I have "known" about this anime, ever since a drawing of the suit appeared in "Animag"magazine. In all my life, scouring comic book stores, when anime was underground-ish, then places like Suncoast video had oodles of shelf space to anime, then the internet, and searching many many times. This is the first time, I've ever known that it actually existed. (Other than the one drawing. ) this..is...crazy. after all the years of searching, a random algorithm of youtube, suddenly says "yo, ever heard of this?" It's like the right code word was never used, to unlock what I desperately was searching for. Now like 30 years too late, I'm happy, but......mehhh. So outdated. Lol
@@chayudyodchit2872 was in 88 or an 89 issue of Animag, or Animerica . In the upcoming anime section. Was a black and white line drawing of the powered armor. with about a 1/4 page description, of details. That's alI ever heard. No release dates, no coverage/media in any form, no reviews, toys. Nothing. I really wanted to see this year's ago. I honestly thought it never got funded. And here it is.
i've seen a black and white drawing of the power armor, probably the same one, for years. seen it as being from a starship troopers anime but yeah, never even seen anything else about it till now.
@@mephosto Exactly. I thought it was a failed project, like...vaporware. Never seen a frame/cell, trailer, until a few days ago, since the 80s. As far as the suit goes, it definitely is better than the movies combat armor. And I forgive, some lack of details, and up to interpretation. If I remember correctly the book said the powered suits were "ape like" and fairly tall. Nothing Gundam sized, but quite a bit taller than a human. Maybe 9 to 12 feet? I also remember the book talking about the headgear internals. Some5hing about, if you rear your head back quickly, ( or maybe downwards?) It would activate a small bank of nipples to suck on. (Stimulant, painkiller, food) I can't remember, but I think there was a mass hypnosis "sleep" broadcaster from a command suit to the lower ranking members(??)
@@animationcycles7109 how accurate do you think this armor is to the book? (Also before you editing your comment, you said that you saw the armor back in 1986-87, was it a mistake?)
This was released in Japan way back 1988, I've known about it for years but could never find a copy. A friend mentioned it to me, said it was much closer to the book then the over-the-top live-action movie ever was. There is a lot of really cool stuff in Japan that slowly makes it way west.
I'd no idea this anime existed. It's really well-suited (no pun intended) to the book. It's close ti what I was picturing whilst reading it. The music goes well with it too. Thank you!
Starship Troopers is one of those things where the book, anime series, anime movies and the live action movies have sort of all blended into one. Like for example how most book readers hate the movie, yet most can agree that Casper Van Dean is the definitive Johnny Rico. Also the Klendathu Drop music which goes well with everything
Agreed. The book was way ahead of its time. The live action movie actually gave me migraines lol. This anime is almost exactly what I imagined the story to be like.
@@phantomwraith1984 Problem is the movie is a satire. Its not meant to be like the book, and that's what I think divides the fans. The producer and director felt the book would be viewed as fascist, which isn't true, but, people cant think that deep these days. Plus no one actually read Robert Heinlein's thoughts on the book. He didn't think the world he built in the book would work. Starship Troopers was a fantasy, an exercise in thought. He was exploring different ideas of government. Who would be 'worthy' to be in politics? That sort of thing. Either way, the book was great, and this anime does a fantastic job of expressing it. The movie, if taken as the satire it is, is actually kind of funny. That scene were the teacher is clapping as her students smash bugs on the concrete? Perfect. 🤣 If you haven't watched the movie and think of it as a satire, a comedy, I recommend you watch it again with that in mind. You might find a new appreciation for it. I love both for what they are and try not to blend any of them. The book, the movie, this anime, or the computer animated series of movies. All stand on their own merit for what they are. Explorations of the idea behind Starship Troopers. Heinlein would be pleased people are still thinking about this subject.
@@phantomwraith1984 I also don't see the selfproclaimed book fans campaigning for book bugs or their stickmen allies not portrayed properly. They just want book power suit to crush movie bugs ie they want cheap power fantasy. Based on weakest and most boring Heinlein's book:(
@@b.thomas8926 problem is that 99% of book fans just aren't. They're fans of Halo or Starcraft or anime or whatever, but not of the book. They also quote director on his interview where he said that he didn't read the book. Not thinking that he might have trolled them. But yeah, his goal was satire of Desert Storm media campaign and sudden shift from Cold War "war is horrible" message to post Cold War glorification of war. Same thing as why Putin's Russia isn't showing soviet era WWII movies anymore on WWII related commemoration dates - all those movies were antiwar ones. Problem is that he wouldn't get funding and support on an openly antiamerican movie that critiques current events during such massive media coverage backed by both financial and political capital. So his way around that was to say that he's making a sci-fi movie and look up what IPs were available. Book talked about faraway fantasy, movie talked about nowadays reality\/(-_-)\/ The fact that this is misunderstood is a commentary on the latter in on itself...
@@Joshua_N-A I wondered if that line in the book was intended as a subtle hint about the true nature of the Terran Federation. Then again it might just be me reading the book 55 years after it was published; different generation having different perspective.
If that was during the bootcamp part of the novel. It was most likely an insult The weapon or vehicle is as important as the user inside, more so the user actually. You can't make another soldier, you can however replace it, but will the soldier be as effective as the one it replaced? Doesn't help when the Terran Federation is an all-volunteer army and has no conscription what so ever so they actually want their soldiers back alive. However, you can always make as many tanks, guns, and planes as the armed forces needs/wants.
teh Smile teh Smile man, it doesn’t matter. I know it isn’t hard but for someone who doesn’t really have the means to make something like this, it’s a godsend. I sat and waited hoping that something like this would eventually become a thing. Even if the anime has a kickass OST, this needed to happen.
