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Mazinkaiser SKL is great and I love it. I heard not everyone does. Do those people hate fun? On the note of all things Mazinger, I take it if I want raws of the original I'll have to wait for Discotek to release the box set now? I don't think I'm allowed to ask where to find raws now that someone owns the license.
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Aug 19, 2013 22:40
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As a guy thats totally fine watching something for fun big robots regardless of quality, I hate SKL but Im not sure why.
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Aug 20, 2013 01:24
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SKL was more like one of those hyper-violent OVAs you got in the 80's/90's only with less gore. Three episodes, arsehole main characters, a bunch of fighting and a nonsensical story.
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Aug 20, 2013 01:38
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Like everything was trying to be EXTREME! and 90s and Heavy Metal and poo poo. Breast Fire things ARE ALSO GUNS WOAH (are we cool now?).
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Aug 20, 2013 02:04
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Really, two things got me into anime, the cartoons I'd watch as a kid (like "Goldorak" or "Albator" on some channels we got from Quebec over here in New-Brunswick), and later all those violent OVAs like Genocyber or Devilman. So I ended up being just fine with SKL. Well, other than the paper-thin story.
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Aug 20, 2013 02:09
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For all its bluster, I found SKL to be really goddamn boring.
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Aug 20, 2013 03:49
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Mazinkaiser SKL is pure liquid 80's and I love it for being that, good or bad aren't even words you can use to describe it. Then again, I found ways to enjoy Angel Cop so maybe I'm just completely insane. I take it that's a no to unsubbed original Mazinger then?
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Aug 20, 2013 15:42
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Hbomberguy posted:I take it that's a no to unsubbed original Mazinger then? I've never been able to find them, just the old Hong Kong bootlegs. There was a fansubber that translated the first couple of episode of the original, but he stopped a long while back. I still think I'm dreaming that Discotek is actually bringing the show over, and I have way too much false hope that they'll actually translate the entire series (because it's over 90 episodes long). As for Mazinkaiser SKL, my only problem with it is that it's a Mazinger show without Kouji, and that just messes with my head, maaaaaaan.
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Aug 20, 2013 18:18
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Wow, GaoGaiGar FINAL had a much more depressing ending than I was expecting.  Which other super robot shows come close to the levels of crazy in that and TTGL? Not counting shows Yasuhiro Imagawa had a hand in, I've seen all those. 
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Aug 20, 2013 18:27
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Gunbuster and Diebuster are up there in the crazy awesome department. I'm also going to vouch for Betterman even if it is not a super robot show at all because it is part of the GGG universe and actually manages to be unsettling and creepy at times, which is no mean feat for anime.
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Aug 20, 2013 19:04
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Sakurazuka posted:Wow, GaoGaiGar FINAL had a much more depressing ending than I was expecting. Only if you dont believe our heroes will return one day 
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Aug 20, 2013 19:10
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Sakurazuka posted:Wow, GaoGaiGar FINAL had a much more depressing ending than I was expecting. Have you checked out any of the Getter Robo OVAs? Those are the first things that come to mind for me.
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Aug 20, 2013 19:16
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Sakurazuka posted:Wow, GaoGaiGar FINAL had a much more depressing ending than I was expecting. Like TK-31 said, both Gunbuster and Diebuster are really good. Diebuster was what Gainax made right before Gurren Lagann but it's very much its own show even though it has similar basic themes (giant robots and fighting in giant robots, for example). I'm watching through Diebuster right now and I think I can die happy. Try Shin Mazinger Z, it's pretty crazy. For being one of the foundational pillars of the super robot genre, Mazinger Z's actual plot when it comes down to it is freaking crazy and nonstandard. I'm willing to bet if you're posting in this thread that you've already seen it though.
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Aug 20, 2013 20:31
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Sakurazuka posted:Wow, GaoGaiGar FINAL had a much more depressing ending than I was expecting. Kotetsushin Jeeg isn't a particularly special show but the fighting gets pretty crazy towards the end and it has the best insert song.
