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It’s a Space Stallion.
This… thing is so over the top–as if somebody compounded the entire 80s with crystal meth, ten thousand sugar donuts, and the strangest that anime has to offer–that it cries out, I believe, for nothing less than a full treatise from John C. Wright.
John: A stunned and reeling nation awaits your insights. How can a just and loving God permit the existence of such cartoons?
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Just watched the credits.
One word: Europe.
Turn on the radio anywhere on the continent (save, perhaps, the UK) and you’ll get what is essentially the soundtrack to this thing.
JCW should love the Space Princess. Those headdresses look like a bad mix of Viking & ancient Egypt.
Alas, this is…a thing…which shall not come to pass. (Not sure if “alas” or “fortunately” fits in there.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/02/06/space-stallions-80s-cartoon/
But one can…dream?
Truly brilliant.
It’s amazing to watch the color of space change over the decades. In the original Star Trek, space was black (with white stars, of course). Each successive spin-off had more and more colors in space, and by the later spinoffs space rarely had any black in it.
I.. what? HUH?!? MY NOSE IS BLEEDING!!
RAINBOW KEYTAR SWORD?!?! FFFFFTHHKKHHH..
This is a brilliant and totally accurate tribute to 80s toy-driven cartoons. Its like my whole television-watching youth jumbled in a compact three minute package. I can name about a dozen shows that were obvious sources for elements of this: Thundercats, Voltron, Silverhawks, Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, BraveStarr, Exo-Squad, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa, Bucky O’Hare and the Toad Wars, He-Man, The Centurions….
Just to show how on-the-mark this is, here are the intros from two ACTUAL cartoons from the 80s:
Galaxy Rangers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3EoBl5uBfU
Silverhawks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAQu23t19A
My first instinct was to say Silverhawks, She Ra, and BraveStarr had a gay love child…