Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1975

From a year from which I had enough anime series to watch I could weigh some choices, I’ve gone on to a year from which I have just one show available. It’s a title I’ve been not just aware of but curious about for some time, though. Way back in the last days of the original Transformers comic from Marvel (days when I had a vague understanding Robotech had “come from Japan” but it still seemed a singular relic to be mulled over), I spotted a bit of letter-page art that pointed me back to an earlier giant robot toy-inspired comic from the company, Shogun Warriors. I managed to buy a few back issues for reasonable prices and took in several adventures of a trio of piloted giant robots, one of them named “Raydeen” (and another one called “Combatra”). Rather later I understood just where the Shogun Warrior toys had come from, and it so happened that a certain number of “RahXephon is not ‘just an Eva clone,’ thank you very much” comments explained that later “modern giant robot” series could be seen as paying homage to a 1970s giant robot anime called Raideen.
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