By and large, school-age people make up the majority of Japan's anime market, there isn't as much of an older crowd for anime (and video games) the way there is in the modern States. The main anime serieses I can think of having seen centering around college students would be a handful of shojo shows, plus Tatami Galaxy, Golden Time, and the PapaKiki franchise. Bit of a shame that's all there is, as they were all at least above-average (even if Golden Time fizzles out in the home stretch) I wouldn't be surprised if it was more common in the past, though. While high schoolers were always a common focus, I think the modern era of anime has seen a complete fetishization of the high school experience that's definitely been detrimental to the medium's variety. Gotta shake my head every time I see a story set in a pre-industrial fantasy setting still shoehorn in a recreation of the Japanese high school setup and its trappings.
@@InfectiousFight Agreed, the high school setting is beyond boring at this point. There is really nothing that could be done to make the setting interesting to me. Even when I was in high school, I avoided those type of anime.
Which is weird since college seems like the best of both worlds. The main protagonist can be young enough to connect with readers while not grounded to the same Highschool plot points.
19:42-“The police are moving? That..is..non-sense. It can’t be!...That...is...not...possible!” “It is possible sir..and it’s happening...” The way the voice actors deliver these lines so woodenly just sells the absurdity!! The last line in particular serves as it’s punchline when the line read is so nonchalant and lacking any sense of urgency or tension. Bad dubs are so amazing sometimes!
Why does the dub sound like it was made by Team 4 Star when they make it bad on purpose?! The bravest thing about this is Bennet´s mustache. Not many men can pull that off.
To quote the flavor text from the Magic: The Gathering Time Spiral card Kher Keep: "They're still here?! The cockroach may have finally met its match."
I don’t think I’ve seen a more generic, stock standard title than “The Tokyo Project”. The only title that could possibly be more basic is if it was called “Anime: The Motion Picture”
9:52 This guy's first appearance in the anime is actually when he's seen singing for the rock band in the nightclub scene. If the dying scientist happened to know that this private detective agency guy fronted a local band, that makes his decision to go to the nightclub when mortally wounded slightly less random I suppose, even if the situation remains hopelessly contrived.
The snapping turtle should be used more for villains. Great symbol for a dangerous predator who seems slow and lazy but actually will crush you if you get in it's sights.
@@channelwithout True, though it's easier to "rescue" a bad story by slapping on some good voice acting if the animation looks like it deserves the effort. The potato quality of this English dub doesn't really aid the story in any way.
"...includes trying to kill him on the expressway with an attack helicopter." I think by this point in Anime Abandon we didn't even need to see it to believe it. It's not even close to the strangest thing that's been on this show.
The IMDB for this flick gives an interesting look into how the dub ended up so bad. There's only about a dozen credited characters, and the actors were all credited with just a first name. Only about half of those have the real people behind them been figured out. Among them, for many this was their first acting credit. Two of them went on to have decently long careers in mainstream acting, though I wouldn't call either of them successful. one of them only has 4 acting credits before apparently taking a decade out of the business and then coming back as a producer. The rest of the identified people quickly shifted to hentai, and one of those moved to live-action porn (where acting chops aren't something that is expected).
I can bet you that Media Blasters is around because they are the only company dubbing and releasing hentai nowadays. All the other hentai dubbing companies have either gone under or don't release new stuff anymore and just re-release their licenses over and over. Like legit most of the new licenses Media Blasters gets is hentai. On another note: I love how "PS1" this voice acting is. It's so cheesy and shitty I love it.
"The Tokyo Project might be in the top 5 obscure anime I never talk about" I'm not sure how I feel about knowing about this anime or how I feel about Media Blasters somehow still existing... its like that theory that cockroaches will still be here when were gone and I guess now we can assume they will be getting their anime dub from media blasters.
That calls into question with Media Blasters, who the hell owns the distribution rights to Berserk 1997 in the West and why haven't we gotten a Blu-Ray release?
@@NANAbananabanar I was lucky and found it at a 2nd hand store for $45 a few years ago on DVD, but ever since I've been upgrading to Blu-ray, I want to eventually get rid of it. (Same with Trigun, but to my knowledge there is not a blu-ray release of the series in Japan).
