The ROSSMAN Dread
(after
no sleep)Here's the
set up. A wussy guy on a planet full of nothing but men somehow
gets stuck on a spaceship that get's attacked on its maiden
voyage and he gets transported to a far end of space where he's
stuck on a pirate ship filled with nothing but hot looking chicks
in tight outfits. I used to go to an all boys Jesuit school
and I think that was one of my first boyhood sexual fantasies.
The "just
trying to get home" story has been told numerous times
before (and it looks like they unfortunately tried to rip off Voyager a bit too much), but Vandread does have
many redeeming qualities. First of all, every one of the women
was pretty damn hot (well, except the captain who was wrinkled
and old... and I don't think of old women as 'chicks'). And
when you consider that the main ship everybody's on has over
a hundred crew members, that's a lot of nice anime-breastesses
to ogle. There are a few guys thrown into the mix along with
Hibiki, our uncouth hero. But who gives a shit about them. Ditta
(the man-chasing female pirate) is ultra-cute and uber-affectionate
towards Hibiki. For ya see, the women mostly come from cultures
where there are no men and they don't know how to really act
aroung them either. Ain't that something..... Yeah, not really,
but it's kinda fun to watch for at least a few episodes.
- "Ahhhhh!
Why are you touching me there?!"
"What's wrong, Mr. Alien? We women do this all the time."
"Ahhhhhh! It feels good and if I were in the real world
it would be the beginning of a great porno, but I don't understand
your intentions in this anime!!!"
You chuckle
a bit the first 50 times this happens, but it does get old.
And, unfortunately, Vandread also suffers from "monster
of the week" syndrome for a while (where every show has
basically the same set up of misunderstanding, conflict, an
enemy attack and then comprehension and forgiveness). But near
the end, the whole storyline that's been woven throughout the
13 episode plot, comes to a conclusion (sort of) and all of
the small tribulations that the bosomy pirate crew had endured
up till then end up being made a bit clearer. But of course
the final episode is a major cliffhanger in the hopes that Vandread
2 will be financed due to fan rioting and firebombings...
Mostly started by my friends.
I give
Vandread 50 out of 71.34 Puntas de Calientes because
it was fairly generic, yet much more enjoyable than it should
have been. And although many people will like the overuse of
shiny computer generated graphics for all of the mecha fight
scenes I would have preferred traditional hand drawn cel animation.
(06/19/2002
editor's note: Vandread: The Second Stage gets a 68.96
out of 71.34 Puntas for rocking that much more than the original...
But since I'm not going to review it, this is all you get to
know)
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JAIME and KIFFDreadJaime's Review:
What was going on in this show? It was kinda confusing what
with all of the fighting and "harvesting" and explosions
and all that jazz. Not everything was totally like explained
in the end of it all ya know and stuff. I did like the monkey
who lived with the Rat Bastard guy on the spaceship.... Was
he a bad guy or not? I couldn't tell. The monkey was cute though
^_^. And what was up with the pirate crew? Why did they all
have to be attractive women in revealing spandex? The future
can't possibly be that gaudy. The three men were all
meanies and stuff to the girls too. I hope they burn in hell.
I give
Vandread a thumbs down.
Kiff's Review:
Ummmmmmm, if Jaime said it was bad it must've been bad. I
didn't pay attention to it too much.
(That's a
lie... I actually loved it!! All those hot girlies with brightly
colored hair and big boobies walking around in leotards when
they weren't blowing up the enemy robots and shit!!! Lots of
sexual innuendo and it even had a special guest star monkey!!!This
is the reason God made animation!!!! Whoo hooooo!!!)
Thumbs
down for my sweety pie. |
BOB Dreadstar From the FutureActually,
space travel in my time is pretty close to what you see here
in Vandread. Each interplanetary ship is made up of a
crew of 50-60 incredibly gorgeous females and 2-3 men (of varying
attractiveness). In our time however, galactic orgies are the
norm and most crewmates choose to free themselves of the pressures
of conventional clothing. I have lots of pictures if you'd like
to see them.
As for the
show, Vandread, I thought it was fairly good. "The
Harvest" that really occurred 155 years ago in my time
was actually a helluva lot bloodier than the one portrayed
in
this anime. And unfortunately there are no orangutans left
in the universe anymore (Back in the 22nd Century, after bringing
the great apes of the world back from near extinction and repopulating
the Earth's rain forests with them again, somebody made the
tasty discovery that chimp, gorilla and orangutan meat tastes
better than polar bear and great horned owl. They were wiped
out in less than 4 months).
I will
give Vandread a 3.5 out of 5 shot lasergun salute. |
