Astro Fighter Sunred is a story of good and evil which takes place in the city of Kawasaki. Frankly, I was skeptical with the idea of a tokusatsu anime in today’s culture, but Sunred has been a real treat for me. The nostalgia factor works a huge amount in the entertainment value: tantalizing fights, fearsome monster designs, and an uplifting OP that’s sure to get your blood pounding. The fight scenes are great–this show has beautifully styled animation that rivals Casshern Sins in terms of execution. The difference is that the fights are swifter and much more brutal. There’s really no contest here.
THE POSE
Perhaps more than half of the fun in watching Sunred is the villains. The villains of the show are just goddamn hardcore. They never let up. In a 12-minute episode, they’re pouncing on Sunred half of the time, in which Sunred responds with a lovingly-animated 5-minute henshin sequence before he vaporizes them in a DBZ-style-Spirit-Bomb final attack. And no, they don’t recycle the animation, they redraw it from scratch every ep. You can’t even begin to imagine how much money they’re spending on this show.
The menacing Armor Tiger training for his fight with Sunred
Some people have claimed Sunred to be the best show of this season, and I can see why. It’s got an all-star seiyuu cast, top-notch character designs, big animation budget exceeding KyoAni levels, and killer soundtrack that utterly rapes BOTH Macross Frontier soundtracks.
Actually, I think they’re wrong. This is the best show of the year, hands down. Minimal tokusatsu experience required.
11 responses so far ↓
Badeyes McBlind // November 20, 2008 at 3:40 pm |
downloading..
biankita // November 21, 2008 at 1:49 pm |
the sentai-loving child living inside me thinks this show is so effin awesome!
usagijen // November 22, 2008 at 4:52 pm |
Bahaha, ok, I’m sold. After Bateszi’s praise of this show, and this total lulz I see?! Must watch.
ghostlightning // November 22, 2008 at 9:09 pm |
I have no words…
Imma watchin this nao
TheBigN // November 26, 2008 at 1:33 pm |
You are hilariously awesome.
schneider // November 26, 2008 at 2:12 pm |
@ BigN
I was just riding on the Sunred blogging bandwagon~
SRWfreak // December 22, 2008 at 12:18 am |
seriously, do they have this at 2rats already? or at least i wish it was… though ya think it would be better if they were five, had a super robot and did fancy synchronized routines?
seriously, this should be my next must watch after MFrontier and Daiguardo..
schneider // December 22, 2008 at 8:46 pm |
Sunred is okay as it is. Florsheim doesn’t seem able to produce giant kaiju at all, and five Sunreds would be overkill. The villains are too monster moe to deserve getting hurt that bad.
And please don’t talk about 2rats stuff here.
SRWfreak // December 22, 2008 at 11:57 pm |
good point, it would lose its essence, prolly.
i dunno why you dont wanna talk about that store but ok, since ya sed please! hehe peace out! are those monsters really that likeable? kool! and what’s florshiem, if ya dnt mind?
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Paorou // December 23, 2008 at 12:13 am |
I was blind…
I was too worried about my diskspace and the death of my beloved Koku-oh – to get any new animu.
I must download this now.
Sheldoon // July 8, 2009 at 7:04 am |
Oh yeah! This stuff rules, mocking sentai but making it look good at the same time. Very sweet!