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Stan Lee and Japan Present Big-Ass America-Loving Robot


Stan Lee has been senile as hell for a few years now. Stripperella? Who Wants to Be a Superhero? Ugh. For the most part, the American entertainment industry has recognized him for effectively creating part of a massive sector of the pop culture industry by letting him have tiny cameos in his superhero movies, and then mostly tried to ignore him. Alas, Japan is possibly even more crazy than Stan Lee is, which is why he’s been making a manga series called Ultimo, and now has an anime coming out in April called… Heroman.

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?Yes, Heroman. Hero-fucking-man. About a boy named Joey Jones — apparently Steve Starspangledbanner wasn’t quite American enough — and the above red, white and blue giant robot. Now, I have no idea if it’s any good, or bad, or will be as insanely pro-American yet-only-running-on-Japanese TV as it seems. But by sheer fact that the series is called “Heroman” makes me doubt the creative credibility of the entire enterprise. Now, if Heroman wore a football helmet, boxing gloves, and carried two guns, that’d be something else… (Via AnimeVice)