The 80s thought Optimus Prime's conciousness could be saved on a floppy disc and I couldn't believe that when I was 11, mostly thanks to our Tandy 1000 home computer. Ask Linkara for details about that.
Damn that was just painful... but again, it raises even MORE questions about Media Blasters existence when this was the kind of thing they were getting.
I’m honestly rooting for Media Blasters to make a comeback. They’ve been in a financial crutch for a while due to low sales or expired licenses. But during their prime, they did have some pretty big shows under their belt like Rurouni Kenshin and the original Berserk series. I like them because they certainly have what it takes to make good scriptwriting, and a nice trait they have that stands out from companies like funimation or Viz, is that they’re willing to take more risks when it comes to more risqué scenes in some anime, where as the bigger companies would avoid those shows
This is the double edge sword of being ancient-taku. I miss the days where my buddy and I would rent terrible OVAs like this from the local Blockbuster or Family Video, go back to his apartment, have a few drinks, maybe some devil's lettuce and be thoroughly entertained by the terribleness on screen. And if we saw that title weeks later for sale at the local FYE among all the Dragonball Z and hentai, we would chuckle knowing some poor sucker was gonna lay down perfectly good money on this shit. Then proceed to get Gundam tapes.
DUDE. I feel ya on that one. I used to do the same thing with some buddies of mine at the old Suncoast video store before it closed in 2006. Good times.
I'm not even that old (early 20s) but I love terrible old OVA shit like this. It's fascinating to witness and think about people innocently buying up something like this back in the day. Instead of being me, buying crap like this knowing how bad it is.
@@animechic420 huh, didn’t know that. I wonder if kenny has watched in a while because Sage has dialled his schtick down a couple of notches in recent times. Sage is more like a reviewer like Kenny than he is “nostalgia critic but anime” Maybe he only watched the Evangelion reviews or something 😅
@@Jayfive276 yeah. Apparently Kenny and another TH-camr by the name of Studio Chojin don’t agree with the way Sage reviews anime. Saying things like he only nitpicks the anime and he doesn’t own up to his mistakes when he’s reviewing them, something along those lines. I don’t understand what their problem is. 🤷🏾♀️
Man, your description of this anime reminds me of another one I watched years ago, Big Wars. Never seen an anime with so much going on, yet so little of it being of even passing interest.
I’m old enough to remember those disks to there big enough to hold a few word files and nothing else. Remember that when you think paying 10 dollars for an 8 gig thumb drive is too much
There are a ton of anime I had watched from that time period that I cannot remember. So it isn't just The Tokyo Project that failed to have an impact on my memory.
Man life’s been nuts lately. Dealing with university and other stuffs. Man I’m glad to see your still posting. Been watching your stuff since I was in high school. Keep it up man!
There were 2.88 megabyte floppy disks, but you needed a compatible drive: both were more expensive than the 1.44 megabyte versions so fewer people had them. Still not enough space for those plans though.
My wife and I were in the military in the early 2000s, and one of our launch systems ran on a program on 4 huge magnetic disks totalling 1 kilobyte. This was a forward deployed combat system with an active duty unit. You would be surprised how low tech most of our military is. Old tech is reliable and cheap.
METAL GEAR - RUNT, created for urban warfare and smallscale rebellion suppression for use by Muammar Ghaddafi...well, if Qadhafhi was not dead. Ergo, Metal Gear Runt was left to languish until a group of renegade Japanese defense contractors stumbled on to it and decided "Eh, we can't afford a Rex's upkeep."
@9:02 Perhaps he was trying to escape into the concert’s crowd. From there, he could’ve sought medical attention. When he realized he wasn’t going to make it, he passed the disk to whoever was nearby.
"What kind of Detective agency has these kind of munitions?" Uhm... Ryo Saeba from City Hunter has more weapons in his basement than Neo in the armory scene in the first Matrix movie.
Hell yeah Bennett, this and your last anime abandon were mega appreciated. I'm glad you still find some time to reach out to your audience man. I'm an oldtaku like you and I find alot of pleasure digging into anime's golden age. Like you say, you have a little pride for gestalt but its not something your proud of, same with me for ninja ressurection. Huge guilty pleasure lol. Saw it when I was 6 at 3 AM on a saturday lol
Media Blasters is one of those Anime Publishers that I loved and supported back in the day. I had to look around for their stuff as they would never get published in my area of the world. Obscure Anime like Eiken Club or Jungle De Ikuo. To the more recent of the past 10 years like Queens Blade, Juden-chan and Yosuga no Sora. They are not around as much as they used to but I would love to see them dub Interspecies Reviewers and other Anime that Funimation rejected.
