The wonderful world of Chroma City has been conquered, overrun by terrible baddies called Inkys. They suck the color out of everything in favor of monochromatic boredom and enslave the inhabitants called Raydians. Your character, de Blob, was out of town when the attack occurred and now he and a small crew of “Color Revolutionaries” who evaded capture are now charged with bringing color back to Chroma City and to drive the Inkys out of town.

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Lina and company have managed to catch up with Pokota and have given chase yet again. Pokota is particularly annoyed and wants to get them off his tail today of all days. Pokota gives them all the slip and while they try to decide what to do, they are quickly surrounded by a deep mist as Pokota curses his luck.

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Lina and Gourry are desperately hunting down Pokota in order to figure out why he’s framing Lina. Unfortunately they’re doing a fairly poor job of it and succeed only in wrecking the landscape and injuring innocent wildlife. After a brief respite in a nearby cabin Zelgadis decides to chime in, pointing out Lina’s terribly ineffective tactics. Lina comes back, pointing out that Zel hasn’t really done much either but he doesn’t care. Cue Lina with a nasty bait tactic pointing out that since Pokota can use the Dragon Slave and create Sword of Light replicas and mage-tanks, he JUST might know about Zelgadis’ curse and be able to cure him of his chimera “affliction”. Zelgadis sees through her ploy… But still decides that a good way to flush out Pokota is to destroy the nearby lake and flood out all the forest creatures at once. Amelia manages to restrain Zelgadis long enough for Lina to point out that she has another plan and goes off with Gourry, leaving Amelia and Zelgadis to their own devices.

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Super Robots are one of the oldest and most well-loved genres in anime and manga. You’ll be hard pressed to find a serious anime fan who doesn’t have a favorite super robot or someone who didn’t grow up as a child cheering on their favorite bot as he wrecked the aspirations of some evil king every afternoon. You might a super robot fan and not even know it as many of the old Japanese shows made their way to the U.S. under different names such as the Force Five cartoon anthology which featured the American versions of Getter Robo G, Gaiking, UFO Robot Grendizer and Dangard Ace, and of course there’s the American classic Voltron which has just been released in its original form of Beast King Golion. The novelty even spread to other shows like Transformers as the idea of “combining” into a greater force became a mainstay of the toy line and eventually the show as kids had to hunt down every Constructicon, Stunticon, Aerialbot, etc. to make giant Transformers that towered over the rest of their collection. Even now, the super robot genre is alive and well as some of the most popular shows of the day feature hot-blooded protagonists and their mecha and hardly a season of anime goes by without a TV or OVA remake of an old classic. But what about this genre makes it so popular?

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A very wealthy woman and her pet poodle, Sebastian, seem to be going for an early morning stroll by a lake only for the dog to become very irritated at something in the lake. He dives into the lake only to disappear while the owner screams for her pet as an eerie island hovers in the distance.

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Lina’s still upset that someone stole her spotlight and is taking it out on her companions as they quake in terror. Gourry tries his best to calm her down but to no avail. She’s wanted by the police, she doesn’t know what’s going on, and worst of all, she didn’t get to blow anything up real good. She decides to go through her troubles one by one to see just where she stands in all that’s happened.

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Lina is back and better than ever. As someone who hasn’t been all that excited about a lot of new anime, finding out that The Slayers was going to be airing again had me giddy as I finally had something to REALLY look forward to. Many of the main characters were returning, the original voice seiyuu were returning, Megumi was performing the opening and ending themes……everything seemed to show a return to form and another season of Slayers bliss.

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So the plan was to go see Kung Fu Panda as everyone has been telling me how great it was. I get to the theater and the showing I was planning on seeing was sold out. And it’s been out for three weeks? I was stunned. As I held up the line trying to decide on waiting an hour for the next showing or going home, the nice cashier guy suggested that maybe I’d like to go see Wall-E instead. Well it was Sunday and I was bored so I figured why not? Boy am I glad he made that suggestion.

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As someone who hasn’t been too impressed with the selection of anime in the past few years I’ve found myself frequently going to more “exotic” avenues to fill my need for DVD hoarding. Even so far as to go into the terrible world of non-animated purchases. The horror. However my current attitude makes me more willing to try out various random things as my budget isn’t already slotted for 20+ anime DVD purchases for the next two months. That’s what eventually brought me to Oban Star-Racers, an interesting fusion in every sense of the word. The show itself is a 2D/3D experiment of sorts and the show was created by a collaboration of French and Japanese creators with the French actually leading the project.

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