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I think I first learned of Megazone 23 listening to a podcast. Part 1 was fantastic, but subsequent parts were lacking, especially part 3. It was a production mess so it's not surprising. I first learned of Iczer at a goodwill it was one of the few anime vhs I found out in the wild. The AD police OVA is definitely the best spin off of Bubblegum Crisis. Crash isn't bad, but I prefer ADP and BC. Another remake would be awesome to see. There was a remake of Battle Athletes, but studio Seven apparently botched it. If the right studio was put in charge, a BC remake could be great. Though I wonder how they would handle updating the music for modern audiences. The music was such an important part of the original series. I would definitely like to see AIC handling the remake, but they haven't done much of anything lately aside from the recent Tenchi Muyo sequels.

Other than Gundam, Garzey’s Wing and Zanbot 3 I haven't seen much of his work. I've been saving Ideon for a rainy day, but have yet to make the time for it. Brain Powered is one I'm reluctant to watch having heard so many bad things about it over the years. I ended up with a tape in a lot so I can't just leave it unwatched. Overman King Gainer looks right up my alley so I'll have to add that to my PTW.

I have had times in the past where I've found myself on a single genera marathon for a few weeks at a time. Mecha is one of those genera that when I'm in the mood for it I often watch a variety of shows one after another. I never saw Dunbine, but remember the localization getting a lot of flak for having Carl Macek involved. I have no idea if his involvement had a negative effect on the end product, but people certainly seemed to think it would. Rayearth is one of my favorites It has so much going for it. I think the first season is a perfect isekai story, but season 2 goes off the rails. A lot of people disliked season 2, but I think it's a fine sequel that gives the characters a lot more development. Orguss is another great series I found it through a video highlighting bad dubs that showed an infamous line from the OVA. I didn't want to watch the sequel before the original and I don't regret it.

There have been a few times where watching things sped up has ruined watching them at regular speed for me. Sometimes I'll think this show is slow despite having it sped up. At the end of the day I'm just trying to save time.

Ive never gone out of my way to watch any Super Sentai series, but this scene has always made me want to.

I'm not sure if I ever watched an anime that genuinely scared me. I grew up with a guy who watched Akira when he was a little too young. It definitely has its moments. Betterman looks like something I would enjoy. I really like the character designs. Higurashi is a series I loved, it was the first thing I watched when I finished building my first computer. I've wanted to sit down and read through the VN for years, but it's so damn long! I love the anime, but haven't seen the new seasons. I always found it funny that I found the series through YTP of all things.


I've seen various scenes from Redman, and enjoyed every minute. I probably never would have found it were it not for its appearance in this auction. I liked everything I had seen so much I even bought a Redman sofubi. The limitations of 16mm film special effects leading to over the top finishing scenes was so interesting to me.

The monster of the week format is tried and true and has plenty of opportunities for character development. Unfortunately with a child audience in mind there isn't as much of demand to develop characters. It's easier to pitch and write a show that sticks to a formula. Golion is probably just a victim of this mind set. Getter Robo at least had a manga on which it could base its story.

Reusing animation is a great cost cutting strategy, but there's a limit somewhere. I can understand missle launches or transformation sequences, but a whole scene! How bad was it?

I've heard that Demon Lord Dante was Go Nagai's attempt to go as over the top in the other direction as he could after his previous series was canceled due to public backlash. Though I've never found a concrete source for that. The manga not being finished was definitely a big problem for the anime as well. I completely forgot about the shadow censorship that was never even removed for the home release. Now that I look it up it might have been censored intentionally by Geneon. I'll have to track down some raws if I can. The dvds look great, but aren't cheap0_0

The scene cross over was really apparent with post industrial groups. The number of times I've heard samples of Ghost in the Shell is too many to count. It was also really common in DnB.
Horror movie samples were common too. This track samples Ghost in the Shell and references Videodrome.

Horror punk bands wouldn't sample stuff like elctronic groups, but The Misfits famously lifted their logo from an old sci-fi serial film series called The Crimson Ghost.

Elfen Lied was definitely a big part of my formative years as an anime fan. I can totally get being obsessed with the series. The violence get's more and more hardcore as the show goes on constantly raising the stakes and keeping the viewer on the edge of their seat waiting for whats going to happen next. The manga is a must read if you like the anime it goes even more over the top.