It's the Book Starship Troopers that started the trend for armour suits over the magical robots that dominated anime into the 1970s. Armoured Trooper Votoms was the first really big one, but never knew a true Starship Troopers anime existed.
Warhammer 40k also seems to have taken inspiration from it. Just compare this here with how the Astartes Space Marines conduct planetary assault with drop pods from orbit, not to mention they're wearing power armor.
Nothing matches quite to the book. This came close, and Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars was close. Drop pods that split apart like onions. Deploy, nuke, limited engagement with enemy combatants, and then high-tail it to the extraction site. That is essentially what the book is.
@@doublep1980 both also used explosive weaponry's (Astartes had Boltgun and Mobile Infantry had "Y-rack" and shoulder-mounted rocket launcher). Both were also pretty brutal in melee combat (although MI usually avoiding it)
For those who didn’t know, this anime was adapted in 1988 and was inspired by the original Starship Troopers author. The book series came first, the anime, then the movie. …my friend only found out about Starship Troopers because of the Kaguya S2 Ending…
@@Gr1nd0r There's an anime called Kaguya: Love is War Season 2 Ultra Romantic. A romance anime. Their whole ending credits for each episode is a whole animated tribute to Starship Troops. To the dropships in orbit, to the armor suits and guns. All really-well animated.
Some random trivia- the anime for Starship troopers came out in 1988, but it had been in development in various forms since the late 70's. Tomino, the creator of Mobile Suit Gundam cited ST as his main inspiration- and its why the mecha in Gundam are called "mobile suits"- as in Mobile Infantry. Early designs for this ST power armor can be seen in the Daicon III opening Animation fan film which is easy to find on TH-cam- and it was made in 1981. After this anime, similar designs show up in Madox 01 and in the Halo Legends anime shorts. Similar designs also show up in the Machine Krieger sci fi manga and novel series. Non-anime related nods to ST show up a lot in Wh40k with the Space Marines and their power armor, tho the suits in 40k aren't as mobile and heavily armed as Mobile Infantry suits, they do use drop pods for orbital drops and use similar tactics to the MI with individual units used as pinpoint attacks against key targets and what we would call shock and awe attacks designed to overwhelm and demoralize the enemy. The Halo prequel "Marathon" has a call back to a trooper decapitating himself when saluting during his first day in the Mjolnir armor, a nod to some of the MI suit training drills from the book. And lastly the Clan power armor from Battletech is strongly inspired by ST as well, with the power armors have the same immense mobility and heavy firepower (for infantry any way) tho the Clan suits aren't packing pocket nukes. They do look like the descriptions for the MI suits tho with the overlong arms and stocky body with oversized jump units on the back.
I find it kinda amusing That Studio Nue manage manage to make "book accurate" suit that actually fitting the book description of the armors all the ways back in mid-late 70s while most western depiction of powered armor at the same year's were mostly inaccurate to the book(just look at avalon hill boardgame armor LOL), hell I'm always wondering why didn't they ever try to made proper collaboration with Heinlein in the past.
@@tetsuoswrath I did mention Halo, or at least the early suits and the Prototype suit.. Mjolnir armor works very differently than that MI suits. It doesn't have jump capabilities or built in weapons like the MI suits do, but it's a lot more maneuverable and better protected with it's shields. Mjolnir armor is based more on the US Armies idea for a heavily armored strength enhancing suit of power armor than the STs idea of a one man assault unit that could easily take out enemy cities or fortifications on the jump.
Tomino wanted to make a war anime inspired by ST, but back in the day the super robot genre was the most lucrative one, and so Tomino was forced to include a boatload of super robot tropes into the series.
They share DNA. The Prototype is an iteration of Aramaki's Metal Skin MADOX, from the OVA of the same name. This, in turn, was inspired by the Marauder seen here done by Kazutaka Miyatake, of Macross and Space Battleship Yamato fame. Which, IN TURN, is an iteration on the original Naoyuki Kato design from 1975, which was some of the first graphical depiction of Power Armor... ever. Mr. Aramaki would also design John's suit from The Package IIRC, which would then be used as the basis for most of the Master Chief's designs in the modern day. Basically: Halo has a lot of Mecha in its family tree.
Damn... I so much wanted to see how the anime pictured the bugs... but the shots were too short. If I remember correctly, in the book they were discribed as intelligent creatures that looks like big ants.
Yeah, so far we haven't seen any 'true' form of the Arachnids in any media. Then again, the description of the books makes them look more like spiders with hands that carry pretty ordinary laser rifles, so it would probably look not all that inventive. In a way, I always imagined them more like Tyranids with more legs, given that they sometimes carry their living gun-thingies like guns.
@@dschehutinefer5627 well there's are actually some more depiction of novel Arachnids, but they were all in magazines and derivative works book and other boardgame....
Starship Troopers anime looks pretty cool especially the Mobile Infantry mech armors and the Bugs they fight against look more like alien parasites than arachnids. And Klendathu is like a jungle planet instead of a desert wasteland which heightens the danger of landing on a hostile alien planet.
The difference between Heinlein's romantization of a militarized society and Verhoeven's scathing satire thereof: life expectancy on the battlefield, as exemplified by quality of equipment.
I watched the Starship Troopers Anime hoping it was like the 97 film. Quite frankly it is different, perhaps a bit like the novel in tone at least a somewhat which makes it boring especially with so much stock footage, but with this video I noticed something wonderful...and that is that the amazing and epic Klendathu Drop music just makes it so much better. Thank you so much
Doubtful, Considering how obscure this anime is, hell even some SF(science fiction) fans in Japan don't even know it existence. (Although The 70s cover of the Japanese translation of the book powered armor might influenced halo) i could be wrong tho.
