Jikuu Bouken Doctor Who ("Space-Time Adventure Doctor Who") is a thirteen-minute Doctor Who fanime, drawn and animated in the style of 1980s-90s anime by Paul Johnson over the course of four years before he released it in 2011 on his Metatube account Alponk45
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The animation primarily references and features characters from the Classic Series version of Who, although elements of the Revival Series are also utilised. Set in contemporary Tokyo, Japan, the animation features the Third Doctor, who was played by Jon Pertwee, alongside Three's prominent recurring ally Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Japanese Special Security agent Tomo Kajiura (an original character); and a host of the franchise's most iconic antagonists, including Daleks, Cybermen, the Master and Davros.
The video utilises a mix of stock audio clips from the Classic Series and original voice work to create the character voices, generally using the former to recreate the canon characters' voices (by reusing their archived dialogue inside animation-original scenes), while the latter mostly provide the voices of original characters. Paul Johnson, Sachika Souno (Tomo Kajiura) and Phillip Sacramento (Sergeant Lambert) all provided the original voice work.
Doctor Who Anime can be seen on Johnson's Metatube account here
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Tropes:
- Action Girl: Tomo Kajiura, a Japanese policewoman skilled enough to take on an Imperial Dalek with a metal rod.
- Actionized Adaptation: Much more action-focused than the original Doctor Who. This extends to the Doctor himself, who smacks down some street thugs that were menacing him in one of his very first scenes.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: The Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley Masters are working together. They're also in an alliance with the Cybermen.
- Body Horror:
- After being killed by a Dalek, one of the Cybermen's armor partially gets blown off, exposing their mutilated organic body underneath.
- There's a brief panning shot of a cyberconversion facility as it begins processing unfortunate victims into Cybermen.
- The Brigadier: The Trope Namer is the one commanding the UNIT forces and assisting the Doctor all throughout.
- The Cameo: The Cyber-Controller, Sutekh, the Sontarans, the Special Weapons Dalek and the Renegade Supreme Dalek make single-scene appearances respectively.
- Car Fu: One Cyberman destroys a Dalek by throwing a car at it.
- Catchphrase: Tomo Kajiura when she's facing down violent football hooligans or even Davros himself:Tomo Kajiura: If you're gonna cause trouble, then do it in your own damn country/on your own damn planet!
- Chameleon Camouflage: In Tokyo, the most inconspicuous thing that the Master's TARDIS can disguise itself as is a coffee vending machine. Its "Master Coffee" logo is a parody of the real-life Japanese brand Boss Coffee.
- Colonel Badass: Sergeant Lambert leads an elite-looking team of soldiers in a likely last stand against the Daleks, and he's executed after promising the Daleks they won't get any information out of him. Even the Daleks seem to be slightly impressed by his valiance.
- Creation Sequence: A row of abducted citizens are shown being subjected to Cyber-conversion, each one showcasing a different stage of the conversion process from start to finish.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- A group of British yobs try to mug the Doctor, who promptly pulverises the gang using Venusian aikido.
- A yakuza gang try to kill a group of Cybermen, and the Cybermen effortlessly defeat them in precisely ten seconds.
- After a Cyberman gunship destroys the UNIT surface-to-air missile launcher that tried to shoot it down, three Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighters move in to intercept it. The Cybermen destroy the fighters with little effort.
- A U.S. military team cornered by a squad of Daleks in a high-rise building fails to make a single scratch in the Daleks with a hail of gunfire, while the Daleks effortlessly slaughter them all.
- Evil Duo: It's technically an Evil Trio but a scene shows two incarnations of the Master working with the Cyber-Leader. The Masters naturally relish in each other's ham, while the logical Cyber-Leader is annoyed by it.
- Evil Laugh: The "Tremas" Master indulges in cackling at the Doctor's apparent naiveté. Later, both the Masters share a soft giggle between each-other, bonding while helping the Cyber-Leader with their plan to mass convert Tokyo.
- Evil Versus Evil: Daleks and Cybermen in a war for who gets to take over Earth. The Master, the Sontarans, and Sutekh also seem to be involved as well.
