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Gallery Fake is a 2005 anime that started airing January 8th that year. Based on a manga by Fujihiko Hosono (Gu Gu Ganmo, Judge, Bio Hunter), it follows the gallery owner and art dealer Reiji Fujita and his assistant Sara Halifa. While dealing with art rather than antiques, there’s an element of 80’s BBC favourite … Continue reading "Gallery Fake #1 – The Man from Gallery Fake"
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It’s still One Piece.
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It’s Twin Peaks Season 3 of course.
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I’m back again with more winter anime for human beings. Poyopoyo is about a nearly perfectly spherical cat. It ran the entirety of 2012 for 52 episodes. Each episode is a smidgen under 3 minutes. So, if my arithmetic is correct it’ll take you 2 hours, 27 minutes and 20 seconds to watch them all. It was … Continue reading "Poyopoyo (2012)"
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A lot of good anime aired in 2016, more than I am used to. In comparison, it feels like 2017’s new launches are underwhelming. However, when I go back 12 months, there’s only one show that started in January 2016 that I’d recommend to another human being, and that is Sekko Boys. Sekko Boys presents the viewer … Continue reading "Sekko Boys (2016)"
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One month ago at Amecon, I ran the third of my anime animal events, this time about cats. If you missed it, or if you want to check the list to rekindle fond memories of me rattling through 50 cats in an hour, here is the list of cats in the Top 50. 50) Neko-chan … Continue reading "The Feline Fifty – Anime’s Top Cats"
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Once again very little happens, but it’s a breezy ride. The first half of the episode deals with the duel between Wolverine and Kikyo Mikage. Kikyo as you may remember from last episode, is an assassin who can “pop” a sword from his wrist in a similar way to Wolverine’s claws. In a somewhat odd … Continue reading "Wolverine – Episode 3"
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In re-watching this, I wasn’t sure if it felt familiar because I’d seen the episode seventeen years ago, or because the mystery of the episode is cliché? Not that it matters, as the main item on the agenda is establishing the core conceits of the show. Namely, the false identity of “Conan Edogawa” that Shinichi Kudo assumes … Continue reading "Detective Conan – Episode 2 – President’s Daughter Kidnapping Case (1996)"
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For a near half hour of television, very little happens in “Yukio”. The duel I thought was about to kick off last episode ends with a whimper when Logan is drugged. The wimpy AIM husband-to-be is given the job of disposing of Wolverine, and he decides that the tried and failed method of tying someone to … Continue reading "Wolverine – Episode 2 – Yukio (2011)"
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Twenty years of murder! Twenty years of never growing up! That’s right, it’s been 20 years since the anime adaptation of Gosho Aoyama’s detective manga, Detective Conan, started. So it seems an ideal time to roll the clock back and take a look at those early episodes. I want to say I first saw Conan at an … Continue reading "Detective Conan – Episode 1 – Roller Coaster Murder Case (1996)"
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This is the first episode of the second of the four Marvel anime TV series (Iron Man, Wolverine, X-Men, Blade). Directed by Hiroshi Aoyama (Top Secret ~The Revelation~), story by Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan), scripts by Kengo Kaji (Iron Man Rise of the Technovore) and animation direction & character designs by Hisashi Abe (Highlander The Search For Vengeance). … Continue reading "Wolverine – Episode 1 (2011)"
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Funny and charming Studio Pierrot adaptation of the 1949 manga Anmitsu Hime by Shosuke Kurakane. Directed by Masami Anno (Wonderful Adventures of Nils) and written by Yoshio Urasawa (Nintama Rantaro). In this first episode, Princess Anmitsu is turning 11, and her parents have bought her a special present from Europe. When the present turns out to be … Continue reading "Anmitsu Hime From Amakara Castle – Episode 1 (1986)"
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Anmitsu Hime It’s a Koji Nanke animated OP (and ED) that I hadn’t seen before. Which is always nice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmvLoC77PM Araiguma Rascal When we did a Dynamite In The Brain podcast on World Masterpiece Theatre earlier this year, this was the omission we regretted the most. Purely on the basis of this fun, fun, fun opening theme … Continue reading "Anime Openings Of Interest"
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Who likes AMVs? Do you like them enough to follow a tumblr that only posts Linkin Park AMVs featuring Linkin Park’s “In The End” regardless of quality? Then you’ll love my new tumblr. http://linkinparkintheendamv.tumblr.com/post/107141175972 Once a day I will be posting a Linkin Park AMV from Youtube that uses their hit song “In The End”. … Continue reading "What if I started a Linkin Park AMV tumblr?"
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Welcome to Alphabet Stew, the wordsearch podcast for people on the go! Do you not have time to sit down with a wordsearch and ring the words on the grid? Well Alphabet Stew is here to solve that problem with its innovative AUDIO WORDSEARCH. Today’s show notes: 00:00 Today’s words 01:09 Today’s grid 03:44 Today’s answers
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10) Rowdy Sumo Matsutaro I managed to watch 6 episodes of this story of a jerk becoming a sumo wrestler. Only 17 more to go! 9) Hozuki no Reitetsu 4.5 episodes watched out of 13 means I am going to the Hell Of Uncompleted Crunchyroll Queues when I die. 8) Tonari no Seki-kun Three episodes watched over the course … Continue reading "The Top 10 Anime of 2014 That I Will Never Find The Time To Finish Watching"
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Cover date: July 1974
Writer: Steve Gerber
Penciller: Sal Buscema
Inker: F. Giaoia
Letter: C. Jetter
Colorist: P. Goldberg
Editor: Roy Thomas
Continues from: Marvel Two-In-One #1,#2 and #3, Fantastic Four #5 (sorta, Doom’s time machine is pivotal to the plot)
This feels a little slight, perhaps due to the double page splash that eats up the page count with little plot advancement. However, it does have the BADOON.
