Key the Metal Idol | KYOTO VIDEO
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2019
- [THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR KEY THE METAL IDOL]
Before Madoka. Before Lain. There was Key. We take a look at Key the Metal Idol, a forgotten sci-fi classic that dismantles all the tropes associated with robots, magical girls and idol singers all in one fell swoop.
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it's crazy how this anime preceeded and has so many elements in common with other 90s classics yet it's so underrated
13:31 is your answer as why this is so experimental. That's a reference to David Lynch's first movie "Eraser Head". Something tells me that the director was a fan of David Lynch and was inspired by his work to be more creative for this anime.
wow good eye on that one!! never would have noticed 🤯and twin peaks vhs right next to it haha
If they are in that section I want to know what "the Alphabet" and "the Grandfather" are.
This anime has quickly become my favorite. I wish more people talked about it.
I talked about Key w a group of my friends and for years aftr replays we pointed out that Sakura was alive and an important character figure for the human Key season 2 storyline
Kunihiko Tanaka is such a good artist. I loved his art so much in Xenogears, and then later found out he was working on animes too. Soo good.
Still one of the best anime to come out of the 90s. Even with that 90 minute exposition dump lol
Easily one of my favorite 90's anime. It's always pleasing to see someone advocating for it, especially so thoughtfully and eloquently. I got into it first through the outstanding music, after buying the "Vocal Data Disc II" CD on a whim and then falling in love with the final episode ending theme.
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Someone finally talking about Key! The first time I found out about this anime was through various VHS tapes of VIZ properties back in the 90s. Any show or film had this anime's amazing trailer that made me want to watch that more than what was on the tape; I wouldn't get to see it for like a decade though. Good job on this review and retrospective, brought back some memories!
Key was an anime that, when I first discovered it, I was left wondering why haven't more people talked about it.
@@KaiserBeamz Same here! Awesome vid! New subscriber here for sure.
@@KaiserBeamz Hideaki Anno wasn't the man behind Ayanami design, it was Yoshiyuki Sadamoto who designed the whole Evangelion series.
You know, while the last episode of Key is very straightforward on paper, I thought it was pretty wild in execution. Also, Alien Nine and Texhnolyze are eternal favourites of mine, so that little aside in there really tickled me.
one of my old favorites! i was searching searching searching for the vhs when i was a teenager. getting them out of order and fighting the temptation to WATCH them out of order. took me yrs to find them all and watch it beginning to end. i was really moved and emotional when i finally saw the conclusion.
Key gave off two plot points that later reconstituted themselves in completely different IPs.
1) A girl whose humanity and emotions are sealed away, making her like a robot --> Presea Combatir, Tales of Symphonia
2) Pink life force causes things to float --> Steven Universe
Commonality in latter works: The idea of crystalline life that grows from leeching off an organic host.
Experimental Anime was done all the way back in the early 60s, in 1961 Tales of a Street Corner may not be Anime as we know it, but it was the hand drawn cut outs similar to South Park's cardboard animation that was one of the earliest Experimental Anime that I am aware of.
One of my all time favorite anime. A true classic, with a fantastic soundtrack. Love introducing it to other fans of sci-fi and anime. Good on you for drawing more attention to this gem!
Right about now, Key could really use a friend ... and some Prozac.
Your great
It's spectacular that I did a fan art of Key
This was really well done. I'm suprised you arent more popular!
I discover your videos recently and I just love the passionate way you talk about those old animes. Keep going!
I was glad I watched this anime because it's underrated!
Thanks for uploading. Proper lot of effort gone into this. Thanks for the hard work
The reason why I think Key the Metal Idol didn't have it's fandom is because there was no DVD release.
Maybe only went as far as a VHS release. If there was a DVD release I would love for Discotek Media get the license for it.
Also I think you can stream it in full on TH-cam.
It did in fact get a dvd release, as well as a Discotek re-release
...but the discotek release is literally the same as the dvd release from 2004
The real thing this show desperately needs is a full remaster
@@aaronborok8398 My mistake then, it's hard getting information about Discotek releases considering I had to import all the anime licensed by them.
Not living in America makes it hard to get some of my information right unless if I am aware of it.
Years ago I was following what Discotek was releasing, but when Blue Rays were the only platform Discotek switched to after they left the DVD format I completely lost track of their releases.
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I loved Key since I first watched it. It was one of the first anime I bought way back in HS(2000's). Not the first anime I watched, but one of the first I bought for myself when I was able to buy stuff from the earlier days of the internet, Amazon, etc etc. I came across it and it sounded strange but interesting so I got the first DVD and loved it, then bought the other two and loved it all ever since. Also before that I bought Lain...and Moldiver. Such odd choices...but anyways! Key is such a good anime, for it's faults(like the Expo Episode/Movie). Sadly none of my friends have managed to ever really watch it, just not their style but I will never not love it. Odd as it is.
Great video once again! I hadn't heard of this one, but I definitely want to check it out now!