Ironically. The first time I was introduced to Media Blasters was through MST3K. They distributed some of the episodes and show up in a couple of my boxed sets.
One of the few older show's you've covered I actually saw. Though that is because I found it second hand at a used book store a few years a go while hunting for obscure older stuff rather than anything to do with the company. I remember it being enjoyable enough to watch. Also tend to avoid Media Blasters these days because the last new release I got from them didnt work on any of my players because of the type of dvds they use.
In the 80s a sophisticated program WOULD have easily fit on a small floppy. So they understood the subject well. The huge files we have for games and things are because of 3d, image files, video, the need for working with much faster hardware etc...
Animeworks titles I proudly own: Genshiken, Midori Days, Seven of Nana, Gokudo, Simoun, Green Green, Grenadier, Ladies vs Butlers, Juden Chan, Dokuro Chan, Kashimashi, Space Pirate Mito and the sequel Aoi and Mutsuki, a pair of queens. And then there's the ones I won't admit too...
Yoooou LOL.... Wit that mustache,you look like a cop, Plummer, fireman, or all round obligatory male city civil servant worker... that being said, if you were on the FDNY or NYPD, ppl would applaud your stache with one of the best ones out there lol Bravo
11:30 most of the 3.5 floppy disks didnt survive the journey home from school, that disk is either unreadable or scratched already lol man how far have we gone in these few years
Hey, Media Blasters does more than just anime. They also licensed and released SEVERAL classic TOHO Sci-Fi films (Atragon, The Mysterians, Varan), including two Godzilla movies (Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla vs. Megalon).
"Yeah, the cast just doesn't deserve nicknames." may the most scathing critique he could have leveled.
Bennet: "I'm moving to Italy, I guess I have to grow a Mario moustache."
Better that than Giorno curls.
@@stanleyteriaca2184 if anybody could replicate those three corkscrew tubes, they deserve a medal.
When in Rome...
'izza Me, Sage MAR-ee-oh
You beat me to it!
Someone needs to make fanart of a battle-scarred Media Blasters visiting the graves of its former rivals.
Armed with a butter knife
“YOU ALL LAUGHED AT ME WHEN I LICENSED HENTAI AND DUBBED IT!!! Hahaha who’s laughing now!!!”
Media Blasters has to be a Yakuza front. There is no other explanation.
I mean, that's how Komoney's still around, isn't it?
@@autobotstarscream765 Or Harmony Gold for that matter.
Or the Anime equivalent to Troma pictures they do sell indie anime for the most part
@@Lightspeeds fuck Harmony Gold
They should have been burned down instead of Kyoto Animations
What? Troma is a class act; MB is more like The Asylum.
“Storms come and go, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling.”
- Media Blasters
Very rare that there's an Anime where the protagonist is a college student.
Especially from an older anime.
Almost like they don't know college students exist
By and large, school-age people make up the majority of Japan's anime market, there isn't as much of an older crowd for anime (and video games) the way there is in the modern States.
The main anime serieses I can think of having seen centering around college students would be a handful of shojo shows, plus Tatami Galaxy, Golden Time, and the PapaKiki franchise.
Bit of a shame that's all there is, as they were all at least above-average (even if Golden Time fizzles out in the home stretch)
I wouldn't be surprised if it was more common in the past, though. While high schoolers were always a common focus, I think the modern era of anime has seen a complete fetishization of the high school experience that's definitely been detrimental to the medium's variety. Gotta shake my head every time I see a story set in a pre-industrial fantasy setting still shoehorn in a recreation of the Japanese high school setup and its trappings.
@@InfectiousFight Agreed, the high school setting is beyond boring at this point. There is really nothing that could be done to make the setting interesting to me. Even when I was in high school, I avoided those type of anime.
Which is weird since college seems like the best of both worlds. The main protagonist can be young enough to connect with readers while not grounded to the same Highschool plot points.
"I'm just as surprised as you are."
