I gotta give Koji credit. He at least had the wherewithal to pick up the manual first before pressing any buttons. I figure he's a step ahead of most people on planet Earth in that regard.
If he was smart, he will have stop and give himself right at the start. But no, he goes around in a warmachine, killing people, shooting everywhere and putting everything and everyone in danger for no reason. Other his pride, who seem so big said "help me, I don't know how to go out of it" was to hard to even think about it. Honestly, as much it's fun to watch, it's also utterly idiotic and make 0 logic 🙄
I'd forgotten how insane the premise of this one was. Koji acts like it's absolutely normal to just roll over to Shinjuku to see his girl while he's stuck in a powered suit that he has totally just stolen. Props to the people of Tokyo not batting an eye at the armed mech walking in the crowd until the SDF showed up.🤣
@@pixelghostclyde8717 The lady said "I'll give you some pointers", so i'm assuming she told him that and some other things. Like the AR display for the left eye, etc. Off screen.
I cannot tell you how happy I am that you shared this. This Anime alone ignited the feeling of wanting to be a pilot myself, and started a lifelong addiction to all things mechanical. Since then, I am now a Retired US Army Tank crewman with real life battle experience. I was, for a short time, a real life mech Pilot.
Curious, and pardon my lack of military experience, what was your role in a tank? Was it the driver? the shell loader? And also what type of tank was it?
@@WindiChilliwack I was all four roles, starting with Driver. The last 3 are Loader, Gunner and Commander. I was on the M1 Abrams, the sub models being M1A1 AIM, M1A2 SEP, M1A2 SEP V2, M1A2 SEP V3. The only other Vehicle similar to the Abrams I was trained on was the XM1128 Stryker MGS, which I was a Gunner on for only a few months.
i wanted to join the military for the exact same reason but sadly i was rejected because i was asthmatic in my youth, this honestly sent me into a deep depression because all my life i worked towards that specific goal & put everything i had towards it physically and mentally but i couldn't get in, they even rejected my appeal you know the letter that says i'm fit and healthy by my doctor. the UK military is a joke even if we end up in a war tomorrow and they request my service i would tell them to go and F themselves! this comment honestly warms my cold dead heart that someone was able to share the same dream as me & wasn't cucked out of it like myself. please don't feel bad for me i'm currently happy, I currently work as a coded welder and build diesel hybrid exo suits in my free time just to scratch that itch. i like to think in an alternate timeline that i was hired, that with the militaries help an entire platoon was armed with my tech we might of had actual diesel powered mechs for war's.
Whoever made the subtitles on this is a champion. Descriptions like 'Deployment Twang' , 'Realization music' and 'Sexy heavy thudding' will forever stay with me to make me laugh.
Just watched it but I turned off the subs. Can you tell me when "sexy heavy thudding was put on cuz I saw the 1st two before I noticed that it's eng dub so I don't need the subs.
@@nikitaw1982 kinda irrelevant? Besides, comparing Disney's more fluid and wavey style to stuff like this which is emulating more realistic movement and detail is odd. It just seems like you're pissed peeps are appreciating old artwork.
In 1987, I was a university student. I rented it from a video rental shop and watched it, but I'm surprised that it was already 36 years ago. It's amazing how you can draw without relying on computer hooks.
It has a charm that doesn't exist anymore. Imagine this with smoother animation and more frames.....I miss all of those abime...Macross, Grendizer and Saint seiya were some of the treasures of the early 90s for me , being in junior high. Nowadays it's all copy paste of the same shit for the most....soulless. Rewatching AD police and rhe Appleseed as well as rhe older Gundam will out you back there everytime.🤙
Yeah i used to rent this occasionally in like -1990 or so from the video store across the street from my apt complex. I was 10 at the time. I never knew the name but it was "the anime where the guy finds a mech suit in a crate....." is how i remembered it. Finannly get to put a name to it.
This was one of the first anime I was exposed to as a kid, and remember being absolutely blown away. Glad to be able revist it after all these decades.
Japanese animation in 1987 was leagues ahead of western animation. I remember getting my first taste of anime with Fatal Fury while attending a summer math class.
@@BlueDepthsOuO it does allow high quality anime to be made at a cheaper price. Animation like this was expensive primarily due to the lack of techniques or technology to ease the process. One example of improvements to animation is: Utilizing 3d enviornments for 2d animation was first invented by Disney here in the US and was casted on the beauty and the beast animation. This technique is now used in anime because let's face it; No one wants to draw a background hundreds of times over. Now admittedly, the caveat to this is that it's stunning *because* every frame is a work of art, sometimes literally hand-drawn.
It’s from 1987 but it looks like it was released just yesterday. Amazing animation, colors and art design! Some scenes look even better than Disney movies.
