“Aura Battler Dunbine” continues to produce new games over four decades since its release.
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Released in 1983, Aura Battler Dunbine It was an autonomous anime mecha written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. So why is it so popular over 40 years later?
While many know Tomino about his work Mobile Gundam suitthat has become an extensive epic, Aura Battler Dunbine It was an autonomous single series with an independent story.
He dealt with people from “Upper Earth”, carrying under the Aura road to Byston Well, a strange medieval field full of monsters and strange machinery.
These strange machines were Aura Battlers and made of carcasses of the aforementioned monsters and are powered by their pilot’s “aura”.
However, finding suitable pilots in Byston well with a fairly strong aura was extremely rare, so suitable candidates from Upper Earth, grabbed to fight in a war they did not know.
This is how the motorcyclist Sho Zama ends up in Byston well and presses the title Dunbine, and is here where the show begins.
Defensive It was an interesting anime in multiple measurements. was undoubtedly the first Istecai The anime has ever done, it also aims at adolescents and not children, and was designing mecha as opposed to anything else in the anime.
With the original designs written by Kazutaka Miyatake, whose original sketches inspired Tomino to make the arrangement use the strange technology that looks like insects, the show evolved and grew up to the character designer Tomonori Kogawa wrote Billbine and Yutaka Izubuchi.
Is the last one that brings me to the ongoing attack Aura Battler Dunbine Games from Bandai Spirits.
To date, most of the mecha from the television series were Since Damashii Robot gamesBut what is interesting is that now they are extracted all the Aura ghost Plans, most of which were never moving.
While there was an oval spin-off in the late 80s, which Izubuchi designed Mecha for, there were two Aura ghost Art books released by B-Club at the same time.
These also presented Izubuchi’s much more biological and insect “upgrades” to designs from the original television series.
Now, the decades since we saw the like Lorigos proposed Super robot wars t and now YIn order not to mention to have Beautiful Plan Metal GameBut other designs are still strong.
Of course, we did not have general public release of these games from Metal Robot Damashii Billbine In 2021, but we had a multitude of new designs as very popular Premium Bandai releases.
To give you an idea of this madness, take a look at the photo on top. In the far left is a game of Vierresderived from the original television broadcast. In the middle is the Aura ghost edition of The Vierresand on the far right is the Statue. Other Aura ghost Design that is meant to be upgraded to Vierres, with the last Starting pre-orders today in Japan.
Even lump sum games designs like the Zellbine by the PlayStation Defensive The role -playing game received a game. So, clearly Bandai Spirits goes all over this franchise.
But why now? Because it is Defensive So popular?
The first and most obvious reason is that Aura Battler Dunbine was and is one Great anime. It had a fantastic story with subtle, complex characters and a world scene as opposed to any other anime. Effectively starting the type of Isekai in the process.
The second reason is that these Aura Battler designs were very complex and full of curves as well as weird angles. 80s toy and model technology could not match what was on the screen, but now they can.
In short, the enormous popularity of the original 80s anime does not fit its merchandising, and this is something that is now delayed.
The crazy thing is that because Defensive They are such a good iskai anime, it also brings to all the new followers who are sick of Current Slop Isekai Speaking the anime market and light new market. Thus, many of these sales are driven by new and old anime fans.
In addition, according to the people of Bandai Spirits, Defensive is one of the, if not the best-selling mecha anime toy brands in Japan, even more than Winja (although Gundam’s Sales of model kit ended this, obviously).
This is partly the reason why we received some wonderful new experimental animation for Defensive Last year (presented above), and it will be interesting to see if something more is coming.
Until then, I will be buried under a constantly increasing mound Defensive Games, and admiring the huge crafts that goes to do each of them.
Aura Battler Dunbine is available in Blu-ray through Crunchyroll.
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