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Tonight finished watching X-Bomber/Star Fleet, a very obscure puppet sci-fi series that plays as kind of a mash-up between Star Wars and Thunderbirds by way of Go Nagai (who came up with most of the characters and setting). Slow moving and pretty basic alien-invaders story, but there were a couple of strong individual episodes in there and the ending is a massive payoff.

(A man in a suit fights a puppet, and the puppet sets him on fire.)

Something you watch purely for its visual style and effects work, all of which is gorgeous: there was recently an art exhibition of the series' production materials in Japan!


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All I know about this series is that the intro is crazy rad and that the girl in your screenshot is hot. My friends and I would watch clips of it on YouTube while drunk a decade ago and it was like a fever dream. Had no idea Go Nagai wrote it!

I think it might be one of those things where he gave them a basic outline and they wrote the rest. There is a feature-length doc on the blu but I haven't sat down and watched the whole thing. The best scenes in this show are definitely fever dream material, ESPECIALLY the ending