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 Crying Freeman  Tons of violence, sexuality, and bizarre Asian cultural differences. Bloodyshinta1 fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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I never noticed that his dragon has a gun before.
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Dec 30, 2015 21:21
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Serious Frolicking posted:I never noticed that his dragon has a gun before. I think you just passed the Not Gay test, unless you are a chick then you failed it.
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Dec 30, 2015 21:22
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Crying Freeman is amazing. The manga doubly so. Man, this has legit turned into one of the best threads in VEGETA. 
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Dec 30, 2015 21:27
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OP I dont watch a lot of the animes but I really liked that cyber city odeo and I wanted to thank you personally for making a good thread
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Dec 31, 2015 00:08
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I can't believe we're at page 3 and no BIO-BOOSTER ARMOR GUYVER 1986, 1988  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bXL1RSmm2Q Based on a somehow still-ongoing manga, Sho Fukamachi, a billy everyteen protagonist, accidentally becomes symbiotically bonded to a kind of living Iron Man suit that gives him super strength, etc. and he has to fight an army of monster men and Cronos, an Umbrella-level villainous mega corp. There was a one-off OVA in 1986 followed by a 12-episode run in 1988. This show had all the action gore teenage boys were looking for with just a touch of corporate intrigue and alien conspiracy. The fights were reasonably exciting and generally felt like a kid smashing his action figures into each other. It was kind of like a hyper-violent Spiderman as Sho is constantly trying to keep his identity a secret to protect his friends and wrestling with a massive Martyr Complex. Each episode would end with long shots of toys of the various characters with overlong, technobabbly explanation of their powers and abilities. It got a 2-cour remake in 2006 but as the show lacks anything resembling "moe" I can't imagine it did very well in the mid-00's. But that's not the important part. Guyver got not one but two American film adaptations.  That is Mark loving Hamill in a 90's direct-to-video, American anime adaptation (not as the lead, however). The second film is a bit truer to manga and stars David "Solid Snake" Hayter.
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Jan 3, 2016 19:54
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Tunahead posted:I wish to recommend Gunsmith Cats for everyone who likes ninety minutes of Kenichi Sonoda relentlessly fetishizing guns, explosives, and '70s muscle cars. Also featured: Chill music, dialogue scenes for people who enjoy good pacing, and special guest appearance by Radinov, master assassin and bastard lunatic. One thing is for sure, they really put effort into the weapon sound effects in this series. The OP's style is also uncannily similar to Cowboy Bebop - I wonder if that's a coincidence or was Bebop influenced by this series?
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Jan 4, 2016 02:59
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Video Girl Ai Basically it's your run of the mill nerdy dude finds love in some awkward way, in this case via magical vhs tape placed in a broken VCR from a magical rental store.  But our titular Ai ends up coming out "broken" and instead of cheering the main character Yota up there's a lot of trolly tsundere poo poo she does since she can actually experience emotions. Of course Yota has a crush on another chick Moemi that doesn't like him, so it takes awhile but eventually it morphs into a cute but awkward romance show between the two once he gets out of the friendzone and forgets Moemi. Viz was pretty quick getting this out on VHS back in the day and it was one of the first shows I was introduced to. OVA covers roughly vols 1-3, so not the whole manga (there's 15 vols I think?) but I felt like it was a good introductory chunk. Ok, so why should I watch this?  Do you like a little bit of pervy poo poo in an otherwise humorous romantic comedy? Do you like well done early animation that is true to the artist's designs? Check it out! And if you like the OVA go whole hog in the manga! It has a pretty similar premise to Ah! My Goddess without a harem.
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Jan 4, 2016 04:41
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Not Keyser Soze posted:It got a 2-cour remake in 2006 but as the show lacks anything resembling "moe" I can't imagine it did very well in the mid-00's. It didn't do well at all, but it actually kicks serious rear end. Absurdly faithful to the manga, great animation, probably the best animated version of Guyver (as much as I have a soft spot for the OVA). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMy0-SKaDN8 Honestly, it feels like a show that came out at the exact wrong time- 5 years on either side and it would have been a big hit in the West, but it came out during that chunk of time where normies kind of forgot anime existed, so it never got any play on Adult Swim or anything. quote:But that's not the important part. Guyver got not one but two American film adaptations. I can confirm that both of the Guyver movies loving rule. Make sure you hunt down the uncut version of the first one- the US DVD is some weird "director's cut", and apparently the MPAA made them cut out all the gore shots to keep a PG-13 on it. Firstly, this is a huge waste because Screamin' Mad George directed it and he's a crazy loving good effects guy (he notably worked on Society, Freaked, and Tales from the Hood). Secondly, Guyver just feels wrong unless he's ripping arms off and decapitating Zoanoids.