The Badoon are an alien race I was unduly fascinated with as a teenager as the Marvel RPG provided stats for them, but no picture. I knew all the other aliens mentioned from comics I had read at the time, but the Badoon eluded me for decades until picking up the reprints of this and the Defenders. They didn’t live up to the exoticism those FASERIP stats had given them.
More importantly to the Marvel Universe, this issue is where Gerber begins to reintroduce the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. Created by Arnold Drake and Gene Colan in a one shot Marvel Super-Heroes story in 1969, they had remained unused since, until Gerber revived them in this book, The Defenders and Marvel Presents.
This issue starts with Ben and Wundarr visiting the Central Park Zoo. Ben takes his eyes off Wundarr for a second and the manchild has let out all the animals. You’d think after the Lizard’s frequent escape parties at the reptile house they’d have better security at this point.
This interferes with a date Sharon Carter and Steve Rogers are taking in the park, so he suits up and becomes Captain America. And to add to the coincidences, Namorita happens to be walking through the park with her friend Annie.
After everything gets sorted, Ben invites Steve and Sharon back to the Baxter Building to explain what’s going on with Wundarr. During this Ben accidentally switches on Doom’s time machine and summons a princess from over 1000 years in the future.
She explains that she is Tarin, and that she comes from the year 3014, when the Badoon have enslaved the solar system. Captain American wants to head to the future to help out, and Ben & Sharon want to go with him. So Reed sends the three of them with Tarin back to the future. Where they are immediately ambushed by a pack of ZOMS. The Badoon, taking a page out of the Dalek playbook, have created these Zoms, men turned into living machines to serve the aliens.
The heroes do OK against them, but then the unoriginally named “MONSTER OF BADOON” shows up and lays them out. As the three heroes are dragged off, Tarin look on from a hiding place swearing vengeance as we end the issue.
NEXT ISSUE: THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY! (not those ones, the original ones)
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Cover date: May 1974
Writer: Steve Gerber
Penciller: Sal Buscema
Inker: Joe Sinnott
Letter: Dave Hunt
Colorist: P. Goldberg
Editor: Roy Thomas
Continues from: Marvel Two-In-One #2, Daredevil #109, Shanna The She Devil #4, Ka-Zar #2.
This is a Daredevil story that is appearing in The Thing’s book, as it continues Daredevil’s battles with Black Spectre. Which in turn is actually a continuation of a Shanna The She Devil story. All of which Steve Gerber wrote or co-wrote.
I have a fondness for grand stories that just happen to be told across whatever Marvel titles a writer ends up writing at the time. Jim Starlin’s tales of Thanos are probably the most obvious of these, but I have a fondness for Joe Casey’s tales that spread from Cable in the 90s to Vengeance just a few years ago.
This comic though, it’s not really moving things forward, it’s more treading water.
Two things are advanced here for the ongoing Two-In-One storyline, it’s confirmed that Wundarr is an adult man with the education of a newborn infant and Reed creates him a suit to control his powers. Not exactly exciting stuff.
It does lead to Daredevil’s appearance in this book as during the tests on Wundarr there’s an explosion, which ol’ hornhead thinks might be another Black Spectre attack and investigates (every superhero in Manhattan is but an explosion’s earshot away from one another).
Once he realises it’s the FF that have caused the explosion he goes to the Baxter Building to give them a piece of his mind about setting off explosions in the middle of the city. There he meets Wundarr, for whom Reed has built a special suit that will prevent him exploding again. And between panels, Daredevil and Ben explain their ongoing story lines to one another.
Daredevil then goes to see Foggy Nelson and Shanna O’Hara (aka Shanna the She-Devil). She thinks Black Spectre has something to do with the Mandrill, the mutant supervillan who kidnapped, and subsequently murdered, her father.
Then changing back into street clothes, Matt Murdock goes on a date with Candace Nelson, Foggy’s half-sister. This date involves going to heavy handed parody of avant garde theatre, which ends in a hypnotised actor portraying Hitler killing an actor playing Captain America before blowing his own brains out.
Daredevil investigates, discovers a Black Spectre agent, but gets attacked by the Black Widow, the surprise having already been spoilt by the cover.
In order to pursue the Black Spectre aircraft he sees flying away with her, he goes back the Baxter Building to ask to borrow the Fantasticar. Well, steal it actually.
Ben catches him and after an explanation the pair go off to clobber Black Spectre. They board their ship and after some pummelling of henchmen, they get roundly defeated by the leader of Black Spectre and Black Widow, who drug Daredevil and hypnotise Ben.
