I never finished SeL either but owned the Pioneer release on DVD for awhile. About Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo, it's okay if you haven't seen it. I didn't find it quite as good as the OVA, A.D. Police, or Total Crash.
This was would be a kickstarter to relicense, remaster, and redistribute the original Megazone 23? I know that it's license is far off from ADV but it's weird that an old company like AnimeEigo got it and not someone with more power for relicensing like Discotek. What has the negative feedback been about?
Also great soundtrack.
There are scores of Leiji Matsumoto anime I've never seen. Likewise with Saint Seiya. It's super popular here in Mexico but I had never even heard of it when I was growing up in Illinois. My wife is Mexican and said she watched Saint Seiya (localized as "Los Cabelleros del Zodiaco") as a kid but admitted it's pretty boring to watch as an adult.Never watched anything Saint Seiya even though it's popular internationally and still gets new shows.
Never saw any eps of Space Battleship Yamato (Though I've seen several from Starblazers).
I've seen most (maybe all) of the Galaxy Express 999 and Harlock movies but never any of the tv series.
Funny thing about this one. I really liked this series when first I saw it. After reading through a good amount of the comics I decided to rewatch it and it just lacked the same impact of the comics. =P You may wanna give the show a watch before getting further into the comics. There's some stuff at the end that is sooo much better when you don't know what's going to happen beforehand.
The movie is still great but whenever you decide to watch it, avoid the 2.0 version as they basically George Lucas'd it and fucked with the color and replaced some 2d scenes with new cgi versions(Which are now dated...)
There's also the 4K release but I haven't looked into that since I'm still in 1080p world.
That seemed to be a thing with more so with DVD Anniversary releases of anime. The thing I refer to is re-subbing and re-dubbing. I get that some of those old Animax and AnimeEigo things deserved a redub; but why re-sub? Was there something wrong with the initial subtitles and for such a popular title...how did they manage to botch it up like that? There must be a story behind that. Likewise, I won't be moving into 4K until a wider variety of hard-copy material gets released in 4K. That may not happen since 8K is already becoming the new kid.The sad part is original version did get a bluray release as the "25th Anniversary Edition" but then they went and botched the subs with tons of errors and retranslations that seem to have been done out of context. They even messed up the English audio track. It's quite an infamous bluray release unless you watch it raw.
So, AnimeEigo have never remastered or restored anything to UHD/4K but they want to do this for Megazone 23? The problem with Kickstarter is that you won't get funded if you can't prove you have the tools to accomplish whatever it is you're funding.
seems that way. Blu-ray was the last bit push I saw in the video market to garner new and old to buy in. That's how nearing 15-years, though and interest in buying 4K blu-ray seems to be low. Everyone wants to stream and seems to have forgotten why the video market was so important. With anime or anything else I was buying in the 2000's (when I knew more what titles interested me) allowed me to return back to the items in my collection. Say you buy Season 1 of Lupin the 3rd on Amazon Prime and one day it's no longer in your digital library due to licensing issues. You get no refund and it's just plain gone. I've never seen anime just randomly disappear from my collection because it was distributed by Pioneer and I bought a Samsung TV (silly example). I recall video allowing people to first see in anime what Japanese TV networks were censoring and the OVAs which seldom if ever ran on TV. I'm a dinosaur and no matter how much things change I will still be buying physical movies, anime, and music. I don't get the same joy from a compressed replica sitting on a hard drive.
KOR was one of the defining 80's TV anime series for me - he was just 62 years old. I knew he fell ill (some heart issues) a while ago... 
Just found out Izumi Matsumoto - of Kimagure Orange Road just passed away.
Although it came up a few times in this thread, putting up one more time.
Main heroine character Madoka Ayukawa was voiced by late Hiromi Tsuru (mostly known for being Bulma in Dragon Ball for 30+ years) - and also Anpanman's Dokin-Chan, Ranma's Ukyo Kuonji etc. She passed away a couple years ago at age of 58. (RIP...)