Ngl but i can't helped thinking to myself that, why is the power suit design resemble to the Metal Skin Panic Maddox' suit. And not to mentioned the anime art also familiar to that ova as well 🤔🤨.
1 was excellent for what the director was doing with it as a Holocayst survivor who was taking the piss out of the fascism and somewhat at the source material for its very militaristic and some fascist heroes (The Federation) by making overtures such as Carl's uniform. 2 was great as a self contained story from the grunts view. Not a hero of the Federation like Rico, Carmen, Dax, or Carl. But from a bunch of nobody grunts who hot chewed up and spit out, but also fought a new threat and came out on top in a way. 3 was awful. 4 was good for a follow up to 3, just kinda all over the place. 5 was good as well. It played the politics of the world building well, and escalated the bug threat while giving us a few new names to keep a look out for.
@@TheReclaimer2552 Those are movies 4 and 5 of the series respectively. Only difference is they're CGI. But they follow the same characters and storyline stemming from the 1997 films, so it is most definitely a continuation.
@@chayudyodchit2872 well yes a cockpit in essence could be considered a scaled-up helmet. Technically a vehicle's chassis functions as armor, in the same way
Now we need the animation quality of Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust and a full anime series with 20 episode and I am set. Time to get us some. Especially with the new game coming out
Does anyone think the new troopers are using power armors of the fallen instead of new ones? That guy just said if they don't bring them back, war funding would be tight. Maybe making new ones is prohibitedly expensive and like the guy said about not try to win medals and the suits are much worthy than the men themselves hence the importance of bringing them back even if the soldiers inside KIA.
No, it looks more like pre-battle laughs and jokes, to make sure the guys don't get too nervous before their real fight. And also a round-about, almost tsundere, way of telling them to come back alive.
The suit's probably toast if the pilot it was protecting is dead. But it can run out of power and fuel. And you can bet you are going to be yelled at for losing the most advanced weapon system mankind has to offer. The suit is probably designed in a way that even if it were destroyed, the pilot may yet live. That way, if the suit sustained such heavy damage that the pilot inside was killed, it probably means that all the expensive parts of fine machinery and electronics were destroyed as well and what is left of the suit is now srap metal. It may even employ self-destruction systems so that it cannot be reverse-engineered by the enemy.
Variations of "Careful with that [x], trooper, it's worth a lot more than you are" have been part of the military experience since the time when horse cavalry and iron weapons were the new hotness.
Paul Verhoven literally never read the book. He intended to set out and make a movie called "Bug Hunt on Planet P" making fun of Aliens. and then the studio told him they had the rights to Starship Troopers, and gave him the rights. So he made a Anti-Naxi Propaganda film, and missed the entire point of Heinlein's book.
@@BarrowDAMarine i heard that the scrip writer of the movie version did read the book tho (although his reliability is a bit "questionable"). The movie also didn't include the skinnies for some reason.
@@maxcooper6554 Ummm, what does a citizen of Buenos Aires look like? "Thus, most Argentines are descendants of these 19th and 20th century immigrants, with about 97% of the population being of European or partial European descent and mestizo." If you look at wikipedia, you realize that it's an even bigger weird ass melting pot than the U.S.A.
@@Fyrebrand18Yes in the book he specifies his native language is Tagalog...evidently Heinlein wanted to point out that in the Starship Trooper future even people from former 'colonial' lands were considered first class citizens.
@@tehteh9893 probably because there's a new Starship Troopers RTS game (based around the film) that's just come out, and campaigns are being live streamed on YT
Funny because in the books and the CGI movies (Invasion and Traitor from Mars) Mobile infantry are fielded using their signature power armor. However the live action movies and the animated series, they wear ordinary gear.
@@kuyagab4444 the director of the film was given a choice by the CGI artists, he could have decent bugs, or decent armour, the budget couldn't do both.
This goes to show I think just how out of place the music in the OVA feels. It's not bad music, it just doesn't ever fit the context of the world and situation that is going on.
I thought it fit just fine, at least within the context of both the OVA's story and the timeframe of which it was made (the 80's). Then again, I may be biased, since I'm not really of fan of these generic "epic"-sounding film scores; I didn't even think it fit within the scene used in the video, though there was effort made.
@@ninertactics I see. They look awesome. Although they should have bombarded the planet first before landing their Mecha troops into the ground. Clear the way firsthand than be attacked by anti-air fire
@@ninertactics fun fact: starship troopers brought many inspiration for gundam, original Japanese title for gundam was "kidō senshi" which mean "mobile warrior" which was similar to Japanese translation of Mobile Infantry called "kidō hohei", gundam's mobile suits also originally going to be powered armor.
@@yuttorres2896 Exacto, por lo cual supongo que quiere decir que ésta animación pudo servir de inspiración para el diseño del casco de dicho personaje.
They Probably trying to conquering the planet, and orbital bombardment might damaging the planet ecosystem and resources. just like how Imperium of man sending marine and guardmans instead of just "exterminatus" entire xenos planet despite being xenophobic as fu*k. BTW at least this version is equipped with power armor.
Idk why, but can we get a freaking fire support laser cannon to the target area before we drop every ifantry we have??? What! No? Why? ... ... ... Because we need plot armor? Ow?
Except it has a horrible fragment where Rico saves a guy and then gets beaten by his commander for not following order to leave the place. While the book teaches that you must never ever leave your people in trouble. This episode shat on the book in a much worse way than Verhoeven's satirical movie.