When it comes to most messed up series Shoujo Tsubaki takes a backseat to Mai-chan's Ordinary Day. When people ask if it's worth reading you'll often see "it's awww right" referencing the most insane scene in the book.

I've been enjoying this conversation even if it does take me a while to reply. You're a lot more into mecha than I am so it's nice to hear about various series I've never checked out. It's also fun to be able to talk about a variety of topics in a long form.

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-Evangelion is a deconstruction of the mech genre.
-Code Geass, Evangelion and maybe some new gen stuff like 86 or Franxx are the only mecha about the characters.
-All mecha are just children toy commercials.
-Mecha anime is just as oversaturated as isekai. All copy paste trite. (This one annoys me since isekai is the probably third most misunderstood genre behind mecha and mahou shoujo.)
-Gigguk's video on the genre is my bible when it comes to mecha.

Oh, those are really close. Gigguk is literal filth so it's not that he's the problem per se but rather the kids who watch him and parrot whatever he says about anime. Two's blatantly obvious and I covered that. Three's just cope. Fourth is the kind of thing said by people who literally enjoy battle shounen, and these are way more ridiculous than mecha as a whole ever was. Fifty's blatant misinformation, and I'd argue maliciously so.

Evangelion is the deepest thing ever
Mecha is a toy commercial
Gurren Lagann was original
Code Geass is not a Gundam knockoff
Calling any Japanese mecha a Transformer

I hate that people take Gigguk seriously. Most anime YouTubers suck eggs.

2 and 5 definitely get to me. Either of those coming out of someone's mouth lets me know they haven't watched much of anything in the genre. It kind of blows my mind how frequently I've heard the exact statement from the 2nd answer. Seems like something that's repeated out of a sake for social cues.

My 5 is kind of your 4. A lot of people lack the imagination to entertain the idea of giant robots in a fictional story. I think it's the same sort of thinking that leads to that cope about Evangelion not being a mecha anime by pure technicality. It's just silly.

The 4 I put down was kind of in relation to all the people who loathe Char and his derivative characters in Gundam anime. Several times now, I've seen people get way too butthurt over an antagonist that was depicted in a heroic/relatable sort of way. It's the same thing you see with people talking about Griffith from Berserk.

I like these as points of discussion. You had far better answers ready than I did.

1. Red-haired tsunderes
   
2. Child soldiers
   
3. Child death
   
4. Immorality framed as virtuousness
   
5. Style over substance
   

Today was certainly one of the days. Infact that's everyday lol. Just another day waging. Got some wood splinters that were a pain in the ass to pull out. But that's then and now's now. Been considering taking a break from anime since I can barely even keep up with subtitles these past few days (a surefire sign of burnout). How was yours?
 
Braven was pretty decent. Didn't get into as much compared to others. I had a hard time latching onto most of the characters (Bravern was the exception). My favorite part was the reveal involving who he really was near the end. Kinda mixed on the use of CGI too tbh. Even if the fights were well animated and cool it just doesn't scratch that itch that 2d can only solve for me. Either way it was nice to have some super robots and GAR in 2024. I see it as a step in the right direction for having a resurgence of mecha and other classic troupes that have been gone by the wayside for ages. Great to see Obari back to boot too. Nice to see that you liked it.

I learned about Bubblegum Crisis after watching the AD Police TV series in middle school. I remember having a text document with the watch order on my desktop, but didn't even get around to watching until I started collecting VHS years later. Now I'm one tape short of having 5 different sets of the original OVA alone. I think it's a series that people unfairly overlook. I even loved Tokyo 2040 and it was divisive at the time lacking the Kenichi Sonoda character designs that everyone loved. Zambot 3 is worth watching for any mecha fan real or otherwise. Not only is it the origin of the "Kill em' All Tomino" nickname it's an interesting take on super robots in general. I watched it years ago and the theme song still pops into my head all the time.

Given enough time I'm sure I'll come across it again, but who knows. Hopefully another buying opportunity will arise or at the very least some kind of clue.

I'm usually only speeding thing up by 25-50 percent so I don't miss anything. Sometimes I'll do a %400 speed rewatch to jog my memory of what happened in a previous episode I'd I took a long break from a series. The last time I watched Lain was at night, but it was in a call center with my supervisor to pass time. Not exactly spooky, but it was at night. That's a place you couldn't fall asleep if you tried. It's definitely a slower show, it's not surprising that he keeps falling asleep.

