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Title (English) Mysterious Steel Fairy Rouran

Title (Japanese) Kikou Sennyo Rouran

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Fantasy Novel

Notes 12 minute episodes. Science fiction, robots, fantasy, magic, adventure .

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Synopsis Some bad guys with supernatural powers are very upset when somebody destroys their HQ. They re-animate a giant stone carving and start trashing Japan with it. The Japanese authorities can't do much as they have ceded control of the JSDF to the UN. So they call in an obsessive-looking guy with glasses (Dr. Mikogami) who says that his organisation has been waiting for just such an eventuality.
So he and his son and daughter start up their gear (secret base, giant carrier, giant robots), while the authorities evacuate a coastal area called "Arcadia" which is inhabited by dropouts and dissidents, and designated as the area where the battle will take place.
The Mikogami son, not insignficantly named "Yamato", takes on the golem and, despite being distracted by some people still in the area, lures the golem into the sea and trashes it. Unfortunately he also vapes the ship full of refugees. At this point, while general dismay reigns, a rather attractive supernatural being materialises in mid air - the eponymous Rouran - and announces that she is going to take revenge. [GC]

Review After seeing 1 episode I'm not sure what to make of this. It's clearly not anything deep, but if you like this sort of team/robot show it could be amusing. If you look at what happens with the collateral damage in the 1st episode, I wonder if this is an anti-American show. No, of course not. Couldn't be.
I really liked the bit where the attractively armoured Rouran (see main pic.) appears in mid air and says "My name is Rouran and I'm going to destroy you". Hopefully in later episodes we find out who some of the mysterious characters in #1 are.
(Later) I've just discovered that sometime in 2003 I saw some of Rouran at an anime con and a week or so later wrote this:
"I can remember worryingly little about this except that it was bad. Not ironic, or a parody, just badly made and scripted. Avoid." Robot picture here. [GC]

Credits Series Dir: Toshihiro Hirano
Planning: Toshihiro Hirano, Sho Egawa
Writer: Sho Egawa (story editor)
Chara. designer: Naomi Miyata, Yutaka Izubuchi (mecha), Rei Nakahara (mecha)
Music: Yoshiro Kakimi

Episodes 28

Release

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 2002 November 15 -

Production Starchild

Broadcaster Kids Station

Animation ZEXCS

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Mysterious Steel Fairy Rouran
Title (Japanese)	Kikou Sennyo Rouran
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	12 minute episodes. Science fiction, robots, fantasy, magic, adventure .
Classification	-
Synopsis	Some bad guys with supernatural powers are very upset when somebody destroys their HQ. They re-animate a giant stone carving and start trashing Japan with it. The Japanese authorities can't do much as they have ceded control of the JSDF to the UN. So they call in an obsessive-looking guy with glasses (Dr. Mikogami) who says that his organisation has been waiting for just such an eventuality. So he and his son and daughter start up their gear (secret base, giant carrier, giant robots), while the authorities evacuate a coastal area called "Arcadia" which is inhabited by dropouts and dissidents, and designated as the area where the battle will take place. The Mikogami son, not insignficantly named "Yamato", takes on the golem and, despite being distracted by some people still in the area, lures the golem into the sea and trashes it. Unfortunately he also vapes the ship full of refugees. At this point, while general dismay reigns, a rather attractive supernatural being materialises in mid air - the eponymous Rouran - and announces that she is going to take revenge. [GC]
Review	After seeing 1 episode I'm not sure what to make of this. It's clearly not anything deep, but if you like this sort of team/robot show it could be amusing. If you look at what happens with the collateral damage in the 1st episode, I wonder if this is an anti-American show. No, of course not. Couldn't be. I really liked the bit where the attractively armoured Rouran (see main pic.) appears in mid air and says "My name is Rouran and I'm going to destroy you". Hopefully in later episodes we find out who some of the mysterious characters in #1 are. (Later) I've just discovered that sometime in 2003 I saw some of Rouran at an anime con and a week or so later wrote this: "I can remember worryingly little about this except that it was bad. Not ironic, or a parody, just badly made and scripted. Avoid." Robot picture here. [GC]
Credits	Series Dir: Toshihiro Hirano Planning: Toshihiro Hirano, Sho Egawa Writer: Sho Egawa (story editor) Chara. designer: Naomi Miyata, Yutaka Izubuchi (mecha), Rei Nakahara (mecha) Music: Yoshiro Kakimi
Episodes	28
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	2002 November 15 -
Production	Starchild
Broadcaster	Kids Station
Animation	ZEXCS
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.