The pair are thrown off the ship in the Fantasticar. Why they didn’t just throw them off and keep the car I don’t know. Plus, Ben would probably be OK however he fell. He’s super strong monster made of rock. Really bad planning here by the Mandrill, who the mysterious Black Spectre leader obviously is (he has a giant statue of a Mandrill on his aircraft). Nekra was in this fight too, but does so little it wasn’t worth mentioning her.
Within panels, Matt comes to, and lands the car. The abrupt and disappointing end. There aren’t even enough pages for the abject and utter failure of our heroes to rescue their friend to sink in. To be continued in Daredevil #110.
All in all a let down after the first two issues. We get some progression with Wundarr in the side story, but the main story ends up pretty much where it started. I imagine you’d have been fine just reading the Daredevil issues and skipping this.
Buscema’s art is fine, the highlight being the theatre sequence. I was never a Sal Buscema fan as a kid, but turned around on him as an adult. I guess changing artists three issues in goes to show that comic launches haven’t changed all that much in the ensuing decades.
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Cover date: March 1974
Writer: Steve Gerber
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Joe Sinnott
Letter: Artie Simek
Colorist: Glynis Wein
Editor: Roy Thomas
Continues from: Marvel Two-In-One #1, Sub-Mariner #68 & #69, Fear #17.
Remember how last issue’s tale of the Molecule Man continued in Iron Man Annual #3? Here we get some of that title-to-title storytelling going the other way. This issue picks up story elements from other comics being written by Steve Gerber at the time, namely Sub-Mariner and Adventure Into Fear.
The big one is the introduction to the book of Wundarr, the satirical take on Superman that Gerber had introduced in Fear #17. We get a recounting of his origin here for newcomers, how his father went mad, thinking his planet was doomed, and sent his infant son in a rocket to Earth. However he was not discovered for 22 years, and so he has the body of a man and the mind of a child (and thinks Man-Thing is his mother).
As the issue opens he falls out the sky and is saved from drowning by Namorita, Sub-Mariner’s far less weird than she ought to be, cousin/clone of his actual cousin. The reason he is falling is that while Wundarr has the leap tall buildings in a single bound part of Superman’s powers down, he hasn’t got the hang of landing yet.
Namor handles the appearance of this superpowered manchild with all the subtlety and understanding he is known for and Wundarr flees in terror from the shouty Atlantean.
Meanwhile, aliens from Wundarr’s homeworld seek him out, in order to slay him. They fear he will seek revenge for the death of his parents at the hands of the Dakkam Internal Security Force and so send a robot called MORTOID down to Earth to do their dirty work.
Over in New York, Ben Grimm is in a mood, a mood not improved on when Wundarr drops out the sky into New York traffic. The inevitable hero on hero fight ensues. Then Namor and Namorita show up and try to break up the fight.
Before they get a chance, the Mortoid arrives, Wundarr gets zapped, the Mortoid gets Imperium Rex’d, the Dakkamites flee and Benjamin Grimm gets left holding the baby. A baby in the body of a 22 year old man.
The ending reads just about as rushed as I wrote that last run on sentence, with the entire palming off of Wundarr on The Thing done in 3 panels, as Namor and Namorita rush back to whatever they were up to in the pages of Sub-Mariner.
Pacing issues aside, it’s a funny issue, with the narrator at one point stopping and asking the reader if they are keeping up with everything that’s being set up in the comic. And Namor’s still wearing that funky black leather 70s costume so that’s good too. A Gil Kane Namor is no Bill Everett Namor, but it is very much identifiable as a distinctly Gil Kane Namor. It’s the nose I think.
There’s also a ship’s captain character who is drawn so differently to everyone else, that I presume people in in 1974 would recognise who he’s supposed to be. I wasn’t even born then, so if he is a reference to something it has flown right over my head.
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Cover date: January 1974
Writer: Steve Gerber
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Joe Sinnott
Letter: Jean Izzo
Colorist: G Roussos
Editor: Roy Thomas
Continues from: Marvel Feature 11, Marvel Feature 12, Monsters Unleashed #3, Fear #13,
Following a trial run in Marvel Feature, this is the launch of the team up book starring Aunt Petunia’s favourite nephew, Benjamin Grimm aka The Thing.
In this issue Ben is mad at Man-Thing stealing his codename and plans to go to Florida to beat him up. This is far more straightforward than the usual misunderstandings and mistaken identities that usually lead to superheroes battling one another.
However, in a dazzling bit of coincidence, the “son” of the Molecule Man finds his way to Earth via the Nexus of Realities that Man-Thing guards. This is part of Gerber bringing back the character of the Molecule Man after a long absence, a story that is not finished here, but in the pages of Iron Man Annual #3. Here we get his apparent death in the dimension the Fantastic Four had trapped him in years prior.
After a collection of fights and reality alterations, the new Molecule Man dies due to the accelerated ageing he undergoes in Earth’s dimension. We end with Ben giving a kid the villain’s wand believing it inert, but the final panel definitely gives you the impression that more is to come.
Just not in the pages of this book.
Gerber and Kane blast through the pages, keeping the plot moving and taking all sorts of turns. We get the old trick of Ben getting turned back into his human form for a short while, but with the added tragedy of Man-Thing getting turned back to Ted Sallis too, which puts Ben’s plight in perspective.