- Exposed to the Elements: Tomo Kajiura faces off the Daleks and Cybermen in a cold night with no regards to wearing just a strapless bikini top and jeans cut down into microshorts, the Doctor takes note about how she chose to dress.
- Face Death with Dignity: One scene shows the Daleks defeating a team of American soldiers before cornering the leader, who takes the chance to get a dig in at them before being exterminated.Sergeant Lambert: Sorry pal, but the US government ain't in the habit of negotiating with talking garbage cans! You'll get nothing out of me.
- Fair Cop: Tomo Kajiura is a Japanese cop who wears her red hair long and dons a pair of microshorts along with a strapless bikini top to compliment her fairly shapely body.
- Faux Affably Evil: Both of the Masters are almost unfailingly polite to whomever they're talking to, despite their malevolent actions and contempt for human life.
- Football Hooligans: The Third Doctor encounters a pair of British louts who try to mug him, leading him to show off what this Doctor's hand-to-hand combat skills look like when he's transplanted into an anime.
- Gangsta Style: The Yakuza gunmen and Tomo like to aim their handguns sideways.
- Green and Mean: In the Daleks' anime design, their eye sensors, sensory dome lights and energy weapons emit bright-green light, and the Daleks are just as smug, cruel and absolutely xenophobic as is expected of them.
- Ham-to-Ham Combat: Lines from the Delgado and Ainley Master are edited together to show them playing off each other's hamminess.
- Homage: To both classic Doctor Who and 80s to 90s anime. The style of detailed shading imitates Macross: Do You Remember Love?, and Tomo's appearance is based on Masami Obari's character design for Mai Shiranui.
- Jet Pack: The Cyber-Leader has a pair of inbuilt rocket thrusters on its back, which it uses to rocket into the sky while pursuing the Doctor and Kajiura.
- Macross Missile Massacre: A Cyber-shuttle easily evades a barrage fired from a mobile missile launcher.
- Mêlée à Trois: UNIT is fighting both the Daleks and the Cybermen, who are fighting each other for control of the Earth.
- Mythology Gag: The animation makes more than a few references to iconic Doctor Who scenes, including but not limited to: a young woman single-handedly ambushing and battering a Dalek with a blunt-force improvised weapon ("Remembrance of the Daleks"), Daleks and Cybermen fighting each-other to the death ("Doomsday"), and a sword fight between the Third Doctor and the Master with fencing swords ("The Sea Devils").
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: The Doctor isn't impressed when he sees the stripperiffic Kajiura without her coat, striking a playful pose.The Doctor: Oh, for heaven's sake, girl, go and put something warm on.
- The Nth Doctor:
- The Third Doctor is the incarnation of the Doctor featured.
- Two of the Master's incarnations show up and team up, analogously to how the Doctor's regenerations had crossover meetings in the series. These are the original Master who hounded UNIT as played by Roger Delgado, and the "Tremas" Master played by Anthony Ainley.
- Old Master: A trio of thugs try menacing the Third Doctor, which proves to be a big mistake when he defeats them all in hand-to-hand combat.
- One-Eyed Shot:
- When UNIT are attempting to shoot down the Cybermen's ship, there's an extreme close-up on the Cyberman pilot's organic, mutilated eye inside its Cyber-head, which then pulls out.
- The Sontarans are introduced with an extreme close-up on a Sontaran's eye, which then pulls out to show his fully-armoured and helmeted body.
- Original Character:
- Tomo Kajiuranote is an original character who is cast in the light of the deuteragonist as the Doctor's female companion for the story. She's a skimpily-dressed, Japanese Special Security Response Team
agent who teams up with the Doctor and the Brigadier against the invading aliens. - Sergeant Lambert is a U.S. military commander who clashes with the Daleks in Tokyo.
- Tomo Kajiuranote is an original character who is cast in the light of the deuteragonist as the Doctor's female companion for the story. She's a skimpily-dressed, Japanese Special Security Response Team
- Other Me Annoys Me: Inverted. The Masters enjoy each-other's company a lot, to the point where even the Cyber-Leader seems to emote annoyance at them.
