The ROSSMAN of the Mysterious ScotlandNadia.
Her name means a lot to a lot of different people. Some recognize
that name as belonging to the hot foreign exchange student from
American Pie who got deported for being too salivatious
(damn Midwestern thinking!!). Others know the name from that
Russian gymnast who I think killed a spectator with her thighs
at the '92 Olympics in Barcelona. But most people know the
name "Nadia" from the incredible early nineties
Japanese animated television show Fushigi no Umi no Nadia. It
is quite honestly (well, you don't know if I'm not being honest...
but I am) one of the best adventure series ever made. Nadia
is comprised of a gloriously excellent storyline that runs a
full 39 episodes full of passion, action, and 'splosions (and
features that hot Spanish redhead Grandis Granva and some of
the coolest Jules Vernesian steam-punk technology that you've
ever seen outside of the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight,
Tonight" video)!!
The epic
begins in Victorian Era Paris (which probably never even considered
itself Victorian since it's French and all, but because I don't
know what the French actually called this time period I'll refer
to it by English standards). We meet the young inventor Jean
and his alcoholic and wife beating Uncle (we don't know this
for sure, but I just have a feeling) as they try to enter the
Parisian World's Fair's Flying Contest. You see, this is how
we know that Jean is a genius and how we don't question his
Einsteinian sized brain for the rest of the show... But I digress.
Jean soon gets a chubby after seeing a young, pretty circus
girl evade a bunch of crooks who are after her precious crystal
necklace (That would be my lovely Grandis and her thieving gang),
and after a few shenanegans (sp?) Nadia (the circus girl) and
Jean head out searching for adventure and death.
Death?! Yes,
and lots of it too. See, Nadia isn't all childish adventures
and goofy action. It's about growing up... and stopping megalomaniacal
tyrants from ruling the world. While the two kids run away from
Grandis, they meet and befriend the crew of a futuristic submarine
(well, futuristic for the late 1800s) run by Captain Nemo, and
they become bitter enemies of the evil Gargoyle and his Neo-Atlantis
Empire. Lots of heated battles occur, a bunch of people die
horrible deaths, and a lot of characters have lots of emotional
growth and torture.
There are
so many like-able people in this show it amazes me. Though,
what confuses me relentlessly about this series is how the title
character herself can be the world's most annoying bizatch.
Yes, it's true, Nadia will make you want to slap her around
more than Nemo, Grandis and Electra combined do so by the last
episode... But don't let that discourage you, for everybody
else MORE than makes up for her assholitude.
In the
end I find that I have to give Fushigi no Umi no Nadia three
out of two thumbs up (I'm having the operation
next week to remove it). Just don't watch the dub! Yeah, those're
real kids used to dub the children's voices... That doesn't
mean it's good.
Nadia may start off with just a lighthearted adventure,
but the last 3 episodes of this luscious series are so fucking
sweet it'll blow your mind and possibly your load. |
KUNI and the Secret of
His
Sister's Underwear DrawerNadia
is AWESOME!!! There is no dolphins in the nadia show but they
are evil from the beginning. I am loving the gargoyle and the
fighting! Excellent power! I like the many bigger explosions
and the dead french people! All dead frenchies are good dead
frenchies! But not their french fries. I eat all those.
Nadia is
a girl in french who had a blue diamond that makes the world
say "NO!" The bad guy wanted the blue diamonds
but they never got. Boy and girl liked the plane and the
lion (*ROAR!*)
and the baby that had the baby in the very end. Crazy!! The
sub in the space was blowing up the aliens and the frenchie
tower got blow'd up with people! The Jambo-Jambo boy was
cool
but he already sexed the big woman and Nadia did not like the
boy with the glasses and the balloon. The girl did not like
the meat either and yelled at the baby and the glasses!!
That
was gay!! Eat meat, bitch!! The end was awesome with the Earth
and the tank! Yahooooooooo!!!!!
Ten
Kuni points of funness! Count them now!!! |
DOC DAVE of the Mysterious Lab
Where Homeless People
DisappearI was a little
confused when the Rossman first made me watch this show. In
the beginning I was suffering from inhaling too much monkey
urine in my lab and I thought that I was watching a documentary
about the Illuminati and the early U.S. undersea and outer space
exploration units.
Turns out
that Nadia is actually a remake of 20,000 Leagues,
but for hyper fucks who need total overstimulation of their
mental neurons, hot and sexy Victorian Era babes, and a bunch
of ancient mechanical shit getting blown the fuck up..... It's
like it was speaking right to me. Lots of intrigue and backstabbing
of sorts going on and that ending was pretty trippy if you ask
me. Cyborgs and gunplay always perk up the finale of any production
that they're in! Kuni's right though, there are no dolphins
that play any significant part in the story, but there is a
talking whale and a cute human-like lion that I'd like to dissect
some day. To tell you the truth, I'd love to check out all of
the weapons and hyper-retro-techno shiznit they had going on
back then. That'd make a cool thesis paper or what-not. Or maybe
I could just make something from it that I could use to blow
up the world.
I give
Nadia a 4.5 out of 5. |
