![]() ![]() Punch’s intelligence using alien powers and then they go about recruiting a Sentai-like team of five girls from the school. In short order, the penguin alien increases Dr. Punch to help him deal with the alien spore that’s at risk of growing and mutating in Earth’s atmosphere. The alien who piloted the spaceship (a life form that can take the form of a cartoonish penguin or a miniature pixie girl, both very much ‘80s phenomena) pleads with Dr. It must be noted that the plot of Fruity Five is very much of its era.Īn alien spaceship posing as Halley’s Comet and carrying a dangerous alien spore crashes on Earth behind a private all-girls high school run by the perverted Dr. ![]() An example spread from the pages of Fruity Five, part comic and part photo novel. Part gag comic and part photo novel, Fruity Five blended many of the common elements swirling around in the ‘80s, including but not limited to: plastic models, tokusatsu (specifically the Super Sentai series), doll-like garage kits, and horror. One stellar example is Fruity Five, a comic and photo novel series published in Model Graphix and later collected into a single full-color book in 1985. One of the most enticing aspects of researching otaku culture in the 1980s is the sheer amount of material produced, often in the form of obscure content just waiting to be rediscovered by someone flipping through old magazines or perusing the dusty shelves of a used bookstore. ![]()
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