Parallel Dual: Trouble Adventure...
At a time before Pioneer had made the seitch to DVD-only products, I picked up the VHS version of Parallel Dual: Trouble Adventure...
Parallel Dual: Trouble Adventure is a mixture of El Hazard and the giant robot genre. We've got girls in tights, giant robots, minimal bloodshed, a little humor, some cross-dressing and the obligatory giant robot battles. Of course, there are no naughty bits. The story is somewhat convoluted and does have some gaps. Overall, while Parallel Dual: Trouble Adventure had some issues, but, I would still give the series a 3 out of 5. As it happens, I did repurchase the series on DVD.
While watching the series, I did come across an interesting anomaly in the story... This might be a giving some of the story away... The scientist, Ken Sanada, in the "home" universe and his daughter, Mitsuki Sanada, send our intrepid hero, Kazuki Yotsuga, to the parallel universe knowing that there is no way to bring him back. The parallel Ken Sanada revealed that his research had not progressed to the same point as his counterpart in the home universe and that he can't send Kazuki home. Ken also revealed that he is unmarried and has no daughter (ie: no parallel Mitsuki). Kazuki spends a day in the parallel universe before meeting Mitsuki Sanada. She claims to have arrived a month earlier from the home universe. If Mitsuki has been there for a month and there was no way to send either Kazuki or Mitsuki back to their home universe, then how could she also be in the home universe to see Kazuki leave the day before? ...maybe the two universes are out temporally out of sync?...Volume 1
Visions
Kazuki is plagued by visions of giant, destructive robots that no one else can see. But all of the years of ridicule are about to pay off! Before he knows what's happening, Kazuki gets ensnared by a pretty face, and then a mad scientist's experiment throws him into his world of visions! Now the danger is very real and his allies are twice as strange as he ever imagined! On the plus side, he gets to drive the robots!
Volume 2
Student Housing
Kazuki's old life is gone. Now, in the parallel world, he must juggle his life as a Core Robot Pilot along with his school work, and the most difficult subject of all - girls! It's bad enough to share the house with the most beautiful girl in the school, but then D, the alien girl moves in, and his teacher invades his bedroom! Now, when Rara reveals its most powerful weapon, will Kazuki be up for the challenge, or suffer a crushing defeat?
Volume 3
Artifacts
Caught behind enemy lines! When a seriously injured Kazuki awakens, he finds himself in the clutches of the infamous Miss Rah! Or is she? Kazuki is confused when Miss Rah tends to his wounds and even cooks for him! What's Kazuki to do? Meanwhile, the Rara army has come up with a plan that will ensure their victory. Get rid of Kazuki?
Volume 4
One Vision
The barriers separating the parallel worlds are breaking down the existence of both Earths! In theory, the process can be halted by the elimination of elements unique to one of the two Earths, but that means either the alien technology must be destroyed, or Kazuki must die!
Parallel Dual: Trouble Adventure is a mixture of El Hazard and the giant robot genre. We've got girls in tights, giant robots, minimal bloodshed, a little humor, some cross-dressing and the obligatory giant robot battles. Of course, there are no naughty bits. The story is somewhat convoluted and does have some gaps. Overall, while Parallel Dual: Trouble Adventure had some issues, but, I would still give the series a 3 out of 5. As it happens, I did repurchase the series on DVD.
