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The Oldschool Anime PanelAt Ayacon 2011


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Here We Make Our Entrance Now! The Opening Curtain on ourNail-Biting Panel!


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What's This About? Welcome to the Ayacon 2011 Old-School Anime Panel! This talk is going to be about the history of Japanese animation from its

roots through to some stuff you'll know and love. First, let's get some questions out the way.

What's the title slide about?That's written in the style of an episode title!

Who are you?I'm Ray, and that's _______

It's not all going to be about sci-fi is it?No.

Will we get to ask questions of our own?Yes.

Will there be things to watch?Of course!

Who's the guy in the corner?More on him later!


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The Table of Contents We're going to start with a timeline to get this going

Then there'll be a bit about some famous names and faces

Then a bit about what you can expect from older shows

Then 7 absolute classics

Then a few to avoid

Then some underrated shows

And some stuff about remakes to bring us up to date! All that, and more! It's going to be hot-blooded, full of courage and

fighting spirit!


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Fun!! History Time!


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A Quick Timeline The first animation produced in Japan was a short clip of a boy made in

1907 in light of experiments in hand-drawn animation in Europe and

America.

Manga was made popular a little later as newspaper cartoons in the

western vein became popular early cartoonists such as Rakiten

Kitazawa were hugely popular with newspaper readers.

The 1918 animated film Peach Boy (Momotaro)is arguably the first

successful anime, and started a trend for short silent animations, often

about folk stories and myths that lasted through the 1920s.

Successful animators of the period included Oten Shimokawa and Sanae

Yamamoto (some of whose films are preserved today)

Early animation was often funded by theatres, although independent artists

predominated.


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A Quick Timeline During the Second World War, animated films were used as propaganda,

showing Japanese soldiers fighting. One example is Mitsuyo Seo's

Momotaro's Sea Eagles, about navy personnel.

The first feature-length animation was the 1945 Momotaro's Divine Sea

Warriors, another war film about sailors.

1956 saw the founding ofToei, and the first colour anime film The Taleof the White Serpent. It's a Disney-like fairytale with songs and talking

animals, done in a ukiyo-ewoodcut style.

Toei worked on similar Western-style cartoon films through to the 1970s,

with experiments such as the 1968 Horus: Prince of the Sunsowing theseeds for later movements including Progressive Anime (popularised by

Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii)


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A Quick Timeline To compete with Toei, Osamu Tezuka opened his own production company,

Mushi Productions. Tezuka would go on to produce the first regularanimated serial on Japanese TV 1963's Astro Boy. However, the veryfirst TV anime was in fact Manga Calendar(1962).

This was then followed by a rush of legendary serials Mitsuteru

Yokoyama's Tetsujin-28, Tezuka's Kimba the White Lionand Tatsuo

Yoshida's Mach Go-Go-Go, which you may know as Speed Racer.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this was then followed by experiments into adult

films, with Tezuka producing a range of adult films in the 1970s.

Interestingly, the 1973 film Belladonna of Sadnesswould be a majorstylistic inspiration for the 1997 serial Revolutionary Girl Utena.

The first anime intended for older audiences, Lupin III(based on the Arsene

Lupinnovels of Maurice Leblanc) was released in 1971.


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A Quick Timeline The huge popularity of TV led to a shrinking of the Japanese film industry

in the 1970s. Toei were forced to downsize, and a flood of new studios

opened. Mushi were forced to close, but their staff would go on to open

big name studios like Madhouse and Sunrise. The rush of new talent led to a rush of new series, including legendary

boxing drama Ashita No Joeand family entertainment show Heidi: Girl of

the Alps.

A new series of novel adaptations, World Masterpiece Theatre, ensued, with

a young Hayao Miyazaki in a key role although more on him later!

Sci-fi also flourished, with a range of firsts 1972's Mazinger Z the firstmecha show, and 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam the first successfulmilitary sci-fi series.


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A Quick Timeline The huge popularity ofStar Warsled to a real sci-fi boom a feature film

based on 1974's Space Battleship Yamatoreleased in 1980 led to an eraof sci-fi films.

