This was my return to the "random topic" episodes. I've wanted to explore this idea for some months now but never found the time get down to do it. But today was the day! The next video will be something about First-person shooters next week! (hopefully)
This was fascinating. I know a lot of games get censored when they move from country to country, but some of these were odd. Decapitations are taboo in Japan because of certain parts of their history, but they're usually not so prudish about nudity. I wonder if this was to get a lower rating to get more sales? Lower ratings mean a larger audience, and I'm sure importing this to Japan wasn't cheap. Also, it's common to make voice actors cover multiple roles to keep costs down. Cartoons from the 1980s were notorious for that. G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Smurfs all used pretty much the same cast and they read multiple characters. I like these random topics. I subscribed to this channel because of your transformation video. Some of these topics are just cool. I watched one on handedness in video games that was just about the most interesting thing ever. It oddly didn't bring up Clive Barker's Undying however. Your character in that game shoots left handed and casts spells with his right. It's very strange to get used to in a first-person shooter. This is great. Keep up the good work, and stay positive!!!
Hello once again @1000Servings! It will always shock me how Japan changed regarding violence. Their 80s anime had some of the bloodiest, nudity-filled, well-designed gore scenes I have ever seen. You had Gyser, Fist of North Star, Wicked City, Barefoot Gen, Violence Jack, Akira... man... I can go all day, haha. I think like you said, maybe they did that to reach high sales. There will be another random topic you might like. Let's just say it will mention modern open world games ;) You too have a great day!
@@freeckycakeOG Most of those animes you listed were original video animations (OVAs). They weren't broadcast on TV, but were instead sold as home videos. This allowed them to bypass the laws on content. The OVA market was big in the 1980s, but many of those animes did get completely different television releases. You'll notice there are HUGE differences between the Fist of the North Star movie and TV show. In the show, all of the blood is white, there are no decapitations or exploding heads, and the animation quality is much lower. Pioneer in particular was interesting in those days as they made movies and shows based on original properties, as opposed to pre-existing manga. Armitage III, Tenchi Muyo, and Legend of Black Heaven are good examples of this, and went on to be successful on their own. Unfortunately, until the modern day, most anime got horrible video games. Good stuff! You're making my old brain work! 🧠
Damn! I had no idea you were informed of animes. Sadly, my knowledge about those is limited. What about Blu-rays? Aren't those supposed to give the consumer the best, uncensored, version of said product? I remember watching Fist of North Star on TV when I was a kid and they actually showed blood! Oh, and they showed heads exploding. So that's probably the Blu-Ray edition? I have no idea! It's interesting that you mention anime video games because the majority are arena fighters. After witnessing DB Sparking Zero, it has become clear to me that the audience wants only those games and to keep reliving nostalgia forever. I was playing the Full Metal Alchemist 3 game released exclusively in Japan on the PS2, and man...what a blast! (Maybe it's worth doing anime-oriented stuff in the future, hmm)
@@freeckycakeOG So most of what I'm talking about are VHS tapes from the ancient times. Most of those old animes have been remastered in HD and put on Blu-ray. However, some of them are still going to have their own problems. Fist of the North Star has some strange effects on the most violent parts because the original masters no longer exist. They're somewhat censored now and we'll never have the original clean cuts. A lot of those old classics are tough to find because they're out of print or in limbo because no one knows who has the rights anymore. A great example of this was George Romero's vampire movie Martin. The owner of the rights had to die of old age a few years ago before it was available on DVD or Blu-ray. Before that it only has a single VHS release. It's a shame too, because it was shot on location in Pennsylvania in the 1970s and a lot of the locations have either been destroyed or haven't changed at all. It's kind of a time capsule because of that. The cult film Frankenhooker is kind of like that too, since it was shot on location in New York City in the early 1980s. Both films feature a gritty era of American history that's long gone. This is why people like you and the work that you do is important. People put their time and money into creating these forms of media, and they're being forgotten. With physical media it's a little easier to keep, but I just imagine the day that World Of Warcraft is finally shut off and centuries of human effort disappears from their servers like it never happened at all. That's sad, but it's already happened dozens of times, with games like City Of Heroes/City Of Villains, Asheron's Call, and Ultima Online. Even Concord suffered the same fate this year. Without rememberancers like you, in a few years, people could forget these things ever existed at all.
