Anime Preview:Sgt. Frog (AKA Keroro Gunso) - (IMAGES!!) (56k...BEWARE!)

[Ryoutarou]

PICTURE TIME! Roughly 240k filesize alltogether. I'd say I compressed the images rather well, considering I see lots of JPGs and GIFs embedded on this site by people that individually are bigger than 200k each.

Sgt. Frog is the most overlooked anime this season, probably because it
slipped under the radar. It's a Sunrise comedy, which is something you
don't see that often anymore. The OP for this show is a bizarre marching
tune that's hyper-sugary-sweet.
The only frog you see off the bat is Kero himself.
The green frog. The rest begin to swarm in in the
upcoming episodes.

Yes, that's right. Become zombies to Kero's commercial
viability and merchandising offshoots!

It's Sunrise. You have to expect at least one Gundam
reference. I'm sure it's the only one, though...

...oh dear.

The premise of Sgt. Frog is that Kero has come to Earth on reconaissance before the impending frog alien invasion (gee, this sounds familiar). But he is discovered quickly by Natsumi and Hinata who spots him hiding behind wallpaper. He is captured, and his deadly weapon, the Kero Ball, is taken away from him. The mother, usually hateful of animals, finds Kero precious and adopts it into the family.

You see, she is a Shonen manga editor. That's what I
said. And she seems to have perverse sexual fantasies
about aliens and their habitats. ...yeaaaah.

Hinata befriends Kero because he's always wanted to
see the paranormal.

As you can see, sound effect/caption text plays a big role in the show,
and in modern anime in general (ex: Azumanga, Sensei no Ojikan, etc).
Here its used pretty cleverly though, and reacts to cartoon physics,
which is amusing.

The show is 11 minute stories. So it never gets dull, nor is there
plot filler. Woo!

Kero's pad. He's probably listening to the Green Album.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

So the whole thing is just cute cute cute. Like Invader Zim if it were not done by a snooty Goth. So far the show is unlicensed, but seeing as it references Gundam a wee bit much and is Sunrise, I'm sure Bandai is on top of it. Even though noone else seems to be. So watch out for it!









Yep, there's plenty of Gundam jokes alright,seeing as how keroro is obssessed with gundam...you'll be seeing plenty of it later on.

So that's my first prewview.

 

[Varied Deoxys]

I've been eager to read the manga for so long, yet I've just never been able to get my hands on it. Now that there's an anime, maybe I won't have to. Do you think I could find it at a Suncoast anywhere?

 

[Ryoutarou]

seeing as how the anime just came out in japan...uhh no it'll be a while, about a year.

 

[jj984jj]

Hehe, looks fun, I want to sub it. ^_^ How long is it? But I dunno where to raws *sighs* nevermind. Still looks fun. ^_^

 

[jirachi_pt]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!
I just got the manga and was wandering and hoping there was an anime!!! *Goes off to eBay to search 4 tha DVDs*

Kero's pad. He's probably listening to the Green Album.

Ironic you should say that, I'm listening to Jay-Z at this moment! Really!