May. 8th, 2022
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So, this certainly involves hero versus hero elements, but it's not really a hero versus hero crossover. At the start, I very clearly say that the Eternals are the bad guys. There are good Eternals that are trying to stop them, but as a whole, the Eternals are very much the black hats in this particular scenario. You get to genuinely loathe them. -- Kieron Gillen
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NS: The Tragedy of Getter Robo
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If Gundam is the Star Trek of Japanese popculture, than Getter Robo is its Star Wars – a story of simple ethics, bombastic characters that often appear downright deranged even when fighting the good side, fun technical designs, disgusting alien monsters and freakin’ awesome fights. Getter Robo is the brainchild of Ken Ishikawa, with the concept of combining robots as well as mechanical designs of all three initial combinations and the four fighting jets being designed by Go Nagai, who is often incorrectly credited as the sole creator. The series has been running for decades with little change in the concept, but when Ishikawa-sensei tried to update the franchise, the results were… mixed, let’s say.
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