- Media Blaster, when questioned about their continued existence.
The moral of the story? Media Blasters is harder to kill than Michael Myers.
Porn finds a way
They are also as kind and considerate as Michael Myers.
Media Blasters: I *ALWAYS* come back!
M.B: I will never be a memory
Me: Calm down, Pornstache Bennett cannot hurt you.
Pornstache Bennett:
... "F*** YOU I'M SPIDER MAN!!!!!"
I think its hot
I just thought he smocked some of Randy's Quarantine Special LOL!
@@elbarto6668 Italian Spider-man?
FYI if you don't know what it is search it on TH-cam.
_Me, who hasn't seen a single Bennett video in like 6 years_
"What the hell is that growing out of his face?!"
19:42-“The police are moving? That..is..non-sense. It can’t be!...That...is...not...possible!”
“It is possible sir..and it’s happening...”
The way the voice actors deliver these lines so woodenly just sells the absurdity!! The last line in particular serves as it’s punchline when the line read is so nonchalant and lacking any sense of urgency or tension.
Bad dubs are so amazing sometimes!
Why does the dub sound like it was made by Team 4 Star when they make it bad on purpose?!
The bravest thing about this is Bennet´s mustache. Not many men can pull that off.
Maybe that's why I thought it was hilarious
"Bandai: Gone"
Ouch, Bennett.
Why must you hurt me?
But Bandai still exists...
@@LukSter18998 out of the list bandie is the most surprising for me
To quote the flavor text from the Magic: The Gathering Time Spiral card Kher Keep: "They're still here?! The cockroach may have finally met its match."
I don’t think I’ve seen a more generic, stock standard title than “The Tokyo Project”. The only title that could possibly be more basic is if it was called “Anime: The Motion Picture”
the japanese name was 'Tokyo Vice'
9:52 This guy's first appearance in the anime is actually when he's seen singing for the rock band in the nightclub scene. If the dying scientist happened to know that this private detective agency guy fronted a local band, that makes his decision to go to the nightclub when mortally wounded slightly less random I suppose, even if the situation remains hopelessly contrived.
This is some serious high quality dubbing. Also some acting that would put The Room to shame.
A script that doesn't believe in second drafts and a dub that doesn't believe in second takes. What a combination.
The snapping turtle should be used more for villains. Great symbol for a dangerous predator who seems slow and lazy but actually will crush you if you get in it's sights.
The voices may be bad but the animation looks really good
Good animation can't save a bad story. See Venus Wars as an example.
At least the voices sounded natural.....ish.
It lacked direction
X- who pinged me?
@@channelwithout True, though it's easier to "rescue" a bad story by slapping on some good voice acting if the animation looks like it deserves the effort. The potato quality of this English dub doesn't really aid the story in any way.
it isn't especially good, the animation is decent for the time but the art style is horribly bland
Media Blasters are like the Tau in 40k
Somehow still here, to everyone's surprise
Does that mean Media Blasters are due an edgy recon to explain how they fit into the established world?
@@l0stndamned Oh god, what did they retcon the Tau as?
@@ShadowWolfRising if I remember correctly, They use brainwashing tech to make tau and other species 100% loyal to them now
@@DriftedVisionMan Ah, GW Grim Dark Recons at its finest.
DoW: Dark Crusade stated that the Tau use brainwashing ages ago. Guess GW decided to make it canon.
"...includes trying to kill him on the expressway with an attack helicopter."
I think by this point in Anime Abandon we didn't even need to see it to believe it. It's not even close to the strangest thing that's been on this show.
Well he did do a hentai with chicks firing lasers out of their dicks awhile back.
The IMDB for this flick gives an interesting look into how the dub ended up so bad.
There's only about a dozen credited characters, and the actors were all credited with just a first name. Only about half of those have the real people behind them been figured out. Among them, for many this was their first acting credit. Two of them went on to have decently long careers in mainstream acting, though I wouldn't call either of them successful. one of them only has 4 acting credits before apparently taking a decade out of the business and then coming back as a producer. The rest of the identified people quickly shifted to hentai, and one of those moved to live-action porn (where acting chops aren't something that is expected).
Oh god
I can bet you that Media Blasters is around because they are the only company dubbing and releasing hentai nowadays. All the other hentai dubbing companies have either gone under or don't release new stuff anymore and just re-release their licenses over and over.
