Episode 1 of Giant Robo's OVA, the Day the Earth Stood Still,

>>15711259
Robo is the coolest robo.

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>>15711259
The answers to these questions...
Please tell them to me some day...

I was just playing the PS2 game. I've watched the OVA a long time ago, I didn't even remember most of the characters. Just one guy who kept saying "Daisaku-kun", which I now know is called Cervantes.

By the way, I heard there's a continuation to the OVA in a manga? I heard it tells the story of Big Fire (the leader, not the syndicate).

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>>15712750
There was one that told its own story that came out around the time of the OVA.

I haven't read it so I can't say much about it, but I hear the IPO get fleshed out a bit more in it.

There was a manga that came out years later, which used the same characters in a parallel world setting called The Day The Earth Burned (pic related).

Some of it was translated, but not all of it.

It fleshes out a lot of the characters and starts from an earlier point than the OVA but it's very different in tone and style.

>>15712750
>>15712771
there was also a several part doujin for Super Robot Wars 64(which Giant Robo is in) which continue the Giant Robo plot

Happy Birthday to dat soundtrack too.

>>15711259
Happy birthday, Robo.

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Would you drink a shizuma drive

>>15714988
I'd wager it tastes like Orbitz.

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>>15715001
forgot pic

>>15712964
>Finally got the CD of Episode 5 after four years

I already downloaded them all but it's nice to have all seven albums lined up. Just need to get the two Ginrei soundtracks now.

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Happy birthday Robo

The tears were originally supposed to be oil but production problems caused some miscommunication / no communication at all while working on the coloring.

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>>15715001
Which flavor? Probably Pineapple Banana Cherry Coconut or Raspberry Citrus.

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>>15715331
Well, there is this:

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>>15715428
The Ginrei Specials had some nice moments, even if they had a lot of "B-Team" moments in terms of animation and story.

>>15716978
>Giant Robo = Big O
>GR 2 > Big Fau
>GR 3 < Big Duo

Prove me wrong. Pro tip: I don't think you can but it's certainly possible.

>>15711259
>Happy 25th birthday, Robo.

Isn't Giant Robo much older than 25?

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>>15719760
Both the manga and its live action adaptation came out in 1967.

But the OVA was first released in July, 1992.

You're welcome to talk about anything Giant Robo, or Yokoyama related, if you want, though.

>>15719773
Given that, Babel II's 4th volume has been finished recently.
http://www.hokutonogun.com/?p=36549

>>15712771
Robo's got a bad case of Star Platinum face there.

I remember watching this along with a bunch of other 90s /m/ shows one winter break. Though I remember watching the English dub that had a really good voice over to the intro, but when I went back I swear it was a different voice actor with a really bland delivery. Where there two English dubs or am I just remembering wrong?

>>15720190
There were indeed two of them, one done by NYAV Post, and the other by Manga Entertainment.

>>15720190
>Robo's got a bad case of Star Platinum face there.
Someone pointed this out back when it was getting translated and explained the artist actually started off as an assistant on Jojo before he went solo.

>>15720195
Okay that makes sense, time to track down both and figure out which was which

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>>15720197
That explains the s-CRY-ed manga, which he also did the art for.

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Which work of his are easily available to watchn/read in order to fully appreciate Giant Robo ? I watched the first episode a while ago but felt kinda lost

>>15721517
Some of the names and characters are borrowed from other works like Tetsujin 28-gou but don't really resemble the originals

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>>15721517
While you don't need to read the manga to enjoy the OVA, the original works are very much worth checking out at some point in your life.

Off the top of my head I think it's

>Giant Robo
>Sangokushi
>Babel II
>Mars

That's not everything in GR, but I think that's all the stuff that's currently available in English.

As a personal recommendation, I also highly suggest the Date Masamune manga he did.

His classic history stuff honestly rivals his scifi in terms of how cool the characters are, but I really like Yokoyama's style of storytelling.

Also I'm genuinely in love with his art style and panel work, but at this point I'm just gushing.

>>15721517
If you've ever read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin you'll recognize half the cast. The other half come from his sci-fi series. They're really not much more than references, ones you'll appreciate more if you're familiar with Yokoyama's work but not much more than that. You'll see Big Fire and think "Oh that's Babel II and he's in the ruins of the Tower of Babel, that's cool. And Yomei's his loyal subordinate? Weird." Small references that should inform or subvert your expectations for certain characters, but if you don't know them it won't really affect your enjoyment.

Giant Robo's meant to be the penultimate chapter of this sprawling epic which we never see the majority of, you know these characters have an unseen history of which we get the barest glimpses and we try to piece together the hows and the whys. There are some tidbits gleamed from the liner notes they included with the original laserdisc releases (like Cervantes being responsible for turning Yoshi blue and Taisou killing him and taking out Alberto's eye because of it, or Kawarazaki stepping down and splitting the authority of leadership of the Magnificent Ten and BF's Chief Strategist between Hanzui and Komei after they lost Giant Robo to the IPO) but most of it we'll never know.

You ever see The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension? Similar appeal there. The viewer's thrown in at the deep end to this fantastical world and most of the spectacle comes from genuinely not knowing what's going to happen next.

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>>15712771
>Not to mention another manga which is about stuff against Big Fire (The Seige of Babel manga not the SRW doujin)

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>>15722349
Wasn't that a sequel to the Day the Earth Burned?

or am I thinking of something else?

I have legitimately been meaning to watch this show for almost twelve years, ever since I came across screen caps on an anime message board in high school. The art style sold me instantly but I couldn't afford the DVD set or go through less legal channels at the time. Every time someone reminds me of it I tell myself I'll finally watch it, but end up forgetting and never tracking it down.

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Happy 25th Robo.

>>15724125
It's a pretty good series anon. Definitely worth a watch.

How much of Mitsuteru's work translated? so far I've read Mars, Three Kingdoms, Giant Robo and Ghenggis Khan.

Thank you, Giant Robo. Happy 25th.

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>>15723978
Nope, its the one that nobody knows that this manga adaption exist

>>15724786
Babel II is progressing at a steady pace.

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>>15724804
Yeah, that's the follow up to The Day the Earth Burned.

They're both published in Champions RED and have the same staff working on both.

Earth Burned ended and lead into Siege of Babel's manga.

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I didn't care for the OVA at all, but goddamn the mechanical design is top notch. Were there any other designers than Kobayashi? Also; someone here once said that Jintetsu was designed by Ken Ishikawa, how true is this?

>>15725569
Ishikawa's listed as Guest Mecha designer for the second Ginrei OVA, I was under the impression he did JinTetsu 82 and both forms of Ginrei Robo.

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

>>15722311
My mistake, Yomi's head of the IPO. He's basically Komei's opposite number. I forget where Hanzui comes from.

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>>15724804
>>15725454
And Siege of Babel ends in a cliffhanger, the return of Big Fire himself and the activation of the GR plan! Damn! I would really like Imagawa to conclude this work.
Well, my consolation is this model of Big Fire I've longed for for years. Soon it will be mine!

>>15728736
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1rSBROK3O4

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>>15728743
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3RlXTcq2hk

>>15728779
I fucking love this video. I laugh hard every time!

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UTSUKUSHII YORU

>>15729834
Same.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9X1Ta1jN8E

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>Giant Robo OVA will never have a sequel
>Yasuhiro Imagawa's career will fade into the night
>Mitsuteru Yokoyama turns in his grave has more crappy adaptations are made of his work every few years because his estate wants to play it safe
>even if there were a sequel at all at this point in time, it would be terrible and /m/ would hate it because they'd have to inject moeblobs into the story like every other anime among other things

Are we here to suffer?

>>15738779
No, if there was another Giant Robo, they'd probably just do the same thing as they did with Tetsujin 28 Gao

And anyway, do you know enough moon to say for sure that GR Giant Robo is bad?

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>>15738779
You know what they say
With great happiness comes great sacrifice

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>>15738779
I believe in the future

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As I replenish this glass, I speak my....

name!

Genya... the illusory night.

A beautiful night...

It occurs to me that I never got around to watching the Ginrei specials. They any good?

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>>15753348
It's 3 episodes at 25 minutes each, or so.

As for content, the first two are comedy episodes, and the third is a more serious story set before the events of GR OVA's first episode.

>>15734808
Kind of mad they changed the win animation for Xrd. Also I miss Kayumi.

>>15753348
Yeah. They range from a neat little extra story with the characters to extremely silly so buckle up.

>>15753356
>>15753357
Neat. I'll step them up on the list. Thanks, chums.

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While looking through the OVA for more screencaps to keep this thread alive, I found something I completely forgot about.

A book about the tragedy of Bashtarle called "Bashtarle AD2029"

>>15753368
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93eGQ6lzP8
I'm sad now.

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>What are you doing to Paris?!
>Saying good night.....

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Husband and Wife.

Is any other adaptation of Mitsuteru manga worth watching? Besides Imagawa's Tetsujin of course.

>>15758259
There is the 90s anime adaptation of Three Kingdoms, although from what I've heard the subs are not quite the best.

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>>15758268
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8h3ZUWz3IQ

And because Fence of Defense did the openings for the show, their music is now greatly associated with Yokoyama in any MAD.

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https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=60331728

This artist draws good shit

>>15758385
The Giant Robo tag on pixiv in general has a lot of great stuff in it.

Also tons of gay porn, but that's to be expected I think.

>>15712771
Look at those tits!!!

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>>15758165
Yeah they were definitely homo

When will someone translate Suikoden? Been reading through every translated Yokoyama works and this is the one with the most GR characters.

It seems odd that Sangokushi, a 60 volume manga, was fully translated while Suikoden was not.

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>>15765979
Sangokushi's always been the more popular representative of Chinese literature.

>>15765979
There is an official French version, if that helps.

That being said, I have no doubt that Happy and HnG will take it on eventually (especially since HnG's main frontrunner SystematicChaos is a Yokoyama nut), although Hox isn't out of the question, since they were bold enough to do Sangokushi.

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>>15711259
Just finished this today. Holy shit how didn't have I watched this before? DAMN AWESOME show, Imagawa as it finest, full of cool moments and manly tears. Now going for the rest of Yokoyama stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8tCeN6TUE

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Capture Kusama Daisaku!

Somewhat related, but new Babel II chapter.
http://www.hokutonogun.com/?p=36800