Yatterman (Original)

Yatterman (Original)
We did it, We did it! Yatterman!
Genre: Sci-fi fantasy Comedy Country: Japan Release Date: January 1, 1977-January 27, 1979 Network(s): Fuji TV Created by: Tatsunoko Productions Starring: Yoshiko Ōta Mari Okamoto Reiko Katsura Noriko Ohara Jōji Yanami Kazuya Tatekabe Junpei Takiguchi Episodes: 108

Yatterman (Japanese: ヤッターマン, Hepburn: Yattāman) is a Japanese anime television series broadcast from January 1, 1977 to January 27, 1979, comprising 108 episodes. It is the second and longest show in the Time Bokan series by Tatsunoko Productions.

Why It Rocks

1. Unlike Time Bokan, this doesn't the same concept as the previous series, as this shows are focusing to the travel around the world to be more like superhero, while some episodes are keeping the time travel concept, even it can be repetitive.
2. Unlike Time Bokan, this anime series can talk for the Robot, and each robot have different animals.
   • Yatter-Wan and Yatter-King was a dog
   • Yatter-Pelican was a Pelican
   • Yatter-Dojira was a Dinosaurs
   • Yatter-Phant was a Elephant
   • Yatter-Panda was a Panda
   • Yatter-Bull was a Bulldog
   • Yatter-Angler was a Angler Fish
   • Yatter-Yokozuna was a hybrid Kangaroo Sumo
     • Not only that, but each robot animals has different mechanical foods to eat to making more strength and adding a small robots to fight the Doronbo Robots and his Minions in each episodes.
3. Doronbo Gang is likable but funny villains, as it constant failure to Dokurobei (The overreaching antagonist of this series), it gives funny (but sometimes cruel) punishment with each episodes.
4. There's a tons of funny moments here and there, even some moments can be inappropriate in some scenes.
5. His theme song and soundtrack are memorable.
6. The animation is really good, even it reused the animation (such as explosion) from past Tatsunoko shows.
7. The voice actors is good, both Japanese and Italians.
8. It got remake and live-action films, which both of these are still good.

Bad Qualities

1. As mentioned above, this concept could be repetitive.
2. As usual for Tatsunoko animation, it can be repetitive, as they reused some scenes and particularly for explosion scenes.
3. Some moments can be inappropriate, as some scenes can be revealed the Doronjo's body without bikini, even for kids, at the time in Japan, kids may see several inappropriate scenes for kids anime show, and that inappropriate scenes had been censored in most countries.
4. Some punishment can be cruel and unfunny.

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