Like legit most of the new licenses Media Blasters gets is hentai.
On another note: I love how "PS1" this voice acting is. It's so cheesy and shitty I love it.
Bennett brightening our days once more
You know 2020 still isn't pulling punches when you have to ask, "When the Hell did Ron Swanson become such a weeby nerd???"
"The Tokyo Project might be in the top 5 obscure anime I never talk about" I'm not sure how I feel about knowing about this anime or how I feel about Media Blasters somehow still existing... its like that theory that cockroaches will still be here when were gone and I guess now we can assume they will be getting their anime dub from media blasters.
WELCOME BACK DUDE it's good to see you. I hope you're doing well!
Why hasn't Bennett Hit over a 100,000 Subscribers over the years yet???
It’s baffling
His release is irregualr
He cant even do weekly vids
the only time i learn about publishers or producers is when i watch a youtuber talking about them.
I actually watched this anime because I knew you were going to review it you were pretty spot on
Media Blasters
The anime company that screamed
*I LIVED!*
Are you sure they will be able to store their nuts with Queens blade titles? Seems like herculean effort to me xD, also great stash!
Given how many nuts that series produces....
Hell, AnimEigo still exists, Riding high on that Bubblegum Crisis and Riding Bean cash!!
To be honest, I have not seen any anime that aired prior to 97, so there's a decent chunk of anime and companies I have never heard of or seen.
You look great with a full moustache Bennett. Jolly anime-reviewing dad!
That calls into question with Media Blasters, who the hell owns the distribution rights to Berserk 1997 in the West and why haven't we gotten a Blu-Ray release?
I don’t want to spend a month’s wages on a dvd set on EBay. Please, dear god, let someone give us a proper release of the GOOD adaptation of Berserk.
@@NANAbananabanar I was lucky and found it at a 2nd hand store for $45 a few years ago on DVD, but ever since I've been upgrading to Blu-ray, I want to eventually get rid of it. (Same with Trigun, but to my knowledge there is not a blu-ray release of the series in Japan).
This takes me back, you’re the man Sage.
Media Blasters: The candle that gently smolders burns forever.
To quote a certain professional clown, "What the hell am I looking at?"
Sage you forget since they own kitty media they own the rights to most stateside hentai including Bible black
Thanks, I thought it was a dream or I was drunk, this was the MGS anime like, my friends didn't believe me.
Now for a drunk parti to watch it
I remember when I first noticed that the Anime Works & Kitty logos looked fairly similar.
The 80s thought Optimus Prime's conciousness could be saved on a floppy disc and I couldn't believe that when I was 11, mostly thanks to our Tandy 1000 home computer. Ask Linkara for details about that.
I'm still mad that they left GaoGaiGar halfway done because of Voltron. Sure, Voltron is a classic, but who leaves a licensed show halfway dubbed?
"And he knew that this guy was here, at this concert, at this particular point in time" localized entirely within your kitchen.
Y e s
Can i see it?
N o
Nah bruv that was clearly the almighty DRAGONZORD grunt
Bennett, good to see you! If you had to wait until your moving plans were finalized, we understand. I'm just glad to see you doing your best.
Damn, everyone just making fun of Akechi
Me: "How are you still alive?" Media Blasters: "I have no idea!"
Hey Sage for Oldtaku new tricks can you please review Spriggan 2021? I think Netflix just revived something that you might not have wanted to see.
Ah, Bennett reviewing some Media Blasters crap. What more does one need?
Maybe I’m just too young but I’ve never heard of “Kitty Media” in my life (Assuming that’s how it’s spelled).
Its called Hentai. And ita art.
They released the uncensored version of Mezzo Forte. Also hentai.
@@josiahagin2100
They've also been releasing a ton of other uncensored dubbed hentai on Blu-ray and also a proper uncut Blu-ray of Kite.
@13:07
Oh no... Slagathor is back! Everyone run!
Damn that was just painful... but again, it raises even MORE questions about Media Blasters existence when this was the kind of thing they were getting.