20:44 - Yep true.
the first amv was of this anime in 2006 , he did a insanely good job yet stooped after 3 amvs , wish he did stick with it,
18:04 man. Dude beat the snot out of shorty. That's some old Lex Luthor in the 90s kind of crazy. Worst part was all of his employees just watching it happen. Scare to even say something. Power flows to the one who knows how indeed.
Eventhough her name is Key, I can't stop hearing but "Chi" 😁
I'll be damned, this is right up my alley from the themes alone. But hey, better late than never
I love this series.
It's crazy how underrated Key the Metal Idol is as an anime and how few people know about it. I once won an anime trivia tournament by being able to correctly identify the opening theme to this series.
good hard work put in. subbed man
Thanks again for this~ I 'll be looking for it!
Ah, here I was hoping it was an idol singing metal songs, but alas, it's a robot idol.
I had to give this series a second watching to really appreciate it.
I saw one episode of this 20 years ago, but the ending theme has stuck with me forever.
This was really interesting, thanks!
Just finished watching it is was pretty good
I think the background song is a vaporwave remix of Toy Soldier by Martika. Am I right?
Yup.
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@@KaiserBeamz Well, I didn't expect the man himself to respond, so while I have you here, I'd just like to say that I'm a huge fan of your videos and your channel is criminally underrated. You've introduced me to so many hidden gems that I never would have discovered otherwise. Thank you for being one of the best content creators on this site.
Keep just doing this series
Remember watching trailers for this on vhs back in the mid 90’s as a kid. Never actually seen it.
Indeed, they made something that had a beggining and an end... And Evangeliom spent the next years trying to do and redo and retell its story... People prefer that... Because we always want more.
The voice actress of Key was an original member of Saint Four😮
I love Saint four!! 😁
13:30 Eraserhead VHS caught me off guard
Underrated is right. The only reason I know about this series is because I stumbled onto a copy on DVD in a used media store. It was less than $20, so I took a chance on an unknown property. I think you might be the only person I've heard talking about it.
Seriously wondering if this channel mostly covers lesser-known old anime nobody else I talk to seems to know about, but that I loved me when I saw them for very different reasons. This is the third in a row! Key the Metal Idol, an anime that made me think about just how absolutely GROSS show business and the whole carefully constructed "idol" phenomenon really is… Also one of the first I watched oh so long ago that had that habit of rolling credits right as something important was happening to make you binge the entire series at once.
Armitage III, an engaging cyberpunk mystery about a string of murders that winds up being about overcoming trauma and prejudice, accepting yourself for who you are, and seeing past labels to get to know the people rather than whatever stereotypes you've been fed about them. Oh and of course a corrupt and possibly fascist government trying to undermine and re-subjugate an independent former colony through a campaign of propaganda, criminality, and coercion…
And Read or Die, a show that just about all of the otaku I know have just never heard of. I'm just a sucker for a librarian secret agent adventure with totally unexplained superpowers. Because why the hell not!?
… Looney Tunes too? You just got yourself a sub. 🤣
I love bringing attention to obscure stuff, but it can be hard to get an audience. You ever heard of Devil Hunter Yohko, Gunsmith Cats, or Flint the Time Detective?
Sorry i cant watch this video fully, i want to watch the anime now
I remember seeing this on Amazon Prime on a whim, I thought the twist was a a lame copout.
though her being the voice of princess Celestia legit caught me off guard.
You know, I'm relatively certain I watched this back in the day but I have virtually no memory of it. Maybe I should check it out again. In a few months, after I've forgotten the spoilers again, haha.
Just one correction. Corvee is not slave or slavery. Corvee is word in some slavic languages that denotes days or hours serfs devoted purely towards work for their lord as compensation for lords permission to use his land. A form of really expensive rent you can't really get out of.
For example in one of german's many nations at the time (really forgot which) two days a week of serf's work belonged purely to the lord, plus few hours of two additional days for selected capable males for militia training and on top of that serf's couldn't sow or harvest on their allocated plots until lord's personal fields were sown/harvested. And yes, if you did any other work but agriculture you would be taxed in financial terms too.
@KaiserBeamz
Could you do a video on Now and Then, Here and there?
The dub was amazing and had an amazing dub voice cast!
I saw this twist from a mile away. And I'm nearsighted.