I didn't watch much in the realm of kaiju films and tv until the last few years. I watched the MST3K Gamera episodes, but never went back and watched them in their entirety. I at least went back and did a marathon of Godzilla movies around 2020. One of my favorite things about kaiju is all the varied designs. Especially out of Ultraman. It feels like there's an infinite number of mosters with all their own back story's and unique appearances. I haven't seen Redman, but have the memorial LD box coming in the mail. It actually came in a lot with the last Tetsujin-28 LD box I needed. I'm looking forward to watching it when it arrives in July.

Showa Kamen Rider is no stranger to ridiculous villians. One of my favorites exanples is Mukade Tiger. I think it was called Centipiger in the translation I watched.

At some point I remember hearing that one of the shows was picked up for Voltron was mistaken for the show they were asking for and they had to do their best with what they got. Robotech had scenes in it so the various characters across shows could communicate with one another. Nausica was originally released as In The Aftermath. There was Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years which fused the Captain Harlock and Queen Milenia anime into a completely new series that I think is still lost. Localizations that make a ton of changes will always be an interesting topic to me.

It could be that someone was given the adaptation project and threw caution to the wind thinking no one would complain about an unfaithful adaptation. I dropped Gilgamesh, but it was so long ago I don't remember any of it. I remember thinking it looked funny and wasn't all that interesting. Demon Lord Dante is an anime I'll never forget. It's easily one of the worst anime of the 2000s, at the point where it's so bad it's good. I often think of the scene where a guy with a samurai sword slices an MP5 in half with a katana and it looks like paper cut outs.

Pluto was a manga that always interested me. I'm a big fan of Urusawa's art style. Another manga he wrote that was heavily influenced by 60s/70s Japanese pop culture was 20th Century Boys. It's worth checking out if you've enjoyed anything he's written.

I saw some photo's of furries at some of the meetings when I looked it up to confirm I was remembering it right. There's always a lot of crossover between these kind of niche communities. You often see it with music too I was a big fan of classic goth rock, horror punk, and the many different post industrial generas. Most of those bands were just made up of scifi and horror movie nerds. You would even occasionally hear anime samples being used by some futurepop bands.

I think Elfen Lied came at just the right time for the western market to fall in love with it. Anime blew up thanks to Toonami and the internet. The violence of the OVA era was completely overlooked by younger anime fans at the time and for most of them myself included Elfen Lied was the most hardcore thing they had ever seen. I haven't seen or read the series since probably 2011 so I don't remember much of the story line changes between the two. What I do remember about the manga is that it felt like it actually had an ending and that it was of course way gorier than the anime. I always felt unsatisfied with the ending of the anime, but I wonder how I would feel now having seen so much more.

Yeah I can agree that Season 05 was the most boring season in MHA.. And Thanks for answering..

Why you dropped My Hero Academia is there a reason?

Record of Lodoss War didn't have the lasting popularity of something like Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop. It was popular at the time, but that's really it. It's kind of like Bubblegum Crisis in that it was popular enough at the time to sell well, but few people are pointing to it as a must watch series these days. Zambot 3 is definitely a better use of your time than Lodoss.

If I'm ever able to remember it you'll be one of the first to know. I'm pretty sure it was an early 80s series, had at least 20 tapes in the set (probably running between 40-100 episodes), and it was definitely a super robot show. Guam is a small island that I really only know of because of it's significance in the pacific campaign.

If I remember right I had a slow day at work and had the series on my phone. I also often watch things sped up to save time. Most tokusatsu I want to speed up much of the dialog and get to the action. Getting through 30 episodes in 8 hours instead of 12 is a lot easier when you skip the op and speed up most of the exposition. I remember watching some of Death Note as it aired, and agonizing over cliff hangers. Eventually when I was able to watch it all the way through I had DVR'd all the reruns and was able to watch it in much bigger chunks. Also, Lain is a series that could be watched one episode at a time or all in one go. I went through all in one go when I first watched it. I think it really just depends on how much it clicks with someone.

