Video Friday: Yatterman
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 13 of March , 2009 at 12:22 am
From Wikipedia:
Yatter-Bark: This dog-shaped robot was designed by Gan’s father as a prototype rescue robot, but was never constructed. It is finally completed by Gan in the first episode and is immediately put into action against the Dorombo gang. It is fitted with a siren and a bell like other rescue vehicles, and also a joystick (all of these are operated by the robot itself) which control the various other features of the robot. Unlike the “time bokan” series of time machines in the original show, it does not provide a cockpit for the crew–the robot is clever enough to obey the words of the Yatterman duo, who simply hang on to its sides.
The robot itself does not pack much of a punch in terms of combat strength (save for its nostrils which fire iron pellets, and the two firehoses on its back). In fact, it is often temporarily defeated each time by the villains’ mecha in later episodes. One element, though, remains the key feature to the heroes’ turning point: a bone-shaped power pack, known as “Mecha-Tonic” as Gan has named it, is usually fed to the dog robot on its very point of total defeat, allowing a sudden outburst of strength to ward off a deadly blow from the enemy mecha. It will then proudly announce (with the aid of three tiny dog-shaped robots popping out of its chest and do a drum roll) and perform its special attack–a large group of miniature robots, usually taking the shapes of land-based animals, that comes out of its mouth. Then these mini-robots will attack the Dorombo’s mecha by taking it apart piece by piece with their concealed weapons, causing the enemy’s mecha to explode spectacularly, leaving just pieces of scrap metals, and a very dirty, tattered villain trio behind.
I don’t get it at all, but the live action movie has already been released in Japan.
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