Yeah, OVAs always got the heavy money because they were passion projects or proofs-of-concept, like polishing your elevator pitch. Nobody does them anymore, though - the companies care more about quantity shovelware than quality animation. This is terrific, though; the technical grasp of power armor mechanisms is peerless.
There's actually a lot of animation shortcuts throughout the production. Most crowd scenes are static, no one but the main lead is moving. The fight in the darkness was mostly black cells and flashing 'lights', it was the sound that did most of the work there. Other little tricks if you know what to look for But us the audience don't notice because of just how well done this is.
Saw this in 90 while in HS anime club where a bunch of us nerds would exchange vhs recordings from various sources. Stuck with me. Also got exposed to Berserk around that same time. Really memorable period for anime for me as toonami wasn’t that much later. Plus even western cartoons got good during that time.
i was in high school in the 80s... we had no anime club. to be honest, i felt like i was the only one who liked japanese animation when i was in high school lol... anime was at its peak art-wise, yet still so hard to find on vhs... you're really lucky you had friends to enjoy anime with :)
@@angeloppa the club was less than five and usually only three would show at any given meet up. We were just unpopular nerds then. Mostly just to exchange VHS and the odd acquired manga. We had one guy though who was a military brat and he got an issue of berserk way early compared to when the anime started and even we were like “WTF is this”. Still waiting on the end for that one (rip Miura) but the hardest thing to adjust to with the hobby is most series just stop without proper conclusions.
I was in HS in the mid to late 90s, and my first exposure to anime was the movie Ninja Scroll. The best anime vintage are movies/shows released in the late 80s to mid 90s. Which is the same vintage as this wonderful short movie, I really enjoyed it!!
Man. Back in the day. Was one of the first vids that I got when i sent tapes to big apple and other uni clubs to get dubbed and sent back. Watching anime with paper scripts printed out on door matrix roll with other enthusiasts. Good times. Dub crackle and constant tracking adjusting was irritating at the time but endearing when i remember it now. Fond memories, good times. I was surprised when the rtalsorian bought the rights for the bgc rpg and put madox in the same universe. I see the similarities to the adpolice suit but I always felt the timeline felt off since it didn't have any mention of initial labor boomers. Probably rtal pulling a harmony gold
I always loved the detail that's put into how the mech works and its mechanics, all the way down to the guy moving his fingers in the fight stick and trigger mechanism.
6:20 I thought this was going to be Engrish but it might have turned out to be Easter Eggs? •In 1982 Steven Lisberger directed Tron for Walt Disney Productions. •In 1984 Chris Courtois built the models for 2010 after previously working with Ridley Scott in 1982, building models for Bladerunner. I had to look this up on IMDB to interpret these “instructions”.
Animation is really good. Mecha and art style is awesome. I just started to watch this about an hour ago and caught myself on that my eyes are on the screen most of the time. Finally TH-cam recomendations works.
It's all you can expect from a late 80s - early 90s Sci-Fi Anime. Cheesy story, with some absolutely flat written stereotype characters, but the quality of the drawing and the effects and the action is still top notch. Still entertaining, even today.
Yeah the story is cheesy. I mean it skipped over the fact that this guy is going to spend the rest of his life in prison and he's never going to see that girl ever again. While he's in solitary confinement for the rest of his life for the death of the two pilots and destroyed Apache she'll probably be getting railed by some her husband.
Extreme amount of details. This is mindblowing masterpiece, not gonna lie. Modern anime titles just suck ass comparing to that golden japanese animation time.
I wouldn't say that most anime now sucks ass, I more so think that the focus shifted from sheer amount of detail to sheer expressiveness of the animation and special effects
I have this on VHS ,bought in the late 80's at a star trek convention .No subs then but you can guess the story. Nice to get the story in English all these years later.
Talk about a blast from the past. Metal Skin Panic Madox 01 was one of the many anime I was exposed to from my childhood in the 80's. My father was part of an anime bootleg group and this was one of the VHS tapes that was passed around. It didnt even have a subtitle track, but that didn't matter with all that awesome 80's animated mecha action.
Anime bootleg groups, i was in one of those in the 90s in Venezuela of all places, plenty of unsubbed or subbed in english tapes, with the rare english dub here an there, it was the last leg of the VHS format but as a third world country it took longer for DVD to fully replace it
This was absolutely amazing. Only real Anime fans will appreciate this more for just what it is. This was a small work of art but has a huge impact on Anime in general. This was my first time seeing it but I immediately recognized so many other animes in this work that it clearly inspired. Like Full Metal Panic, Blue Gender and GundamWing and probably more. To see eyarly roots of what I watch today is a blessing. Props to Cult Cinema Classics for uploading this for people like me to see it for free. This movie needs more love and respect 💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is a story of an alternate future where cellphones weren't created but amazing mechs are. If only this were true, I wouldn't have spam calls and I could run havok in a mech suit going to the grocery store. XD
The prime example of the pre-2000s _sakuga._ Modern anime studios, PLEASE bring this style of animation back. Let us current anime fans live through this kind of fluid hand-drawn cel animations, at least once.
