by Link
(He wants to shake hands as a sign of good sportsmanship.)
Hello, and welcome to Anime Blitzkrieg. The premise of these articles will to give you some detailed yet brief, information about various anime series. Usually we will watch an episode or two of a series, write a mini-review, and let you know what you’re getting into. If a series is really worth following, we’ll continue to review the series episode by episode, which should hopefully provoke some discussion on the blog or even the forums about the series and/or episodes in question. First up we’ll be reviewing Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly.
Okay. You know that cool Wii game called No More Heroes? Well, Travis Touchdown is obsessed with a particular anime in that game. That’s called Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly.
It’s a Magical Girl Mecha Anime, yes… you heard me, it’s a MAGICAL GIRL… MECHA… ANIME… at least from what I can gather. Most of this is all duct taped together from the posters, t-shirts, photos, and other various things found throughout the game.
The anime has three main characters:
Name: Strawberry, she is the leader of the group.
Color: Red
Mecha: She pilots Glaston 1, the red colored land battle mecha.
Special Attack: Strawberry on the Shortcake
Name: Blueberry
Color: Blue
Mecha: She pilots Glaston 2, the dark colored aerial battle mecha.
Special Attack: Blueberry Cheese Brownie
Name: Cranberry
Color: Yellow
Mecha: She pilots Glaston 3, the white colored aerial battle mecha.
Special Attack: Cranberry Chocolate Sundae
Other Information About the Series:
Glastonbury
Glastonbury (I assume it’s a mistranslation and is actually Glastonberry), is a large space battle mecha. It’s theorized that Glastonbury is a result of Glaston 1, 2, and 3 combining together.
Glastonbury has basic laser attacks which can be upgraded into tri-laser attacks.
Glastonbury also has a charged up special attack that destroys everything in it’s field of vision called ‘Anarchy in the Galaxy’.
Anime Intro
Additionally, Heavenly Star (A theme you hear in various shops) is the opening intro theme of Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly. It is performed by the virtual pop idol group the Genki Rockets. Both the voice and girl who sings are computer generated and do not actually exist.
Merchandise:
As you can tell by the above photo there is a TON of merchandise. Posters, Pillows, Stickers, Action Figures, Clocks, Soundtracks, etc. However, we’re going to touch on a few of the more well known pieces of merchandise.
DVDs
Video Game
There is a game called Pure White Giant Glastonbury which Travis plays during the subway sequence of the game. It appears to be for the Nintendo 64 based off of it’s cartridge shape. It’s a very retro looking shoot ‘em up, played much like Ikaruga or Galaga.
Shirts
There are a total of 8 known Pure White T-Shirts,
- a dark grey shirt which features all 3 magical girls and w/red trim
- a white shirt featuring Strawberry
- a white shirt featuring Blueberry
- a white shirt featuring Cranberry
- a white shirt featuring Glaston 1, it has G1 written on it.
- a blue shirt featuring Glaston 2, it has G2 written on it.
- a yellow shirt featuring Glaston 3, it has G3 written on it.
- a white shirt featuring Glastonbury on it, with Glastonbury in katakana.
There is also a Limited Edition Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly Jacket, Belt, and Pants set that fetches a high price amongst fans.
With all of this being said. The ENTIRE anime/series is completely fake and only exists inside the No More Heroes world. However, in a March 15, 2008 interview with Computer and Video Games, Suda51 revealed that a possible real-life anime adaption of the series would be produced in the future, saying:
“As you may know, our publisher, Marvellous, actually does a lot of animation work, so it’s something that has been discussed.
We were actually in discussions to do something with the Bizarre Jelly characters as seen on Travis’ shirt, but I have no idea how serious they were.
Hey, tell your readers if they want to see it, write in and give them the feedback. There’s every chance it could get made.”
So let’s all keep our fingers crossed, and start writing those letters, shall we?
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MOE~!
The more I watch the vid and look at all this in the game, it makes me think this is actually real! I would watch it though!
Dont forget to add ‘stupid weeaboo trash’ as a tag & category
Damn, I wish this anime was real, they put so much detail in the game, that it almost feels like it’s real.
lol @ pico, you say weeaboo like it’s a bad thing. :p
If Getsumen to Heiki Mina is any indication, studios are more than willing to produce “fake” shows if the series they’re from is popular enough. I wouldn’t be surprised to see at least an OAV come out of this.
That mech looks like the baby of Diebuster and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
Do this for real anime, though. Seriously. I like this format.
This is the new “top 10 gays” article
lol, yes, I agree with Alpha. ^_^
Why is everyone getting all upset?! Some people are wierd…
Anyway, great article dude. It’s cool seeing some more articles on this great game! I have been spreading this around.
Feel free to join our forums Mecha Sonic. ^_^
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I don’t think Glastonbury is a mistake, more of a pun as “bury” obviously sounds a bit like “berry.” Glastonbury is a town in Somerset, England (in the south west) known worldwide for the Glastonbury Music Festival.
Hey where would one write/vote to ask them to make Pure Whiter Lover anime?
I assume you’d write to Marvelous Studios.
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THIS SHOULD BECOME A SHOW!!! Oh, can ppl buy the Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly shirts that he has??? I wanna get them and wear them. :D
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Seriously, people need to recognize the work that comes behind creating an art form inside an art form. I think it shows a lot of dedication and awesomeness that so much was put into something completely fictional. This article is cool as well for recognizing it. I’d like to see the anime just off the basis that it came from such a cool game, and I wonder what it would be like. Besides that theme is pretty catchy in that half-Sailor Moon
half-Neo Genesis Evangelion way.
Glad you liked the article AnimeFan. :)
I take it “Pico” doesnt like sum MOEH
What people don’t understand is that it’s all a parody on “moe” anime. It’s a joke, exaggerating aspects of the genre. It would be like me creating a rapper thats on steroids and only talks about how great he is and is retarded, etc etc etc.
But it would be interesting to see an anime based on it, just to see how they take it and how they would somehow tie it in to NMH. Maybe it could continue the parody and be tongue in cheek.
It would probably do fairly well, seeing how an animes sales depends on how cute and how much the characters reveal (clothes wise). I’d watch it, simple cause its from no more heroes.
Personally, I don’t care for “monster of the day” type shows,but this doesn’t seem to bad, but I think I’ll stick to Bleach and Gurren Lagann a little while longer.
Haha! Awesome!
I’d write Marvelous a letter if I knew the address. I’d love to own a copy of the DVD. No More Heroes is one of my favorite games of all time. I can’t seem to find a red leather jacket though…or is it denim?
I hope that they make a real anime series out of this.
But the version of this “anime” should be the “anime” in the second No More Heroes Game (Pure White Lover Bizarre Jerry 5)
… AND if ANYONE can find it, can U seend me the image in Travis shirt of the sequel.
I really think these characters are Touhou ripoffs. Though i really like No More Heroes.
Wasn’t Glastonberry featured in that game Last Hero? I Haven’t played it but I remember watching a video where the player gets to pilot it in a mech fight.