Authentic Japanese feel? Not even close, from the bad English-dubbed dialog to the way main character Sanjuro's base houses a ridiculous collection of shout-outs thrown in to prove the designers' love of the genre. Japanese intro song? Check, and one that's ironically very inappropriately appropriate, in the spirit of the time. Seeing it through more experienced eyes now, Shogo's take on Japanese mecha feels heavy-handed, clichéd, and obvious like a tourist visiting Germany and immediately investing in a pair of lederhosen and a beer stein to fit in with the locals.
Like so much of the anime world, it seemed exotic and authentic at the time, when not many of us had seen much of it. In retrospect, Shogo is a slightly toe-curling snapshot of that early excitement.
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