@@arx3516 what? the helmet literally is like the cockpit of an MBR-4 tomahawk destroid from macross, in fact, the entire marauder armor is closer to a tomahawk with external weapons
@@chayudyodchit2872 I appreciate the guidance on this one thank you. It’s interesting to note that the same team who made this also worked on several Gundam series with Tomino from sunrise
I have "known" about this anime, ever since a drawing of the suit appeared in "Animag"magazine. In all my life, scouring comic book stores, when anime was underground-ish, then places like Suncoast video had oodles of shelf space to anime, then the internet, and searching many many times. This is the first time, I've ever known that it actually existed. (Other than the one drawing. ) this..is...crazy. after all the years of searching, a random algorithm of youtube, suddenly says "yo, ever heard of this?" It's like the right code word was never used, to unlock what I desperately was searching for. Now like 30 years too late, I'm happy, but......mehhh. So outdated. Lol
Which year did you saw the powered armor?
@@chayudyodchit2872 was in 88 or an 89 issue of Animag, or Animerica . In the upcoming anime section. Was a black and white line drawing of the powered armor. with about a 1/4 page description, of details. That's alI ever heard. No release dates, no coverage/media in any form, no reviews, toys. Nothing. I really wanted to see this year's ago. I honestly thought it never got funded. And here it is.
i've seen a black and white drawing of the power armor, probably the same one, for years. seen it as being from a starship troopers anime but yeah, never even seen anything else about it till now.
@@mephosto Exactly. I thought it was a failed project, like...vaporware. Never seen a frame/cell, trailer, until a few days ago, since the 80s. As far as the suit goes, it definitely is better than the movies combat armor. And I forgive, some lack of details, and up to interpretation. If I remember correctly the book said the powered suits were "ape like" and fairly tall. Nothing Gundam sized, but quite a bit taller than a human. Maybe 9 to 12 feet? I also remember the book talking about the headgear internals. Some5hing about, if you rear your head back quickly, ( or maybe downwards?) It would activate a small bank of nipples to suck on. (Stimulant, painkiller, food) I can't remember, but I think there was a mass hypnosis "sleep" broadcaster from a command suit to the lower ranking members(??)
@@animationcycles7109 how accurate do you think this armor is to the book?
(Also before you editing your comment, you said that you saw the armor back in 1986-87, was it a mistake?)
This scene shows us just how much Halo was inspired by Starship Troopers.
*Literally almost every sci-fi power armor and military was inspired by Starship troopers*
@@chayudyodchit2872Warframe disagrees.
@@Victor-056 They did say "almost".
The helmet is very similar to Spartan helmet of Máster Chief.
Yep.
About time someone made something like this, the kick ass music from the movie turned to the closest adaptation of the Starship Troopers book.
It feels very nostalgic to hear that song and the movie again
This was released in Japan way back 1988, I've known about it for years but could never find a copy. A friend mentioned it to me, said it was much closer to the book then the over-the-top live-action movie ever was. There is a lot of really cool stuff in Japan that slowly makes it way west.
This one is almost a lost media. Fortunately, somebody did manage to preserve it on TH-cam.
Now This is the Starship Troopers I Remember! "Come On You Apes You Want To Live Forever!"
I'd no idea this anime existed. It's really well-suited (no pun intended) to the book. It's close ti what I was picturing whilst reading it. The music goes well with it too. Thank you!
Starship Troopers is one of those things where the book, anime series, anime movies and the live action movies have sort of all blended into one. Like for example how most book readers hate the movie, yet most can agree that Casper Van Dean is the definitive Johnny Rico. Also the Klendathu Drop music which goes well with everything
Agreed. The book was way ahead of its time. The live action movie actually gave me migraines lol. This anime is almost exactly what I imagined the story to be like.
@@phantomwraith1984 Problem is the movie is a satire. Its not meant to be like the book, and that's what I think divides the fans. The producer and director felt the book would be viewed as fascist, which isn't true, but, people cant think that deep these days. Plus no one actually read Robert Heinlein's thoughts on the book. He didn't think the world he built in the book would work. Starship Troopers was a fantasy, an exercise in thought. He was exploring different ideas of government. Who would be 'worthy' to be in politics? That sort of thing. Either way, the book was great, and this anime does a fantastic job of expressing it. The movie, if taken as the satire it is, is actually kind of funny. That scene were the teacher is clapping as her students smash bugs on the concrete? Perfect. 🤣 If you haven't watched the movie and think of it as a satire, a comedy, I recommend you watch it again with that in mind. You might find a new appreciation for it. I love both for what they are and try not to blend any of them. The book, the movie, this anime, or the computer animated series of movies. All stand on their own merit for what they are. Explorations of the idea behind Starship Troopers. Heinlein would be pleased people are still thinking about this subject.
@@phantomwraith1984 I also don't see the selfproclaimed book fans campaigning for book bugs or their stickmen allies not portrayed properly. They just want book power suit to crush movie bugs ie they want cheap power fantasy. Based on weakest and most boring Heinlein's book:(
@@b.thomas8926 problem is that 99% of book fans just aren't. They're fans of Halo or Starcraft or anime or whatever, but not of the book.
They also quote director on his interview where he said that he didn't read the book. Not thinking that he might have trolled them. But yeah, his goal was satire of Desert Storm media campaign and sudden shift from Cold War "war is horrible" message to post Cold War glorification of war. Same thing as why Putin's Russia isn't showing soviet era WWII movies anymore on WWII related commemoration dates - all those movies were antiwar ones. Problem is that he wouldn't get funding and support on an openly antiamerican movie that critiques current events during such massive media coverage backed by both financial and political capital. So his way around that was to say that he's making a sci-fi movie and look up what IPs were available. Book talked about faraway fantasy, movie talked about nowadays reality\/(-_-)\/ The fact that this is misunderstood is a commentary on the latter in on itself...
