Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1982
Jan. 20th, 2023 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAs tempting as it is for me to call 1982 “the year of Macross” (not that long ago, I ran into a reminder that series was one of the first to be made by a new generation who could have been part of the initial audience for anime on TV), that personal thought hinges on having been exposed to at least its animation at an early age (early enough I can’t say “anime character designs” registered for me on any conscious level). I’ve also revisited that series quite a few times already, including during my speedy 2010 tour; back then I watched its first two episodes to get to a solid dose of “mecha action,” and for all that I’ve managed to watch two episodes on a weeknight and then still push through typing a post up I don’t want to do that too often. For more reasons than that, I had intentions of trying out the beginning of some recent “fansubs” of an early-1980s magical girl show I’d known the peculiar title of for some time. Having seen a different series of almost the same age in the same genre before, I did have some suppositions about what Minky Momo would be like. As it turned out, things were just a bit more peculiar than I’d been expecting.
Not having seen the magical girl series that followed Sally the Witch had me thinking there must have been plenty of formative moments I’m still unaware of, but Minky Momo’s debut in her series wasn’t that different from Sally’s in a certain way. There was a somewhat “cartoony” and perhaps therefore peculiar look to a lot of the opening episode, if one that appealed to me; there also seemed a certain amount of potential merchandise on the screen. One other thing in the show was an element of transformation and “playing at growing up,” although I could get to wondering about it “spicing things up a little for fathers and older brothers stuck watching over little girls.” In the end the contrast between Minky Momo and Creamy Mami was sufficient I looked something up and reached the understanding they hadn’t been produced by the same studio after all. Getting a better sense of what had been a mere title for quite some time was something, although there I’m also considering something else I’ve heard about a certain development late in the series; I at least have the impression now it’s not quite a matter of “sorry, kiddies; that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.”
Not having seen the magical girl series that followed Sally the Witch had me thinking there must have been plenty of formative moments I’m still unaware of, but Minky Momo’s debut in her series wasn’t that different from Sally’s in a certain way. There was a somewhat “cartoony” and perhaps therefore peculiar look to a lot of the opening episode, if one that appealed to me; there also seemed a certain amount of potential merchandise on the screen. One other thing in the show was an element of transformation and “playing at growing up,” although I could get to wondering about it “spicing things up a little for fathers and older brothers stuck watching over little girls.” In the end the contrast between Minky Momo and Creamy Mami was sufficient I looked something up and reached the understanding they hadn’t been produced by the same studio after all. Getting a better sense of what had been a mere title for quite some time was something, although there I’m also considering something else I’ve heard about a certain development late in the series; I at least have the impression now it’s not quite a matter of “sorry, kiddies; that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.”