Being a fan of Akina Nakamori (Famous J-pop singer), I was also liked Ayukawa (who was based on the Akina's character - when she debuted - I think the management company pushed "Huryo"/Delinquent image - a total opposite of Seiko Matsuda to appeal her to the mass - and even today, they get compared to each other quite a bit. Unlike what the company pushed, the real Akina was more or less a super shy person, nothing sort of delinquent - but her sensual/singing style created such a gap in the perceived image, sorta like so-called early "gap-moe" - and Ayukawa was a character rich in such gap-moe too. (although being a Mary-Sue)
I loved the original TV series of KOR, but wasn't much of a big fan OVAs nor later 2 movies... that I tend to think of the TV ending as the good ending - that it left the whole thing a bit open-ended, and just like those bitter sweet first-love memories, it's better off to end like that IMO. The movie versions left me such bitter taste of hurting Hikaru, I didn't feel like I needed to see that. I liked Mdoka better, but I also didn't want to see Hikaru hurt either.
Ayukawa Madoka (L) / Nakamori Akina (R)
The whole premise of the KOR is heavily influenced by Rumiko Takahashi's "Maison Ikkoku" and Mitsuru Adachi's "Miyuki" - and as a manga artist, early episodes of KOR wasn't that impressive, but got much much better thanks to many talented assistants... although there are rumors that in later days, Izumi's health wasn't in good condition, so assistants did the most work, and probably the reason that the manga pretty much ended rather quickly. Manga itself was pretty okay - it became rather repetitive towards middle, but the ending was pretty well done - especially on how the characters developed their feelings towards each other over the years in final episodes. Anime timeline was limited in 1 year period - but I kinda like it better overall as anime. There are only few anime that I prefer over the manga itself - and KOR was one of them... Probably mostly because of the music and character design.
TV Anime KOR - the character design was done by Akemi Takada, (Most well known for her work for Creamy Mami, Patlabor, Maison Ikkoku, and Urusei Yatsura) - and also music by Shiro Sagisu (Megazon 23, Nadia of Strange Waters, Macross 2, Evangelion, Bleach, Berserk etc...).... and was directed by Kunihiko Yuyama (Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, Space Warrior Baldios, Windaria etc)
While something like Maison Ikkoku or Touch is still being talked about as a master piece - and while KOR is more or less being forgotten, but it will remain one of my favorite 80s romance comedy anime.
Rest in peace, both Matsumoto-san & Tsuru-san, and thank you for the characters and stories you created, and memories of my youth around them.
Nah, it's not going to be in 4k they just didnt like how it looked on their 4k set. It was already funded and in the later stages of production so it took everybody by surprise that they suggested it. They have agreed to not do it so it's all good.
So, that means I can hold onto my ADV release of Megazone 23. Now, fir the 10th time or more time in this thread...I say we demand Viz Medía release all seasons of Maison Ikkoku on blu-ray!
) the new ruler of the vampires and finally a super quick and anticlimatic meeting with one of our three heroes before everything ends in a big explosion. As a result the whole Satan issue and the resurrected son stuff amount to mostly nothing.I never watched any Inuyasha... or Full Metal Panic, which was big among my teen friends. I've been meaning to watch a lot of Gundam series but I never got beyond Wing (cheesy), Seed (shit), and MS 08th team (fantastic). And Char's Counter Attack (can't remember). That's a few but there's probably dozens of Gundam shows I'm missing, I know. It's true for a lot of mecha shows. Maybe I'll check out Mazinger Z and Getta Robo someday... Astro boy, should watch that, gotta know how it all started right?Popular anime series, OVAs, or movies from the past that you've never watched. What are they if any?
I'll admit that I own Cowboy Bebop (the Remix DVD release) and have never gotten around to opening it.
