Giant Robo the Animation: The Day the Earth Stood Still

feels like an adaptation of a formative revisionist comic, taking a classically goofy, deliriously nonsensical superheroes and supervillains story and injecting it with sombre post-nuclear angst. you can find in it a throughline from feuillade, lang and godzilla all the way to the iron giant, watchmen and x-men. unfortunately, while the tension between pulp and art is thrillingly taut at first, plot starts to take over and with it so does the pulp, exposing that it was in fact better at the art.

Seen this twice. Excellent stuff -- it's unabashedly "anime" in the best way possible.