Problem is that animators are not getting paid enough since the 80s. Not even enough to pay rent. But we might see something like this today if the show is a passion project rather than media machine with tight deadlines.
always watch your vids i find it really interesting living another life not that my life is bad but its crazy everyone reading this is alive and had a functioning brain reading out the words. and probably are much older or younger reminiscing about watching this when they were young.
Anyone else notice the references to Macross? The faceplate section of the Madox looks exactly like the bridge/faceplate section of the SDF-1. The "agency" was the SDF. Shiori looks exactly like Lynn Minmei. The first episode of Robotech has Rick ending up in a Veritech accidentally just this kid.
Nice anime, Golden age of Mech anime. Pity in recent years Mech anime sector has been so slow. Btw. 6:19 part is hilarious. "Walt Disney production:Steven Lisberger,Director "The design work for this feature started with the aircraft For this sequal to the famous 2001, I designed the exterior of the russian space ship Leonov. For the interior. Originally working personally with Ridley scott, I was"
6:19 Japoshka Englesiass 1. Walt Disney productions: Steven Lisberger, Director "The dasign work for this feature started with the Aircraft 2. For this sequel to the famous '2001' I designed the exterior of the Russian space ship Leonov. For the interior. 3. Originally, working personally with Ridley Scott, i was
There's this strange reverb to the audio throughout the entire film as if it was re-recorded through a sewer pipe... Visually it appears to be remastered. Very nice.
Oscars-level dialogue highlights: “It’s not worth turning Tokyo into another Vietnam.” “This scent… This taste… War is heaven!” “[DYNAMIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WITH SAXOPHONE SOLO]” 😂
That is the same voice of yuri in fist of the north star. "If you were willing to allow it" and "n...nooooo." Is the phrase. Its DEFINATELY her, as I really loved her voice acting in Fist of the North Star.
truly one of the all time greatest power armors/ mecha's ever put to animation every single thing about it to how it works to the weapons to the role it was intended for just works and don't get me started on the beutifly perfect mechanical animation just every single thing about this is just absolutely incredible !
Truly the cream of the crop for mech design. Hand drawn, realistic design, realistic sizing, very down to earth. Small truck sized is peak "tactical" mech design, just large enough to carry and safely fire antitank weaponry, small enough that multiple can be carried on trucks or transport aircraft. Any larger and square cube law makes them lumbering hulks, a category already well filled by tracked vehicles. Iron man sized exosuits don't have much of a role realistically, the need and balance for strength, speed, stealth, and functionality just doesn't mesh well at that size. You want more power, they become loud, slow, and fuel hungry. You want more stealth and ease of use, ask any hunter and they'll ask why bother with armor at all? Yeah gundams and gurren laganns are fun, but all suspension of disbelief and immersion goes out the window as soon as they mention fighting spirit or some other "magical" power source, or they miraculously power up or heal themselves simply because the pilot wanted it hard enough. It's assuming nobody gives a shit about the functionality, "hurr durr big metal man, metaphor for heavy handed politics and human drama" and not one step deeper. The Madox is shown being designed, tested in half built states. You can see how the pilot is supposed to fit, how each piece works to make this functional, and just for a moment, believe that someone with enough skill and funds could look at this and recreate a functional version in real life.
Stellar English subs by a true(ly jaded) fan of the genre. Knows all the tropes and loves them while laughing at them. XD Aside from HG's Robotech (for what that's worth), this was the first or second proper anime I ever saw.
The starcraft 2 wings of liberty intro cinematic is so similar to some of the shots with the guy in the suit at the beginning, I wonder if they took inspiration from this.
Miss that hand drawn grindhouse look. Truely time consuming and painful, but you cannot deny this is art. I would be honored to have one these stills framed on my wall. Now in days, they would have CGI for the vehicles and the it would be more glossier. Sad that it is the english and not japanese dub, however nonetheless I'm happy seeing this episode again. Had seen it once either 4AM Sci-Fi or early Cartoon Network when played all the cartoons that Disney didn't own.
With home studios and tech going off the rails in recent years, I'd really like to see a fan redub of this. Its really well done, it just lacks in the translation and delivery. I'd personally be happy to play anyone in this.
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80s 90s animation is truly the best.
absolutely agree, fucking prime
woman face 3:50
I had given up on the future and decided to go back to the past as well!
