From the news release:
"The futuristic Fireball is set on a planet in outer space and
features a metallic white-coloured humanoid robot named Drossel that
has the mind of a 14-year-old girl and her gigantic butler robot."
A planet set in outer space? Wonders! As opposed to a planet that's
half-embedded in Earth's crust, or orbits within Earth's hollow
interior, or exists inside a computer, or is a figment of the main
character's pathological ravings. Or somesuch. (1)
A metallic humanoid robot? Unlike the stone, wood, holographic,
vegetable, or meat robots that populate all those other anime. (2)
Drossel has the mind of a 14-year-old girl *and* a gigantic butler. A
robot with a split personality? Wow! Well, it's anime, so it's
*gotta* be implemented better than Germano-Austrian Blitzwing on the
new "Transformers Animated." Right? (This, folks, is what happens
when you concatenate too many adjectives and clauses, and forget where
to emplace the commas.)
(1) Iscandar and Gamilon from "Star Blazers" -- they appear to share a
common atmosphere. Would they, therefore, *not* be in outer space
relative to each other? (And if they aren't now, as soon as that
common atmosphere induces tidal drag and causes the two bodies to
collide, they won't be.)
(2) That snark would be funnier if not for the wooden robots in "Eon
Kid" on KidsWB, the Royal Tree seed that powers the mecha in "Tenchi
Muyo GXP," and the "Holoship" episode of "Red Dwarf."
** Phillip Thorne ** pethorne@
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* RPI CompSci 1998 *
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