Uchujin65 wrote:
The Tezuka Mechagodzilla movies are very, very routine and dull. They're not that bad, but they're not that good either. They're like soap operas with good FX scenes.
For some reason, I get the impression that they were trying to appeal to the modern anime crowd with this approach.  I don't watch a lot of anime, but the bits and pieces of modern anime that I have watched have this exact same feel to them.  For instance, take the modern incarnations of the Macross series--from what I've seen, it's basically the same thing.  A lot of emotionally heavy conversations between very young, angsty and interchangeable teenage protagonists occasionally interspersed with some explosive battle sequences.  All of the male characters look really young and feminine and resemble male fashion models wearing military costumes.  Likewise, the male protagonist in Tokyo: SOS, Chujo (played by Noboru Kaneko), has a very feminine appearance and (if I remember correctly) he does a lot of angsty emoting throughout the film.  I suppose this "dullness" is merely the trend of contemporary Japanese teen pop culture.


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