DOCTOR WHO: THE ANIME

Paul "Otaking" Johnson is a talented English cartoonist who is working on what looks to be a truly epic Doctor Who fan film, made in the style of 1980s anime. It's quite professional looking; if you didn't know better, you'd swear that this was a real show from '87 or so.



If this version of the Doctor seems unusually violent compared to, say, David Tennant, that's actually (somewhat) in keeping with this incarnation of the Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee. Pertwee's Doctor was a man of action, often quick to settle things with a bit of "Venusian Aikido". I'm not sure why Pertwee, of all the Doctor's various incarnations, is the one represented here. Johnson's deviantArt page says he's 31, so he's a bit young to have grown up watching Pertwee in the early '70s. But Johnson certainly does a good job of turning Pertwee into a willowy anime hero, something I previously would've doubted was possible.


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