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Aug 20, 2013 22:55
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KoB posted:Only if you dont believe our heroes will return one day Genesis Gaogaigar is ready to shoot out of the sun towards the train-Gaogaigar that Mamoru and Kaidou pilot any day now. Aaaaaaany day now. edit: I misspelled "Genesic" but I'm going to keep it that way because it's awesome. Silentman0 fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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Aug 21, 2013 07:09
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Thanks for the suggestions, I've seen most of those unfortunately though. I'll check out Jeeg and have been reminded that I never got around to finishing New Getter Robo, so it's all good.
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Aug 21, 2013 14:55
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Silentman0 posted:Genesis Gaogaigar is ready to shoot out of the sun towards the train-Gaogaigar that Mamoru and Kaidou pilot any day now. I know the mecha your referring to, but the way your phased it makes me think of some weird Yuusha Robo that's a mix of Gaogaigar and Mightgaine. Not a combination, but a separate machine with their characteristics. Now that I think about it, I really liked the art direction in Mightgaine.
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Aug 21, 2013 19:32
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ActionZero posted:Kotetsushin Jeeg isn't a particularly special show but the fighting gets pretty crazy towards the end and it has the best insert song. Oh hey, I love that song and the Jeeg opening. So there are some Jam project songs I do like, even if only one or two.
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Aug 21, 2013 21:57
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These HK subs are making Mazinger Z vs.
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Aug 23, 2013 17:28
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HK subs improved my watching of Mazinger Z tenfold.
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Aug 23, 2013 19:17
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MG42 posted:HK subs improved my watching of Mazinger Z tenfold.  That doesn't sound ominous at all, grandpa!
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Aug 24, 2013 01:13
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I want subs of the Arabic version of Mazinger Z where Doctor Hell is renamed Father Rage.
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Aug 24, 2013 01:20
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muike posted:I want subs of the Arabic version of Mazinger Z where Doctor Hell is renamed Father Rage. Honestly, that's a kind of badass villain name.
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Aug 24, 2013 10:38
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In other awesome news Getter Robo subbing is alive again with 27! http://caffinsubs.blogspot.com/
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Aug 24, 2013 13:36
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Huh, don't think I've seen another show address the amount of collateral damage from giant robot fights as much as New Getter Robo.
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Aug 25, 2013 17:30
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Zambot 3 made it a plot point.
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Aug 25, 2013 19:51
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Sakurazuka posted:Huh, don't think I've seen another show address the amount of collateral damage from giant robot fights as much as New Getter Robo. Several shows have, including stuff like GaoGaiGar introducing the Dividing Driver to help limit it.
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Aug 25, 2013 20:43
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ImpAtom posted:Several shows have, including stuff like GaoGaiGar introducing the Dividing Driver to help limit it. And in the few situations where the Dividing Driver didn't magically render all collateral damage impossible, they had the magic robot fleet to repair everything perfectly.
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Aug 25, 2013 22:55
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A subtle and nuanced look at a young boy and his interaction with A.I I've been considering making an organic robots thread since we have one for real and one for super, but other than raxephon (owns) eva (has own thread, sucks idiot balls) and brain powerd (owns owns owns everyone watch it now) there aren't too many examples of the genre to toss out for better or worse, let alone stand out luminaries. EDIT i guess technically maybe valvrave could go in there but that show is hot Hot HOT and will have its own thread and forums presence so it wouldn't really count
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ImpAtom posted:Several shows have, including stuff like GaoGaiGar introducing the Dividing Driver to help limit it. The few shows I have seen it even mentioned either use magic like the Dividing Driver to negate it or it's just a scene of the main character looking sad when he realises a bunch of people just got flattened (Shin Mazinger). Edit: I mean it's not like New Getter makes it an integral part of the plot but you do get a close up look at the consequences when most shows go out of their way to keep that aspect at arms length. Guyver posted:Zambot 3 made it a plot point. Pretty sure that's next on my list. Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Aug 26, 2013 01:09
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Dai Guard certainly took property damage into account. And usually made it a plot point, as well.