I'm not a huge toku fan, but I love Showa Era toku. Aside from classic Godzilla, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider I haven't seen much. I really like the cheesy low budget practical effects of 70s TV. Godzilla is timeless fun and Ultraman is great for the kaiju alone. My interest in Kamen Rider began while reading an Ueshiba Riichi manga, I think it was Discommunication. He would have little notes about his life stuck at the end of chapters and would often talk about his friends and assistants. In one he talked about a conversation at a bar about the stupid things they would do with a time machine and someone said they would force Hitler to cosplay as Starfish Hitler from Kamen Rider X. Which led me to this video and I've been a Kamne Rider and toku fan ever since.

I wouldn't be surprised if they picked up the Tekkaman Blade license for cheap considering the original Tekkaman series didn't do all that well in the English speaking world having been canceled halfway through dubbing. It's a shame how often shows had to be so heavily censored to meet what always felt like mostly arbitrary rules. It doesn't surprise me that the Saban version is significantly shorter than the original.

I totally forgot about Poseidon, that's such a great design. There were often changes made to the anime remakes that feel way off. Like 8man After getting way grittier, Casshern Sins was the second reimagining in 20 years, Cyborg 009-1 was 009 for a more adult audience. I vaguely remember Gilgamesh, but had no idea it was based on such an old series. I feel like cartoonish designs are still alive among sofubi and designer toy enthusiasts, but other than that it feels like there's very little demand for it.

Astro Boy is one of those shows I would personally prioritize watching the original series. It's historical significance is the big reason for that, but also because of my love for 60s anime. I also generally avoid shows targeted at a very young audience as well. Of course in my quest to watch everything that's found it's way into my collection I've found myself watching not one but two Hello Kitty anime. One was significantly more entertaining than the other, but even still I'm not the target audience.

All 3 of those youtubers are great. Another thing worth doing is going back and listening to old pre 2010 anime podcasts. I remember Anime World Order used to have people who were fansubbing in the pre internet days and it was always interesting to hear people's stories. Im pretty sure they would have people on from the Cartoon Fantasy Organization which was the very first American anime club. Another great thing to look out for is old magazine scans. I've read through a lot of old anime magazines and zines that are packed full of cool information.

I never dropped an anime before and when I checked your list you only dropped very few shows and the second reason is I don't have many friends on MAL Account..

You're Welcome. I was just scroll through some forums and then that anime drop related forum came that's where I found you...

Record of Lodoss war was a very popular anime in the west and in Japan. The OVA is decent, but the TV show was a waste of time. The OVA has a great op and some of the animation is pretty good. The most interesting thing about the series was that it was based on a replay novel. A genera of fantasy novel written based on someone's dnd campaign.

Collecting isn't a hobby I recommend to most people. It can get very expensive very quickly. I've probably spent nearly $50k on the various things I've collected over the years. If I went out of my way to track down physical copies of everything I've seen I could probably double that number if I wasn't hunting for deals. I have tons of cool stuff, but I sometimes wish I didn't buy some things. I have a ton of stuff I wish I did buy that got away. Like a subtitled set of a mecha series that was popular enough in se Asia to get an English subtitled set that somehow made its way to Guam. I can't even remember the name of the series and it's been bugging me for years. An officially released English subtitled anime that's coming from a US territory of all places.

I think Medabots being an episodic comedy is what makes it best to watch every now and then. Episodic action series have always felt easier to watch in big chunks. I watched 30 episodes of Kamen Rider in a day and that's about as monster of the week as a series can get.

Watching a series subbed to see how things were changed can always be a fun experience. Especially stuff from the 4kids or Saban. I know with 60s anime there isn't much of a motivation to fansub them at this point. I think the outdated nature of 60s anime is one of the things that makes it so interesting. It feels so removed from what anime would become, that it's as if you're watching something totally removed from what you're used to. I love the 60s mecha design especially. It feels so much more cartoonish compared to the more designs that would come later. I've never watched any of the newer Astro Boy anime, but I did see the 2009 American adaptation. It would be interesting to see how it evolved over the years.

Fansubbed tapes were definitely the best part of getting deep into collecting anime VHS for me. There's so many interesting releases out there. Stuff like Bakuen Campus Guardress which has a synonym Combustible Campus Guardress that was come up with by the fansubbers since it was never released in the west. Or the 5 Star Stories OVA that was apparently hated by the author, preventing future home video releases and making the LD extremely rare. It was such a desirable release that there was an anime club that pooled together $500 to buy a copy just so they could fansub it.

Do tell me what you think of Grendizer soon then. You're also planning on watching Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger as well? You've got a long road ahead