Welcome To The GALATT

In a defenseless world where war has been outlawed, good one mettlesome scientist stands between the alien hordes and our treasured Earth. Can his broad robotic creations provide protection to us all from destruction?

Sure, that is the premise for a complete bunch of Jap cartoons. However CHORIKI ROBO GALATT (aka “Galatt The Huge”) dares to take hold of this view and “change into” (haw haw) it into a gag comedy! Premiering on October 6 1984 and lasting except April of next year, GALATT’s 25 episodes had been a amusing digression among Nippon Destroy of day’s more serious mid-80s sequence esteem VIFAM, the sadly unnoticed PANZER WORLD GALIENT, and HEAVY METAL L.GAIM. But GALATT’s squat comedy robotic action idiom would are dwelling on in later Destroy of day sequence esteem GRANZORT and WATARU, in addition to the Ashi Productions hit NG LAMUNE & 40, and one thing known as S.D. GUNDAM, no matter the heck that would be.

our heroes Michael and Patty and their robotic company

Two things distinguish GALATT. One is the Yumi Murata theme song, which is relaxing and funky with broad 80’s fashion techno hooks. I mean, come on, hear the song and you’ll be mumbling “G-A-L-A…T-T” to your self for weeks. The numerous factor is the running gag about how our genius inventor, Dr. Kiwi, is a total puny one molester. Seriously, he spends the whisper searching for to grope the feminine lead, 13-year frequent Patty Pumpkin. Hell, he spends the OPENING CREDITS of the whisper searching for to grope Patty Pumpkin. And that is now not portrayed as a foremost bother, as a “very special episode” of DIFF’RENT STROKES customer-starring Gordon Leap, or because the leisure any one needs to be in particular eager on. It’s compatible joke fodder. Oh Japan, you so loopy.

Yes, even within the hole credits.

When he isn’t attempting for the depraved contact, Dr. Kiwi is working your complete DR SLUMP comedy inventor motif pretty exhausting. The whisper as a complete owes plenty to DR SLUMP, truly; a wacky SF gag whisper starring a loser inventor can’t help but feel identical. For certain Dr. Trudge lusts after the more age-acceptable Midori and rightfully considers 13-year frequent Akane a total pest.

creepy Dr. Kiwi

Anyway, in between his “Barely Simply” subscription renewals, Dr. Kiwi invented a broad metal out of stuff he had lying spherical the house. Simply in time too, for the reason that In fashion Real Property Syndicate has arrived to slash Earth up into subdivisions and flip it into a galactic Levittown with their legions of broad strive towards robotic Century 21 gross sales representatives. Here is horrifying for compatible about everyone other than Dr. Kiwi, because Dr. Kiwi has been the usage of the menace of alien invasion to bilk money out of oldsters for years. Now that the aliens enjoy in a roundabout draw arrived for precise, it’s time for Dr. Kiwi to carry the products!

Michael, Patty, Dr. Kiwi, demanding smartly off kid Camille Cashmere

Since Dr. Kiwi spends a lot of time putting spherical the local junior excessive (WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN??) he knows Michael Marsh, your customary dapper-cut broad-wide awake early life. Michael has a squat robotic watchdog-buddy named Janbu, which after some retooling from Dr. Kiwi is with out be conscious able to rework into Galatt, a mettlesome robotic fighter with a Galatt Blaster, a Galatt Javelin, etc. Michael’s lady friend, the aforementioned, long-struggling Patty Pumpkin, ALSO has a robotic helper, and this “Patigu” furthermore will get the vitality toughen –including factory-customary Patigu Slicer and Patigu Shot. When demanding smartly off kid / rival Reggie Mantle – er, I mean Camille Cashmere comes to metropolis, his robotic butler “Kamigu” furthermore will get the Galatt therapy to develop to be an 8.8 meter robotic with a inexperienced coloration scheme, and a bazooka.

our heroes and their robots in toughen mode

And compatible whenever you occur to deem things had been getting too linear, the whisper will casually toss in a cameo from the Sumo Sisters, “Dosukoi the elder and younger”, two schoolgirls whose title is a sumo wrestler exclamation and whose assignment in GALATT is to withhold the nonsense at precisely excessive ranges.

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Aged mecha designer (you’ve viewed his work in one thing known as GUNDAM) Kunio Okawara’s mountainous yet current make work is on elephantine whisper in GALATT; the cutesy Janbu robots are both purposeful and pleasant and the Galatt-sized strive towards mecha satisfy both as inspirational objects of make and as struggling with machines. Visitor mechanical designs had been by Koichi Ohata, known for his later work on everyone’s 2nd least well-liked anime M.D. GEIST. Character designer Toyoo Ashida, credited on every little thing from SPACE BOY SORAN to SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO, from DEL POWER X to, unsurprisingly, WATARU and GRANZORT, brings his Eighties A-sport to the whisper with headbands, sideways-mounted solar visors, and the favored “overalls with one strap down” stare ladies that has mesmerized the male search for since overalls had been invented.

Galatt LP conceal art by T. Ashida

And that’s the whisper; Michael, Patty and Camille battle house pirates and dreadful plans of the Galactic Real Property Overlords while defending Patty’s virtue from the grotesquely depraved advances of Dr. Kiwi. GALATT fansubs are nonexistent and even raw Jap episodes had been exhausting to come again by, so the sequence didn’t get the an analogous serious examination afforded anime from the an analogous timeframe. Considered alongside up-to-the-minute reveals esteem VIFAM, GIANT GORG, etc, it could be straightforward to enjoy GALATT has the an analogous yarn heft. However let’s face it, VIFAM this ain’t. GALATT’s a delicate-weight; a gag-a-minute whisper with fulfilling visuals and a annoying pedo subtext that likely explains its absence from the out of the country market.

Patty’s broad robotic strive towards swimsuit by Jockey For Her

It’s cold when ladies hit on you but NOT LIKE THIS

We can’t fault GALATT for being merely diverting – let’s be correct, one among the characters is named “Patty Pumpkin”, and awaiting it to be any other XABUNGLE or L.GAIM is asking too grand. Tackle they are saying within the war sport, you gotta punch your weight, and as a zany gag whisper keen house robots and whacked-out excited scientists GALATT holds its possess with the actual of this admittedly little sub-sub genre.

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–Dave Merrill