I’m honestly rooting for Media Blasters to make a comeback. They’ve been in a financial crutch for a while due to low sales or expired licenses. But during their prime, they did have some pretty big shows under their belt like Rurouni Kenshin and the original Berserk series. I like them because they certainly have what it takes to make good scriptwriting, and a nice trait they have that stands out from companies like funimation or Viz, is that they’re willing to take more risks when it comes to more risqué scenes in some anime, where as the bigger companies would avoid those shows
Good to see you, Bennett. I remember watching this atrocity on TNT on their after midnight block.
You should definitely review the Gungrave anime!
This is the double edge sword of being ancient-taku. I miss the days where my buddy and I would rent terrible OVAs like this from the local Blockbuster or Family Video, go back to his apartment, have a few drinks, maybe some devil's lettuce and be thoroughly entertained by the terribleness on screen. And if we saw that title weeks later for sale at the local FYE among all the Dragonball Z and hentai, we would chuckle knowing some poor sucker was gonna lay down perfectly good money on this shit. Then proceed to get Gundam tapes.
DUDE. I feel ya on that one. I used to do the same thing with some buddies of mine at the old Suncoast video store before it closed in 2006. Good times.
I'm not even that old (early 20s) but I love terrible old OVA shit like this. It's fascinating to witness and think about people innocently buying up something like this back in the day.
Instead of being me, buying crap like this knowing how bad it is.
Still waiting patiently for a Sage/Kenny Lauderdale crossover covering some real obscure shit.
I don’t think Kenny likes Sage’s content very much. Which is strange in and of itself. 😕
@@animechic420 huh, didn’t know that. I wonder if kenny has watched in a while because Sage has dialled his schtick down a couple of notches in recent times. Sage is more like a reviewer like Kenny than he is “nostalgia critic but anime”
Maybe he only watched the Evangelion reviews or something 😅
@@Jayfive276 yeah. Apparently Kenny and another TH-camr by the name of Studio Chojin don’t agree with the way Sage reviews anime. Saying things like he only nitpicks the anime and he doesn’t own up to his mistakes when he’s reviewing them, something along those lines. I don’t understand what their problem is. 🤷🏾♀️
Kenny commented on his vids too
@@alan7life which one? If you remember.
Man, your description of this anime reminds me of another one I watched years ago, Big Wars. Never seen an anime with so much going on, yet so little of it being of even passing interest.
yeah Big Wars had some interesting themes but ended up being super disappointing
I’m old enough to remember those disks to there big enough to hold a few word files and nothing else. Remember that when you think paying 10 dollars for an 8 gig thumb drive is too much
There are a ton of anime I had watched from that time period that I cannot remember. So it isn't just The Tokyo Project that failed to have an impact on my memory.
I didn't even know that floppy discs could store that much, I swear the ones that my school, only space for a few hundred KB.
Man life’s been nuts lately. Dealing with university and other stuffs. Man I’m glad to see your still posting. Been watching your stuff since I was in high school. Keep it up man!
I'm afraid I have to disagree with Bennett here. Turtles are cute yet deadly and make great pets for evil masterminds!
Glad to see you’re back sage ✨
Careful Sage, that 'stache is approaching Thomas Magnum levels of Awesomeness. Make sure you don't become a slave/life support system for the 'stache.
There were 2.88 megabyte floppy disks, but you needed a compatible drive: both were more expensive than the 1.44 megabyte versions so fewer people had them.
Still not enough space for those plans though.
Really glad you're still at it brother. Be well
Not only is, "Open your textbooks to page 69 a risque joke but the school is the Toward Institute of Technology, or TIT.
Double nice.
I'm so glad that you're finding the will and the way to make these! Hoping we get more of these as we go into 2021. See you next time, Space Cowboy...
and now MB’s even outlasted funimation….it got dissolved into crunchyroll not too long ago. viva la media blasters!
Media Blasters:
yeah, we're still around crazy huh?
So Media Blasters is the TNA Wrestling of North American anime distribution.
Hahaha I didn't know who Kitty Media was till now but I sure as shit remember the steaming heap that was Bible Black hahaha!
Good to see a new video! Hope you're feeling better! 2020 is almost over. Things are getting better all the time!!!
I was wondering where you were going to use the Darkman clip!
My wife and I were in the military in the early 2000s, and one of our launch systems ran on a program on 4 huge magnetic disks totalling 1 kilobyte. This was a forward deployed combat system with an active duty unit. You would be surprised how low tech most of our military is. Old tech is reliable and cheap.