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Jan 4, 2016 08:27
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The Guyver has a similar problem to Berserk in that animated versions keep covering the same stuff and never getting any further. (And also the manga has been going for 30+ years and still isn't finished.)
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Jan 4, 2016 08:45
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Sakurazuka posted:The Guyver has a similar problem to Berserk in that animated versions keep covering the same stuff and never getting any further.
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Jan 5, 2016 01:56
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Sakurazuka posted:(And also the manga has been going for 30+ years and still isn't finished.) I am honestly surprised to learn that Guyver is somehow supposed to have an ongoing manga in the first place. I'd assumed it was already complete but simply hadn't been fully adapted.
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Jan 5, 2016 03:54
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At least Berserk adapted the Golden age, which had a start, a middle, and an end.
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Jan 5, 2016 04:01
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wielder posted:I am honestly surprised to learn that Guyver is somehow supposed to have an ongoing manga in the first place. I'd assumed it was already complete but simply hadn't been fully adapted. Guyver, HxH, and Berserk are the holy trinity of awesome manga on perma-hiatus. Apocryphally, Takaya has been seriously ill for a long time and it's stopped him from doing consistent work on it since roughly the early 2000s. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jan 5, 2016 |
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Jan 5, 2016 05:36
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This thread is making me nostalgic. I Remember when these titles started getting localized and renting them at Blockbuster by clerks who did know any better who thought it was perfectly ok to let a 15 year old rent Angel Cop even though it stated on the family account I could only rent G and PG rated titles. At the time there was something kind of exotic seeing stuff like Crying Freeman, Genocyber and MD Geist; these days those titles are punchlines and bywords schlock well deserving to put MST3K's chopping block. That being said I would rather watch those than anything to do with Moe but that probably says more about me and when I started watching anime than anything. Reds posted:you can't even spell "heroes" correctly That looks more like Moebius than the section at the end of Heavy Metal based on his work. NmareBfly posted:And still it's not in here, what the hell people. side_burned fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Jan 5, 2016 |
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Jan 5, 2016 09:01
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Radio Spiricom posted:megazone 23 is another cool 80s cyberpunk ova about a biker named shogo who gets entrusted with a military prototype motorcycle which can transform into a mecha. naturally this causes him to be wanted by a bunch of government paramilitary organizations and he stumbles onto the revelation that the world he inhabits isn't quite what it seems. i don't want to spoil too much for those who haven't seen it but it is probably more influential on the matrix than akira or gits is despite what the wachowskis claim. also there's a green haired idol singer named eve that shogo is obsessed with and she gets her baps out. that specific character was designed by haruhiko mikimoto who did character designs for macross and gunbuster among others. there are 3 installments but only the first two are any good. i watched the first ova and it's crazy how matrix like it is and isn't. like the general set-up is similar, but the super computer that's created a fake reality is good, and the hero is basically a useless idiot. well, maybe not a useless idiot since when he's finds out his whole world is fake and there's about to be a war, he just seems to accept there's not much he can do and goes to try and get laid
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Jan 8, 2016 08:45
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I can confirm that both of the Guyver movies loving rule. Make sure you hunt down the uncut version of the first one- the US DVD is some weird "director's cut", and apparently the MPAA made them cut out all the gore shots to keep a PG-13 on it. Firstly, this is a huge waste because Screamin' Mad George directed it and he's a crazy loving good effects guy (he notably worked on Society, Freaked, and Tales from the Hood). Secondly, Guyver just feels wrong unless he's ripping arms off and decapitating Zoanoids. This is will hard to believe but the Guyver series is still being made. Its pretty much only in manga form and the translations are only being offered to people who actually buy the manga. Both the movies were just loosely based on the manga. I kinda hope the writer doesnt die before he finishes but I doubt the rest of the chapters will be ever translated for free. The manga is gory on an attack on titan/terraformers level also.    Guyver became a huge mech. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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Jan 8, 2016 23:27
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Parallax posted:when he's finds out his whole world is fake and there's about to be a war, he just seems to accept there's not much he can do and goes to try and get laid Truly an everyman hero. When I watched Megazone 23 I never really got any Matrix vibes off it (though I remember that being a meme a few years back), maybe it was because I saw it after The Matrix?