The popularity of sci-fi magazines like Newtypeprovided a natural fanbase

and from there producers went wild. At the time, US distributors looked

for new material and translated a range of these shows children

watched Tranzor Z, Robotech, Battle of the Planetsand of courseTransformers.

In an attempt to broaden the fanbase of sci-fi anime, experiments like

Urusei Yatsura(1981)were released a romantic comedy with sci-fi

themes.

Meanwhile, a small independent studio moved on from making short comic

sketches for conventions to a feature film, the 1987 Wings of

Honneamise at the time the highest-budget anime ever made. The

studio? GAINAX.

Miyazaki, meanwhile, had released Nausicaain 1984 and Grave of theFirefliesin 1987.


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A Quick Timeline The OVA genre (Original Video Animation) was invented arguably in 1985

with Mamoru Oshii's failure, Moon Base Dallos. However, this was followed

by Megazone 23, which did substantially better and opened up a new

medium.

OVAs and theatrical films allowed for budgets to increase immensely, with

films like 1984's Do You Remember Love, 1988's Char's Counterattack

and 1988's Akira which took Wings of Honneamise's crown for the

most expensive anime made.

However, many of these films and OVAs were economic failures, the costs

of lavish cel animation simply unsustainable and by the end of the 1980sthe boom was over.

From that point on, it's not fair to say there hasn't been good anime made

but there's less of it, and economic viability is now key rather than

wild experimentation.


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Great Shock! Piercing Through the Misconceptions!

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Weren't Old Shows all Episodic andBoring? Not all of them! While, say, Dancouga

(picture to the left) might be, not

every old show is.

The very earliest shows, mostly the sci-fi

or action ones, were indeed episodic

something like Mazinger Zhas a verysimple format of a new enemy each

week. It worked for the target

audience.

However, something like Rose of Versailles

is more loose with the form each

episode has a conflict, but the plot is

more linear and less episodic.

By the 1990s, episodic plots had changed

Revolutionary GirlUtenaused its

episodic format as part of its ongoing

plot, as did G Gundam(picture to theleft).


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I Bet Old Shows didn't have CutesyCharacters... Of course they did! An adorable child

sidekick is a sure audience grabber

while there weren't so many

shows like K-On!whiich were solely

about kids being kids, there were

sickeningly sweet characters.

Captain Harlock, a hot-blooded sci-fi

show about a pirate fighting alien

Amazons, has him doing it all for

the love of his doe-eyed child.

SDF Macrossis mostly about a

saccharine, love-struck pop singer's

love life. In between the bits about

F-14s in space shooting aliens.

And don't even start on animal

mascots like that one from Tenchi

Muyo!Or sidekicks like the twinsfrom Orguss.


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So if there was loads of money foranime, I bet the shows looked good... Most of the time yes. Take a still from Do

You Remember Loveor Wings of

Honneamiseand you'll be impressed.

Take a still from something else like

these from Dancougaand Raideenand

you probably won't be. Ultimately it was all about getting a lot of

cels done fast and profitably. While

the OVAs and movies had the big

budgets, many TV series didn't

leading to corner cutting.

One way of cutting corners was stock

footage, re-using something that would

feature every episode (attack

preparation, for example). Sometimes

this got pretty long Voltes Vtakes

over a minute and a half to combine!


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I Bet they'd Never have Stood for Sexin Old Shows... Sex sells. If anything there was more

of it in the past. Japan has actually

clamped down on that sort of thing

nowadays.

The worst offender would probably

be Go Nagai, who got in a spot of

hot water with his work HarenchiGakuen an X-rated comedy about

perverted teachers and violent

students.

However, one way to grab attention in

a sci-fi show was to stick the girls

in revealing outfits, and laddish

humour about spying on girls

featured prominently.

Cutey Honey(pictured right) was an

attempt by Go Nagai to make the

girl superhero genre appeal to boyswith saucy costumes and jokes.


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Old Shows Didn't Have Clever Endings,did they? Even the most formulaic show going,

Mazinger Z, has a simple twist ending.

