The way international licenses work, it’s hard to make heads or tails of which shows get imported, and when, or why. So, while we’ve been aware of MARVEL DISC WARS: THE AVENGERS since it started, we haven’t actually gotten to look further because - - shocker of shocks - - it isn’t actually being imported to America. You’d figured that an anime starring characters from the third highest-grossing movie of all time would come back across the Pacific faster than HERO MAN did but, hey, surely there’s a whole web of legal entanglements tying it up.
Thus, one of the most notable East/West co-productions in animation is going on, without much commentary here…until characters from this year’s highest-grossing movie guest star on it. That’s double-buzzworthy. No way that’s not getting talked about, now.
== TEASER ==
Yes, the Guardians of the Galaxy have just made a guest appearance in DISC WARS. After gathering the Dragon Balls and wishing the show onto the TV for a quick look, it seems like the premise is basically "POKEMON does Marvel." Loki’s captured all the heroes into triangular ‘discs,’ and a bunch of plucky Japanese kids must gather those discs over the course of the series because -- wouldn't you know? -- these gadgets allow them to summon/command the heroes for brief periods of time.
(It was only a matter of time before the comparisons between Hulk and Bulbasaur would cinch closer…)
All the superheroes and supervillains have gotten true shonen make-overs in this show; and that goes doubly for Starlord, Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket Racoon. Somehow, Rocket even manages to some look even cuddlier here than Chopper here. While there's always an outside-looking-in-reflected-through-a-mirror-darkly quality to projects like this, the Gaurdian's anime ball feels that much more surreal than BAT-MANGA and the tokusatsu Spider-Man show with Leperdon because, up until a month ago, these were all C-list and D-list characters in the Marvel universe. People hadn't heard of them in Chattanooga, let alone Osaka.
Anyway, what do you vicers think of this make-over? Does it feel like getting chocolate in your peanut butter, or milk in your orange juice? Let us know in the talkback if you're hoping this gets an official dub/sub import.
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