Disaster Report: GENMA WARS TV
This review was commissioned by @zawa113CJ . Thanks! In the early 2000s, there was a sudden urge within the anime industry to take stories from the manga world’s most acclaimed creators and turn them into shiny new anime for a shiny new millennium. During those first few years of the decade, there were both remakes and new adaptations of works by Osamu Tezuka, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and Leiji Matsumoto just to name a few. Also included in that list was the extremely prolific (and then-recently deceased) mangaka Shotaro Ishinomori. The decade had started off strongly for Ishinomori fans. In 2000, Kamen Rider Kuuga helped to reboot the franchise that Ishinomori helped create after a 13 year hiatus. 2001 would see animated adaptations of both Cyborg 009 and Android Kikaider , both of which were successful enough to get licensed in America and even air on TV. It’s no surprise that others would want to capitalize on these two trends by producing 2002’s...