Leina's Holiday

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"Leina's Holiday"
Production company Ashi Productions
Release date April 22, 1987
Directed by Hiroshi Yoshida

SKIT ALERT!

Synopsis[edit | edit source]

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After the filming of another episode of Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos wraps the stars relax. Leina takes off her helmet and shakes out her hair, and tells us about her day off. Woken at 7 in the morning by her alarm clock and passes the loudmouthed Rod Drill and Triple Jim on her way to a fashion store, where she window shops and daydreams of wearing various different outfits, instead settling for a cup of coffee as she continues to muse. She imagines going on a picnic, sailing, reading in a forest and playing in snow. Leina then takes us to see what everyone else is doing; Drill is in a locker-room being jealous about Min going off with Kirai; Grujios cuddling a cat with heterochromia at a tea party with Diondra; Rom vainly blow-drying his luxurious hair; Sophia, Kina and Rury arguing over which of them is the more attractive, irritating an unimpressed Gadess as he tries to read the newspaper; Garudi telling Sara under the armour he's really Guardi Stol; Jet trying on numerous other types of shades before settling on his usual visor. Everyone then goes to a wrap party for the show - Rom then tries to pick a girl only to find everyone's paired up already, ending up with Leina. The party sees all sorts of chaos, including Jim spilling soup and Kirai getting drunk but eventually everyone has fun and poses for a photo together.

Featured characters[edit | edit source]

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Characters

Notes[edit | edit source]

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  • Meta 30 years before Renegade Rhetoric.
  • The short is just over 5 minutes long, having a 1-minute set of closing titles.
  • Sadly it is not in continuity, though it makes less of a mess of picking up the storyline than Leina Stol in Wolf Sword Legend II.
  • Rod Drill wins the short, scoffing food with both hands and wearing a giant rubber ring. Rom's attempt to scare Leina with a Casmodon mask is nowhere near as cool.
  • Leina's loose pyjamas and Kina's waggling butt are about as close as anyone would want Machine Robo and GoBots getting to fanservice.
  • Those party pairings in full for the shippers - Jet and Rury; Gadess and Kina; Kirai and Min; Grujios and Diondra; Garudi and Sara; Jim and Sophia; Drill and nobody; Rom and... Leina. Ick.
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Home video releases[edit | edit source]

VHS

1987Machine Robo: Memories of the Battlefield (Toshiba EMI)

Blu-Ray

2022Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos (Discotek Media, USA)