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Kill la Kill Episode 1 and Kyousougiga Episode 00 are great, but I don’t have much to say about them other than that. A middling adaptation of a serialised e-book about MMOs though, that I can get a couple of hundred words out of. It’s going to get compared, fairly or unfairly to Sword Art … Continue reading "Log Horizon Episode 1"
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Here is a video of the panel I ran at Ayacon this year based on these posts from this very website. Eventually there will be a third post with the extra penguins from the panel (and some cut for time/lack of illustration).
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Here are the events that I am running at Ayacon this year. Friday 16th, 6PM to 7PM in the Conference room. AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ANIME PENGUINS An expanded version of my two posts of anime penguins from this very website. Featuring more penguins than ever. Double the penguins possibly. A lot of penguins that … Continue reading "Ayacon Events"
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While Gatchaman Crowds episode 1 is unmistakably a Kenji Nakamura directed show, there was more of the original Gatchaman in there than I was expecting, even if it wasn’t all noticeable at first. There may be some other Tatsunoko shows in there too, but that’s for another day and few more episodes. 1) The Gatchaman … Continue reading "Gatchaman In Gatchaman Crowds"
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Shows starting in 1993: Miracle Girls, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Little Women II: Jo’s Boys, The Brave Express Might Gaine, Sailor Moon R, Gosaurer Mobile Suit V Gundam, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Legend of the Swordmaster Yaiba, Dinosaur Planet, Nintama Rantaro, Pokonyan Hurricane! Iron Leaguer, Dragon League, Lupin III Orders To Assassinate Lupin, Tama & Friends, Muka … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – What Anime Looked Like In 1993"
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In writing my 1994 for the Golden Ani-versary blog, I noticed that Studio Gallop had a group of creative talent running through their shoujo anime similar to Sailor Moon‘s crew. This Akko-chan inspired series is the first in a run of shoujo manga adaptations. Princess Erika from the Land of Magic arrives on Earth in search … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – Hime-chan’s Ribbon Episode 1 (1992)"
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Humanity is trapped on Earth by the alien Radam who have taken over the Orbital Ring System space station that surrounds it. A chance for hope arrives in the form of an amnesiac who can turn into the armoured warrior, Tekkaman Blade. An updating of the original Tatsunoko Pro series Tekkaman (1975) it aired in … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – Tekkaman Blade Episode 1 (1992)"
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The other big new show of 1992. Or at least the one I am able to see the first episode of (sorry Crayon Shin-chan). Based on the manga by Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi’s future husband, Yoshihiro Togashi, this anime would run until January 1995 and 112 episodes. A pretty good stint for the 90s, … Continue reading "1990s TV Anime – Yu Yu Hakusho Episode 1 (1992)"
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OK folks, the deadline for my 1994 post on the Golden Ani-Versary Blog is fast approaching, and here I am still talking about 1992 on this blog. It’s time to knuckle down and watch cartoons. Let’s get back on the horse with Sailor Moon. The big show of 1992. And 1993. And 1994. We recently talked … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – Sailor Moon Episode 1 (1992)"
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Because I am going to tell you. I am now watching three of the four TV Asahi Sunday morning kids shows on a weekly basis, Kamen Rider Wizard, Doki Doki Precure and most recently, Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. A curious thing that has happened recently is that all three, within weeks of each other, have dealt … Continue reading "You’ll Never Guess My Secret Identity"
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For a while I’ve been thinking about trying to watch as much current “mainstream” anime as I can. You know, the sort of stuff that charts and appears in my “What Anime Looked Like In 199X” posts. Kind of like how a Dave Meltzer tries to watch as much of the big wrestling/MMA shows as … Continue reading "Initial Doki Doki! Pretty Cure Thoughts"
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So instead of a proper post, here’s a picture of the mum from Meg The Witch Girl with a vase in her face.
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Complete with the tape that held the badge onto the cover. Ghost In The Shell was about to debut in the cinema, and so it gets the cover this month as part of the hype for that. Also it allows the magazine to indulge itself in all things “cyber” even more than usual. The four … Continue reading "Manga Mania #29 (December 1995)"
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Over at the podcast we have a new episode up, about a variety of topics including Ghost In The Shell Arise, Moomins and Cats. Subscribe on iTunes RSS Feed Facebook Page
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Long time readers may remember when I attempted to do daily reviews of each and every episode of the television series Urusei Yatsura. I failed, due to some real life events that needed taking care of and then discovering a neck injury that kind of put a damper on the whole blogging thing for a … Continue reading "Urusei Yatsura Episode 139 – Tomobiki High School Survival! Who Are the Survivors! (1985)"
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I remember hating Excalibur #18 when it came out in 1989. In general I wasn’t well disposed to any non-Alan Davis issue of the comic anyway, but the lengthy “Cross Time Caper” storyline had already shown signs of coming off the tracks and this issue was full of super ugly, off-model, inconsistent art. At the … Continue reading "That time Captain Britain and Shadowcat turned into poorly drawn anime characters."
