Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 2021

For the penultimate year of my personal and far from definitive tour through a certain stretch of anime, I decided to try one more double feature. Eighty-Six had been impressive, and in certain ways reassuring and a relief that a recent “mecha anime” (or just about, given the piloted “ground-level one-person combat machines on legs” aren’t “humanoid” or even “bipedal”) hadn’t wound up under a suffocating cloud of disdain. At the same time, Super Cub had been very pleasant (and just a bit of a commercial for Honda motor vehicles), so the thought of acknowledging what breadth anime does offer was tempting.
( Glory to the Spearhead Squadron, and economical transportation for Koguma )