However, compared to something like

Space Runaway Ideonor Zambot 3

(more on both of those later), it's

fairly predictable. There are some great old shows with

really unique and at times depressing

endings it's not fair at all to say

that just because a show is old it

won't have any twists.

One great example of a good ending is

SDF Macross it goes beyond the

human victory to show what happens

once the aliens want peace.


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So How About That MerchandiseThen? If you don't think there was

merchandising, and that selling stuffwasn't key, you're wrong.

Sci-fi shows did great business in

fact, model and toy sales saved

Mobile Suit Gundamfrom failing.

Gimmicks were created to sell more

toys. Getter Robohas three forms

but no logical way of switching

between them so you can sell

three toys!

Later entries in the Gundamfranchisechallenged this G Gundam's

ridiculous gimmicks and Victory

Gundam's bizarre designs were

intended to not be easily converted

into merchandise.


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Who are you?! Enter the Mysterious, Marvellous People!


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Hayao Miyazaki (1941-) An incredibly talented and prolific man,

Miyazaki has worked as an animator,

producer and director on various

projects.

His first work, for Toei, was the animation

Watchdog Bow-Wow;however, he isbest known for his work with Studio

Ghibli

His CV, though, includes series as diverse

as Lupin III, Space Adventure Cobra

and Akagi no Anna, an adaptation of

Anne of Green Gables

As well as working extensively in anime,

Miyazaki has worked on a range of

manga projects including Nausicaaand

Ponyo


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Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941-) A king of sci-fi anime, Tomino has an

extensive portfolio of mecha titlesto his name including the

legendary Gundamfranchise

His shows fall into two categories

depending on his mood

They are either exceptionally light-hearted, often slapstick and very

funny, or very depressing and bleak

Examples of the former are ZZ

Gundam, Overman King Gainerand

Heavy Metal L-Gaim

Examples of the latter are Space

Runaway Ideon, Victory Gundam

and Zambot 3

Tomino has also worked as a

composer under the pen-name RinIogi


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Rumiko Takahashi (1957-) A talented manga artist who has also

worked in animation, Takahashi is a

real expert at comedy

From cross-dressing screwball comedy

Ranma to the awkward and heart-

warming Maison Ikkoku, her shows andmanga series are made with an eye

for the absurdities of young people

She is renowned for taking a high level of

personal involvement in her work her

career began in 1978, and she has

consistently taken responsibility for theseries and franchises penned in her

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Matsumoto Leiji (1938-) A skilled artist, animator, and creator

of some great science fiction, Leijihas a unique style

His art is instantly recognisable by its

use of elongated and slender

female characters alongside heroic

men and bizarre caricatures

His most famous works have to be

Space Battleship Yamato, Galaxy

Express 999and Captain Harlock

although one of his more recent

projects was Daft Punk's Interstella

5555video. He has also worked in the manga

industry, producing adaptations of

his works as well as original ideas

like Wild West story Gun Frontier


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Go Nagai (1945-) A man prepared to take risks, Go Nagai

is renowned for producing violent, sexy

and funny stories

His big break was the manga Mao Dante

and its TV adaptation Devilman, a

violent story about a demon fightingmonsters which enjoyed huge success

in its prime-time slot

However, his enduring creations have to

be the Dynamic Pro mecha shows

Mazinger Z, the Getterfranchise and

more (from Grendizerto Steel Jeeg)

Not only this, shows like Enma-kunand

Cutey Honeyare examples of his

range of talents for applying a darkly

comic twist to all manner of genres


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And The List Goes On... Tadao Nagahama is best known for his attempts to bring a more serious aspect into

the mecha genre with shows like Voltes Vand Daimos Voltes'plotline about the

fall of a corrupt empire led to the show being banned in the Phillipines!

Haruhiko Mikimoto is a legendary artist and animator who has worked on a range ofvisually spectacular projects Macross, Gunbuster, War in the Pocketand many

others. Isao Sasaki is the voice of early anime soundtracks his unique sound defines the

theme tunes to so many classic shows, notably Space Battleship Yamato!

Osamu Tezuka's work on Astro Boyand Kimba The White Lionlaunched his careerand really opened up the potential for the anime industry.

