[Anime] Tiger and Bunny

Imagine if Heroes are privatized and are the main TV entertainment. You'll get this anime "Tiger and Bunny".

The series takes place in a fictional city called Sternbild City, where 45 years before, individuals with superpowers called "Next" started appearing and some of them became superheroes. Each of city's most famous superheroes work for a sponsor company and their uniforms also contain advertising, most of them for real-life companies. Their heroic activity is broadcasted on a popular television show called Hero TV, where they accumulate points by each feat accomplished and the best ranked hero of the season earns the title of "King of Heroes". The story mainly focuses on veteran hero Kotetsu T. Kaburagi aka Wild Tiger who is assigned with a new partner, a young man named Barnaby Brooks Jr. While Kotetsu prefers to work alone, Barnaby shows him a different perspective on being a hero.

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This new Sunrise anime, is honestly full of "awesome" potential. :D

just finished watching episode 1



I'm going to folow this anime..since it's a bit mecha like..lol

I like the idea of the superhero in this world where sponsorship control them. I wonder if Pizza Hut will be branding a superhero since this is Sunrise.

My first impression while watching the first minutes of Ep 1 is 'OMG they'r making a bunch of ironmans!". Still the plot has somewhat peaked my interest

This was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. Will watch.

i agree... i will watch the next 2 epds to see if i continue to watch...

I definitely will be watching this, at first I thought that this show looked a bit weird but as the episode went on it got really cool. and the parody of Pepsi Max Zero really got me to laugh.

There's no Parody, everything is real.

Wild Tiger = S.H. Figuarts and Softbank
Barnaby Brooks = Bandai
Sky High = Tamashii Nations and Ustream.tv
Dragon Kid = Calbee and DMM.com
Origami Cyclone = .ANIME
Blue Rose = Pepsi NEX
Rock Bison = Gyu-Kaku
Fire Emblem = No sponsors.

All of them are real companies/products go wiki them lol.

No sponsors for gay heroes? an advertising anime huh...

nope, i found it's boring and doesn't suit my taste :p

ha! your right! thats just made this show a whole lot cooler

just checked them out myself...

so our tiger hero is an occhan w/ a daugther and it looks like they're not living together with the wife?

2nd episode is out... Lol @ "Mr. Legend."
and looks like Bunny-chan Barnaby has his own past issues.


and one other thing.


Corrected

CRUSADE Card System Series Official Website.
http://www.carddas.com/crusade/

FMV is a Personal Computer Series developed by Fujitsu.
http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2007/20070516-01.html
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/10/fujitsus-fmv-pc-series-of-3d-desktops-hit-japan-this-month/


And I really think they're planning to Dub this for a Western Release, Like Heroman.

Tiger is my hero.

Hah, I was eating a bag of Calbee shrimp crackers while watching this.

Anyway, someone at Sunrise must have seriously been scheming up ways to make money off of this show. Still, it was somewhat better than I expected, even with all the blatant ad-placement. Although I'm oddly reminded of an older Lelouch and Suzaku for some reason...

It appears the setting is in a fake futuristic New York City? They keep on playing that scene of the aerial view of the city, and it resembles Manhattan quite a bit. Also the bikes the Heros were driving near the end look like Tron lightcycle clones

Lol, it's because they want to really focus on the part where Heroes must have a Sponsor and can make a profit in the Entertainment business. They want to show us what would happen if Heroes are used for profit.

If you want a "more blatant" Hero, Take Origami Cyclone for example, the Ninja-esque Hero. He's been ordered to just "Show up in the Backgrounds", being a hero is not his main priority.

Here's the Brightside of this Blatant ad-placement, Sunrise will have enough budget to keep the high-quality of the animation.. lol

I'm offically addicted with the opening song... D:

and now we have the OP, from Unison Square, Orion wo nazuro

You can go download it at Nicomimi http://www.nicomimi.net/play/sm14089606

Click the left button, from the 3 buttons shown to download it.