"We are going in first wave. Means more bugs for us to kill. You smash the entire area. Kill anything that has more than two legs, you get me?"
Remember the K9 units were dropping also, don't get so enthusiastic that you kill the help.
"We Get You Sir!"
Sarge: Remember your training and you will make it home alive!
Sir Yes Sir!
"WE GET YOU SIR!"
"They're killing the trees? Those bastards!"
-some soldier of the mobile infantry
The tree speak bug. Kill'em all!
"Do you want to know more?"
They should bombarded the planet first before landing.
In the novel, the sgt says that that the suit, with the actual 2 cents a trooper is worth, is worth a lot. So bring them back.
I always wondered if they mostly wearing old ones and may also worn by the fallen before them.
@@Joshua_N-A I wondered if that line in the book was intended as a subtle hint about the true nature of the Terran Federation. Then again it might just be me reading the book 55 years after it was published; different generation having different perspective.
If that was during the bootcamp part of the novel. It was most likely an insult
The weapon or vehicle is as important as the user inside, more so the user actually. You can't make another soldier, you can however replace it, but will the soldier be as effective as the one it replaced? Doesn't help when the Terran Federation is an all-volunteer army and has no conscription what so ever so they actually want their soldiers back alive.
However, you can always make as many tanks, guns, and planes as the armed forces needs/wants.
@@HumanPhilosopherPatriot do you think the book deserve a sequel?.
@@HumanPhilosopherPatriot It was right before the big invasion that went horribly wrong.
You have no idea how much I wanted this.
Thank you, but slapping music over video isn't too hard. I sped up a bit the part before 2:30, but that's all.
teh Smile teh Smile man, it doesn’t matter. I know it isn’t hard but for someone who doesn’t really have the means to make something like this, it’s a godsend. I sat and waited hoping that something like this would eventually become a thing. Even if the anime has a kickass OST, this needed to happen.
It's the Book Starship Troopers that started the trend for armour suits over the magical robots that dominated anime into the 1970s.
Armoured Trooper Votoms was the first really big one, but never knew a true Starship Troopers anime existed.
Isn't Gundam credited with the invention of the real robot genre ?
@@skaff7807 The animation seems a lot newer than mobile suit gundam this seems something along the 90 rather than the 80
Warhammer 40k also seems to have taken inspiration from it. Just compare this here with how the Astartes Space Marines conduct planetary assault with drop pods from orbit, not to mention they're wearing power armor.
Nothing matches quite to the book. This came close, and Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars was close.
Drop pods that split apart like onions.
Deploy, nuke, limited engagement with enemy combatants, and then high-tail it to the extraction site. That is essentially what the book is.
@@doublep1980 both also used explosive weaponry's (Astartes had Boltgun and Mobile Infantry had "Y-rack" and shoulder-mounted rocket launcher). Both were also pretty brutal in melee combat (although MI usually avoiding it)
For those who didn’t know, this anime was adapted in 1988 and was inspired by the original Starship Troopers author. The book series came first, the anime, then the movie.
…my friend only found out about Starship Troopers because of the Kaguya S2 Ending…
Kaguya S2 ending what?
@@Gr1nd0r There's an anime called Kaguya: Love is War Season 2 Ultra Romantic.
A romance anime.
Their whole ending credits for each episode is a whole animated tribute to Starship Troops. To the dropships in orbit, to the armor suits and guns. All really-well animated.
@@SkibbyDooBop Oh Kaguya-sama, I only ever watched the first Season, alright I'll check it out
So they all had power armor?
@@qevansable in the books yes, tho I find the movies more entertaining
Much truer to the book than the USA made movie. Well done!
I would actually like to know more!
I didn't realize these guys had Mjolnir Mark IV helmets
Some random trivia- the anime for Starship troopers came out in 1988, but it had been in development in various forms since the late 70's. Tomino, the creator of Mobile Suit Gundam cited ST as his main inspiration- and its why the mecha in Gundam are called "mobile suits"- as in Mobile Infantry. Early designs for this ST power armor can be seen in the Daicon III opening Animation fan film which is easy to find on TH-cam- and it was made in 1981. After this anime, similar designs show up in Madox 01 and in the Halo Legends anime shorts. Similar designs also show up in the Machine Krieger sci fi manga and novel series.
Non-anime related nods to ST show up a lot in Wh40k with the Space Marines and their power armor, tho the suits in 40k aren't as mobile and heavily armed as Mobile Infantry suits, they do use drop pods for orbital drops and use similar tactics to the MI with individual units used as pinpoint attacks against key targets and what we would call shock and awe attacks designed to overwhelm and demoralize the enemy. The Halo prequel "Marathon" has a call back to a trooper decapitating himself when saluting during his first day in the Mjolnir armor, a nod to some of the MI suit training drills from the book. And lastly the Clan power armor from Battletech is strongly inspired by ST as well, with the power armors have the same immense mobility and heavy firepower (for infantry any way) tho the Clan suits aren't packing pocket nukes. They do look like the descriptions for the MI suits tho with the overlong arms and stocky body with oversized jump units on the back.
I find it kinda amusing That Studio Nue manage manage to make "book accurate" suit that actually fitting the book description of the armors all the ways back in mid-late 70s while most western depiction of powered armor at the same year's were mostly inaccurate to the book(just look at avalon hill boardgame armor LOL), hell I'm always wondering why didn't they ever try to made proper collaboration with Heinlein in the past.
No mention of Halo?
@@tetsuoswrath I did mention Halo, or at least the early suits and the Prototype suit.. Mjolnir armor works very differently than that MI suits. It doesn't have jump capabilities or built in weapons like the MI suits do, but it's a lot more maneuverable and better protected with it's shields. Mjolnir armor is based more on the US Armies idea for a heavily armored strength enhancing suit of power armor than the STs idea of a one man assault unit that could easily take out enemy cities or fortifications on the jump.