Ryosuke Takahashi continued to take the science fiction genre in new directions, withshows like SPT Layzner, Fang of the Sun Dougramand the much later Gasaraki

and FLAGusing the traditional imagery of the mecha genre to tell political stories.

Masami Obari is a legendary animator who has worked on a vast range of showsfrom the 1980s to the present day from Detonator Orgun toGravion, he hasdone wonders for stock footage!


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The Great Seven Shows! The Best Series that You ShouldSee Are What Now?


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Bubblegum Crisis (1987-91)

A classic sci-fi OVA with some all-startalent behind it Masami Obari

directed two episodes, for one

With an all-action plot encompassing

corporate conspiracies, killer robots

and more, its quality soundtrackand beautiful animation make it a

must-see

It's about a secret police unit whose

duty it is to stop the crimes of the

future those committed by

cyborgs and machines

It is also packed full of sci-fi homages

(including a brilliant Blade Runner

reference)

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Maison Ikkoku (1986-88)

A heartwarming romantic comedy aboutan awkward, slacker student and his

one-way love for his landlady

While the main plot is hugely funny, with

a hilarious comedy dog used for

classic sight gags, it's the motley crewof supporting characters that really

contribute to the humour

With some classic dead-pan punchlines,

bizarre scenes and amusing twists on

classic sitcom moments, it's a great

example of a student sitcom that isfunny to this day

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Fist of the North Star (1984-87) The definitive martial arts show, about

a post-apocalyptic world full of

gangs and villains

With a cast of many bizarre enemies

to fight, ridiculous finishing moves,

and fountains of blood, it is the

best in its genre

It's about the hero, Kenshiro, questing

to save his fiancee and in the

process using his legendary martial

arts skill to save the day

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Rose of Versailles (1979-80)

A historical drama and pop-culturephenomenon in Japan, Rose of

Versaillesis perhaps equally well

known for its stage musical adaptation,

performed by the Takarazukatroupes

The plot concerns a French noblewoman

raised as a boy who enters the court

of Marie Antoinette it is partially

based on historical events (although

made more glamorous)

While the show is supposedly aimed at an

audience of girls, it has universalappeal thanks to its strong plot and

character development

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Do You Remember Love (1984) This movie, an adaptation of the

classic series SDF Macross, stands

among the best-animated films of

the animation boom of the 1980s

Equal parts love story and sci-fi action

movie, it concerns a lone starshipprotecting the few surviving

members of the human race from

an alien force

The movie's adaptation of the plot

would become the official one,

with its designs and eventsinfluencing future franchise entries

Furthermore, the film's success

launched the career of singer and

voice actress Mari Iijima although

she since found herself typecast

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Aim for the Top! Gunbuster (1988-89)

Mixing classic sci-fi novels, high schooldrama, inspirational sports movies and

1970s mecha, Gunbusteris a

fantastically animated OVA from

GAINAX

It's about a young girl's struggle to live

up to her father's legacy as she fights

alien invaders but at the same time

it's about the effects of relativistic

travel on people

Part of the show's appeal is its sound

pseudoscience basis for all thetechnology featured and the range

of sci-fi homages within it (including

references to The Forever War, 2001

and others)

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Legend of the Galactic Heroes(1988-1997) An epic 110-episode sci-fi series which

spans the rise and fall of empires

and great heroes, this series

spawned a hugely successful

franchise with spin-off OVAs,

manga, novels and video games

It concerns the wars between the

Alliance of Free Planets and the

Galactic Empire, and the rivalry

between two talented admirals

With a depth and serious plot not

often seen, Legend of the GalacticHeroesis a show that everyone

should take the time to watch

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Don't Go Away Yet! There's More!


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And The List Goes On... Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is another GAINAX series, mixing pulp sci-fi with

steampunk adventure and silly humour Laputameets Gunbusterby way of Jules

Verne. Marred only by a divisive sequence of episodes written by a different staff,

the show has some classic moments and familiar faces to long-term GAINAX fans

Arcadia of My Youth is the best way to get started on Matsumoto Leiji's animation.The origin story for Captain Harlock, it's a dramatic and beautiful sci-fi movie.

