Underplayed Gems

Dinosaur War Izenborg (1977)

Dinosaur War Izenborg poster
Original title
恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ
Genre
tokusatsu, mecha, Mecha, Sci-Fi
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 39 episodes
Rated
ALL
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A team uses a super robot to fight dinosaurs and giant monsters. The show mixes live-action tokusatsu with anime segments.

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What happens

Dinosaur War Izenborg (恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ, Kyōryū Daisensō Aizenbōgu) is a Japanese television program produced by Tsuburaya Productions. It is the second installment of the Tsuburaya Dinosaur Trilogy, which included Dinosaur Expedition Born Free and Dinosaur Corps Koseidon. It aired on TV Tokyo from October 17, 1977 to June 30, 1978, running for 39 episodes. It combined Tsuburaya's tokusatsu techniques with anime. The first four episodes were released to VHS in the United States in the form of a compilation film titled Attack of the Super Monsters. Comedy podcast RiffTrax (Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy) recorded and released a riff of Attack of the Super Monsters in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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