@@Scudboy17 yeah but you mentioned Marathon, not Halo itself is why I asked.
Tomino wanted to make a war anime inspired by ST, but back in the day the super robot genre was the most lucrative one, and so Tomino was forced to include a boatload of super robot tropes into the series.
Glory to Roger Young!!
'shines the name, of Rodger Young!'
'Kill the enemy, aid your buddies, MAKE PICK-UP!'
I can’t unsee the HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL suit from Halo Legends in these suits. Extremely cool.
They share DNA. The Prototype is an iteration of Aramaki's Metal Skin MADOX, from the OVA of the same name.
This, in turn, was inspired by the Marauder seen here done by Kazutaka Miyatake, of Macross and Space Battleship Yamato fame.
Which, IN TURN, is an iteration on the original Naoyuki Kato design from 1975, which was some of the first graphical depiction of Power Armor... ever.
Mr. Aramaki would also design John's suit from The Package IIRC, which would then be used as the basis for most of the Master Chief's designs in the modern day.
Basically: Halo has a lot of Mecha in its family tree.
We're riding a express elevator to hell boys! Woooooooo
Damn... I so much wanted to see how the anime pictured the bugs... but the shots were too short.
If I remember correctly, in the book they were discribed as intelligent creatures that looks like big ants.
The "bugs" in this version were parasitic alien lifeform instead of being insectoid.
Yeah, so far we haven't seen any 'true' form of the Arachnids in any media. Then again, the description of the books makes them look more like spiders with hands that carry pretty ordinary laser rifles, so it would probably look not all that inventive. In a way, I always imagined them more like Tyranids with more legs, given that they sometimes carry their living gun-thingies like guns.
@@dschehutinefer5627 well there's are actually some more depiction of novel Arachnids, but they were all in magazines and derivative works book and other boardgame....
this is how the book says they look I need to see this anime!
Starship Troopers anime looks pretty cool especially the Mobile Infantry mech armors and the Bugs they fight against look more like alien parasites than arachnids.
And Klendathu is like a jungle planet instead of a desert wasteland which heightens the danger of landing on a hostile alien planet.
The difference between Heinlein's romantization of a militarized society and Verhoeven's scathing satire thereof: life expectancy on the battlefield, as exemplified by quality of equipment.
Did anyone else noticed those helmets look like Spartan's... and the armor looks like the one in Ghost... Halo is a copy :0
A lot of things copied Starship Troopers; Halo, Aliens, Warhammer 40k, and so on.
Heh ... Dropping feet first into hell .. Is one thing but dropping into it with power armor is another
And so many of them got killed before they even land
@@TheWarmachine375 which makes the quote " lives spent or lives wasted "
@@millerlucerojames That is true
@@TheWarmachine375 also wonder how many made it ... ( and soiled them self upon dropping)
@@millerlucerojames Probably a lot
I watched the Starship Troopers Anime hoping it was like the 97 film. Quite frankly it is different, perhaps a bit like the novel in tone at least a somewhat which makes it boring especially with so much stock footage, but with this video I noticed something wonderful...and that is that the amazing and epic Klendathu Drop music just makes it so much better. Thank you so much
It just require a good epic theme
It's the closet thing we will get to the book.
@@warhawk4494 Indeed
@@simonx760 I agree
@@EternalRoman yup and it's a nice short 6 episodes. It's free on TH-cam btw.
I think it's safe to say this anime had a very big influence on Halo.
Doubtful, Considering how obscure this anime is, hell even some SF(science fiction) fans in Japan don't even know it existence. (Although The 70s cover of the Japanese translation of the book powered armor might influenced halo)
i could be wrong tho.
more like the books itself inspired 40k
Ngl but i can't helped thinking to myself that, why is the power suit design resemble to the Metal Skin Panic Maddox' suit. And not to mentioned the anime art also familiar to that ova as well 🤔🤨.
Excelente banda sonora más para un clásico anime con el mismo nombre.
Powered Armor and a non-human enemy that uses weapons. Sure looks a LOT more like the excellent Book then those horrible movies! Awesome indeed.
1 was excellent for what the director was doing with it as a Holocayst survivor who was taking the piss out of the fascism and somewhat at the source material for its very militaristic and some fascist heroes (The Federation) by making overtures such as Carl's uniform. 2 was great as a self contained story from the grunts view. Not a hero of the Federation like Rico, Carmen, Dax, or Carl. But from a bunch of nobody grunts who hot chewed up and spit out, but also fought a new threat and came out on top in a way. 3 was awful. 4 was good for a follow up to 3, just kinda all over the place. 5 was good as well. It played the politics of the world building well, and escalated the bug threat while giving us a few new names to keep a look out for.
@@kyrusdrax2664 Funny how it took a jew to show 1997 how based of a society it could have been.
@@kyrusdrax2664 where are you getting films 4 and 5? are you referring to Invasion and Traitor of Mars?
@@JoveJovedThe irony is not missed by me lol
@@TheReclaimer2552 Those are movies 4 and 5 of the series respectively. Only difference is they're CGI. But they follow the same characters and storyline stemming from the 1997 films, so it is most definitely a continuation.
Damn, wonder how much the helmets in this inspired the Mjolnir one
The "helmet" were a cockpit in this
@@chayudyodchit2872 well yes a cockpit in essence could be considered a scaled-up helmet. Technically a vehicle's chassis functions as armor, in the same way
Bro that armor' helmet looks suspiciously like Mjolnir.
