The retrofest continues. Last night I completed the Gerber Defenders run after what, 30 years, and today a few episodes of the recently-reissued Johnny Sokko compilation. Like Shout’s ウルトラセブン from last year, video quality is positively barbaric (my early Nineties ジャイアントロボ Laserdisc seemed like a remaster), but it’s excusable this time around, as they got the American dubbed version, which I’ve only seen in my youth as the “Voyage into Space” remix. Man, we would go nuts when that showed up Saturday afternoons.
I haven’t seen anything yet like that artsy Ultraseven episode, but the body count is simply staggering for a children’s show. Closing in on half a century of enlightenment later, I can’t imagine a 10-year-old being revealed as a master spy then getting shot dead in the back by his former masters, outside of maybe SVU.