It’s got a great feel.
animation wise it usually is better, the uhhh english voiceover though is...ummm reallllllllyyyyyyy bad. could also be the script itself.
This is so perfect designed and fluid. In 90s they improved the art of animated movies to another level.
This was the 80s
I gotta give Koji credit. He at least had the wherewithal to pick up the manual first before pressing any buttons. I figure he's a step ahead of most people on planet Earth in that regard.
If he was smart, he will have stop and give himself right at the start.
But no, he goes around in a warmachine, killing people, shooting everywhere and putting everything and everyone in danger for no reason.
Other his pride, who seem so big said "help me, I don't know how to go out of it" was to hard to even think about it.
Honestly, as much it's fun to watch, it's also utterly idiotic and make 0 logic 🙄
@@ombrepourpre7562 And that's why, even though I love mechs, I can't watch this crap to the end. Even a six-year-old would have more sense.
"These guys want this mech back, but I don't know how to get out! I know! I'll throw an engine block at them. That'll help me get out."
RTFM in practice
Obviously, he didn't even knew how to turn the Madox on lol
imo 80s robot aesthetics beat modern ones by far
Ain't even a competition, grown man shouldn't punch a disabled baby...
not the mention the frames per second. i feel like 7 fps is considered super fluid by todays standards.
The imagination and design that goes into these machines is astounding
@@evgeniydeus8137 wait what.
@@kira516 A comparison.
I'd forgotten how insane the premise of this one was. Koji acts like it's absolutely normal to just roll over to Shinjuku to see his girl while he's stuck in a powered suit that he has totally just stolen.
Props to the people of Tokyo not batting an eye at the armed mech walking in the crowd until the SDF showed up.🤣
Country of annual kaiju attacks and battles. They're used to it lol
Just a cosplayer, nothin to see here.
>doesn't know how to leave the MADOX
>ejects from the MADOX at the climax of the movie
@@pixelghostclyde8717 We can roll it all into the unspecified tips Ellie Kusumoto gives him in the elevator after #0's legs get shot out. :P
@@pixelghostclyde8717 The lady said "I'll give you some pointers", so i'm assuming she told him that and some other things. Like the AR display for the left eye, etc. Off screen.
I cannot tell you how happy I am that you shared this. This Anime alone ignited the feeling of wanting to be a pilot myself, and started a lifelong addiction to all things mechanical. Since then, I am now a Retired US Army Tank crewman with real life battle experience. I was, for a short time, a real life mech Pilot.
Thank you for your service!
Curious, and pardon my lack of military experience, what was your role in a tank? Was it the driver? the shell loader? And also what type of tank was it?
@@WindiChilliwack I was all four roles, starting with Driver. The last 3 are Loader, Gunner and Commander. I was on the M1 Abrams, the sub models being M1A1 AIM, M1A2 SEP, M1A2 SEP V2, M1A2 SEP V3. The only other Vehicle similar to the Abrams I was trained on was the XM1128 Stryker MGS, which I was a Gunner on for only a few months.
i wanted to join the military for the exact same reason but sadly i was rejected because i was asthmatic in my youth, this honestly sent me into a deep depression because all my life i worked towards that specific goal & put everything i had towards it physically and mentally but i couldn't get in, they even rejected my appeal you know the letter that says i'm fit and healthy by my doctor.
the UK military is a joke even if we end up in a war tomorrow and they request my service i would tell them to go and F themselves! this comment honestly warms my cold dead heart that someone was able to share the same dream as me & wasn't cucked out of it like myself.
please don't feel bad for me i'm currently happy, I currently work as a coded welder and build diesel hybrid exo suits in my free time just to scratch that itch. i like to think in an alternate timeline that i was hired, that with the militaries help an entire platoon was armed with my tech we might of had actual diesel powered mechs for war's.
You should try Armored Core 6, you may enjoy yourself.
Whoever made the subtitles on this is a champion. Descriptions like 'Deployment Twang' , 'Realization music' and 'Sexy heavy thudding' will forever stay with me to make me laugh.
Just watched it but I turned off the subs. Can you tell me when "sexy heavy thudding was put on cuz I saw the 1st two before I noticed that it's eng dub so I don't need the subs.
@@AGleeBustHard69 it's been a bit but the first 15-20 min should have it somewhere. The entirety of the subtitles are a thing of beauty though.
@@Ali-Britco Thanks bro will check it out again. pretty cool OVA
It's within the first thirty seconds @@AGleeBustHard69, during the prototype walk cycle.
As a person hard of hearing, and a big fan of descriptive subtitles I applaud the Subtitles too!
36 years this animation looks so good
36 years ago wasn't the 50s.
It Ages Like Wine NGL
@@nikitaw1982Why bring up the 50's , conventional anime wasn't even around during then.