Yeah, except for it being 20 years before HALO
@@maxcooper6554 I know, someone at Bungie must have been a fan
@@BigChap117 probably big fans of early 80s mecha and powered armor anime in general. Orange was a popular color for suit visors back then.
just take a look to the tomahawk destroid from macross, that i think predates this anime
@@picoletor this power armor design was a redesign of 1977 studio nue illustration of the novel, which predate entire real robot genre.
Now we need the animation quality of Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust and a full anime series with 20 episode and I am set. Time to get us some. Especially with the new game coming out
Does anyone think the new troopers are using power armors of the fallen instead of new ones? That guy just said if they don't bring them back, war funding would be tight. Maybe making new ones is prohibitedly expensive and like the guy said about not try to win medals and the suits are much worthy than the men themselves hence the importance of bringing them back even if the soldiers inside KIA.
No, it looks more like pre-battle laughs and jokes, to make sure the guys don't get too nervous before their real fight. And also a round-about, almost tsundere, way of telling them to come back alive.
The suit's probably toast if the pilot it was protecting is dead. But it can run out of power and fuel. And you can bet you are going to be yelled at for losing the most advanced weapon system mankind has to offer.
The suit is probably designed in a way that even if it were destroyed, the pilot may yet live. That way, if the suit sustained such heavy damage that the pilot inside was killed, it probably means that all the expensive parts of fine machinery and electronics were destroyed as well and what is left of the suit is now srap metal. It may even employ self-destruction systems so that it cannot be reverse-engineered by the enemy.
In the "Vorkosigan Saga" the P. Armours had a recovery system to allow to save them also if the man/woman inside was dead/incapacitated
Variations of "Careful with that [x], trooper, it's worth a lot more than you are" have been part of the military experience since the time when horse cavalry and iron weapons were the new hotness.
It's just the old joke about parachutes: 'if it doesn't work, bring it back and we'll issue you another one'.
That's what the movie really missed: those suits!
Paul Verhoven literally never read the book. He intended to set out and make a movie called "Bug Hunt on Planet P" making fun of Aliens. and then the studio told him they had the rights to Starship Troopers, and gave him the rights. So he made a Anti-Naxi Propaganda film, and missed the entire point of Heinlein's book.
@@BarrowDAMarine i heard that the scrip writer of the movie version did read the book tho (although his reliability is a bit "questionable"). The movie also didn't include the skinnies for some reason.
It’s a weird coincidence how both the anime and the film ended up changing Rico’s ethnicity.
Either they don't know or care what a citizen of Buenos Ares (SP?) looks like
@@maxcooper6554 Ummm, what does a citizen of Buenos Aires look like?
"Thus, most Argentines are descendants of these 19th and 20th century immigrants, with about 97% of the population being of European or partial European descent and mestizo."
If you look at wikipedia, you realize that it's an even bigger weird ass melting pot than the U.S.A.
@@maxcooper6554 He’s supposed to be Filipino.
@@Fyrebrand18 thanks for the infodump
@@Fyrebrand18Yes in the book he specifies his native language is Tagalog...evidently Heinlein wanted to point out that in the Starship Trooper future even people from former 'colonial' lands were considered first class citizens.
Finally, I find a book accurate depiction of what the starship troopers should look like. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Did I got picked by TH-cam algorithms? This video got many views lately.
@@tehteh9893 probably because there's a new Starship Troopers RTS game (based around the film) that's just come out, and campaigns are being live streamed on YT
Funny because in the books and the CGI movies (Invasion and Traitor from Mars) Mobile infantry are fielded using their signature power armor. However the live action movies and the animated series, they wear ordinary gear.
@@kuyagab4444 the director of the film was given a choice by the CGI artists, he could have decent bugs, or decent armour, the budget couldn't do both.
@@grizzlynad For Verheoven's (SP?) sake, I'm glad he chose the bugs!
Love the sound
The suit helmet really looks like the Spartan armor from halo
Looks like the third season of robotech.
The original Helldivers!
This goes to show I think just how out of place the music in the OVA feels. It's not bad music, it just doesn't ever fit the context of the world and situation that is going on.
I thought it fit just fine, at least within the context of both the OVA's story and the timeframe of which it was made (the 80's). Then again, I may be biased, since I'm not really of fan of these generic "epic"-sounding film scores; I didn't even think it fit within the scene used in the video, though there was effort made.
back then in the '80s they shoved pop music everywhere.
Says you in 2021. It fit for the time and if you view it knowing it was made in the late 80’s it makes perfect sense.
Wow , cool, also did not know there was an anime. I was kinda underwhelmed I thought the mech suits were larger based from the book.
It was unlikely to be much larger, the skinnies were taller than them as far as i know.
It would be cool to see them as mobile suits
@@TheWarmachine375 yeah, I thought it was the western minds equivalent of how Japanese see mobile suits in the book.
@@ninertactics I see. They look awesome.
Although they should have bombarded the planet first before landing their Mecha troops into the ground.
Clear the way firsthand than be attacked by anti-air fire
@@ninertactics fun fact: starship troopers brought many inspiration for gundam, original Japanese title for gundam was "kidō senshi" which mean "mobile warrior" which was similar to Japanese translation of Mobile Infantry called "kidō hohei", gundam's mobile suits also originally going to be powered armor.
3:59 This one's was taken from russians: that's how their airborne BMD's land.
Es curioso pero la forma de los cascos externos del traje se asemejan mucho a los del Jefe Maestro de los videojuegos de Halo.
Esto vino mil años ante que halo
@@yuttorres2896 Exacto, por lo cual supongo que quiere decir que ésta animación pudo servir de inspiración para el diseño del casco de dicho personaje.
I know power armors have been around forever but have the makers ever sued the creators of halo? Master chief looks just like these mechs
They should sues GW for WH40k design.
