{"id":3618,"date":"2003-10-28T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T08:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2003-10-28T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T08:53:55","slug":"possibly_the_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"Possibly The Best Giant Robot Show Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching the final disk of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,1131,csbzui,dai_guard.html\">Chikyu Boetai Kigyo Daiguard<\/a> and I have to give it a big thumbs up.  It started off looking looking almost like a slight spoof on other giant robot shows (*cough*Eva).  Over the course of the show though, it&#8217;s shown to have quite a bit more depth than that.  The main characters are wonderful, my favorite being Rika, the genius who designs the weapons for Dai-Guard.  She&#8217;s wonderfully insane and is voiced by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animeseiyuu,266,tgojpz,shintani_mayumi.html\"> Shintani Mayumi<\/a> (who voiced Haruko in FLCL). <\/p>\n<p>The thing that made the show stand out for me though, was that it considered things you normally don&#8217;t think about in a giant robot type show.  One major focus was on the economics of the whole thing.  Who pays for fuel? Repairs? What about property damage?  There&#8217;s also lots of interesting storylines to do with the civilian DaiGuard team and the military&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting is that this show really hasn&#8217;t gotten much attention.  While each release didn&#8217;t necessarily have me impatiently waiting for its release, when I started watching it I couldn&#8217;t stop till I finished watching all the episodes on it in one sitting.  I think it&#8217;s one of the more underrated shows out there.  Netflix carries it, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/MovieDisplay?trkid=73&#38;movieid=60030721\">give it a try on rental first<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching the final disk of Chikyu Boetai Kigyo Daiguard and I have to give it a big thumbs up. It started off looking looking almost like a slight spoof on other giant robot shows (*cough*Eva). Over the course of the show though, it&#8217;s shown to have quite a bit more depth than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}