@@bingusshlingus1442 they’re acting like it was. Any way how old is Disney?
@@nikitaw1982 kinda irrelevant? Besides, comparing Disney's more fluid and wavey style to stuff like this which is emulating more realistic movement and detail is odd. It just seems like you're pissed peeps are appreciating old artwork.
In 1987, I was a university student. I rented it from a video rental shop and watched it, but I'm surprised that it was already 36 years ago. It's amazing how you can draw without relying on computer hooks.
It has a charm that doesn't exist anymore. Imagine this with smoother animation and more frames.....I miss all of those abime...Macross, Grendizer and Saint seiya were some of the treasures of the early 90s for me , being in junior high.
Nowadays it's all copy paste of the same shit for the most....soulless.
Rewatching AD police and rhe Appleseed as well as rhe older Gundam will out you back there everytime.🤙
Yeah i used to rent this occasionally in like -1990 or so from the video store across the street from my apt complex. I was 10 at the time. I never knew the name but it was "the anime where the guy finds a mech suit in a crate....." is how i remembered it. Finannly get to put a name to it.
That intro sequence was absolutely beautiful.
This was one of the first anime I was exposed to as a kid, and remember being absolutely blown away. Glad to be able revist it after all these decades.
Me too. 80/90's Anime is all I watch. I just can't get into this immature modern pussy shit.
@@stephenschenider4007gotta say some anime’s aren’t much better
I'm speaking generally.@@Democracyofficer22
@@stephenschenider4007 yeah everything made now is kinda shit, mostly the live action though
Everything about this from the premise to the subtitles is bonkers and it's hilarious, thanks for this upload!
The most impresive thing in this show is the structural integrity of the building
ITS Japan not china
Actually, there is no NSR Building in Shinjuku, but there is an NS Shinjuku Building.
@@memesfromdeepspace1075 haha. Funny stuff
Like your user name too
@@memesfromdeepspace1075You just dont remember 80s japanese buildings
"Sexy mecha stepping sounds"
*heavy breathing*
You have my attention
You're not supposed to believe the subtitles
For all we know bro, those sexy footsteps were mid at best
I thought it was sexy
What do you mean sexy footsteps ? Why sexy?
@@leonelbaez1785watch the opening with subtitles on. 😉
@@SHUT-UP_MEG They are sexy. What are you talking about?
Japanese animation in 1987 was leagues ahead of western animation. I remember getting my first taste of anime with Fatal Fury while attending a summer math class.
it's still leagues ahead of western animation
It's leagues ahead of modern anime, unfortunately.
Japanese animation was definitely not ahead, not technologically anyway.
Visually however, yeah it was far ahead.
While the tech influences how the animation could be made, having superior tech is not the prime factor of making a great anime.
@@BlueDepthsOuO it does allow high quality anime to be made at a cheaper price.
Animation like this was expensive primarily due to the lack of techniques or technology to ease the process.
One example of improvements to animation is: Utilizing 3d enviornments for 2d animation was first invented by Disney here in the US and was casted on the beauty and the beast animation.
This technique is now used in anime because let's face it;
No one wants to draw a background hundreds of times over.
Now admittedly, the caveat to this is that it's stunning *because* every frame is a work of art, sometimes literally hand-drawn.
It’s from 1987 but it looks like it was released just yesterday. Amazing animation, colors and art design! Some scenes look even better than Disney movies.
If it were released yesterday it would look like sh*t.
Late 80's and 90s anime were made with passion.
Disney trash is way overrated
Well, 80/90's "American" animation was in fact animated in asia.
Yeah, OVAs always got the heavy money because they were passion projects or proofs-of-concept, like polishing your elevator pitch. Nobody does them anymore, though - the companies care more about quantity shovelware than quality animation. This is terrific, though; the technical grasp of power armor mechanisms is peerless.
There's actually a lot of animation shortcuts throughout the production. Most crowd scenes are static, no one but the main lead is moving. The fight in the darkness was mostly black cells and flashing 'lights', it was the sound that did most of the work there. Other little tricks if you know what to look for But us the audience don't notice because of just how well done this is.
I wanna go back to the days of more prominent unique artstyles and funky sounds in anime
Culture is feminist now. Sorry
Whoever did the captioning for this video deserves a medal.