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It’s been a while since I talked about my eBay escapades. The hike in postage in the UK put a damper on things, and I kind of had to reconsider the £3 a disc limit I used to set for myself. Despite that the general technique of using searches, setting yourself limits and bidding on … Continue reading "eBay Bargain Hunting Report 2012"
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When Yuri and Ken wish that Mary Bell, the flower fairy from their storybook, could help their parents’ florist shop, their wish comes true. Mary Bell and her seelie court assistant, Tambourine, allow the family to hear the flowers voice and so help them emit “friendly beams” better. However she overdoes the magic and soon … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – Floral Magician Mary Bell Episode 1 (1992)"
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(cover art by Wil Overton) While Babel II is the cover story, and there’s a pretty good article on the OAV series, the big thing here is a Go Nagai interview. Conducted at the San Diego Comic Con, it’s a pretty good potted history of his career straight from the man himself. And of course, … Continue reading "Manga Mania #28 (November 1995)"
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JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 15 – This contained an early contender for line reading of the year, as Joseph loudly “AHEMS” off screen to get Wham’s attention. On top of that it’s a really great episode, that gets to the core of this arc’s, and Joseph’s, appeal. Joseph has no shame. He’ll lie, cheat, do sneak … Continue reading "Another Sunday Blog Post"
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Over at the podcast we have a new episode up, all about the first nine episodes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure TV Subscribe on iTunes RSS Feed Facebook Page
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Anthony and myself appear on the new episode of one of Anime 3000’s many podcasts (A3K Panel) to scratch the surface of UK anime fandom with host Sean Russell. Let it be known that the drawing they have representing us is incredibly accurate. We recorded it before Xmas and the only thing I remember was … Continue reading "DITB on A3000"
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I really like Marvel’s Excalibur. Well, I really like bits of Marvel’s Excalibur. Namely any issues that have the involvement of either Alan Davis or Warren Ellis. There’s some real bleak periods, particular the section between the time when Davis was writing and Ellis took over. But the gap between Davis dropping out as artist … Continue reading "The most Chris Claremonty Chris Claremont comic in the career of Chris Claremont?"
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Cooking Papa had been running in Weekly Morning for seven years at this point, and this first episode does feel a little like you are meant to have an idea about what the deal is with the show already. It doesn’t go into any great detail explaining who the characters are, it just tells a … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – Cooking Papa Episode 1 (1992)"
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Well, this was a really well made first episode of a kids TV action anime. Lots of unsupervised adventure, comedy, mystery and a police car that turns into a robot. Earth is visited by a hostile UFO, and the main character Seiji Takasugi runs the gamut of emotion from being exicted about a UFO, happy … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – The Brave Fighter of Legend Da Garn Episode 1 (1992)"
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There was a much longer version of this post but my blog ate it. Here’s what was going on in Issue 27 of Manga Mania, cover date October 1995. This issue contained the most Manga Mania article in the history of Manga Mania, “CONFESSIONS OF A CYBER DUDE“. It was an interview with Tony Takezaki … Continue reading "Manga Mania Mondays Returns"
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Cuticle Detective Inaba Episodes 1 & 2 – Director Susumu Nitsukawa had worked on Squid Girl and Azazel-san, and has described Tsutomu Mizushima as his teacher. It definitely shows in this story of a werewolf detective vs a villainous mafia goat. Spliting each episode into two stories, once it gets past a bumpy first story … Continue reading "It is Sunday and I am need of a blog post"
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Over at the podcast we have a new episode up, all about Gag Manga Biyori 2 and the Jump Festa OAV that preceded the TV adaptation. Subscribe on iTunes RSS Feed Facebook Page
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“I would seriously of given Renge either a different voice or give her a permanent mouth gag” “out of all the characters Renge is my least favorite “ “Renge’s voice literally gave me a headache.” “I agree that Renge’s voice is super annoying” “the only one i find annoying is renge” “renge and mina needs … Continue reading "ANIME’S GREATEST CHARACTERS – RENGE INUI"
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In the 19th century a brother & sister stole massive amounts of gold from the magistrate. This pair promptly escaped from the magistrate’s palace to the Edo underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as an oddjob man and ornate chopsticks crafter. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, … Continue reading "THE E-D-O TEAM"
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If like me you came into Kamen Rider by Fourze and have found the heroes of Wizard a little more low energy than the Kamen Rider Club of Amanogawa High School, then you may want to check back in with Wizard at episode 17. This episode introduces us to Kyosuke Nitoh, a young man with far too … Continue reading "SET. OPEN. L. I. O. N."
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Here is the oft-mentioned Elven Guyver, “The Bionoid” from AD&D 2nd Edition game setting Spelljammer. Created by Newton Ewell, as pretty much all the anime influenced Spelljammer monsters were. Though oddly not drawn by him.
