Sunday, February 25, 2007

Izenborg, and you should too...



"flightsuit" has posted the first 20 minutes of "Attack of the Super Monsters", which I assume is basically the first episode of DINOSAUR WAR IZENBORG.

Tsuburaya, makers of ULTRAMAN, made 3 series that combined animated humans with "live" backgrounds, vehicles, and monsters - DINOSAUR ADVENTURE TEAM BORNFREE, IZENBORGand SCIENCE EXPLORATION TEAM TANSER-5. BORNFREE was apparently compiled into the movie "Return of the Super Monsters", but I've never seen anything about it. Tanser was never translated to my knowledge and seems to be forgotten - at least the planned sequel turned out wonderful until its last 10 minutes (see comments).

These first 20 minutes are lots of fun, although I still have 2 nagging questions:

---Why do Ai and Zen ("Gem Starbuck" and "Jim Starbuck")'s bodies need to combine in order for their vehicle to transform into a flying "drilldo"?

---Tyrannus/Ururu is rather dull - he needs a cape, a crown, and a big '70s throne.

A bit of this is fixed later - according to information from John Cassidy, in episode #20 Ai and Zen combine into the live giant hero "Aizenbo", and Ururu is replaced by Space Demon King Gottes (who looks pretty lame in this encyclopedia picture).

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