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What’s with all these women robots?

Impressions:

Why are Dio, Casshern, and the old dude the only humanoid male robots in this series? We’ve been getting new females almost every episode for the last month and a half. If this turns out to be some kind of Dual: Parallel Trouble Adventures-esque sexism battle, I’m going to be very annoyed with everything. On the other hand, with the introduction of the singing robot Janice (Janis? Whatever), the Singing Princess (I think that’s what Lyuze calls her, though I didn’t go back to check), I’m not even really certain that the writers aren’t on heavy doses of psychotropic drugs any more.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, I think this episode was just too ridiculous for me to even pretend to analyze things in my usual ‘impartial’ (ha!) fashion. Of all the directions I expected, I didn’t think that we’d be getting a Macross episode about a singing robot. I think the height of the ridiculousness was when they made it to Baza (?) and there was a robot band waiting for them in the shadows with the lights off. They politely sat around in the dark while Janice and Casshern scurried about, then flipped on the lights and started applauding at just the right moment. It would probably have helped if the song was in German or French so I could have just tuned out and ignored the ridiculous lyrics. At least we got some nice action over it, even if at the end of the episode, I’m not really entirely certain what the point of any of this really was.

Casshern SINS: Singing Anime

Preview:

Lookit those molars!