Comments on: Robotech

By: jabberman

jabberman — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:47:45 +0000

I am selling Robotech comics on ebay. sale ends today. check item # 260275285725

By: Bridge Bunnies at Haibane.info

Bridge Bunnies at Haibane.info — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:31:08 +0000

[...] Finally! someone has started a anime blog titled Bridge Bunnies. It’s run by Ubu Roi (of Houblog fame) who has wisely decided to put his anime content on a separateblog from his politics to avoid burnout (precisely why I started Haibane.info, in fact). And the name just rocks - I claim partial credit! [...]

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 01 May 2006 13:47:53 +0000

Martian Successor Nadesico came out in 1996.

By: fledgling otaku

fledgling otaku — Mon, 01 May 2006 13:21:55 +0000

I dont think Nadesico pre-dates Robotech, though I could be wrong. Merely having a woman on the bridge isn’t a bridge bunny, though the Nadesico characters do seem to fit the mold. As RPD mentions above, Nova wouldn’t qualify.

There’s a reason that Vanessa, Sammie, and Kim are the characters shown for illustration on the Bridge Bunny wikipedia page It’s also worth noting that the Wikipedia article on Robotech itself credits Robotech and Star Blazers as being the first genuine anime in the American market, and spurred interest in anime worldwide.

By: RPD

RPD — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:51:17 +0000

The only prominant female character on the Argo that I can recall was Nova. She was a pretty active character, hardly a “bridge Bunny” and the love interest for the series lead (Derek Wildstar).

I just ran across the DVDs for this series and I’m now in the process of rewatching for the first time since the ’70s. As far as I can determine, it’s only available in dub as Star Blazers, but not subbed Space Battleship Yamato.

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:10:27 +0000

I just did some checking, and Robotech dates to 1983.

StarBlazers (i.e. “Space Battleship Yamato”) is from 1974. Weren’t there women on the bridge in that series?

By: HC

HC — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:12:27 +0000

I’d count any element included primarily to be easy on the eyes as fan service - clothes or no.

Anyway - is it worth hunting down the dubbed version to see the plot changes?

Hoshino Ruri? ‘Loli’ might as well be her real name, but then that goes for so many other characters too.

By: fledgling otaku

fledgling otaku — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:35:27 +0000

well, by prototype i mean the concept of having a support crew of three young women on the Bridge. Their relative state of uniform-edness probably has “evolved” in the years since

By: Steven Den Beste

Steven Den Beste — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:20:55 +0000

Maybe they were first, but they’re sure as hell not prototypes of Hoshino Ruri! (Martian Successor Nadesico)

For that matter, I can’t see any of them as prototypes of Misumaru Yurika, either.

[By the way, has it ever occurred to anyone besides me that Ruri's real name is "Loli"?]

By: fledgling otaku

fledgling otaku — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:34:58 +0000

I wouldn’t call them fan service in the traditional sense - they never appear out of uniform. I’ve put a stock image of Kim, Sammie, and Vanessa below the fold. They served on the SDF-1 under Captain Gloval - and shared his fate.

I think that they were the prototype for all bridge bunnies you see in subsequent anime series. Again, Robotech was anime’s protoculture.