

Source: ANN.com, Youtube.com

Goodness.  Should have posted a while ago as soon as this came out, but my internet’s been a dog lately…. *Sigh*.  Oh well, that’s life sometimes.

Anyway, onwards with this.

If you’re an otaku and you’re thinking about planning a wedding with the greatest love of your life (and both of you are complete nuts about Gundam and stuff), then this may be your lucky day. A few days ago, Sunrise Animation studios are planning to host the wedding ceremonies underneath the 60-foot tall Gundam statue in Odaiba park, Tokyo during August. Several wedding planners, coordinators, and crazed Gundam fans of all ages would love to take this grand opportunity to put their creative imagination in making one of the greatest anime-theme based wedding that’s ever produced in Japan, I think.

After all, some anime-theme weddings were done on TV, in front of live audience of thousands, if not millions, just like these couple here getting married on public TV on Nippon Television (NTV) Network.

Groovy. Ain’t that lovely? And the wedding reception is also open for celebrities of all sorts from movie stars, professional athletes, successfuly artists and etc to take part of this grand occassion.

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork.com

Less than 12 days ago, I recently subscribed one of the best anime/blogs on the planet (DannyChoo.com). This young Malaysian man by the name of Danny Choo (who is also the son of the world’s infamous women’s shoemaker, Jimmy Choo, would you believe it??) is really amazing. His portal is the gateway to everything about Japan from its food, culture, music, figurines and novelty festivities and he knows how to astound people outside Japan so many incredible facts and stories in Japan, especially in anime since he’s a full time otaku.

And one of his great stories he’s shared with the community recently is that there’s 1/1 scale of an actual Gundam model which was erected in a park named Odaiba, situated in Tokyo.  From Danny’s link,  he’s gotten the amazing footage of the 18-m foot giant robot standing so tall, looking across the horizon of Tokyo City and the normal citizens of Tokyo city looking at it with great awe. (see below)

I must admit that this really blew me away, swept my legs off the floor as soon as I flicked his blogging pages. The designs, the precise measurements, the exact match of the colours vs the classic Gundam model in 70s TV show, the Gundam head etc etc. Everything! Top to bottom! No mistake about it.

Sad thing about this project (codenamed Green G Project) is they’re planning to take it down part by part by the end of August 09. But why, oh, why, or why??? Why took so much effort and crazy man hours to construct such an incredible feat to show the rest of the world, and only to put it on display for a measley 10 weeks? Come on! Don’t take it down! In my humble opinion (which I stand), this is supposed to be one of Japanese’s treasured landmark figures just as the USA with their Status of Liberty. At least they got something to compete with them now, even though its historical influence does not have as much significant bearings as the States’, ie socio-political or economic impact etc etc.

Nevertheless, the drive, the passion and the ambition that the project team had clearly turned the ‘impossible’ into a reality and its success warrants the recognition by the public that Japan’s got something to showcase for the tourism industry to see. If only longer than the 31 August deadline, that is….

For more photos from Danny’s amazing capture on his travel to Odaiba, here’s the link.

http://www.dannychoo.com/adp/eng/1717/Gundam+Odaiba.html

Source: DannyChoo.com, TheWesterworld.net, Zuco.org