In this case, Kappei controls the Zambo Ace (sometimes called the Zambird) and the main controls of Zambot 3. Kappei is the main pilot, but as this is a Super Robot series, the titular robot can only be formed when more than robot combines. While Kappei and his cousins are grow through fighting the Gaizok, Kozuki grows as he goes through the grieving process multiple times and learns to become a survivor in what is quickly becoming a post-apocalyptic society. But the best redemption story and character growth in the whole series was of former school bully and resident angriest human Kozuki, who goes from being a douche to being an understandable douche to being a hero by the end of the series. That’s not even going into the psychological damage the kids deal with from their domestic abuse, trauma, and brainwashing and yeah this is pretty extreme for a kids’ show.īut it also serves as a beautiful redemption story – mainly for the Jin family, which includes the young pilots Kappei, Keiko, and Uchuta. The villain/s Gaizok take great advantage of this fact later in the series to inflict maximum psychological pain. This is especially hard on Zambot 3’s pilots, who are children. They are clearly hated by the people they are protecting, as they are aliens who pretended to be humans and are blamed by the humans for everything bad that happens. The heroes in this are given the hero treatment maybe 50% of the time. It is also an early attempt at deconstructing the mecha genre, dealing with what at the time at least was one of the most commonly ignored elephants in the genre: the aftermath of the damage caused by fights. At 26 episodes, Zambot 3 is one of the shortest Tomino shows and an easy binge watch. This weekend I took the time to watch one of the earliest mecha shows by the prolific Yoshiyuki Tomino, of Mobile Suit Gundam fame.
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