42. "It's not so much the maid outfit..." In response to In response to 41 Sat Sep-09-06 11:40 PM by KwesiAkoKennedy
...or the fanservice.
It's the "I'm gonna be your best friend even if it kills me" thing going on between her and the depressed brown girl. The majority of the story is centered on this ditzy android begging for her attention and approval of someone too self centered to give a damn. That wole bubbly in the face of insurmountable indifference is played to me.
The background story is FASCINCATING. Seeing how they tie it into the original is what I'm waiting to see ep 6 for. But cutting through all the forced cutsey drama and angst is a bit tiring.
And if we're talking about Go Nagai's influence, we would have seen the Nono go beserk at being rejected, revert to Devil Nono, rip the other girl's head off and proceed to destroy the solarsystem (with what we learn in ep5) while facing off against as succession of Bustermachines. Eventually culminating with GOD GUNBUSTER materializing from the center of the universe and saving the day.
If we were to take his more "hot blooded" creations as a source, that is...