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103. Megas XLR - Pirateking2000
https://youtu.be/koesW3xMKtY

Unique: 3.25
Story: 1.25
Music: 1.25
Animation: 3.75
Personal: 1
Average: 2.1

So I get what they were going for here with a parody of mecha anime. The intro is intentionally over the top and never takes itself seriously. But that isnt making me like it.

Lets start with the animation, which looks blurry near the start. At first I thought it was just a low quality video, but then the picture cleared up once the main character stopped revving his engine. This makes for one of the more unique portions of the intro, but its also a jarring effect that put me off before the sequence even got started. Then theres the inconsistent quality of the artwork, where some of the characters and monsters look amateurish.

The theme song is much worse, with nasal vocals that sound like a Weird Al Yankovic impersonator, and mindless lyrics like this verse:

You dig giant robots!
I dig giant robots!
We dig giant robots!
Chicks dig giant robots!

I dont know, maybe Im not the target audience so I dont dig the humor, but its about as subtle as a Michael Bay movie. The one thing Ill give the music is it was well-timed with some of the action, but I found it too grating to score any higher.

Theres at least some novelty to the sequence through the use of framing with borders to emphasize the focus at certain moments. And the intro has a distinctive visual style despite being a genre parody. But its still just a series of clips, without anything particularly interesting going on. So I couldnt bring myself to score it any higher on the Unique factor.

Finally, theres hardly any serious attempt to tell a story here. Some guys got a giant robot that can turn into a car (that concept sounds vaguely familiar). Theres some glimpses of the characters personalities like Coop treating everything like a video game, but the characterization is shallow.

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