Dash & Blast (Day 248)

I've watched the first three episodes of Brain Powerd now and man, it's pretty weird. I mean, I guess it's not that weird but I'm still a little unsettled by the bizarre title sequence that features a variety of completely naked girls floating eerily through the air. Did they really show this on TV in Japan? Wait, who am I kidding? Of course they did--and no one really cared about the animated nudity. Still, I'm not sure what purpose it serves or what relevance it has to the plot, if anything. Granted, I've only watched a few episodes, but something tells me it can't be that important. The opening theme is pretty catchy, at least.

The crotch is a perfectly acceptable entry point

The titular living robots featured in Brain Powerd are variously referred to as Brains, Grand Chers, and Antibodies. It is not currently clear to me the differences between them, but some are fitted for military use and others are incomplete. HIme Utsumiya, pictured above, gets her hands on one of these incomplete Brain Powered units and figured out how to control it. As one might rightly assume, these units, which seem to communicate with their pilots wordlessly, can be controlled without the usage of any traditional mechanical interface. However, it seems they're fitted with mechanized controls once they're made "complete." I'm probably making a mess of the actual plot because I find it a little confusing. If I continue to watch I'll imagine I'll be able to figure it out more effectively.

Perfectly normal way to have a discussion

The Brain Powered units are birthed from tectonic plates, but it is not yet clear why this might be. The blue-haired kid in the picture above is a guy by the name of Yuu. Despite his young age, he's a seasoned Grand Cher pilot and a member of the Reclaimers, a group of people intent on dredging up something called Orphan from the ocean. Yuu seems to believe that this will bring about the destruction of mankind, so he abandons the organization, guns blazing. Now that he's on the run, he's come across Hime, but I don't know yet what's going to come of that. Is it safe to assume that it will involve floating naked women? 

I don't know how quickly I'm going to be watching through this one. There's a very good chance that I will have finished Super Robot Wars J before I've finished this anime and by then I may lose interest. After all, there are other anime that I'd like to try and more SRW games to play--perhaps even those available only in Japanese. Translation guides exist, so it's only my patience that might be working against me. We'll have to see if I can overcome the frustration of navigating through menus in a foreign language.