War in the Pocket is the one entry in the Gundamfranchise everyone should watch.It's a mecha show without much action but heavy on character and with a very

powerful ending. Not a dry eye in the house.

The Slayers is a hilarious fantasy comedy based heavily on Dungeons and Dragons with some all star voices (you may recognise the voice actors of Rei Ayanami and

Mwu La Flaga in there) and great jokes.

Giant Robo is a retro-futuristic martial arts sci-fi adventure based on a very old live-action kids show (ala Power Rangers) an example of how something seemingly

absurd can be made great.

Macross Plus is an exceptional OVA a mecha show with plenty of drama, dog-fightsin beautiful futuristic planes and an exceptional soundtrack. It's best described as

Top Gunbut with a killer supercomputer.


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Screenshots: Arcadia of My Youth andNadia


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Great Disaster! Some Things Should Stay Hidden!


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M.D. Geist

While some people would call this theworst anime they've seen I'd instead

say it's OK but not a must-see

It's basically a rip-off ofThe Terminator

by way ofMad Max a psychopathic

super-soldier is awoken to stop a

supercomputer from causing

armageddon.

The focus is entirely on action the hero

fights tanks, robots, and large numbers

of enemies with a range of weapons,

stopping occasionally to pick up girls

What it does have going for it (despite an

awful plot) is a great soundtrack.

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Fight! Iczer-1

When the major selling points of yourshow are girls kissing and people

explode into fountains of gore then

it is perhaps obvious what audience

you're aiming for.

Fight! Iczer-1 has a lot of those things,and not a lot else. There's a bad

plot about aliens and robots or

something, too.

That's mostly an excuse for people to

be taken over by body-snatching

squid aliens and menace the(female) protagonists


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Six-God Combination God Mars

God Marsshould have a lot going for it it is by the same author who created

Giant Robo, Tetsujin-28, Babel IIand

various other really great franchises

However, it isn't actually very good. The

main robot design is seriously ugly, for

one.

It also is 64 episodes of very boring

fights, with one attack used to start

and end battles in one shot.

It's made very clear from the start that

Godmars is nigh-invincible, and as a

result there's no tension in the battles

The end result is a slow-paced, boring

show with lots of lengthy recycled

scenes

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Geo-Armor Kishin Corps

Not so much a bad show as a plainstupid one, this OVA concerns a

tasteless alternate history WW2

Imagine for a moment Eva Braun

defected to the Japanese along

with Einstein to form an alliance

with the US and fight aliens with a

giant robot

Imagine the Germans had a giant

robot with a giant swastika on it to

show it's a Nazi Super Robot

Essentially this makes Hellboyand

Indiana Joneslook like serious

presentations of the Third Reich

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Cho-Gattai Majutsu-Robo Ginguiser

The title is a mouthful and a half, it'sincredibly poorly animated and all told

this is the worst thing I've ever seen.

And that's only from the first episode.

Nothing could convince me to watch

more of this show.

With eye-searingly bad colour

combinations, characters changing

shape as scenes progress, hideously

ugly enemies and mecha, Ginguiseris

something that perhaps was best

forgotten.

It's a perfect example of a show written

by people who were doing a job,

trying to make money. It's not original,

it's not inventive. It's just dull and ugly.


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Other Disappointments Relic Armour Legaciam is a well-animated and interesting OVA which sadly ends on a

cliffhanger and goes nowhere. After setting up its plot, it simply ends.

Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 tries to be a slapstick comedy parodying mecha showsbut ultimately isn't funny. While it has some spectacular mechanical animation, it

doesn't have any substance to back it up

The Wings of Honneamise might have been the most expensive animated film evermade when it was released but sadly it's not very good. The main character is

truly vile and you never feel he is properly redeemed meaning the main hook of

the plot is not well-resolved

Techno Police 21C is hideously inconsistently animated, not funny at all andultimately an example of why the OVA boom was going to be short-lived there

was no quality control to speak of

Char's Counterattack was intended to finish off the Gundamfranchise's main plot, butsadly falls flat it's beautifully animated, has some great ideas, but the characters

don't seem consistent with how they've been portrayed in other entries and there's

entirely too much focus on new sidekicks.

