"You got guns, I got guns. meet me at the corner store..."

submitted by
Corance, aka
The Holy One
of the Mighty ghostWerks Crew

You'll know the author, Kenichi Sonoda, from his previous creation, Gunsmith Cats, which was a detective/action thriller full of gun fights & car chases. When he put 'Cats on hiatus and came back with the giant robot wet dream Cannon God Exaxxion (Dark Horse), I was skeptical. But, I took a chance. After all, he was good at one type of action, he might be good at another.

Welp, it's fire! What can I tell you? The premise is pretty basic sci-fi stuff: Aliens are invading, Earth's gotta fight back, you got giant robots, I got giant robots, etc. Sonoda raises the bar, however, by mixing in concepts of imperialist colonization, heroism, & the collateral damage of war. Plus, he works in a-lot of projectile physics that seems like stuff he probably wanted to get into in Gunsmith Cats but couldn't because of the scale.

Of course, giant robots increase the physical scale exponentially. Now, he can do things like shoot a 4096mm bullet from a rail gun half way around the world, or have a human sized robot fire a single gage shot-gun which carry rounds that weigh a pound each. He also uses the special anatomy of an alien invasion story to explor aspects of colonialism. The main character, Hoichi, whos nick-name is Gun(yeah, that's cool), experiences the rounding up & execution of humans, & the characters make direct references to Earth's colonial history. And, of course, there's lots of big manga-tits for those who like that... Gun's grandpa is a genius/perv who creates these obnoxiously proportioned androids.To conclude, Cannon God EXXaXion is on point.
Cop it!

-gM