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This episode features Japanese mythical / ghost story characters; & though I will include short quotes from web pages about these spirits, as well as hyperlinks to those pages, I fear there will still be much head-scratching & wonder. I myself, was not able to learn enough to satisfy my curiosity.






































So far: The well-dressed robot (Tomson) has the ability to see through things, & has determined that many of the Buddha statues in a certain city are fake. --paraphrase of Tezuka web site's synopsis for #188.

What constitutes a real statue, I do not know.


This crow Tengu is called a Karasu; Tengu are mountain spirits that according to which source one reads, may be evil or good. Here is one page I read in preparing for this thread: http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/tengu.shtml



Atom is about to say something that Ochanomizu will find rather offensive:









This type of Tengu mimicked is called Yamabushi, and is superior in rank to the crow-type. Ochanomizu's nose grows gradually, then returns to its proper size.




So, they go off in search of answers about the statues.






Another web page with details: http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/furyu-goodin-popup.html Anyway, one or the other of these pages details the octagonal staff that the Tengu use. The one above, is a time-bomb.






































It seems that Hamegg is trying to buy the genuine Buddha statues.

More to come--

It looks like in this episode they filmed anime cels against a photograph of a real background (the forest).

I've only taken a quick glance at this episode because of it's animation-on-photographic background technique. I wondered why they did this (inspired by Mary Poppins?)

Glad to get the Jeffbert perspective on this!

Hoo hoo hoo hoo, seems like Atom realized what he said, whatever it was. I'm sure it relates to the subject at hand, and he's not entirely mistaken when pointing it out. Ochanomizu has quite an impressive shnozzle, if I do say so myself.

So far, this guy seems to be the boss--




--until this guy comes along.


The nearest I could find to this guy's appearance is "Doriyo Bosatsu"; more on him: TENGU WHO BECOMES A BOSATSU -- Daiyuzan Saijoji (Soto Zen Temple)




Those bombs exploded & goop covers our hero.

























The sheets that flow from the Tengu's sleeves are ITTAN MOMEN (supernatuaral cloth strips). --http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Ittan_momen




In case you forgot, Robot Tomson can see through things.




The apparently supernatural things are now revealed to be technological.













Though I learned a bit about Japanese ghosts, I am still scratching my head about this episode. As near as I can figure, Wamsa (the guy in the costume) was swapping the real (gold) Buddhas for fakes, & selling the real ones to Hamegg; I do not know how Lamp was involved, though.

What a minute, was this guy really a robot? After being socked by Atom, he seems to have a few loose screws.

Yeah, I think all but the one guy were robots, Tetsuwan Penguin.

"jeffbert" wrote:Yeah, I think all but the one guy were robots, Tetsuwan Penguin.

Well, excluding Hamegg and Lamp.

What's he doing? Reading the Now! comics? XD

Actually, he seems seriously confused by something. I guess Jeffbert wasn't the only one left scratching his head... :3