2014, 13 episodes:
AniDB
A nostalgically strange series about the dandiest man in space.
Best appreciated if you know classic space anime of the 1970s and
1980s, which I mostly don't; a lot of effort has gone into making it
look like those shows. Unfortunately that didn't really leave much
room for coming up with anything terribly new and interesting. This is
the sort of show that relies on the viewer saying "hey, this is a lift
from that series", and reckons that (plus the protagonist being lazy
and lecherous) is enough to get by on.
There's no continuity; each episode is basically its own story, often
including Dandy's death, and sometimes the destruction of the universe.
(Episode 4, the zombie one, is probably the best of them.) This is the
type of humour that has characters only because someone needs to walk
into the jokes, as distinct from a series like Space Brothers or
Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou which develops characters and does funny
things with them.
I can't really recommend this. Maybe if you enjoyed The Adventures of
Ford Fairlane, since much of the humour is in the same style; maybe if
you know your old space anime inside-out and want to play "spot the
references", which is where I got my enjoyment from even though I'm not
spotting most of them. Second series started in the 2014 summer season.
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