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Jan 8, 2016 23:50
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Tenzarin posted:This is will hard to believe but the Guyver series is still being made. Its pretty much only in manga form and the translations are only being offered to people who actually buy the manga. Both the movies were just loosely based on the manga. I kinda hope the writer doesnt die before he finishes but I doubt the rest of the chapters will be ever translated for free. The manga is gory on an attack on titan/terraformers level also. Yeah it's pretty rad. If I wasn't already buying other series I'd probably buy Guyver just to finally read past whatever point the online translations stop. Maybe when I finally run out of Jojo to buy. 
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Jan 9, 2016 00:18
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My favorite thing about Megazone 23 is there's a guy out there from the dawn of the internet who legally changed his name to Megazone. He's also a character in a still-running self-insert fanfic that -- no, I'm not going to talk about that here. man I haven't checked in on that series for a while let's see what they're up to oh good it's about strike witches now 
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Jan 9, 2016 01:37
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Gall Force - Eternal Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yop4V8stpvE My ringing endorsement is that 12 year old me thought this was rad as hell. I found it on some forgotten channel on late night TV in the distant past. It has space ships, monsters, chicks, and explosions. I just spent 2 hours trying to google this show up based on that information alone, and will not have time to actually re-watch this thing to see if it holds up, but my inner child tells me you will find this to be the absolute height of mid 80's space action somethings.
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Jan 9, 2016 23:21
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I don't think anyone's mentioned Appleseed yet? I'm not very well-versed in it, having only watched a 1988 OVA a while ago, but I really enjoyed it! It's also the work of Masamune Shirow, so you know that it's got a pedigree. It's about some future cops; a woman (Deunan Knute) and her Cyborg partner (named Briareos Hecatonchires, I poo poo you not). They fight lots of cyber-crime and explosions ensue! 1988 OVA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIU3RhQHYU Edit: I forgot that there's apparently some CGI OVAs made in the early 2000s, which had some cool music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGZTcNez93U  
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Jan 14, 2016 17:12
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a kitten posted:1987 brought us Black Magic M-66, which was based on a single chapter in Masamune Shirow's (GitS) debut manga of the same name. Black Magic is cool as heck and I wish there was more of it. I might have to check out the manga, since it seems like it's basically this badass reporter getting into poo poo all the time. Here's more of it: https://fat.gfycat.com/JointGraveEwe.webm https://fat.gfycat.com/PrestigiousSomberCuckoo.webm
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Jan 14, 2016 17:34
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The Black Magic manga is not really anything like the movie. I haven't read it in years but I recall it being more about a female space wizard god fighting other space wizards. There's a small section of the manga where the main character crash lands on a planet and the space wizards that don't like her make the prototype combat android on the planet attack her. Anipages has a really good article about the movie if you're interested. http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php/black-magic-m-66
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Jan 15, 2016 01:57
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Is there an official English translation of The Guyver manga in digital form? Best I've been able to find is some forum thread that promises to email you a PDF if you buy a Japanese hardcopy from some fan translator in the US.
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Jan 15, 2016 02:10
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Verizian posted:Is there an official English translation of The Guyver manga in digital form? Best I've been able to find is some forum thread that promises to email you a PDF if you buy a Japanese hardcopy from some fan translator in the US. For gently caress's sake is that what that guy meant by "if you buy it you can get it translated?" That's the dumbest poo poo ever.
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Jan 15, 2016 06:19
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I don't think the official English translations of The Guyver manga got very far anyway, I have all the fan translated stuff that was current up to like four years ago (volume 20-ish maybe?) but I've no idea where I got it from now.
