Yeah, I know. Another anime. Another white-haired pretty boy with a tragic backstory and a magic finger technique. Roll your eyes somewhere else, I did too — until I actually read this script.
“Solar System Shish Kebab” is nasty in the best possible way. Prince Zenith teleports his entire army onto a prehistoric hellscape Earth, gets half of them liquefied by a fifty-foot spinning-mouthed mushroom creature inside of ten minutes, and then proceeds to dismantle literal planetary gods with two fingers and sheer insufferable arrogance. The art direction looks like someone fed Leiji Matsumoto and a Frank Frazetta painting into a blender — zebra-striped space royalty commanding an army of gold-helmeted soldiers through alien swamps while Atlantis crumbles in the background. It’s gorgeous and deranged.
What actually got me — and I’m only admitting this once — is the ending. This colossal, galaxy-brained warrior prince, who has fought gods and survived monsters that would make Cronenberg weep, gets stopped dead by a grimy little earthling girl tugging his sleeve asking him to move a rock. And he does it. The arrogant bastard just does it.
The planets are alive. Kronos is terrifying. Ben deserved better.
I need this movie immediately.
9/10. Pre-order whatever merchandise exists.