"sexy mecha sounds" "Mini Gun Brrrat" 🤣
Saw this in 90 while in HS anime club where a bunch of us nerds would exchange vhs recordings from various sources. Stuck with me. Also got exposed to Berserk around that same time. Really memorable period for anime for me as toonami wasn’t that much later. Plus even western cartoons got good during that time.
i was in high school in the 80s... we had no anime club. to be honest, i felt like i was the only one who liked japanese animation when i was in high school lol... anime was at its peak art-wise, yet still so hard to find on vhs... you're really lucky you had friends to enjoy anime with :)
@@angeloppa the club was less than five and usually only three would show at any given meet up. We were just unpopular nerds then. Mostly just to exchange VHS and the odd acquired manga. We had one guy though who was a military brat and he got an issue of berserk way early compared to when the anime started and even we were like “WTF is this”. Still waiting on the end for that one (rip Miura) but the hardest thing to adjust to with the hobby is most series just stop without proper conclusions.
I was in HS in the mid to late 90s, and my first exposure to anime was the movie Ninja Scroll. The best anime vintage are movies/shows released in the late 80s to mid 90s. Which is the same vintage as this wonderful short movie, I really enjoyed it!!
Man. Back in the day. Was one of the first vids that I got when i sent tapes to big apple and other uni clubs to get dubbed and sent back. Watching anime with paper scripts printed out on door matrix roll with other enthusiasts. Good times. Dub crackle and constant tracking adjusting was irritating at the time but endearing when i remember it now. Fond memories, good times.
I was surprised when the rtalsorian bought the rights for the bgc rpg and put madox in the same universe. I see the similarities to the adpolice suit but I always felt the timeline felt off since it didn't have any mention of initial labor boomers. Probably rtal pulling a harmony gold
Enviable.
I actually own this on VHS, very cool, love how the mechanics feel authentic, just like Patlabor does.
Take care, and all the best.
I always loved the detail that's put into how the mech works and its mechanics, all the way down to the guy moving his fingers in the fight stick and trigger mechanism.
Whoever did the subtitles, I love you.
Nostalgic. I saw this on a videotape I rented from a store in 1987. I was 17 years old at that time.
46 seconds in and the Closed Captioning is already amazing on this one.
I hope there will be more movies like this than the 90s80s anime. Thank you.
0:35 CC for the win. " [SEXY MECHA STEPPING SOUNDS]" 😂😂
23:46 [COOL ACTION MUSIC]
6:20 I thought this was going to be Engrish but it might have turned out to be Easter Eggs?
•In 1982 Steven Lisberger directed Tron for Walt Disney Productions.
•In 1984 Chris Courtois built the models for 2010 after previously working with Ridley Scott in 1982, building models for Bladerunner.
I had to look this up on IMDB to interpret these “instructions”.
Flashing green text over mecha schematics in the intro is full of somewhat nonsensical Easter eggs as well. Names of composers, planets etc.
It is English, it just doesn't make any sense. Its now my background. The manual has bits from a history book in it.
@@detectivepope I think about guns being shipped to North Korea,
Whoever did the subtitles for this is a genius.
Animation is really good. Mecha and art style is awesome. I just started to watch this about an hour ago and caught myself on that my eyes are on the screen most of the time. Finally TH-cam recomendations works.
It's all you can expect from a late 80s - early 90s Sci-Fi Anime. Cheesy story, with some absolutely flat written stereotype characters, but the quality of the drawing and the effects and the action is still top notch. Still entertaining, even today.
Yeah the story is cheesy. I mean it skipped over the fact that this guy is going to spend the rest of his life in prison and he's never going to see that girl ever again. While he's in solitary confinement for the rest of his life for the death of the two pilots and destroyed Apache she'll probably be getting railed by some her husband.
well, english voice makes thing stupid
What I love most about this era is the explosions. Every one of them was literally a work of art. 😎
Animators make this masterpiece in 1987 without any computer programs. While even now it's quite difficult to find something like this... 🔥🔥🔥
Extreme amount of details. This is mindblowing masterpiece, not gonna lie. Modern anime titles just suck ass comparing to that golden japanese animation time.
Were you considering a lie?
@@Sandman_Slim what do you mean? Lie in animation? Or lie in my words?
I wouldn't say that most anime now sucks ass, I more so think that the focus shifted from sheer amount of detail to sheer expressiveness of the animation and special effects
What about AOT or Demon Slayer? I'm pretty sure these don't suck
@@armorpro573 entirely different levels, my friend. Like sky and the ground. You'll never see animations like these anymore. Never.
Love the mech suit design, also the fine print is worth a second look.
I always like this kinda art style they chose for these anime back in the days! Tons of great artists n animators.
That Mechanical Design is better than most of Mecha anime now days
Absolutely a gem, majestic handmade animation. After minute 28 storyline gets quite illogical but it's an anime so it makes perfectly sense
Thanks!
Thanks a million for your support!
I have this on VHS ,bought in the late 80's at a star trek convention .No subs then but you can guess the story. Nice to get the story in English all these years later.
There was a kickstarter a few years back to get it released on blue-ray. I managed to get one, and one of the original cels at 21:09 :)
And that's how you put your souls by animating the details
I really miss 80s-90s animation.