Media Blasters: The Impact Wrestling of anime distributers.
At this point I think the NWA of distributors. Impact would probably be Sentao/ADV
METAL GEAR - RUNT, created for urban warfare and smallscale rebellion suppression for use by Muammar Ghaddafi...well, if Qadhafhi was not dead. Ergo, Metal Gear Runt was left to languish until a group of renegade Japanese defense contractors stumbled on to it and decided "Eh, we can't afford a Rex's upkeep."
"Oh fuck, laser."
Said with the sense of urgency that I would for seeing a fly. My god this kills me. :D
I have this anime. I like it still. It avoided perversion....
@18:15 Probably means “bring her & no one else.”
Hope life is getting better for you, Bennett.
@9:02 Perhaps he was trying to escape into the concert’s crowd. From there, he could’ve sought medical attention. When he realized he wasn’t going to make it, he passed the disk to whoever was nearby.
"What kind of Detective agency has these kind of munitions?"
Uhm... Ryo Saeba from City Hunter has more weapons in his basement than Neo in the armory scene in the first Matrix movie.
I'm glad Media Blasters is still around; their anime releases were a HUGE part of my anime adolescence xD
And yes, most of the Metal Gears also roared like dinosaurs too. Usually in slow motion or in a static action frame.
6:21 got me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe 🤣😂😆
Wanna know the best part? That's the final scene of that anime, I shit you not.
Hell yeah Bennett, this and your last anime abandon were mega appreciated. I'm glad you still find some time to reach out to your audience man. I'm an oldtaku like you and I find alot of pleasure digging into anime's golden age.
Like you say, you have a little pride for gestalt but its not something your proud of, same with me for ninja ressurection. Huge guilty pleasure lol. Saw it when I was 6 at 3 AM on a saturday lol
OH MY GOD WE ARE DOING GUNDRESS HELL YA!!!
Media Blasters is one of those Anime Publishers that I loved and supported back in the day.
I had to look around for their stuff as they would never get published in my area of the world.
Obscure Anime like Eiken Club or Jungle De Ikuo.
To the more recent of the past 10 years like Queens Blade, Juden-chan and Yosuga no Sora.
They are not around as much as they used to but I would love to see them dub Interspecies Reviewers and other Anime that Funimation rejected.
Ironically. The first time I was introduced to Media Blasters was through MST3K. They distributed some of the episodes and show up in a couple of my boxed sets.
I’ll give Media Blasters some credit, they did turn out some pretty good dvd releases of some old Toho giant monster films back in the day
One of the few older show's you've covered I actually saw. Though that is because I found it second hand at a used book store a few years a go while hunting for obscure older stuff rather than anything to do with the company. I remember it being enjoyable enough to watch.
Also tend to avoid Media Blasters these days because the last new release I got from them didnt work on any of my players because of the type of dvds they use.
Congrats on the Move my dood! Been looking forward to this Episode too!
stai al sicuro, amico mio
In the 80s a sophisticated program WOULD have easily fit on a small floppy. So they understood the subject well. The huge files we have for games and things are because of 3d, image files, video, the need for working with much faster hardware etc...
Animeworks titles I proudly own: Genshiken, Midori Days, Seven of Nana, Gokudo, Simoun, Green Green, Grenadier, Ladies vs Butlers, Juden Chan, Dokuro Chan, Kashimashi, Space Pirate Mito and the sequel Aoi and Mutsuki, a pair of queens.
And then there's the ones I won't admit too...
Yoooou LOL.... Wit that mustache,you look like a cop, Plummer, fireman, or all round obligatory male city civil servant worker... that being said, if you were on the FDNY or NYPD, ppl would applaud your stache with one of the best ones out there lol Bravo
11:30 most of the 3.5 floppy disks didnt survive the journey home from school, that disk is either unreadable or scratched already lol man how far have we gone in these few years
That was only if you'd never heard of disk boxes :)
Hey, Media Blasters does more than just anime. They also licensed and released SEVERAL classic TOHO Sci-Fi films (Atragon, The Mysterians, Varan), including two Godzilla movies (Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla vs. Megalon).
So.......Queen's Blade when?
Vio jack when lol