The Real Three Guards...

[Kavid]

Recently I was watching a History Channel Documentary on old-western U.S. Marshals. It just so happens that there actually were three old guys who enforced the law, and were known as "The Three Guardsmen."

I was blown away. Did the writers of the Zoids cartoon get their idea of the "Three Guards" episode from these old-western guys? That would be quite a kick if they did.

I wonder what other ideas were used in the cartoons based off of old heroes.

[LordGale]

Wouldn't surprise me, most of Mobile Suit Gundam has overtones of WW2 in it

[ghe]

it wouldn't hurt to interpret or inculcate something from a real life to an anime...

we often see this in anime - episodes rooted in real life - we're just sometimes unaware of them...

and isn't it a standard for a plot for most anime that someone wants to rule the world (much like hitler) then a hero comes...

anime is an art reflicting life sometimes, we just have to decifer it

-ghe