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...Unfortunately Ash and company's quest turns out to be a plot by the evil Team Rocket, led by the dastardly Giovanni (Daren Dunstan), who use Pokemon in hopes of taking over the world. Giovanni has built Mecha-Mew2, a mechanical Pokemon capable of learning all Pokemon attack skills and returning them even more powerfully. The only remaining skills to learn are possessed by Pikachu, Ash's favorite Pokemon...
...other day I rented a new anime based on a famous manga. The main chara is this CB kami, cuter than Pokemon and as dishy as Can Can Bunny, who's pursued by an evil mecha--a total SD kaiju. I loved the OAV. And so of course, like a real otaku...
...CHARA IS A CARTOON CHARACTER. CB, FROM THE JAPANESE WORD FOR SMALL, SUGGESTS CHILD'S BODY; IT IS OFTEN USED AS A PREFIX. KAMI IS A GOD OR GODDESS. CAN CAN BUNNY IS THE TITLE CHARACTER OF A MANGA SERIES. MECHA REFERS TO ANY KIND OF MECHANIZED HARDWARE--A GUN, A ROBOT, A SPACESHIP. SD MEANS SUPER DEFORMED. KAIJU IS A MONSTER. OAV STANDS FOR ORIGINAL ANIME VIDEO (ONE NOT MADE FOR THEATERS OR TV). OTAKU IS AN OBSESSIVE FAN OR COLLECTOR--AN ANIMANIAC. AN OST IS AN ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK...
Though shoujo anime labels its titles specifically for us ladies, nothing could be further from the truth. While in some titles romance is the plot, shows on occasion may include elements that overlap other diverse areas such as shounen(boy) and mecha (robots); what results is a grab-bag of romance, adventure, comedy and maybe even family values. Before encountering shoujo anime recently, I had become increasingly dissatisfied with the palette of cartoons that graced our television networks. Plotlines were nonexistent, voice-overs shallow; cartoons were trivial, something to waste your afternoon on and nothing more. I never developed...
Since then, it has become an established tradition to bring manga, or comic magazines, to animation. Anime includes science-fiction like mecha (space sagas with robot war machines), dungeons-and-dragons-type fantasy, police/detective series, high school dramas and comedies...