Cubix is an interesting show from several points of view.
For a start, it is a far as I know the first anime done completely with 3D computer graphics, and I at least find what they could and couldn't do with this quite fun. Look inside the character's mouths, for example.
The story is set in "Bubbletown", where everyone has a robot. The first series is set around Robix Corp, who makes all these robots. With, of course, very silly robot names (I wonder what the Japanese/Korean originals were?).
The fact that the tech the robots are based around is the EPU, "Emotional Processing Unit", is fun, as it leads to (over) emotional rather than the traditional unemotional robots. The EPU reminds me a bit of the DC Comics responsiometers (sp?) which powered their Metal Men superhero characters.
The main character is Cubix, and his owner Conner (ref to John Conner of Terminator?), and Cubix starts out broken and apparently unrepairable, and with a very limited parrot-like speech ability. Interestingly, what starts and seems to super-charge Cubix is emotional appeals like "I need you".
Cubix is a truely general purpose robot, like a Transformer, but far more so. The basic idea is quite clever, but the initial suggestion seems to be that he sacrifices intelligence for flexibility.
The bad guy as a truely deranged robotics super scientist can be fun, with the secondary bad guy interesting as well (I am avoiding spoilers here). The heroic scientist and engineer characters are quite fun as well, and some of the names chosen for them are interesting.
Yes, this is obviously a kids show, but I find its story lines far more interesting than obvious marketing vehicles like Beyblade.
And, it's got robots, lots of robots! [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
For a start, it is a far as I know the first anime done completely with 3D computer graphics, and I at least find what they could and couldn't do with this quite fun. Look inside the character's mouths, for example.
The story is set in "Bubbletown", where everyone has a robot. The first series is set around Robix Corp, who makes all these robots. With, of course, very silly robot names (I wonder what the Japanese/Korean originals were?).
The fact that the tech the robots are based around is the EPU, "Emotional Processing Unit", is fun, as it leads to (over) emotional rather than the traditional unemotional robots. The EPU reminds me a bit of the DC Comics responsiometers (sp?) which powered their Metal Men superhero characters.
The main character is Cubix, and his owner Conner (ref to John Conner of Terminator?), and Cubix starts out broken and apparently unrepairable, and with a very limited parrot-like speech ability. Interestingly, what starts and seems to super-charge Cubix is emotional appeals like "I need you".
Cubix is a truely general purpose robot, like a Transformer, but far more so. The basic idea is quite clever, but the initial suggestion seems to be that he sacrifices intelligence for flexibility.
The bad guy as a truely deranged robotics super scientist can be fun, with the secondary bad guy interesting as well (I am avoiding spoilers here). The heroic scientist and engineer characters are quite fun as well, and some of the names chosen for them are interesting.
Yes, this is obviously a kids show, but I find its story lines far more interesting than obvious marketing vehicles like Beyblade.
And, it's got robots, lots of robots! [grin]
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind