Area 88 Thread

Has been over for decades and the TV adaptation was underwhelming... /m/ wanted to revive the scanlation but that's been dead for a while.

>>151725861
Area 88 is great. I like the OVA more than the manga but I want to read the rest of the manga one day.

>>151725861
>>151725861
i've had it dl'd in my "to watch" folder for about 3 years now. should i get to it?

>>151729888
Watch the OVAs. Pretend that the TV series doesn't exist.

>>151725861
I liked the TV series better than the OVA

I like the OVA more despite it changing things up from the manga. I'm a sucker for that classic style, but I just liked the pacing and writing more. And they let the cameraman die faster and seem less important and honestly, I didn't care about that guy, he was trying to be some kind of lame vehicle, perspective character or something and I just don't like those kinds of things.

I got into this series from game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj9efxj2QmU

It gets regularly mentioned in 80s/90s anime threads. That being said, I thought the OVAs were forgettable.

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Reading copies of the manga that my brother brought back from overseas is what got me into aircraft.

The OVA and manga are on pretty equal footing in my opinion.

>>151732050
Same. UN Squadron was some sick shit, even the SNES 1p port.

I used to think Shin was a girl at first even though it said "he" in the manual which I didn't read

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>>151725861
Regrettably, UN Squadron is my only exposure to the series.

One day.

>>151725861
Pretty cool.
I mean why have that giant wall thing? Thats literally the most wasteful weapon I've seen in an anime ever

>>151734416
That's something I missed from the TV series. That quality animation. Seeing explosions, brass shells ejecting, it was godlike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgqUVneCP20

it just suffers from the same thing that a lot of 80s/90s OVAs and movies suffer from.
It's been talked about so many times over the years by people who have already seen it that there isn't a whole lot to say.

>>151729917
The TV series was great.

>>151725861
How come there arent more military anime like this?
Even that went moe like GuP?

I thought military otaku was a big thing in japan.

>>151735594
This.

I really like how pessimistic and bleak the ending of the OVA was. Sucks to be Shin.

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>>151734137
>UN Squadron

Everyone knows it

>>151732050

This was one of the few SNES games my grandpa had, and I could never get past the 4th or 5th level after you start doing pendulum runs.

>>151736063
Don't blame me, blame the localizers of that time.
>"What? Nobody knows about Area 88 in the west! Just call it something else!"

>>151735509
Legitimately one of my favorite songs from an anime

>>151736266
No one knew anything about any UN Squadron either.

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>>151732346
>AFTERBURNER HUE MATCHES THE LOW SUN
MUH LITERAL DICK

WE NEED WAY MORE JET ANIMES

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>>151732346
Same my dude, a healthy diet of Area 88 and Ace Combat was more than enough to keep me obsessed for life.

>>151737006
[f-15 noises]

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>>151737249
FUCKEN LEWD FLASHING THAT UNDERBELLY

>>151737006
>meshuga trying to pull a split-S at 3,000 ft

>>151735847
Hasegawa is releasing Area 88 planes again. I just wish the manga got localized or even reprinted in japanese.

>>151739161
Thanks for the tip, I might have missed them otherwise!

Someone please translate this

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>>151741658
Translate what anon?

>>151736238
I used to just purposely die at the first boss while leveling up my gun , not buying anything, then using all my continues. By the time my starting plane was maxed, I could then pass the first bunch of levels and then I would just do all those mini runs you mentioned because they'd just push me to the purchase price of the most expensive jet in the game

>>151737249
>[f-15 noises]
chirp chirp?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHEOlAX02c

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One of the best parts about Area 88 was the variety in aircraft, and how realistically they were depicting, while still being stylish.

>>151731870
You sick fuck

>>151742569
Manga, you silly

>>151735757
Awful shit with unnecessary character design changes, poor visuals, awful music and a lot of things not from the original story

>>151743367
>F-100 Subpar Sabre

Everyone involved in designing that thing should've been shot.

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>>151743474
Most of it is translated though.

>>151743561
Hey, at least it's one of the best looking planes of all time.

>>151743625
Then why didn't they translate the rest?
>one of the best-looking planes
It's okay.

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>vietnam anime
>sore watashide wanai starts playing

>>151743625
>Most of it is translated though.
I think he means the rest of the manga that isn't translated.

>>151735594
i figured ya would post

>>151743625
>Most of it is translated though.
Really? I've read the 1/4 of the manga that got released in English 25 years ago but I can't find the rest. Could you help me out?

>>151744967
>>151745733
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, the manga was one of the first to get an official english release. I don't know if it's complete, as I never finished it.