- Patchwork Fic: Among the Daleks and Cybermen, various aspects of their different designs over the course of the TV series are combined, some more subtly than others, to get their video-specific animated designs.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Sutekh's one-scene appearance consists of him reducing a major metropolitan district to a blasted wasteland in a split-second flash of light, then making it abundantly clear he doesn't intend to stop there.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: While regular Cybermen are depicted as being easy to defeat as long as one has weaponry capable of doing so, the Cyber-Leader is dangerous enough to put the Doctor and Tomo on the run when they try to fight it.
- Real Trailer, Fake Movie: For a classic anime revolving around the Third Doctor.
- Red Is Violent:
- The Ainley Master's TARDIS interior has a red hue, in contrast to the Doctor's TARDIS.
- Averted by the Delgado Master's TARDIS' interior, which appears as pristine white as the Doctor's classic TARDIS interior.
- One scene features a ruthless Dalek officer who can be distinguished from its rank-and-file brethren by the lights on its casing glowing red instead of green. This Dalek rejects the Dalek Battle Computer's recommendation of strategic withdrawal in favour of obliterating a Cyber-warship, which in turn gets this Dalek's entire ship obliterated by the Cyber-Controller's flagship.
- The Cyber-Controller's brain-holding cranium glows with red light when it orders the Cybermen to obliterate a Dalek warship.
- Rogues Gallery: You've got the Daleks, the Cybermen, both the Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley incarnations of the Master, Davros, the Sontarans and even Sutekh.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant:
- The Cybermen never appeared during the Third Doctor's runnote , but are the most prominent foes shown in the animation. Davros, the Ainley Master and Sutekh, who all made their debuts during the Fourth Doctor's tenure, show up here as well.
- While the Daleks did show up during the Third Doctor's era, their white and gold colouring and the fact that they answer to Davros suggests that the ones appearing here are Imperial Daleks, who (technically) first appeared in a Fifth Doctor episode but formally debuted during the Sixth and Seventh Doctor's runs. Their casings otherwise match the Time War redesign introduced during the Ninth Doctor's era. The Renegade Supreme Dalek, however, looks like it was pulled right out of the Seventh Doctor's.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Tomo Kajiura is a fairly buxom cop who holds a preference to dressing in jeans cut into micro shorts and a strapless bra to anything that provides more coverage.
- The Stinger: An after-credits scene shows the Renegade Supreme Dalek awakening with a declaration of "I... still... function!"
- Stock Audio Clip: A lot of audio clips from the actual series are used, containing the non-original characters' dialogue or the monsters' sound effects, with the audio recontextualised to fit the anime scenes.
- Stripperiffic: Tomo's uniform consists of only a bra, short jeans, a trenchcoat, sneakers and a headband.
- Sword Fight: The Third Doctor and the Anthony Ainley incarnation of the Master engage in a fencing fight atop a radio tower.
- Tin Man: The Cybermen draw the most inspiration from their 1980s design, and much like that iteration, they – the Cyber-Leader and Cyber-Controller more than the rank-and-file – act more like Sith Lords out of Star Wars than the emotionless mechanical entities that they're supposed to be; exhibiting smugness, rage and annoyance.
- Twofer Token Minority: Tomo Kajiura is the only female, non-Caucasian and non-British member of the main group of heroes, relative to the Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
- Villainous Friendship: Both Masters seem to enjoy the other's company, which makes sense considering they're the same person.
- Villain Respect: Downplayed. A Dalek backhandedly tells Sergeant Lambert that his "futile attempt at heroism is noted" after he leads his men in a valiant last stand against the Daleks.
- Villain Team-Up: The Master, the Cyber-Leader and the Master are all working together at one point, with the Masters assisting the Cyber-Leader's plot to convert everyone in Tokyo into Cybermen.
- We Have Reserves: The Cyber-Controller deems the loss of one Cyber-warship acceptable since it also resulted in one of the Dalek motherships being severely damaged, allowing them to finish it off.
