This week’s Major Spoilers Podcast review of Robotech got me thinking about the subject of anime. Like how there’s always a bit of controversy involved with using the word “anime”, since it’s literally just the Japanese word for “animation” and thus just means cartoon. Bygones… For my part, I just call it a Japanese cartoon, which is both easier and a little bit more descriptive. When I was a kid, they were all over the air-waves, from ‘Speed Racer’ to ‘8-Man’ and that creepy little dude, Astro Boy. Of course, it was also nearly impossible to find such shows in their original formats and/or languages, leaving fans to watch scratchy dubs of dubious quality to get their fix of things like Macross, leading us to today’s super dimensional query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) will always vote ‘Battle of the Planets’ at the top of my lungs, ’cause I wanted to be Jason/Condor Jo, asking: What’s your fave-rave A-Number One Japanese cartoon?
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I was going to say Robotech, but I changed my mind to anything by Studio Ghibli.
Wow, too many but let’s say, out of the serialized ones, its Kuroko’s Basketball right now.