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I’ve volunteered to cover 1994 for the The Golden Ani-versary of Anime blog project, so I need to play catch up on my own browse through the 90s and hopefully reach 1994 around the time my post will appear there. I picked 1994 because it is one of the void years where nothing of great … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – Animage Grand Prix 91, 92, 93"
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When creatures known as the Greeed reappear on Earth after 800 years of sleep, one of their number, the disembodied hand Ankh, allies with the itinerant Eiji Hino to battle them. Given a belt and three magic medals, Eiji transforms into the superhero Kamen Rider OOO. Meanwhile a mysterious organisation run by the cake loving … Continue reading "Descent into Kamen Rider – Kamen Rider OOO"
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Not going to do a best of 2012 list or anything like that here, but over on the podcast, we’ve put out a bumper episode looking back at 2012 with guest Bradley C Meek from Those Damn Cartoons. That should cover everything you might want to know about what five Japanese cartoons I enjoyed in … Continue reading "2012 Review/Best Of/etc"
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Kamen Rider Den-O The exceedingly unlucky Ryotaro Nogami, finds himself possessed by a creature from the future called an Imagin, and mixed up with a mysterious woman and time travelling train. All this leads to him becoming the superhero Kamen Rider Den-O and battling other Imagins sent from the future to destroy the past. After … Continue reading "Descent into Kamen Rider – Kamen Rider Den-O"
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Kamen Rider W The forward thinking ecological city Futo is facing corruption at the hands of the wealthy Sonozaki Family and the Gaia Memories they distribute to turn men into monsters known as Dopants. Protecting the city is the superhero, Kamen Rider Double and its dual secret identities of detective Shotaro Hidari and his amnesiac … Continue reading "Descent into Kamen Rider – Kamen Rider W"
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Kamen Rider Wizard Magical creatures called Phantoms force humans into despair so that more of their number might be born. Protecting humanity from this fate is a survivor of their ritual, Haruto Sohma. Possessor of the Wizardriver, he transforms into the magic ring wielding Kamen Rider Wizard. Following on from Fourze came this show, the … Continue reading "Descent into Kamen Rider – Kamen Rider Wizard"
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Kamen Rider Fourze Gentaro Kisaragi transfers to Amanogawa High School and is determined to make friends with everyone there, even the students and staff who are turning into horrifying monsters. Thankfully there is a secret school club fighting the monsters, who turn Gentaro into the superhero Fourze and restore friendship to the school. This is … Continue reading "Descent into Kamen Rider – Kamen Rider Fourze"
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how much does oda eiichiro earn? how much does oda eiichiro get paid? how much does eiichiro oda earn? how much does eiichiro oda make? how much does oda make? Apparently he made 2 Billion Yen in 2010, and seeing as how One Piece has continued to grow, I imagine he makes more now. how to be an anime? I … Continue reading "Your 2012 Search Referral Questions Answered"
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I have still not found a way to effectively cross post the podcast back here from dynamiteinthebrain.com and keep the statistics intact, but in the run up to Xmas I thought I’d remind you that I have a podcast, Dynamite In The Brain, that I record with Anthony Askew and assorted guests from around the world. … Continue reading "THE PODCAST"
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A talking ginger tom causes trouble for his owner. No, not the fat lazy Monday hating one. Nor that delinquent one who likes to terrorize the neighbourhood. This one is called Mikan, likes getting liquoured up, playing the harmonica badly and keeping a crayon scrawled diary. This show suffered in my eyes due to Chi’s … Continue reading "1990s TV Anime – Mikan Enikki Episode 1 (1992)"
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If you listen to my podcast or follow me on twitter, you will know that I was excited for this show. A show based on a 2007 Minna no Uta music video by Uruma Delvi, about bean headed bugs that bite bottoms. The show follows 10 year old Bottom Biting Bug XVIII and his family and friends … Continue reading "Bottom Biting Bug – Episodes 1 to 3"
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Shows Starting In 1992: Bush Baby – Little Angel of the Great Plain, Mama is a Fourth Grader, Brave Legend Da Garn, Flower Magic-using Mary Bell, Teknoman, Sailor Moon Yo Yo no Neko Matsumi, Ashita he Freekick, Chikyu SOS Soreike Kororin, Chirorin Mura Monogatari, Super Electric Robot Iron Man 28 FX, Cooking Papa Crayon Shin-chan, Fantasy Adventure: Adventures of Puss-in-Boots, Energy Bomb Ganbaruger, Mabo-chan’s Visions, Animated Japanese History Series, Oi! … Continue reading "1990s TV Anime – What Anime Looked Like In 1992"
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Sazae-san, Doraemon, Anpanman, Dragon Quest, Kiteretsu Daihyakka, Hai Akko Deso Oishinbo, Obocchama-kun, Dragonball Z, Manga Hajimete Omoshiro Juku, The Laughing Salesman, Sally the Witch Goldfish Warning, Parasol Henbee, Ranma 1/2 Nettohen, Yawara, Chibi Maruko-chan, Obake no Holly The Mischevious Twins: Clare Academy Story, Trapp Family Story, The Two Lottes, Brave Exkaiser, Mashin Hero Wataru 2, … Continue reading "1990s TV Anime – What Anime Looked Like In 1991"
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Is there a story that has had as many different titles via adaptation than Erich Kastner’s Das doppelte Lottchen? Even the wikipedia page immediately switches between Lottie & Lisa and Lisa & Lottie. You (and I) are probably more familiar with the story as The Parent Trap, from either the 1961 or 1998 Disney live action … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – I and Myself: The Two Lottes Episode 1 (1991)"
