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ZETMAN PV Trailer: Two Tales of Justice
One of my favorite seinen manga series, Masakazu Katsura’s ZETMAN, comes to life this April! This is probably the only anime I’m looking forward to in the Spring 2012 anime season.
I’ve heard some crazy things about the series ripping off of Tiger & Bunny. It’s actually the other way around. Though I do feel that the ZETMAN anime may have never been green-lighted if it weren’t for the success of Tiger & Bunny. Also, Katsura worked on the character designs for T&B.
What you will enjoy from this series is its gritty look at justice. I would say ZETMAN is a mix of Batman, The Guyver (John of AnimeNation hints on the series possibly being the Guyver for the current generation), and Watchmen.
If you’re interested, I wrote an entry back when I started my blog on one of the main protagonists of ZETMAN, Kouga Amagi. He’s sort of the “Bunny” in the series.
Katsura has amazed me since he’s able to go from doing romantic comedy series (Video Girl Ai, I”S, and DNA²) to something extremely dark. I hope you fans are ready for a frightful world of heroes, monsters, and emotional conflict.
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Heroes & The Media (Tiger & Bunny)
“I’m being a hero because I want save people. Isn’t that enough of a reason? It doesn’t matter if anyone acknowledges me or not.” - Kotetsu Kaburagi
One of this past Spring 2011 anime season’s interesting series has been none other than Sunrise’s Tiger & Bunny. It is an interesting take on superheroes and what it means to be one. The series also looks at the lengths that corporations & media will go to just to generate revenue & control the public.
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Kouga Amagi (ZETMAN)
What is justice? How do we justify what is right and what is wrong? One character, Kouga Amagi, from the series “ZETMAN”, is someone who’s trying to figure that out and enforcing his perception of justice onto the world. Kouga is one of the 2 main protagonists of the series. He represents a young man whose idea of justice is shaped from what he watched on television when he was a child.