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Jan 15, 2016 07:00
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Yeah, it only got like one volume officially translated back in the early 90s. I really wish Viz would revisit all their stuff from that era like Guyver, Hokuto no Ken, etc and give it proper releases.  e: I mean they did it for Ranma 1/2 and that series is basically straight up forgotten nowadays, at least Guyver and HnK have *some* currency in the modern weeb landscape
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Jan 15, 2016 09:14
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Another company tried to release the colourised versions of Hokuto no Ken back in the early 2000's, I think they got up to like volume 7 before giving up.
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Jan 15, 2016 09:17
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Funny story about Guyver Advocacy. They used to hide their translations behind a passworded website. To get the password they'd give you a page number of the Japanese volume and told you to look for a word in English. Someone got the raws and started to release scanlations, when GA found out they threw a hissy fit and eventually started to do it themselves when they realized the cat was out of the bag. I guess they're back to their old ways.
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Jan 15, 2016 09:18
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Guyver posted:Funny story about Guyver Advocacy. They used to hide their translations behind a passworded website. To get the password they'd give you a page number of the Japanese volume and told you to look for a word in English. Someone got the raws and started to release scanlations, when GA found out they threw a hissy fit and eventually started to do it themselves when they realized the cat was out of the bag. I guess they're back to their old ways. That is the dumbest poo poo ever and I'm pretty sure it's actually more illegal than just putting the translation online.
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Jan 15, 2016 09:48
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Yeah, it only got like one volume officially translated back in the early 90s. I really wish Viz would revisit all their stuff from that era like Guyver, Hokuto no Ken, etc and give it proper releases. What? Ranma 1/2 was both more popular back then and now, they even made a new ova for it in 08
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Jan 15, 2016 18:46
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Sakurazuka posted:I don't think the official English translations of The Guyver manga got very far anyway, I have all the fan translated stuff that was current up to like four years ago (volume 20-ish maybe?) but I've no idea where I got it from now. They are still translating it. The story is kinda meh. I don't think I've ever not have the guyver story end abruptly due to no more content(anime) or because of internet assholes. Chapter 190 sounds like there they started doing this new have to buy the book crap in 2014. That's alot to read through if you want to read from the start. Release 15 pages every month is really slow progress anyway. At most you would be only like 12 chapters behind and maybe in a few years the super small group protecting the translations might dissolve. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Jan 15, 2016 19:09
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:What? Ranma 1/2 was both more popular back then and now, they even made a new ova for it in 08
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Jan 16, 2016 10:19
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Watched Cyber City OEDO 808 for the first time last night. That Manga dub loving makes it. So good. There's a bunch of these that I'm only familiar with from listening to Fast Karate. I think having listening to the reviews beforehand has improved the viewing experience.
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Jan 16, 2016 10:36
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:What? Ranma 1/2 was both more popular back then and now, they even made a new ova for it in 08 I'm speaking purely from a Western standpoint- in the West, it's one of those series that got talked about a huge amount in the 80s and 90s, then kinda disappeared. In Japan, it's loving legendary, don't get me wrong.
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Jan 16, 2016 12:07
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I'm speaking purely from a Western standpoint- in the West, it's one of those series that got talked about a huge amount in the 80s and 90s, then kinda disappeared. In Japan, it's loving legendary, don't get me wrong. Actually Ranma wasn't that big in Japan from what I understand. It was canceled and "retooled" after the first season, and Yawara (a series it ran with that has almost no traction in the West) was the more popular of the two.
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Jan 16, 2016 16:57
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I'm speaking purely from a Western standpoint- in the West, it's one of those series that got talked about a huge amount in the 80s and 90s, then kinda disappeared. In Japan, it's loving legendary, don't get me wrong. Ranma was watched because they could of shown boobs. they never did Come on I know your Blockbuster had better stuff to rent than Ranma, lol! Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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Jan 16, 2016 17:55
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Tenzarin posted:Ranma was watched because they could of shown boobs. Uhh, what? Say what you want about Ranma, it was like 25% boobs. quote:Actually Ranma wasn't that big in Japan from what I understand. It was canceled and "retooled" after the first season, and Yawara (a series it ran with that has almost no traction in the West) was the more popular of the two. IIRC, the first season was kinda a flop but then it took off and ran for ages. The show didn't do 7 seasons, 3 movies and 12 OVA episodes because it wasn't popular.
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The manga was also crazy popular, Rumiko Takahashi was like one of highest paid women in Japan for a while.
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Jan 16, 2016 18:23
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