Others that are very mainstream and I've seen almost nothing of for no particular reason:
1. Samurai X / Rurouni Kenshin (I saw part of an episode back in 2000 on Toonami but never followed up)
2. Outlaw Star (I've seen clips of the animation but never seen an actual episode)
3. Ghost in the Shell...any of them
4. Berserk (the 1997-98 series) I own it but never got around to watching it. I did start the manga based on a recommendation by @Mista
5. Anything of Patlabor
Nothing personal against any of these. I've purchased some of these but sometimes it takes a decade before I get around to watching them. Possibly reasoning is because I tend to pick the older and more obscure titles to watch first.
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Popular anime series, OVAs, or movies from the past that you've never watched. What are they if any?
I'll admit that I own Cowboy Bebop (the Remix DVD release) and have never gotten around to opening it.
Others that are very mainstream and I've seen almost nothing of for no particular reason:
1. Samurai X / Rurouni Kenshin (I saw part of an episode back in 2000 on Toonami but never followed up)
2. Outlaw Star (I've seen clips of the animation but never seen an actual episode)
3. Ghost in the Shell...any of them
4. Berserk (the 1997-98 series) I own it but never got around to watching it. I did start the manga based on a recommendation by @Mista
5. Anything of Patlabor
Nothing personal against any of these. I've purchased some of these but sometimes it takes a decade before I get around to watching them. Possibly reasoning is because I tend to pick the older and more obscure titles to watch first.
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I think I mentioned in an early post how YYH is a lotta hype.
Speaking of Voltron I need to get around to watching that subbed and uncut. That dub worked when I was five but outside of a few voices, it sounds truly awful now.
I think I have them. I know I bought the tin box sets when they came out. Was that just the dub?
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giving extra info on some lesser-known titles. 
Twilight of the Dark Master! Thanks for the Urban Vision hint. Has anyone seen it?
We got a bunch of Alien clones in this era and the anime realm followed suit. I think Roots Search may have been the first OVA attempt at one though LILY Cat has become the most known in the west due to availability from Streamline (And later others). Though the same year (87) as LILY Cat we also got "Hell Target", which is my favorite of these Alien clone OVAs.
You know the drill, a multicultural crew are awakened from cryosleep to investigate some planet. In this case they're looking into what happened to a previous ship that went missing on this planet. Our lead has been having the same nightmare of death because why not have the premonition cliche. They encounter shit and are killed off one at a time in gruesome ways. Though Hell Target doesn't use the standard alien menace and instead decides to lift aspects from Galaxy of Horror (And Creature to come extent), allowing for a larger variety of ways to kill the cast. The OVA threatens to get a little too stupid when it starts to include some Japanese mysticism but luckily that doesn't play into things too much and the whole thing leads to an interesting ending. It some ways it feels like a more realized Corman feature (In a good way) and doesn't really have pretensions of being greater than what is it. Definitely a fun space gorefest if you're into such - especially if you want some melting faces, of which there are several. =P
The production end is quite decent with a more realistic (By anime standards) look to the characters and lots of detail, especially in the gore. The director appears to be nobody though we have Hirokata Takahashi as DP, who also was DP for lots of Dezaki's works like Cobra, Golgo 13, Joe, Black Jack and even oldschool stuff like Mazinger. Also notable is Shigemi Ikeda on art direction, as he was art director for the first Urotsukidoji, various Gundams and an assload of other stuff. Plus lots of various production crew with some good credentials.
The art and animation are quite decent, with the aforementioned detailed look and animation that's mostly pretty good but never really standout - except for a sequence at the end involving a satellite which has really fantastic animation and must have taken up a good deal of the budget. If there's one flaw regarding the visuals it's that the OVA is dark. Everything is frequently either in heavy shadows or baked in a red haze. This is made worse by the fact that this OVA only ever saw a VHS and VHD release, so the quality is already a blurry by default. There's a few versions floating around but only one has a decent quality rip and subs are generally weak all around. It's a shame this didn't get a cheapie release in the DVD era as I feel it's too "good" to languish on VHS.
Definitely enjoyable trash and a fun watch, especially during this season. Give it a look if you can find it.
