{"id":81,"date":"2007-11-11T19:51:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T19:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-11-11T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T19:51:53","slug":"yattaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Yattaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image79\" alt=\"Yattaman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/yatta2.jpg\" \/> <em>Yattaman &#038; friend<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the obscurity of Polish satellite TV I recorded several episodes of <strong>Yattaman<\/strong>, which was part of the  long-running <strong>Time Bokan<\/strong> anime of the 1970&#8217;s. In <strong>TB<\/strong>, Junko and Tanpei are the grandchildren of a mad inventor who produced a time machine, before vanishing from history. Also on his trail are  the scandalously dressed villain Madame Margot and her two sidekicks.   Successive sequels are a variation on this theme.<\/p>\n<p>The high point of Yattaman is the weekly  climax with  a &#8220;Wacky Robot Duel of the Week&#8221; which is totally different each week,  and in one example I recorded, the bad  guys&#8217; tank disgorges as sub-munitions a squad of tiny leotard-clad girls  who give Yattaman a bit of a kicking, till his tank launches a squad of  mechanical chickens which repel the dancers by pecking all of their  clothes off. Enough to make the viewer fall out of his chair laughing.<\/p>\n<p>As farcial anime goes, this sort of thing has been emulated more recently, but for sheer wacky inventiveness in each episode, it has never been surpassed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yattaman &#038; friend From the obscurity of Polish satellite TV I recorded several episodes of Yattaman, which was part of the long-running Time Bokan anime of the 1970&#8217;s. In TB, Junko and Tanpei are the grandchildren of a mad inventor who produced a time machine, before vanishing from history. Also on his trail are the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=81\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yattaman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}