Is there any chance halo took Inspiration for spartan armor from this? Even the eco suit in the animated multi series movie
The way the helmets are shaped remind me of Halo armor. Maybe this would be a time to catch up on some grass touch…
"Live forever, apes."
looks more like the book, sad this kind of proyects never go further
Design drop pod for your troop by making it looks like a white coffin is indeed the most evil thing a man can do.
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Damn shit!
Is it a full range anime of Best of the Best Sci-Fi action? Closest to book as can be?
Where can I watch this!?!?!?!?
TheVortechz, right here, on TH-cam...
WHY WHY NOW OF ALL TIMES
DAMN YOU ALGORITHM!!!!
I want to see it the other way around now
Wish there was at least a DVD release of this.
No orbital bombardment of the Landing Zone before drop? These guys are bad as thier live action counterparts. 😂
They Probably trying to conquering the planet, and orbital bombardment might damaging the planet ecosystem and resources. just like how Imperium of man sending marine and guardmans instead of just "exterminatus" entire xenos planet despite being xenophobic as fu*k. BTW at least this version is equipped with power armor.
Well I guess we know where halo ripped of the chiefs helmet from, damn
On the bounce
The helmet remind me Máster Chief
First iteration Thunder warriors.
Mobile Infantry, best Infantry in existance.
Halo before halo
Spartan-IIs in their rookie days!
0:17 would you like to know more?
They should try to remake it , but with a real anime serie, with modern animation tech it could be awesome!(Think 86 on steroids)
Try looking at Invasion or Traitor of Mars
Mom: we already have starship trooper anime at home
Starship trooper anime at home: *kaguya sama love is war season 3's ending*
Just say you don’t like this.
They are in the trees !
I kind of want to assemble a team to make a redub of this now.
I was actually thinking of doing that. Might start doing that in the summer.
Ok but Rico must be voiced by Rico
Live forever, apes
Lost planet vibes 😎
This is from 1988, no wonder the anime looks old... Now I kinda wanna watch it, where can one find it?
th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=starship+troopers+anime
Idk why, but can we get a freaking fire support laser cannon to the target area before we drop every ifantry we have??? What! No? Why?
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Because we need plot armor? Ow?
A trooper in this can shoot a nuke while flying tho
Holy fuck i clicked on this vid and now the recommends are nothing but Toys and Colors videos.
So this is where they got the idea for spartan armor
もちろん存在は知っていましたが「宇宙の戦士」のアニメ、初めて観ました！
I have some question, why don't Studio Nue try doing some collaboration with Heinlein during late 70s and 80s?.
@@chayudyodchit2872 .
Isn't this the case with this anime?
Is it wrong?
@@0000syuable does Heinlein even aware of this OVA?.
1:00 HALO?
You dumb?
Is it just me or does that chick in the beginning look like Ellen Ripley?
This is much faithful to the book, the live-action only got boobs and gore
Except it has a horrible fragment where Rico saves a guy and then gets beaten by his commander for not following order to leave the place. While the book teaches that you must never ever leave your people in trouble. This episode shat on the book in a much worse way than Verhoeven's satirical movie.
@@tehteh9893 ah that
@@tehteh9893 to be fair, I'm pretty sure the "no one's must be left behind" things in the book was only referring to fellows MI's.
And it's only available on laserdisc
I didn't knew arachnids were amorphous blobs of flesh
Me too and I see the Starship Troopers have mobile suits
Daaamn bungie are hacks lol
Anyone else see master chief helmet design in these guys power armor?
Yes, 9000 people wrote the same thing before you.
They look odly similar to someone
It would be awesome to get a newer version of this.
If you don’t like this just say it.
@@tetsuoswrath I do I just would like to see an updated version with better animation that's all.
EDF EDF!
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Why are there so many recent comments here?
Where’re the bugs?
They're the slug looking things spitting plasma.
Activision has em all
Waitaminute..... A ST anime?! With all that gore? Just tell me where in can get to watch it.
On TH-cam.
Masterchief armor before master chief....
Wait theres an animation besides from the 3d ones
the armor looks like a halo 40k mash up
I see a lot of Gundam in this. Tge suits look like stumpy GMs.
@@arx3516 I see it now. GM heads on xt-1 bodies (I think thats the one with the bulky removable armor)
@@arx3516 3:30
You can see this same backdrop in 8th MS Team
@@arx3516 what? the helmet literally is like the cockpit of an MBR-4 tomahawk destroid from macross, in fact, the entire marauder armor is closer to a tomahawk with external weapons
This looks like a older Sci-ago Anime from early 1980’s; not Starship Troopers. You have a source for this?
This is an adaptation of novel Starship Troopers which was released in 1959. the Anime name is "uchuu no senshi"
@@chayudyodchit2872 I appreciate the guidance on this one thank you. It’s interesting to note that the same team who made this also worked on several Gundam series with Tomino from sunrise
These be looking like Spartan Troopers with more bulk.
Looks sick, but why are the bugs shooting lazers? 😂 Reminds of tyranids haha
The bugs shot plasma in the movie. That said, these aren't really The Bugs, but are more generic aliens
The book bugs have energy gun.
@@chayudyodchit2872 Yeah, in the book, the bugs are a full on technology using space fairing civilization
I want to know more
Is it just me or do they look like Spartans from halo. Did halo copy this?
Look at those Master Chief wannabe.
-Some Halo Beyonce 2nd hand slaves
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Anime version
This is real?
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@@tehteh9893 i think "Starship Troopers OVA" works better
there a tv show to
what?
@@tehteh9893 starship troopers roughnecks chronicles its a CGI show that run on syfi you can find it on youtube