"Infini-T Force" is a 3DCG anime featuring the characters from Tatsunoko Production's famous heroes in the 1970s - Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Casshan, Hurricane Polymar, and Tekkaman: The Space Knight. This anime is a co-production of Tatsunoko Production and Digital Frontier broadcasted in Oct-Dec season in 2017.
This anime is technically the best among the 3DCG animes at the moment. And this is also a memorable nostalgic hero anime for those who watched these Tatsunoko hero animes on the TV in the 70s. Actually, according to the director(Kiyotaka Suzuki) and the voice actor/actress(Tomokazu Seki/Ai Kayano), the main focus of this anime is asking audiences what the hero is in this era. I feel this is a right item to ask now as everything including justice and hero is relativized.
The main protagonist is Emi Kaidou, a 17-year-old girl who lives alone since her father left for unexplained reasons. The main antagonist is Kazumichi Kaidou(aka "Z"), Emi's father who destroys other parallel worlds by the power of an artifact called "Case" to protect Emi from death, as he discovered that in all the worlds Emi is destined to die a tragic death in front of him. One day Emi meets four heroes from different worlds, and finally, Emi and the heroes together fight with Emi's father to stop the destruction and recover all the destroyed worlds.
From Emi's view, this is a story of becoming independent of her parent(we call it "oya-banare"). From Kazumichi's view, this is about trying to make his daughter become independent("ko-banare"). I imagine a Japanese boy who watched the Tatsunoko hero animes in the 70s when he was around the age of 10. Now he is around 40 and may have a teenage daughter. He loves his daughter and does whatever to protect her from any bad or no-good things. However, the teenage daughter does not talk to her father, or even hates him. A boyfriend (or hero) appears, which irritates the father a lot. (Even one boyfriend irritates him. What if your daughter makes four twenty-something boyfriends at the same time?) Finally, his daughter leaves him saying thank you. He prays for her happiness in the future, like this anime.
Boys have become antagonists, not heroes.
(By the way, Damian Grey(voiced by Daisuke Namikawa)'s "Tah-keh-shee" when he talks to Takeshi is so impressive that even when I watch "Precure," I can not stop imagining this "Tah-keh-shee" when Elissio(also voiced by Namikawa) says something...)
