More doggerel...



This is the opening to the 1986 anime "Ginga Nagereboshi Gin", which is about an Akita dog that leaves his owner to fight a bear. I'd had this theme song on a DVD-R from a friend, but only labeled as "Ginga" (galaxy). I had no idea this thing was a "Call of the Wild" esque story.

Here's the Wikipedia entry. Bears have minions? Colbert was right...

Frankly, when I see "Galaxy Shooting Star Silver", I think of this...

Bio-Hunter Silvar of SUPER ELECTRON BIOMAN was a robot sent to destroy the last remants of the planet Bio Star, anything that contains Bio-Particles - the Bio Robo and the Bio-Particle charged (via their ancestors) Biomen. He also was on a hunt for his beloved giant robot Balzion.

Silvar was an obvious homage to the great anti-hero Hakaider of JINZOU NINGEN KIKAIDER, beloved in Hawaii (and, of course, in the Lair of Leopardon). Silver was far better than the character in the POS '90s movie that bore the big H's name.

Biomic Soldier's profile has a picture of what I assume is the preliminary design for Silvar, which looks far less like Hakaider and more like then-current anime villain designs.

Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!