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Aug 26, 2013 01:47
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Daler Mehndi posted:Dai Guard certainly took property damage into account. And usually made it a plot point, as well. Even in Dai Guard collateral damage was primarily used as a gag device to make jokes about panicked salarymen punching repair costs into their calculators and sweating profusely every time Akagi flattened a car or punched a heterodyne into a skyscraper or whatever.
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Aug 26, 2013 02:32
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Paper Lion posted:A subtle and nuanced look at a young boy and his interaction with A.I Eh, we don't really have a thread for real robots, unless you're counting Gundam, which is kind of its own thing because there are just so many drat sequels, prequels, and spin-offs for the franchise at large. I mean, this thread is pretty much a catch-all mecha thread despite what the title says.
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Aug 26, 2013 03:05
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Super Robot Wars contains real robots so Super Robot Thread should contain real robots. Simple enough. It's a super thread for robots, not a thread for super robots.
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Aug 26, 2013 03:40
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Paper Lion posted:A subtle and nuanced look at a young boy and his interaction with A.I Sakurazuka posted:Pretty sure that's next on my list.
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Aug 26, 2013 03:48
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MG42 posted:HK subs improved my watching of Mazinger Z tenfold. HKSubs loving own. My personal favorite:  e: Also, is it bad that I kind of want to see more of Ginguiser? I had a blast watching the first episode, it was so loving goofy and toyetic I couldn't look away.
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Aug 26, 2013 03:54
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Guyver posted:Do it. Zambot is seriously under watched for how good it is. After episode 2 Kappei is already the most realistic (almost) teenage robot pilot 'Screw fighting stuff, I'm gonna use it to impress some girls.'
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Aug 26, 2013 19:38
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Sakurazuka posted:After episode 2 Kappei is already the most realistic (almost) teenage robot pilot 'Screw fighting stuff, I'm gonna use it to impress some girls.' Go watch Da Garn, watch Seiji use his robots to travel to another country to hit on foreign girls in his best English accent 
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Aug 26, 2013 19:40
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Kanos posted:Even in Dai Guard collateral damage was primarily used as a gag device to make jokes about panicked salarymen punching repair costs into their calculators and sweating profusely every time Akagi flattened a car or punched a heterodyne into a skyscraper or whatever. Gear Fighter Dendoh had the best collateral damage gag. Prefabricated buildings are seen being airlifted into Hoshimi-cho after the first fight. Over the course of the series, they gradually become a more and more numerous part of the background of otherwise "normal" shots as the fights get more and more devastating. By the time you get to the end of the show, there's almost always several buildings being airlifted in practically a city block at a time.
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Linebarrels of Iron chapter 103 is out. So, time on the Moon flows differently. For Kouichi, it was only an hour between his disappearance and return, as opposed to 3 years on Earth. He gets reacquainted with everything (height, age and boob jokes occur), including Maxi's...personality and Izuna's death. Kouichi starts blaming himself for rescuing Miu back when she first became a Factor, but Douymuji tells him to not blame himself. Sawatari seems to now be working with Humanoid Abraham Lincoln, and they have their eyes on Kouichi for [insert Evil Plan # here]. The chapter ends on a cliffhanger (this series has a fetish for these things, seriously) with Shizuna and Kiriyama in Nagasaki in front of a hangar that holds what looks like a Machina. Either Deceive got rebuilt and she's going to be its new Factor, or Painkiller's new form got captured off-panel and is being reconditioned somehow, since Shizuna states that "she" wants to keep on fighting. Even though I don't think Deceive was ever referred to as female in the past, I'm leaning to the mystery mech being Deceive due to Shizuna's comments.
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