If God wanted man to become a space faring species, He would have given man a moon. God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space. From growing technologies and new inventions, these space travel slogans highlight just some of the future possibilities we face as a people.Īcross the sea of space, the stars are other suns.Īll civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.Īstronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another. Just something i ran across a couple of years back in some website named the Gundam Encyclopedia about the man behind some of anime's most memorable mecha series.Space exploration has brought about a new dawn of discovery. Quote:A director and writer of more than a dozen animes, Yoshiyuki Tomino is among the most well known people in anime. Aside from the fact that he created Gundam, he's probably most well known for being 'Kill Em All' Tomino, a man who has killed large portions of, if not all of his cast in many of his animes. Here I shall take a look back at the origins of that nickname, and the animes involving it. To find the origins of Tomino's nickname one would probably start with 1977's Invincible Superman Zambot 3, but one can go even further back than that all the way to 1972's Triton of the Sea to see that Tomino anime would be far different than the traditional light hearted stuff that was out there. The premise of Triton of the Sea was that our hero, Triton, is the sole survivor of Atlantis and fights against the evil Poseidons, who were the ones who destroyed Atlantis. Throughout the series the show didn't seem all that different than those that came out at the time. But we were given a shocking plot twist as the series drew to a close. Triton finally manages to wipe out the Poseidons and mortally wounds their leader, Poseideon (yes, I too wish they were a little more diverse in their names) But as he dies, Poseidon reveals that Triton has had it wrong all along, it was those from Atlantis that were the evil ones! The vicious people of Atlantis ruthlessly slaughtered the Poseidons and it was only through the help of God that they were able to be resurrected and exert some justice upon them. Even though the ending wasn't filled with death, it was something that totally shocked the audience and was the first in a long line of depressing, thought provoked Tomino endings.Īfter working on Brave Raideen, Tomino directed the 23 episode Invincible Superman Zambot 3, which was the first in a long line of mecha animes by Sunrise. Despite the fact that the show starred 10 year old kids piloting the 3 part super robot Zambot 3, the show was quite a dark one for its time. Our heroes, the Jins are descendents of refugees that fled to Earth under pursuit of the vicious Gaizocks. The Gaizock's are about as brutal as they come. They kidnap children, then return them to their parents unharmed. Unknown to everyone is that the Gaizock planted bombs in these children, and they blow up, killing everyone around. Our hero Kappei falls in love with a girl, and she blows up right in front of him! But it gets much, much worse than that as the series draws to a close. In the final battle against the Gaizock flag ship our heroes run out of ammunition. With few other options, one by one our heroes blow themselves up kamikaze style in an attempt to defeat the enemy until only Kappei is left.
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