Bouken! Iczer 3

Seems the creators decided to aim for a different audience with the sequel - while the original had lots of body horror and yuri, Iczer-3 seems to be made for children aged about the same as the new heroine, which I figure to be 8 years. I just don't understand why they made that decision, as the show as is makes no sense. Why does our child heroine face off with a well designed dominatrix (Bigro) when said dominatrix isn't given a chance to play her role and is just flatly defeated? Even the psychology of the characters got a fair bit of attention, butthe story is such that it doesn't matter. Nagisa is still naked in the giant robot, while her "partner" pilots it, just now this "partner" thing has zero sexual undertones, and good thing it doesn't given the young age of the new pilot, but why are all these elements there then? Other problems are the colossal starship with a total crew of five people, two of whom are non-essential staff. They also just fly around Earth with no real stated goals just to let the plot happen. All in all, the show had a good character designer, but not much of a story and no real understanding of what worked in the original. The animation is generally weak but shines at times during combat scenes. I don't know who I'd recommend this one tho as it doesn't really work for either kids or adults.

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