Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Brave Robots: J-Decker Madness

So I was trawling around looking at Might Gaine clips, and wishing I could embed them. For some reason, the person on YouTube who has uploaded the most such clips has most of them disabled for embedding, despite the fact that some videos not related to Might Gaine by the same user are not disabled. Dunno why.

So I decided to see if I could find some amusing clips from some other series, and I started with J-Decker.

Jackpot.



Two great things about this clip: First, the music. Jazzy. Second, the way he shouts "Fire J-Decker." If you don't get why, it's the way he says "er"-more like "aa-aa-aa-aa-ah," as if he's in pain or something.

That short clip leads straight into this one:



Check out that girl totally wigging out at the sight of a robot. I don't know the backstory of this series or anything, and don't speak enough Japanese to decipher what she's saying, but shouldn't she have seen plenty of freaking giant robots, seeing as how she lives in Anime Tokyo? Particularly Anime Tokyo in a giant robot series? Even better, she waits for him to start talking before she totally wigs out.

Then there's the reaction of the command center place-you can almost hear the champagne bottles popping. "Woohoo! This, an achievement greater than the moon landing! A GIANT ROBOT! Haha!" Wait, maybe that's just my reaction.

Also note Fire J-Decker's awesome strategy there-standing and taking what the enemy throws out before attacking. Of course, his enemy appears to be wielding the staff of Asclepius, so maybe he wasn't worried.

And finally, a real gem:



Ahahahaha!

Whoo, sorry. Okay, let's see if I can pin down what's so bloody funny here.
  1. Little kid getting startled at being shot at, in the middle of a giant robot fight while riding a giant robot.
  2. Little kid firing a gatling gun while chanting something in Japanese.
  3. Little kid missing a lot with a gatling gun while firing at a wall. (Okay, okay, so he was hitting the wall. It's just that he wasn't aiming for the wall, and I suppose that isn't that inept.)
  4. The robot (GunMax) apparently scolding the kid for being such a sloppy shot. (Keep in mind that, this being Brave Robots, the kid is the boss.)
  5. The kid turning into a neko for a second or so.
  6. The robot police firing away like that. Forgot your defensive barricade, eh?
  7. Drill Boy!
  8. When Drill Boy hits the wall at flight speed, he stops oh so smoothly, as if he had no weight at all.
  9. The army of little robots that attacks them inside the building. Wait, weren't those in the '90s Ninja Turtles cartoon?
  10. The fact that this squad of fifteen foot tall police robots feel a need to shoot the tiny little robots.
  11. The cartoony way the little battalions of robots are thrown back en masse by the robot police shooting them, in clusters of five or six at a time, as if they're stuck together.
  12. The fact that at least one of the robots has a shotgun that he's pumping.
  13. GunMax apparently announces he will transform, garnering confusion from the little kid...
  14. ...who gets ejected from the sidecar with no warning.
  15. Sadly, GunMax then transforms and catches him, only to get scolded.
  16. He ignores this, however, and infiltrates the factory on a conveyor-bucket.

Dang, two more bullets and I would have matched my previous record.

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