For Your Viewing Pleasure: Star Blazers

I saw this on io9 and had the shivers.

And for this who can't remember, check this intro to the cartoon series.

Fantastic!

Filipino sword-and-sorcery

Has anyone read or written an actual by-God Filipino sword-and-sorcery? You know, in the mold of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser or Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné to the extent of focusing on the heroes (or anti-heroes) instead of the setting? And using Filipino characters?

Curious cats want to know.

For those who don't know, the creations of Moorcock and Leiber were part of a fantasy subgenre called sword and sorcery. The primary proponent of this was-- of course!-- Robert E. Howard and the man from Crom, Conan the Barbarian.

As of the present, I know vin does European-type high fantasy stories and so does dean (though his Hinirang Tales are a Filipino-based created world) and nikki. Ditto with sean. But sword and sorcery? Nada.

Hmmm... it would be interesting to create a Filipino anti-hero like that. Think Zuma cross-bred with Conan. (And dom does mention that Panday could be nominated as a Filipino sword and sorcery hero.)