Dudes was having a blast drawing this, it looks like.
@@clashnytechyeah. These days animation generally seems lazy. Unless you threw money on it.
This is what got me hooked on anime sci-fi. Akira, Bubblegum Crisis, GITS ... peak entertainment
You should see the Full Metal Panic! series.
Talk about a blast from the past. Metal Skin Panic Madox 01 was one of the many anime I was exposed to from my childhood in the 80's. My father was part of an anime bootleg group and this was one of the VHS tapes that was passed around. It didnt even have a subtitle track, but that didn't matter with all that awesome 80's animated mecha action.
Anime bootleg groups, i was in one of those in the 90s in Venezuela of all places, plenty of unsubbed or subbed in english tapes, with the rare english dub here an there, it was the last leg of the VHS format but as a third world country it took longer for DVD to fully replace it
6:23 the text on the crate with the numbers 1, 2 ,3 is taken from interviews of film directors. Its gibberish.
Hand drawn Cell animation, Computer assisted and CGI has nothing on this animation process. Labor of love and creativity
これ1987年製作ってすげえな😮
This was absolutely amazing. Only real Anime fans will appreciate this more for just what it is. This was a small work of art but has a huge impact on Anime in general. This was my first time seeing it but I immediately recognized so many other animes in this work that it clearly inspired. Like Full Metal Panic, Blue Gender and GundamWing and probably more. To see eyarly roots of what I watch today is a blessing. Props to Cult Cinema Classics for uploading this for people like me to see it for free. This movie needs more love and respect 💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is a story of an alternate future where cellphones weren't created but amazing mechs are. If only this were true, I wouldn't have spam calls and I could run havok in a mech suit going to the grocery store. XD
I really miss these old animations.
The prime example of the pre-2000s _sakuga._
Modern anime studios, PLEASE bring this style of animation back. Let us current anime fans live through this kind of fluid hand-drawn cel animations, at least once.
Too much feminism. Quality is misogynist
Problem is that animators are not getting paid enough since the 80s. Not even enough to pay rent. But we might see something like this today if the show is a passion project rather than media machine with tight deadlines.
always watch your vids i find it really interesting living another life not that my life is bad but its crazy everyone reading this is alive and had a functioning brain reading out the words. and probably are much older or younger reminiscing about watching this when they were young.
Thank you for your service. I enjoyed this so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Not just the pure awesomeness of the hand drawn animation from the 80-90's but also the SOUNDS!
Anyone else notice the references to Macross? The faceplate section of the Madox looks exactly like the bridge/faceplate section of the SDF-1. The "agency" was the SDF. Shiori looks exactly like Lynn Minmei. The first episode of Robotech has Rick ending up in a Veritech accidentally just this kid.
This animations are insane , everything is rich in details
I love w/ the captions on @ 0:35 the "sexy mecha stepping sounds" lmao
Nice anime, Golden age of Mech anime. Pity in recent years Mech anime sector has been so slow.
Btw. 6:19 part is hilarious.
"Walt Disney production:Steven Lisberger,Director "The design work for this feature started with the aircraft
For this sequal to the famous 2001, I designed the exterior of the russian space ship Leonov. For the interior.
Originally working personally with Ridley scott, I was"
Can't beat the Golden Age of Anime!
This was tons of fun! Excellent selection! Don’t know how I never saw it before but I’m glad I got to now! Thanks!
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6:19 Japoshka Englesiass
1. Walt Disney productions: Steven Lisberger, Director "The dasign work for this feature started with the Aircraft
2. For this sequel to the famous '2001' I designed the exterior of the Russian space ship Leonov. For the interior.
3. Originally, working personally with Ridley Scott, i was
if you look even earlier, at 5:05 the specs show the details of a Ford Y block 292 lol
I'm thankful they did overdub for this as its quite entertaining. I like the reverb they are using
Thank you so much for putting A anime on here.
Nice, nice! Nice short movie, the scifi anime years 80 is so good, simple history, but work much fine.
15 hours of work on a finger joint, human faces in 5 minutes sketches. Classic anime X)
There's this strange reverb to the audio throughout the entire film as if it was re-recorded through a sewer pipe...
Visually it appears to be remastered. Very nice.
0:34 subtitles: "Sexy mecha stepping sounds"
Me: is, is this going to be one of 'those' Animes?
That made me choke on my ramen
It didn't lie. Some sexy steps for sure
Man, I remember watching this in Japan!
Oscars-level dialogue highlights:
“It’s not worth turning Tokyo into another Vietnam.”
“This scent… This taste… War is heaven!”
“[DYNAMIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WITH SAXOPHONE SOLO]”
😂
Bravo to whoever did the closed captioning.
You nailed it 👌
Hey a 80s one I never saw , this one reminded me of my childhood favorite Robotech. Thanks for the upload CCC.👍
Hideaki Anno drew the animation at the introduction of the film.
Anybody read the Maddox container 'instructions' at 6.19, hilarious!
Seems like animators just copying random texts from a western magazine they bought for research
That is the same voice of yuri in fist of the north star. "If you were willing to allow it" and "n...nooooo." Is the phrase. Its DEFINATELY her, as I really loved her voice acting in Fist of the North Star.
マジでクオリティー高いな！
This was so good!! I havent enjoyed a good movie in a while and the art was fantastic. Thank you for sharing
Japanese teenagers in the 80's and 90's had a real problems with getting stuck in super secret powered armour.
Hope they got that sorted out.
That plot lol
I love the [SERIOUS BEAT] captioning.
Hilarious voice acting quality and recording.
Good stuff. Makes me feel nostalgia quite a bit especially the end credits song.
looks so much better than anything made in this century imo. why can't we have new anime like this, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, etc.?
truly one of the all time greatest power armors/ mecha's ever put to animation every single thing about it to how it works to the weapons to the role it was intended for just works and don't get me started on the beutifly perfect mechanical animation just every single thing about this is just absolutely incredible !
“War is heaven!” Can’t imagine being that obsessed with destroying a suit 😳
The closed captions are a hoot on this video [Sudden Realisation Music] xD
Truly the cream of the crop for mech design. Hand drawn, realistic design, realistic sizing, very down to earth.
Small truck sized is peak "tactical" mech design, just large enough to carry and safely fire antitank weaponry, small enough that multiple can be carried on trucks or transport aircraft. Any larger and square cube law makes them lumbering hulks, a category already well filled by tracked vehicles. Iron man sized exosuits don't have much of a role realistically, the need and balance for strength, speed, stealth, and functionality just doesn't mesh well at that size. You want more power, they become loud, slow, and fuel hungry. You want more stealth and ease of use, ask any hunter and they'll ask why bother with armor at all?
Yeah gundams and gurren laganns are fun, but all suspension of disbelief and immersion goes out the window as soon as they mention fighting spirit or some other "magical" power source, or they miraculously power up or heal themselves simply because the pilot wanted it hard enough. It's assuming nobody gives a shit about the functionality, "hurr durr big metal man, metaphor for heavy handed politics and human drama" and not one step deeper.
The Madox is shown being designed, tested in half built states. You can see how the pilot is supposed to fit, how each piece works to make this functional, and just for a moment, believe that someone with enough skill and funds could look at this and recreate a functional version in real life.
was looking for this. had just remembered it a while ago and was retracing old memories.
Stellar English subs by a true(ly jaded) fan of the genre. Knows all the tropes and loves them while laughing at them. XD
Aside from HG's Robotech (for what that's worth), this was the first or second proper anime I ever saw.
Whoever's doing the closed captions- 👌 good job
The starcraft 2 wings of liberty intro cinematic is so similar to some of the shots with the guy in the suit at the beginning, I wonder if they took inspiration from this.
6:19 lol the label !!!! thanks editors!
This animation is better than nowadays animations. Today animation is a 💩
Compare this OVA animation to a weekly show like DBZ.
Miss that hand drawn grindhouse look. Truely time consuming and painful, but you cannot deny this is art. I would be honored to have one these stills framed on my wall.
Now in days, they would have CGI for the vehicles and the it would be more glossier.
Sad that it is the english and not japanese dub, however nonetheless I'm happy seeing this episode again. Had seen it once either 4AM Sci-Fi or early Cartoon Network when played all the cartoons that Disney didn't own.
With home studios and tech going off the rails in recent years, I'd really like to see a fan redub of this. Its really well done, it just lacks in the translation and delivery. I'd personally be happy to play anyone in this.
That was awesome!
Can we have some more 80s anime
Huluで配信始まったので観ました かなり好きな部類です
Best era of animation. Terrible story lol
Go touch some grass troll 😂
Yeah it's unfortunate
Yeah hahaha exactly my thought
Game ober
Now we get terrible animation and terrible story to match
Love the subtitles.
The captions are on point for the intro
I love anime!! What a gem to see this!!
Fantastic!
You see this everyone? This is what passion looks like.
Sin computadoras lograban hacer esta maravilla de manera artesanal
A punta de dibujos asetatos y pantallas transparentes y eso no es ni la mitad de lo que se usaba en ese entonces eso sí es arte
@@Itsukamadoca era la época de la "Burbuja" así que tenían muuuucho presupuesto.
The madox feels like it would be at home in Mospeada. Also, the VA for the demonstration announcer sounds like Batou's VA.