![]() A couple sources claim that Orguss 02 is an allegory for World War Two – if so, it’s a pretty bad one. Here, you get a world set in the equivalent of the late 19th/early 20th century. One might initially mistake the pre-modern setting for yet another instance of the medieval-society-with-mecha template seen in old Sunrise warhorses Aura Battler Dunbine or Panzer World Galient. None of those got a soundtrack by MEGA HIT COMPOSER Torsten Rasch.)Įverything about Orguss 02 is weird. ( Orguss 02 is not “obscure,” OK? California Crisis is obscure, Ai City is obscure, Relic Armor Legaciam is obscure. ![]() ![]() Staff’s Super Dimension Century Orguss 02 is the quintessential bizarre historical footnote. Well, hold onto your butts – it might not be obscure, but Hero/J.C. ![]() Haters accuse us of covering nothing but obscuro products-of-their-time that influenced nothing and contribute nothing to the historical record of Japanamation, save for a cryptic reference in the margins. There isn’t a single thing about this six-episode Oriental Animation Video that isn’t goddamned weird: it’s a sequel with almost no recurring characters, a different studio and creative staff, an inimitable soundtrack by a German avant-garde composer and a “hero” mecha that doesn’t do much until a cameo in the final two episodes of the series.
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