#brain powerd

[nyaa]

ブレンパワード スパイラルブック, illustration by Inomata Mutsumi 1998-08-05

[reneelovesrobots]

I also have a recent non-Bandai build, from my favorite deep dive into Tomino's mommy issues!

She a little smol but she is also canonically baby so it's fine

Joints are weirdly set up but mostly do everything you want em to even if it does feel janky (aside from the neck which is looking as up as it can in the above pic)

Plastic is very nice, lot of surface detail even on em stompy boots and the palms of the multiple hand options

And here we have the cockpit (and yes it does look like that on purpose and yes the show does make commentary on that)

Tomino truly is one of the people of all time

She also comes with a nice swordgun!

And no stand but a huge green effect part for going vwoom (and a second peg hole in its mount for a stand so you can go vwoom in the air)

Very fun quick little build

[yanguang]

out-of-context-tomino

[laboitediabolique]

Flyer for the anime TV series "Brain Powered", WOWOW Inc., April 1998. Scanned from my personal collection. Artwork is by Mutsumi Inomata.

[psychotrenny]

One part of the show Brain Powerd (1998) that really sticks in my mind is the opening song In My Dream by Eri Shingyōji. Like it's perfect karaoke material (and believe me I tried my best to sing along); energetic and cheesy enough to be great fun but with a genuine and compelling passion behind it which means that next thing you know, you're really getting into it. You can't take things too seriously, but you can't laugh it off altogether. So you'll have a great time if you can meet it on its own terms; smiling with it more than you laugh at it. This is also how I'd describe the show itself

Because Brain Powerd is far from a perfect piece of media. There's plenty to pick apart with editing or the writing and a lot of ideas might not click with you and you'll have to stomach an especially concentrated dose of Yoshiyuki Tomino's* very particular ideas about gender and sexuality. But I loved it as this fascinating giant alien New Age bio-robot show about the relationships that humans develop amongst ourselves and with the rest of the planet. Brain Powerd has a lot to offer if you're willing to approach it with the right mindset. And even if you're not interested in giving the show any deeper thought, it still has enough energy and eccentricity to make the experience a fun ride

*not to lean too much into auteur thinking, but I am referring to consistently recurring themes in the works that he had a substantial degree of creative control over

[reccoa]

hime & sara

[lieutenantsillygoose]

Tomino-san is such an unabashed new-ager despite the overall pessimistic tone of his works. Newtype understanding, aura power, organic engines, climate action, fairies... he's so real for all of that

[degeneracygenerator]

i tend to post during my weekly friends mechwatch, so heres our current series schedule made public:

Aura Battler Dunbine

Heavy Metal L-Gaim

Magic Knight Rayearth

The Vision of Escaflowne

The Big O

Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon

Gasaraki

Fafner in the Azure (cour 1)

Brain Powerd

Megaton Musashi

Mars Daybreak

Fafner in the Azure (cour 2)

Martian Successor Nadesico

TBA

we usually knock out about 6 episodes per week on wednesdays.