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Today: Polar Bear Cafe Episode 20 In the second story from this episode, “Summer Festival“, Polar Bear and Grizzly jointly run a stall at the local Summer Festival with help from Panda, Penguin and Sasako. Let us ignore for the moment that four animals are working in the food industry. Polar Bear uses utensils and … Continue reading "Horrors of Animated Food Hygiene #2"
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This is both a show that started in 1991 and also one that that started in 1987. Which goes some way to explaining why it’s a lot better than most of the TV anime from 1991. The first City Hunter anime aired 1987-1988, two years after the launch of the manga. It was followed, pretty … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – City Hunter ’91 Episode 1 (1991)"
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BROADCASTING AT THE FREQUENCY OF LOVE It’s 8 o’clock on August 11th so that means it’s time for…
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NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got a news feature in bold) Anime Projects – Oh My Goddess 4, Bubblegum Crisis 5 (dub) East2West – Kekkou Kamen 2 Manga Video – Heroic Legend of Arslan 3, Project A-Ko 3, Angel Cop 5, New Dominion Tank Police 6 Japan News Captain Tylor OAVs Virgin Megastores Anime Top … Continue reading "Manga Mania Mondays – September 1995"
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NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got a news feature in bold) Manga Video – Tokyo – The Last Megalopolis, Macross Plus 3, Angel Cop 4, New Dominion Tank Police 5 Kiseki – Fly Peek – Peek The Baby Whale East To West – 8 Man After 2 Anime Projects – Oh My Goddess 3, Bubblegum … Continue reading "Manga Mania Mondays – August 1995"
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I was out at the weekend so no Manga Mania Monday this week, instead I have grabbed something within arms reach, the Minami 7 conbook from 2001. Let’s take a look. Editorial – begging you not to just sit drinking in the bar, but instead actually take part in the con. This fell on deaf … Continue reading "Let’s look at the Minami Conbook from 2001"
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Cover this month was by Metin Salih NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got news feature in bold) Manga Video – Project A-Ko 2, Patlabor the Movie, Wings of Honneamise (sub version), Space Adventure Cobra, Angel Cop 3, New Dominion Tank Police 4, Orguss 02 2, Legend of the Four Kings 11 & 12 Western Connection … Continue reading "Manga Mania Mondays – July 1995"
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If you are going to call your opening theme 21st Century Boy you are building expectations you can’t possibly live up to. Is it really going to be one better than T-Rex’s classic? It is not. Thankfully after the disappointment of the opening theme, we open the episode with some pseudo-news reel of metal beasts … Continue reading "1990′s TV Anime – Getter Robo Go Episode 1"
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That’s a Kev Walker (ABC Warriors, Thunderbolts) cover up there. NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got a news feature in bold) Western Connection – Ladius, Space Firebird, Ushio & Tora #5, Slow Step #3 Manga Video – Megazone 23 Part III A & B, Space Adventure Cobra, Patlabor, Angel Cop 2, New Dominion Tank Police … Continue reading "Manga Mania Mondays – Number 23, June 1995"
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The 2011 anime series Tiger & Bunny takes place in NC 1977 to NC 1978. While this clearly isn’t our 1970s, there is no such place as Sternbild City after all, there are definitely thematic and plot necessities for it taking place in a version of the 1970s. First of all, it’s a superhero story, … Continue reading "NC 1978"
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Hey kids, remember the 90s and when we didn’t have enough real things to worry about so we had to make them up? Riding the back of both the CCG and the conspiracy theory craze, in 1995 Steve Jackson Games released a CCG version of their 80s classic card game Illuminati (inspired on The Illuminatus … Continue reading "Cut It Open And See If It Swallowed Any Gems Part 30 – Illuminati New World Order"
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NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got a news feature in bold) East2West – 8 Man After, Kekko Kamen and The Wicked City (not that one, this one) Bloomsbury Publishing – Ironfist Chinmi Manga VIdeo – Angel Cop 1, New Dominion Tank Police 2, Macross Plus 2, Legend of the 4 Kings 4, Godzilla vs Mothra, Tokyo … Continue reading "Manga Mania Mondays – Number 22, May 1995"
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In the light of Polar Bear’s Cafe and it’s high Penguin content, it’s time to look back once again at the penguins through the history of anime. CHECK OUT PART ONE HERE 1979 Tuxedo Sam This Sanrio creation possibly answers my question about penguins wearing bowties from the first Penguin History post. Created in 1979, … Continue reading "A Brief History of Anime Penguins – PART TWO!!"
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I play one type of character in role playing games. Gobshites. Fighting can be fun, shopping less so, but I do enjoy just having a good old chinwag during an RPG session. Why wouldn’t you? After all you can kill monsters, take their stuff and sell it to buy more stuff in a videogame RPG. … Continue reading "NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR ELF II – Player Characters"
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from Zuba-ban (1971) by Go Nagai
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In case you wondered where the limit of bad taste was in the Yondemasuyo, Azazel-san anime adaptation, this is a panel from a strip it didn’t adapt involving a nuanced portrayal of an American sumo wrestler.
