Yup, this series is a perfect example of how to do it properly, meaning by showing him/her as multifaceted human with differents sides and not with characterizations that stop such possibility from the get go, and it's particular refreshing also considering that other series from this same company and this same line are restricted to the usual exploding monster formula even in more modern/contemporary iterations. Really, as I said in another one of my reviews, this beats to death modern american live-action superheroic garbage like the Joaquim Phoenix movie supposedly about the Joker or even proper comic book stuff from overrated superhero writers like Alan Moore (with that I mean the overblown for no reasons Batman: The Killing Joke short story), yet people are restricted to watch this with and the already good, preceding Winspector through fansubs like I did (thank you Shogun-Weeaboo, anyway) because, you guessed it, Toei doesn't care of getting this known outside the brazilian/japanese spheres. They prefer to greenlight live-action schlocks or CGI-remake turds of their animated Masterpieces because...I don't know, maybe japanese society is so obsessed with suicide they prefer to perform financial suicide as a honorific deed? Anyway, if you have the slighest interest in superheroic stuff, watch this. You're not gonna regret it in the slightest, awful episode 38 permitted that you can avoid alltogether with ease.
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Solbrain is amazing!!
Schedelluitjen28 March 2009
This series boggles the mind in its melodramatic oddity. The characters are somewhat wooden, except for the chief, Miyauchi Hiroshi's character, who oozes cool (as Miyauchi tends to do in all his films) despite his brief appearances. The team has a giant, flying, c.200-foot-long firetruck with which to fight the blazing fires that appear at the end of every episode. Having said that, firefighting is not the focus of the show; the team fights against villains and misunderstood scientists most of the time, solving mysteries throughout the city. At the end of every episode, though, often inexplicably, the oil barrels that are apparently present in every warehouse and science building in the city explode, necessitating the use of the metal hero suits. SolBraver, the blue one, has a grappling laser shooting device and vulcan water-guns, while SolJane (what an exciting name and alluring woman!) simply exists to use a rebreather on the victims of the fire. The series gets more exciting later (I don't want to spoil it, so I won't say how), but remains rather formulaic throughout. But this is what makes it wonderful! You can cheer on the Solbrain team, along with SolDozer, the silly robot, as they fight giant brains that want children's bodies, a werewolf, and lots and lots of misguided scientists! It's especially fun in the English dub which, I think, is from the Philippines, and features one of the most ridiculous narrator voices you'll ever hear! So let's go watch and sing with them: 'HELP! HELP! Chikyuu ga ima abunaiiiiiiiii!!!!'
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