Akira is influential without a doubt, but sadly not a patch on the manga it's rushedand doesn't cover anywhere near enough of the plot


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Hades Project Zeorymer has some fantastic ideas behind it, fantastic music andbeautiful mechanical designs. However, it's an example of how a show needs

tension the character drama isn't strong enough to make up for the slow-pacedand repetitive combat.

Stardust Memory was an attempt to make Gundammore serious and action-movielike. However, it's plagued with terrible plotholes, inconsistent characters and poor

pacing which mean ultimately it was a disappointment.

Macross II was a spin-off of the franchise so bad it is no longer considered part of it.While its core ideas were good a reversal of the situation seen in Do You

Remember Love, it feels too much like more of the same to really be great.

Detonator Orgun is a slow-paced OVA which was made out of rejected ideas forTekkaman Blade a lack of real tension and a tendency to rely on exposition

mean it never really gets your interest

Other Disappointments


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Screenshots: Macross II and Ginguiser


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Screenshots: Iczer-1 and Kishin Corps


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Buried Treasure?! I'm There to Claim It!


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Zambot 3 (1977-1978)

This show starts off like any other 1970smecha show it's about a plucky kid

and his friends piloting a combining

robot to fight an invading enemy

Then, things get a little bit odd. It carries

on looking like a childish adventure

show, but things start getting seriously

dark and violent

Mankind doesn't want to be saved by

kids, the enemies realise that there's

better ways to win than sending

monsters and the heroes findthemselves hated

The villain, Killer the Butcher, is

unbelievably cruel and unusually

successful it's this brutality and

bleak outlook that sets Zambot 3

apart from other shows

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Space Warrior Baldios (1981)

Much like Zambot 3, Baldiosis a bleakand nihilistic take on the mecha

genre its final twist and climactic

battles aren't heroic affairs by any

means

A soldier from a dying race flees his

destroyed planet to find a new

home, pursued by the corrupt

military who want him dead

With the help of the few allies he can

find, he fights his ancient enemies,

and as the battle rages discovers aseries of shocking truths about

where he ended up

Baldiosis a show where the fights

tend to be short and decisive, with

character development the real

draw

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(1981-1983)

A gripping political story in the vein ofLegend of the Galactic Heroes,

Dougramis interesting in its use of

historical inspiration for a science

fiction show

About a defector from an occupying army

joining the resistance, it doesn't shyfrom showing the reality of

asymmetrical warfare despite being

at times touching and funny, it has

serious moments

With an arrestingly bleak opening whichleaves you watching the entire show

waiting for it to be explained, its

strong narrative arc sets it apart from

other more episodic series of the time

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Honoo No Tenkousei (1991)

An affectionate parody of the martialarts genre, this GAINAX show takes

elements from classic fighting series

like Fist of the North Star, Ashita

No Joeand more

It then sets it in a parody of the

ultraviolent high schools Go Nagai

used frequently

The art style is an affectionate parody

of the Dynamic Pro style of heavy

lines and rough-looking characters

Despite ultimately being a wholly

slapstick vehicle, it has surprisingly

well-animated and tense fight

scenes it's a comedy that has

substance


52/52

And The List Goes On... Space Runaway Ideon is arguably the best of the Bleak Mecha genre the two

movies, A Contactand Be Invokedare beautifully animated, and while suffering

from some pacing issues come together to create a story epic in scale andthoroughly gripping.

Nana Toshi Monogatari is an interesting sci-fi piece about a flooded earth in whichsea power rules. It focuses on the battles between two unorthodox admirals, and

is instantly recognisable as from the same mould as Legend of the Galactic

Heroes Eiyuu Gaiden Mozaicka is a very visually impressive and intriguing fantasy story, with

unique character designs and an interesting mixture of future technology and

fantasy traditions.

Iria: Zeiram The Animation is a fun body-horror adventure with a really unique future-feudal-Japan setting and a creepy alien antagonist.

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