Is the Doctor Who of anime a good anime? Yes.
I am not going to waste time writing a synopsis, summary or any other time wasting bullshit. I am simply going to tell you why this anime is fabulous.
Space Dandy is a concoction of episodes directed by many, many different episode directors under, I assume, the watchful eye of one of my personal heroes in the anime industry.
What we have in Space Dandy that makes it fabulous is organised chaos. Some rules and cliches have been followed but not many. This makes it an anime that asks things of the viewers. It asks us to beat with it. It asks us to be forgiving. It asks us to be understanding. Most of the time though, it just wants us to go with the flow. Because of this some of the episodes are not going to speak to everyone and others are not going to be understood by everyone. But this is always the risk with an anime in this format.
What we do have though, is the femme fatale(s), the trusted companions, the anti-heroes (of which the main protagonist is included most of the time), some GAR, time and space travelling, some multidimensional space-time theories, zombies, plants, cyberpunk, western inspired themes, boobs, robots, a rock-band, warring space opera empires and many other things including but not excluded to space travelling fish.
Something that is very important for the enjoyment of an episodic anime is the character development of side characters. You have to be fast if you want your viewer to get involved and engaged in a character which, more than likely, will not be around again. Space Dandy succeeds in this, which is one of the main reasons why it is good. Scenarios are painted up for us involving characters that's been on screen for 10 minutes and I actually cared about what was going to happen to them. That's a pretty rare feat. when it comes to me.
Good bye.