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Over on Dynamite In The Brain, we have a new podcast episode about Pokemon Heroes, with special guest, Ebbie from the BizarreJelly5 video blog. Download Dynamite In The Brain Episode 47 – Pokemon Heroes Subscribe on iTunes RSS Feed Join our Facebook fanpage
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NEWS Upcoming Releases (titles that got a news feature in bold) Manga Video – New Dominion Tank Police 1, Orguss 02 1, 3 x 3 Eyes Part 3, Legend of the Four Kings 3, Godzilla vs King Ghidorah Western Connection – Slow Step 1 & 2, Lupin III Gold of Babylon, Ushio & Tora 3 … Continue reading "Manga Mania Mondays – Number 21, April 1995"
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“Here they are for one and all / Moomins are about to call / C’mon and sit down here with me / They are here for you on your TV” With that appalling clang of lyrics, in 1995 UK viewers were greeted with the 1990 Moomin adaptation, a co-production by TV Tokyo, Telescreen Japan Inc., … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – Moomin Episode 1 (1990)"
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Don’t tell anyone, but over the past year or so I’ve been reading RPG blogs. Probably since I put CUT IT OPEN… on hiatus. While those posts have been personal up to a point, in terms of the systems I’ve played, I’ve rarely talked about campaigns, characters, adventures etc. This is because I’ve tended to … Continue reading "NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR ELF"
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Over on Dynamite In The Brain, we have a new podcast episode about Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, with special guest, Philip from Eeeper’s Choice. Download Dynamite In The Brain Episode 46 – Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi Subscribe on iTunes RSS Feed Join our Facebook fanpage
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Again, it’s been a while so let’s bring you up to date with what this is. I’m listing as best I can from memory, in the general sort of order that I played them, all the RPGs, wargames, CCGs, fantasy boardgames and associated nonsense that I have ever played. All to come to the conclusion … Continue reading "Cut It Open And See If It Swallowed Any Gems Part 29 – Ani-Mayhem"
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I’ve clearly lost the FREE ESSENTIAL ANIME GUIDE, so I can’t tell you what was in there. If you know, tell us about it in the comments. It’s been over two years since I did one of these posts, so a recap. My brother bought Manga Mania up until issue 18, then I picked it … Continue reading "Manga Mania Mondays – Number 20, March 1995"
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Looking back at my review of Chu Bra, I can’t help think that the Brian who wrote that would be disgusted with the Brian who’s about to write this. But you know what, that Brian thinks Puni Puni Poemi is one of the best anime of the 2000s, so he can shut his goddamn mouth. … Continue reading "Gokujyo"
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Over on dynamiteinthebrain.com we have a new podcast episode about Urusei Yatsura & Beautiful Dreamer Download Dynamite In The Brain Episode 41 – Urusei Yatura Beautiful Dreamer Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Feedburner Join our Facebook fanpage
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Top Striker isn’t very good, yet it has its charms. It often feels like a weird hybrid of World Masterpiece Theatre and a sports anime. A big part of this is due to it being a Nippon Animation production, but the design by Nobuhiro Okasako comes across as an odd choice. While, to my knowledge, … Continue reading "1990’s TV Anime – Top Striker Episode 1 (1991)"
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After the Dodge Danpei post I thought I’d look a little closer into the career of Tetsuhiro Koshita. His early career seems a little problematic in putting a finger on. For starters, his wikipedia page doesn’t give dates or links for his earliest work. Luckily it does seem to all available on the Comic Park … Continue reading "Tetsuhiro Koshita"
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Over on dynamiteinthebrain.com we have a new podcast episode about Naruto Download Dynamite In The Brain Episode 40 – NINJA MONTH PART 4 – Naruto Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Feedburner Join our Facebook fanpage
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Over on dynamiteinthebrain.com we have a new podcast episode about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Legend of the Supermutants Download Dynamite In The Brain Episode 39 – NINJA MONTH PART 3 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Feedburner Join our Facebook fanpage
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Over on dynamiteinthebrain.com we have a new podcast episode about Lupin III: The Last Job Download Dynamite In The Brain Episode 38 – NINJA MONTH PART 2 – Renaissance Laser Ninjas Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Feedburner Join our Facebook fanpage
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Has there ever been a manga that broke big by shamelessly aping the biggest manga of its era? I’m going to guess not. Today, the big manga is One Piece, and reportedly some editors want creators to make their strips more like Eiichiro Oda’s record breaking comic. In 1991, Shonen Jump had two behemoths of the … Continue reading "1990s TV Anime – Dodge Danpei Episode 1"
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Do you like music? Do you like anime? Do you like uninformed judgement cast down on anime music? Then Anison Armageddon is for you! We’ll take TEN anime songs from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s & today and, between our panel of “experts” and the audience, decide which is best. But these aren’t just any … Continue reading "Kitacon Events"
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Does Earl and Fairy have a manga? Yes hey does anyone know what a good harem show is? No, nobody knows. does golgo 13 died? yes, he doesn’t. what does harry hill look like? Like this, but a real human, not a drawing. what does rumiko takahashi think of everest? She preferred the Ted Moult … Continue reading "Your Search Referral Questions Answered"
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Have they come up with a way yet to distinguish the arcs of Gundam AGE yet? Is this the Flit arc? The Ambat arc? Whatever it’s being called or will be called, I’m calling it the first fifteen episodes of Gundam AGE. There’s a tendency when writing positive things about this series to try and … Continue reading "Gundam AGE Episodes 1-15"
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