@1000Servings The only ones pouring their efforts to preserve old animes are (unfortunately) pirate groups, but I feel like that with the Japanese government now spending billions in confronting piracy and governments around the world aiding the Japanese in their cause, those groups might suffer total purge. A plethora of sites have already been shut down, and not just anime, but also ones that have these old black and white cartoons have been destroyed. For someone like me who doesn't live in America or Europe, finding this old stuff is impossible. Also, trying to import stuff from Japan is a big challenge. And since you mentioned games, did you know that nobody is cracking Denuvo anymore? Denuvo won, and just imagine if a game with DRM gets delisted from stores in the future. It's gone forever. You may argue that GOG exists, but they can only do so much... :/ People have been saying someone will rise again to confront these big overlords, but I doubt it. I fear that the topic of preserving games is going to get intense in the years to come. I'm glad you see the efforts poured into documenting these games. I really didn't want to just review the games, but go beyond and uncover the unknown. Really go out there and get some obscure facts not even journalists managed to snag. Lately, I've managed to secure some exclusive info on Kill.Switch by Namco Hometek, and I'm proceeding with Dead to Rights. So far, it's not looking good but I hope things turn around like they did with Brave and Legend of Kay! And I'm doing Dead to Rights solely because of a TH-cam video by Joe, the Alternative Gamer. Sadly, his video was disappointing and it frustrated me how he wrote "the making of" in the title, but didn't say anything.
This was my return to the "random topic" episodes. I've wanted to explore this idea for some months now but never found the time get down to do it. But today was the day!
The next video will be something about First-person shooters next week! (hopefully)
This was fascinating. I know a lot of games get censored when they move from country to country, but some of these were odd. Decapitations are taboo in Japan because of certain parts of their history, but they're usually not so prudish about nudity. I wonder if this was to get a lower rating to get more sales? Lower ratings mean a larger audience, and I'm sure importing this to Japan wasn't cheap. Also, it's common to make voice actors cover multiple roles to keep costs down. Cartoons from the 1980s were notorious for that. G.I. Joe, Transformers, and Smurfs all used pretty much the same cast and they read multiple characters.
I like these random topics. I subscribed to this channel because of your transformation video. Some of these topics are just cool. I watched one on handedness in video games that was just about the most interesting thing ever. It oddly didn't bring up Clive Barker's Undying however. Your character in that game shoots left handed and casts spells with his right. It's very strange to get used to in a first-person shooter.
This is great. Keep up the good work, and stay positive!!!
Hello once again @1000Servings!
It will always shock me how Japan changed regarding violence. Their 80s anime had some of the bloodiest, nudity-filled, well-designed gore scenes I have ever seen. You had Gyser, Fist of North Star, Wicked City, Barefoot Gen, Violence Jack, Akira... man... I can go all day, haha. I think like you said, maybe they did that to reach high sales.
There will be another random topic you might like. Let's just say it will mention modern open world games ;)
You too have a great day!
@@freeckycakeOG Most of those animes you listed were original video animations (OVAs). They weren't broadcast on TV, but were instead sold as home videos. This allowed them to bypass the laws on content.
The OVA market was big in the 1980s, but many of those animes did get completely different television releases. You'll notice there are HUGE differences between the Fist of the North Star movie and TV show. In the show, all of the blood is white, there are no decapitations or exploding heads, and the animation quality is much lower.
Pioneer in particular was interesting in those days as they made movies and shows based on original properties, as opposed to pre-existing manga. Armitage III, Tenchi Muyo, and Legend of Black Heaven are good examples of this, and went on to be successful on their own. Unfortunately, until the modern day, most anime got horrible video games.
