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Tokyo Storm Warning was a three-issue mini-series by Warren Ellis, which he described as "a gentle piss-take of the giant robot genre played straight." The premise is that the United States nuked Tokyo instead of Hiroshima during World War II.

This entry covers the first half of the series. I'm dividing the pages between two entries to prevent an unwieldy, huge number of pictures in one entry.

This entry covers the first half of the series. I'm dividing the pages between two entries to prevent an unwieldy, huge number of pictures in one entry.
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Date: 2009-05-30 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-30 07:34 am (UTC)I wonder if calling the robots Arcangels is a shoutout. And the foreign pilot being a redhead, for that matter. Hum.
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Date: 2009-05-30 03:48 pm (UTC)So where does Bokurano fall on this scale? XD
-Vignettelante
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Date: 2009-05-30 09:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-30 12:04 pm (UTC)also, is it out as a trade
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Date: 2009-05-30 01:27 pm (UTC)This seems cool, though. And I'm always a sucker for a competent redhead.
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Date: 2009-05-30 06:00 pm (UTC)The border with Britain???
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Date: 2009-05-30 08:41 pm (UTC)The only gripe you'd get from me from these scans is the creature design seems far to western and less Kaiju oriented.
Still a cool critter.
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Date: 2009-05-31 12:20 am (UTC)It's because his style is to home in on the horrible underbelly of his subject...in this case, some kid who was killed when Tokyo was bombed that was dreaming all this stuff up. That kind of thing just doesn't mesh with mecha, whose sole purpose is to be Big Shiny Toys, even when dealing with as serious subjects as "what if life?" as GiTS does.
I dunno. Maybe it was because TSW was Ellis wanting to write mecha and assuming he could. Whatever the reason, TSW has always stuck in my craw as the one thing I wish Ellis had never written.
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Date: 2009-05-31 06:36 pm (UTC)