I literally picked this up on Prime Video like 3 nights ago and finished it today. Ur right about everything--those last 2 episodes, but mainly the 2nd to last, was a pure novel sized writer's convienence with little editing to stomach it all. I'm not sure if the studio was struggling and didn't want to chop that into 3-4 episodes with a less forward way of writing/storyboarding it?? But YEAH. Really weak move on their half, but it didn't erase the excellent build up from eps 1-13. Ppl should literally watch it and then skip 14, watch this video, and then watch eps 15. The mysticism, elitism, and just a whirlwind of aesthetic in storytelling in this anime is at work--down to the op and ed and musical scores in the show--it was nearly meticulous. I think if this was a televised show on networks supporting anime like Colors or Adult Swim? This would be higher regarded as a classic, just like u said. Thanks for this video!
i personally thought that the rushed pacing towards the end of the show was some sort of weird budgetary issue, the stuff they covered in the 14th episode seems like it was meant to be covered over multiple episodes or at least a single flashback episode instead of cramming it into an hour long exposition dump lol. a shame really because this is the only thing really preventing key the metal idol from becoming a masterpiece imo
points like 28:04 in a script really makes me question the motive of the video, is the point to explain the plot back at me or is it to discuss the anime. I can understand maybe the exposition about what happens prior because it is considered the less spoiler territory, but when you're actively presenting information as if I didn't already know it, it makes me feel like I'm wasting my time watching the video when I'm looking for people talking about the anime rather than explain what the anime's story is in chronological order of how it is presented by the anime itself.
Like I thought the point of a double spoiler is so we can go to the meat rather than treat it at its surface.
Enjoyed the insight about magical girls, disliked the perpetuation of the idea of budget attributed to evangelion,
would've loved more elaboration on how it does its deconstruction, mainly an explanation how these things are deconstructions in the first place feels needed. (in part to prove that you know what the term you're using is even doing)
Maybe also needs better grounds to show that other works felt inspired by Key, though I do see it as a cultural buildup into such works as Eva and Lain, they can still be argued to be inspired by some of the same things rather than directly by each other, in part, episode 4 of Key was released a month after Eva's first episode according to anidb
Very interestingly how noodlez from gorrilaz is very similar to key
For everything it was and how much it was constantly brought up in the 90's and 00's it had one fatal flaw....
It was dull and slow. Slower than most...during a time when a lot of anime that was dull and slow. And unlike serial experiments lain, it didn't have enough mood and wtf to suck you in... Angel egg was also just difficult to watch.
Eva broke new ground with dynamite...but at what cost?
I know this is an old video, but I’ve held a grudge against Key since I watched it when it was originally released. I personally felt betrayed, because the marketing campaign for it looked cool (the image from the first video of waifish Key emerging from the chest cavity of the robot), and the OP is stylish and well-paced, then the show itself is so…drab; It’s the choice of color palette, the glacial pacing made worse by the innumerable subplots, and its characters that comes off as either half-baked or cartoonish. I feel like this show is trying to delve deeply into the human experience, while also having little original to say about it. At its worst, Key alternates between cryptic visual sequences and laborious conversations. For the average viewer, there just isn’t much to grasp onto moment-by-moment. Even the things it did innovate, were implemented compellingly at later dates.
I tried 4 or 5 times to watch it and this is precisely why I simply cannot ever finish it.
I really hated this anime back in the day. I probably still won't like it if I watch it again. I felt like the last OAV had unnecessary deaths, dropped plot stuff and was a real downer.
the ending didnt fool me...the characters assumed too fast in eps 15
I'm disappoint this isn't about a girl who wanted to be in a heavy metal band or something like that.
90s anime art is so good, it seems like modern animes are all just CGI iseikais. I like fantasy, I actually prefer it to scifi, but bring back the robots in anime...
Well, your super super spoiler warning made me stop.
Really?
@@ryangreen6255 No, not really. What IS real?
If you thought that the Japanese Idol music industry was harsh, just look at Hollywood and the entire Entertainment Industry in America.
It has it dark secrets regardless of culture.
Great video but I have to say I hated the dubbed clips 😆
That ending was not bitter sweet it was just depressing and I regret watching this anime it was just too pointlessly horrible
Lame
I thought that too for years... Untill i recently saw too many different points of endings. When Key found Sakura giest canister. Key said she finally found Sakura and this time theyll be together forever. Meaning Key could have the intention to absorb Sakura giest in herself as Sakura body is was not resting in peace at the home village where the priest supposedly buried her and questioned her death.
OR
Key is going to awaken Sakura from her deep sleep aka death with her giest canister after saving a crowd of 50,000 people with there giests ballooning the arena.
Fact is that Human Key voice is so powerful that she did indeed saved Sakura. A season 2 would of brought her back.
It's funny... I was ALMOST to the point of enjoying this review, completely. Like, almost fully on board with most everything you said.
And then you had to end it by comparing it to FETID WORTHLESS AWFUL REDEMPTIONLESS OBJECTIVELY IRREDEEMABLE FUCKING GARBAGE like Evangelion, an anime I fucking despise with a blinding fury hotter then a million suns more than anything else I know of in all of life itself, which I personally consider to be the lowest form of all fiction that's ever been written on the toilet paper of humanity, and which I strongly consider to be the most abysmal piece of below-excrement level trash that's ever existed in all of media or culture, and actually sickeningly praise that worthless, slime-coated filth of an anime positively OVER Key The Metal Idol.
No. I will not stand for that.
No. No no no. No. No. No. No.
No.
No. ....No.
No.
....No.
no.
So are we going to find out why you hate it so much or..?
this comment is fucking funny and i can only hope it was meant to be