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friedchicken .
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:20 am Post subject: Giant Blue Potbellied Robots |
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HOLY SHIT.
I was going to ask after the alleged US release of the new Tetsujin-28, but it turns out it's already on the shelf. I'm a horrible person for having missed it.
So does anyone else have the T-28 love like I do? There's really no other robot who does it for me.
(PROTIP: You can catch horribly translated original 1964 episodes of Gigantor on Cartoon Network Tuesday-Friday at 5:30am!)
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:51 am Post subject: Re: Giant Blue Potbellied Robots |
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friedchicken wrote: | (PROTIP: You can catch horribly translated original 1964 episodes of Gigantor on Cartoon Network Tuesday-Friday at 5:30am!) |
Gigantor has one of the single most hilarious themes songs ever.
Aside: I got the Big O box set a while back and have made it though the first disc. Not bad stuff. |
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friedchicken .
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:57 am Post subject: Re: Giant Blue Potbellied Robots |
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Shapermc wrote: |
Gigantor has one of the single most hilarious themes songs ever. |
Oh yeah. My wife goes around singing 'Gigantor the teenage robot' rather than 'Gigantor the space-age robot'. She's deranged.
Shapermc wrote: | Aside: I got the Big O box set a while back and have made it though the first disc. Not bad stuff. |
Oh, it's great! I don't have the whole thing, but I watched it when it first aired. You MUST! get the 2nd series box as well if you're going to watch the first. AND! you need to get Giant Robo if you don't have it already. |
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Tablesaw .
Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Giant Blue Potbellied Robots |
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Shapermc wrote: | Gigantor has one of the single most hilarious themes songs ever. |
For values of hilarious equal to AWESOME.
Quote: | Aside: I got the Big O box set a while back and have made it though the first disc. Not bad stuff. |
I watched the entire series last month, when AS started re-airing the series on November 1. It cracks me up. Be sure to watch "Daemonseed" before Sunday. _________________ It's the saw of the table! |
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dark steve .
Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: Giant Blue Potbellied Robots |
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friedchicken wrote: | Oh, it's great! I don't have the whole thing, but I watched it when it first aired. You MUST! get the 2nd series box as well if you're going to watch the first. AND! you need to get Giant Robo if you don't have it already. | The transfers for Giant Robo are kind of incredible. You can make out individual brush strokes in the backgrounds. And the DVDs have the original jack kirby-style english dub on them in special features! BIg O is also pretty hot in a batman con robots way.
I've never seen the original Gigantor, although I remember watching the updated one (from the 80s or early 90s) on the scifi channel when I was younger. The song was very much intact. And as for the new movie, japanese film snobs love it. |
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friedchicken .
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: Giant Blue Potbellied Robots |
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dark steve wrote: | And as for the new movie |
Actually, there's a new live action with CG as well as the new-ish anime. I'm sort of underwhelmed by the live action, although who would have thought that?
dark steve, you should tape at least one episode of the original and watch it. It's crappy, it's corny, and the dub is the worst, but just like T-28 himself, it's root of a lot of great stuff that came much later. |
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B coma .
Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 279
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 6:30 am Post subject: |
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They could have botched it pretty badly, but Helmet did a pretty smooth cover of the Gigantor theme. |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:18 am Post subject: Re: Giant Blue Potbellied Robots |
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friedchicken wrote: | Oh, it's great! I don't have the whole thing, but I watched it when it first aired. You MUST! get the 2nd series box as well if you're going to watch the first. AND! you need to get Giant Robo if you don't have it already. |
I remember being interested in Giant Robo when it first came out but I heard stories of the director, or writer or someone, leaving the project unfinished. I have seen volume 3 in stores a lot recently so I guess they tracked him down. Anyways, I buy most of my anime at Best Buy (most! not all) because it is so cheap and I have a rewards card and I have only seen vol. 3 there. I am interested in seeing it though. |
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friedchicken .
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:36 am Post subject: |
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I have not yet moved to DVD with Giant Robo, but I have it all on VHS-- there are 6 volumes, and the series is complete. I think what you heard about it refers to the fact that there were like two years of delay between volumes 5 and 6, but it did finally come out. I'm not 100% sure how many volumes there are on DVD. Wait! It looks like there are 5 DVDs, and in a cool novelty box. Sadly Best Buy does not stock the box set, but it can be ordered online.
That said, I can state that it's my favorite modern anime. By far. It's essential. You must must must see it.
Yeah, I get quite a bit of my anime at Best Buy. They're convenient to my work, for lots of impulse-buying fun on the lunch break. I plan to go there this morning to get Tetsujin 28 vols1 and 2 for Xmas viewing. Hopefully the entire population of the Mid Atlantic doesn't have the same idea. |
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friedchicken .
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:37 am Post subject: |
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Oh, and B coma, I'm not a big fan of Helmet's version of Gigantor. Call me a traditionalist. |
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B coma .
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:45 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I'm probably just biased because I enjoy Helmet in general and it sits on the comparitvely palatable side of their output, specifically when it comes to Hamilton's voice... their version of "Army of Me" still gives me nightmares. |
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friedchicken .
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:24 am Post subject: |
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In case anyone at all has an interest in Tetsujin-28, I got the DVDs and they are excellent.
They do a excellent job of evoking both 1950-60's pre-Anime and 1950's Japanese post-war culture and angst. It's great stuff, with lots of robots pounding the crap out of each other. |
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