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Signal is a robot created and designed using Mira which
allows him to appear to be alive. Built by Professor Shinnosuke
Otoi the robot is programmed to be a big brother to the professor's
grandson Nobuhiko. Signal has one fatal flaw, whilst programming
the robot Nobuhiko sneezes which is transformed, by the computer,
into a code to change the robot into either a chocolate obsessed
three year old or a defiantly more impulsive sixteen year
old...
Twin
Signal is a stand alone three episode anime based on the
manga by Sachi Oshimizu. Though it can't contain everything
that was in the manga it's a good introduction.
Well,
you can see where all this is going, it is jolly japes with
one boy and his robot. It's not the most original show with
many of the elements having appeared in earlier series. When
the Professors enemies decide that what they really want to
do is steal one of the robots, in this case Signals twin,
Pulse, things go from bad to worse. Throw in a female robot
called Elara and you have the potential for many comedic moments.
The
main problem with the show is that it really doesn't deliver
on its promise or potential; at best it's amusing and at worse
cheesy and annoying. That's not to say that the show is irredeemable.
Character design keeps the funny bone tickled and the bad
guys never fail to amuse.
Audio
is a disappointing English or Japanese stereo track, with
subtitles. In the extras you'll find an art gallery, trailers
and out-takes, which are faked corpsing and fluffed lines,
worth a once only look.
So, the show comes over as a flawed attempt at bringing the
manga to the screen. It will be of interest of any fans of
the original manga or those wishing to get into it, for the
rest of us I'm not really sure, for a comedy it should have
been way funnier.
Charles
Packer
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