Good stuff! You're making my old brain work! 🧠
Damn! I had no idea you were informed of animes. Sadly, my knowledge about those is limited. What about Blu-rays?
Aren't those supposed to give the consumer the best, uncensored, version of said product? I remember watching Fist of North Star on TV when I was a kid and they actually showed blood! Oh, and they showed heads exploding. So that's probably the Blu-Ray edition? I have no idea!
It's interesting that you mention anime video games because the majority are arena fighters. After witnessing DB Sparking Zero, it has become clear to me that the audience wants only those games and to keep reliving nostalgia forever. I was playing the Full Metal Alchemist 3 game released exclusively in Japan on the PS2, and man...what a blast!
(Maybe it's worth doing anime-oriented stuff in the future, hmm)
@@freeckycakeOG So most of what I'm talking about are VHS tapes from the ancient times. Most of those old animes have been remastered in HD and put on Blu-ray. However, some of them are still going to have their own problems. Fist of the North Star has some strange effects on the most violent parts because the original masters no longer exist. They're somewhat censored now and we'll never have the original clean cuts.
A lot of those old classics are tough to find because they're out of print or in limbo because no one knows who has the rights anymore. A great example of this was George Romero's vampire movie Martin. The owner of the rights had to die of old age a few years ago before it was available on DVD or Blu-ray. Before that it only has a single VHS release. It's a shame too, because it was shot on location in Pennsylvania in the 1970s and a lot of the locations have either been destroyed or haven't changed at all. It's kind of a time capsule because of that. The cult film Frankenhooker is kind of like that too, since it was shot on location in New York City in the early 1980s. Both films feature a gritty era of American history that's long gone.
This is why people like you and the work that you do is important. People put their time and money into creating these forms of media, and they're being forgotten. With physical media it's a little easier to keep, but I just imagine the day that World Of Warcraft is finally shut off and centuries of human effort disappears from their servers like it never happened at all. That's sad, but it's already happened dozens of times, with games like City Of Heroes/City Of Villains, Asheron's Call, and Ultima Online. Even Concord suffered the same fate this year.
Without rememberancers like you, in a few years, people could forget these things ever existed at all.
@1000Servings The only ones pouring their efforts to preserve old animes are (unfortunately) pirate groups, but I feel like that with the Japanese government now spending billions in confronting piracy and governments around the world aiding the Japanese in their cause, those groups might suffer total purge. A plethora of sites have already been shut down, and not just anime, but also ones that have these old black and white cartoons have been destroyed. For someone like me who doesn't live in America or Europe, finding this old stuff is impossible. Also, trying to import stuff from Japan is a big challenge.
And since you mentioned games, did you know that nobody is cracking Denuvo anymore? Denuvo won, and just imagine if a game with DRM gets delisted from stores in the future. It's gone forever. You may argue that GOG exists, but they can only do so much... :/ People have been saying someone will rise again to confront these big overlords, but I doubt it. I fear that the topic of preserving games is going to get intense in the years to come.
I'm glad you see the efforts poured into documenting these games. I really didn't want to just review the games, but go beyond and uncover the unknown. Really go out there and get some obscure facts not even journalists managed to snag. Lately, I've managed to secure some exclusive info on Kill.Switch by Namco Hometek, and I'm proceeding with Dead to Rights. So far, it's not looking good but I hope things turn around like they did with Brave and Legend of Kay!
And I'm doing Dead to Rights solely because of a TH-cam video by Joe, the Alternative Gamer. Sadly, his video was disappointing and it frustrated me how he wrote "the making of" in the title, but didn't say anything.
this series of videos is interesting and i hope to see more on other games.
kratos japanese voice is pretty interesting sounding i have to say
There will be more ideas, and another similar one.
Don't worry!
It's funny when Japan uncensored other things