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"Hell Target" just the name alone sounds like a B-movie from the 80's. Looks awesome and surprised I missed it. I have a VHS transfer copy of Roots Search (could never find the official VHS or Laser-Disc...I've been told it's rare. About Hell Target, I watched a little bit so far and noticed that they even took some interior features from the Nostromo and the music in parts is reminiscent of Jerry Goldsmith's "Alien" score. Looks like my kind of anime, really. Thanks for putting that one out there.
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Space Runaway was right -- sounded like an Urban Vision title. I would have guessed Twilight of the Dark Master or BioHunter. Looks like you found it. I've still got all my U.V. VHS and DVD's. They're hard to find. There's some fine animation used in Twilight of the Dark Master. Also, look out for Mr. Spock when you're watching it...he's evil.
I'll stick with the conversion copy I have of Roots. I don't really collect anime anymore. The collection's big enough with over 200 classic titles and I only buy when it's something I missed or something that long needs a re-release (then ends up getting put out by DiscoTek). Viz Media is acting pretty lazy about not giving a blu-ray release to Maison Ikkoku. I never got to watch much of the anime but enjoyed the manga big time. The DVDs were already oop and super expensive by the time I was ready to buy them. The last seasons are seldom even being sold on their old DVD printings on eBay.
With a lot of these new blurays for prior releases I'm definitely stuck with a lot of dvds that can't even be sold for much. Though many I keep because they have the old boxart. Now my VHS tapes are really a problem because nobody wants them but it feels so wasteful to just throw them in the trash.
What makes me laugh is when the new generation anime fans boast about getting everything from streaming. Most streaming services will cut or crop aspects and just gloss everything up. The point of DVD and blu-ray was to get the audio and visual as close to cinema as possible (which wasn't happening with VHS' pan and scan). Netflix will crop things and have been caught doing it. The other joke I find with digital and / or streaming is the fact that you built up a wonderful library of all the anime you like. Then you lose your job one day and can't pay for the service...so...they seize your library and or withhold it from you viewing until payment is updated. Ever see physical video just stop working because you refused to pay for it twice?
Trigun is something great. I remember being in middle-school and being dragged to a basketball game. I'm not a big sports fan and I had one of those fat Dark Horse releases of Trigun volume 1. I read the manga and engaged more into Trigun and the characters and completely missed whatever was going on with the basketball game. If the ball had gone rogue and hit me; I probably would have still kept reading. I say this because if you haven't read the manga...do it!
I haven’t. I hear it’s better than the show. I really enjoyed the show though; something about it reminds me of simpler times.
It's better than the show without a doubt. There are few classic anime titles I've seen that follow a manga very closely to match (with the exceptions that some OVA's were based directly on manga with little story boarding to fill in). The TV writers for Trigun didn't want to depress their audience by starting up showing Vash's loss of REM. They do that pretty early on in the manga to give context to Vash as not being a villain but someone mislabeled by the sci-fi Western atmosphere. Trigun would have made a great 2-episode OVA. They could have covered a lot and increased the quality of the animation likewise. Either way, the TV series wasn't bad but it's not the manga. I've seen different Trigun manga releases in the West but this is the particular printing I was reading and gives the best context of the characters. So, whether it's in paper or digitial...look for the fat printings like this.
Indeed. Albeit, .hack//Sign isn't super retro; I recall watching it thinking that the VR-type terror in the story would be interesting in real life. VR has gotten closer but I'm not sure that people are getting lobotomized. It seems that the worst case scenario with a VR addict would be donuting themselves into a 800-lb couch potato living off CostCo pizzas. Psycho Diver kinda/sorta deals with a fantasy type VR as well. It was a not-so-popular OVA that Urban Vision released in the U.S. only on VHS. The main character Bosujima "Psycho-dives" as a "high-tech janitor" by using a VR like machine to enter into the minds of people with extreme psychological problems. That too still remains fantasy for the real world.
