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Pacific Rim is a perfect movie. I simply will not hear any contrarian blasphemy suggesting otherwise. Guillermo del Toro takes a frankly dumb premise (giant robots punching giant monsters) and executes it with so much care and passion that it becomes transcendent cinema. It builds on established genre tropes and transforms them into something new and distinct. It is, in part, a live-action anime, and yet it’s not really surprising that the new Pacific Rim anime on Netflix falls far short of the 2013 movie’s perfection.
Pacific Rim anime. It just very much is indeed an anime.
The single most memorable line of the
Pacific Rim franchise came in the first movie when Idris Elba’s battle-armored mech marshal, Stacker Pentecost, proclaimed, “Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!” In the first season of
Pacific Rim: The Black, which hit
Netflix on March 4, Stacker’s name is now relegated to Easter-egg status among a new generation of Jaeger pilots. They have big blue doll eyes, anime-style no-noses, and chins so sharp you could lance a Kaiju Skinmite with them.
Animated by
Polygon Pictures the Japanese studio known for its 3DCG Godzilla trilogy
The Black jumps forward to some indeterminate point in the monster-filled future. In doing so, it skips over what seems like a crucial bit of narrative: namely, said apocalypse. Apparently, it was rescheduled and happened mostly offscreen. What’s left in these seven easily-binged episodes is a post-apocalyptic Australia, straight out of
Pacific Rim: The Black Is Now Streaming on Netflix
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Pacific Rim The Black is Netflix s first entry into the world that was spawned from the mind of legendary creator Guillermo Del Toro, imaging giant robots known as Jaegers being created to combat giant kaiju, and the animated series is now streaming on the platform. With Netflix taking the opportunity to enter the world of anime with a number of series including the likes of
Beastars,
Baki: Son of Ogre,
Aggretsuko, and Devilman Crybaby, the streaming service is definitely trying its best to leave an impression on anime fans in the streaming wars.
Pagglait available March 26 on Netflix
Bombay Begums premieres March 8 on Netflix
Netflix has announced three originals so far for March 2021. First up is Bombay Begums from Alankrita Shrivastava (Lipstick Under My Burkha), a series about five ambitious women in modern-day Mumbai, starring Pooja Bhatt, Shahana Goswami, Amruta Subhashm, and Plabita Borthakur. Then there is another title with the city in its title Bombay Rose, Gitanjali Rao s animated film that went to the 2019 Venice Film Festival. It was originally set for December but then got delayed. Both Bombay Begums and Bombay Rose arrive on International Women s Day, March 8. The third Netflix Indian original is Sanya Malhotra-led Pagglait, releasing March 26 worldwide.