Raideen (set for release on DVD)
Run for your lives! It's attack of the slowly moving killer robots from space! Watch lumbering giant robots battle it out as in 1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla in the new anime remake of Brave Raideen (also 1975), now simply titled Raideen.
This year we are in for a treat as a number of classic super-robot series are getting a make-over.
Production I.G., mostly known for their ground-breaking animation work on the Ghost in the Shell series, are behind this remake of the cult classic.
The anime is now being shown on Japanese satellite network WOWOW and is being turned into a manga.
It is a stereotypical super-robot story in which a young character gains the power to control a powerful giant robot. It is so much the norm of this genre that the hero actually says in the series that he thought these things only happened in mangas.