Absolutely THE MOST brutal takedown I've ever seen in an anime. No instant death pressure points or fighting ghosts, no exacto swords or magic or anything. Just an old tank rifle, a couple of mines, a truck jack and hit-and-run tactics that would make Solid Snake proud. Oh, I almost forgot, and a handheld Pile Bunker.
I think that’s the first time I’ve ever seen the audience get wasted by stray shots in an anime before. Most of the time the stands are just miraculously empty.
That is because this is before anime became a kids show. Even your young adult stuff is too scared to actually kill anyone up close like that. Back in the day, anime had balls.
@@davidtipps4927 friend I passed young adult status several years back. I’m just not very familiar with Armored Trooper VOTOMS and its spinoffs. It’s been on my watch list for a long time and I just never got around to it.
The craziest thing is how Mellowlink spent the entire time sprinting while lugging two huge mines, a hi-lift jack, a massive AT rifle, and a pile bunker. Plus ammo. The dude is insane.
@@patron8597 He didn't outrun bullets. The guy in the armor was playing with him. The people in the stands even point out how skilled both are and their tendencies in battle. That said, running for several minutes with minimal breaks with 50-70lbs of gear/weapon is tough. Furthermore, it can be inferred from the design/art choices the aiming in the mech is direct. Not assisted. So 360 no scope head shots while playing sick riffs in your cockpit aren't happening in this universe.
Hey, its not impossible especially when it's life or death. A lot of elite soldiers, the Chad's of their units, pull that kind of stuff off in training just to dunk on the new recruits.
This is an OVA released later about a different character than most VOTOMs content. The story in Mellowlink is a little weak but the animation is pretty good. The animation of the original VOTOMs anime is pretty good for its time, and rarely ever reuses footage
I like the story of Mellowlink, for what it's worth. I especially like how most episodes focus on the individual revenge missions. In my opinion Mellowlink is far and above the best part of Votoms but you may enjoy all of Chirico's story in the other series so try them if you want
Using an anti-armour rifle against mecha and needing to use strategy and equipment to overpower them is a premise with limitless potential. I wish this idea got more fleshed out, maybe a 0083 Rebellion style reimagining that uses more scenarios and builds off the foundation of the OVA. I'm happy to hear that the masters have been found, gonna have to rewatch it now that it's in better quality.
Observe there is an anime for that. Called massive heavy object. It's about two mech engineers who fight mechs with nothing but their brains and hands. And the girl one of them likes who happens to pilot with heavy object herself. Trust me the fights are SUPER TENSE and the dudes? they're no where NEAR as tough as this guy but full on fight mechs that were strong enough to survive missile strikes straight from high orbit.
@@tsunertoo9149Oh yeah I saw that one. It's pretty decent. Although the mechs in that show are more like giant moving fortresses than achual mechs like 40k titan sized.
@Demicleas I like how realistic the show approaches mechas, like, how could u use a humanoid giant machine on earth. I can see they thrive in space (realistically), but for ground war, don't we just end up with mobile-artillery platforms 😂
@@llLoWangll It's not just that, there's this visual quality to actual cel animation that just looks different than computer-colored frames, I think it's just the way light hit the colors. Plus there's this barely perceptible softness to it. Plus the actual art style but it's not just that. I don't know quite how to put it into words, older anime just has this different visual "vibe" that I miss.
I just hate how oversaturated most anime is nowadays. The colors are often ridiculously bright and they contrast with each other in a way that quickly makes my eyes feel really tired.
All this shooting and explosions were a diversion from the real attack. Mellowlink exploited Fox's weakness of gloating. All Mellow needed was to get close.
I just got a blu-ray box set of Armored Trooper VOTOMS 'cause of your uploads!! I'm a handful of episodes into the first series, it's awesome as hell!!
Just so everyone knows, this was one of the anime specifically called out by Mike Pondsmith (Cyberpunk 2020) for what sets the tone for a Cyberpunk game.
@@SergioSergio12345 Its sucks ass and only had one booklet when its advertised that it would have more book releases later on. the book uses the OG Anime as almost a adventure guide while really giving you nothing to explore the rest of the universe with. its the F90 Of RPGS
I love when someone takes direct advantage of a villain's sadism or something like that. Full reversal on the fear factor, too! Garvin goes from sadistic glee to feeling more fear than he ever had in his life. This isn't a clip, it's a poetic excerpt.
@@mrtyler603 Not "made by the same guy" exactly, but you're on the right track. Gundam was created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, VOTOMS was created, directed etc by Ryousuke Takahashi. However both series were produced by the same studio, Sunrise. As for sound design, you can hear a lot of sound effects repeated in Sunrise shows in the 80s and 90s. Ryousuke Takahashi is directing another anime this year, called The Fable based off a manga. Crazy that he's still making stuff when he's been at it since the 70s.
animation studio for this was TMS Entertainment Who ironically also did American cartoon "Peter Pan and the Pirates" If you look "Mellowlink" resembles..........
I like that the fire select on the mech machine gun is not linked to the UI in the cockpit, he has to use the mechanical hands of the mech to switch as if it were a real gun.
If just look the statistic on the paper, Armour Trooper vs humans, overall in terms of speed, fire power , durability and Stamina, there is nothing a mere human can match it. But in the end the dude win, what a match!
No AI was used to upscale. Apparently the masters for Mellowlink were found in 2021 and released on the Perfect Soldier Boxset Bluray (which i got this from). No info was given how they were acquired, I'm assuming the studio managed to find them in their archive. Shining Heresy masters are still being looked into by the studio.
Yes -- follows the story of one soldier who was betrayed as he hunts down his old commanders who were responsible. I haven't yet found a good place to watch the whole series, but I'm very interested.
I was wondering how you make a show out of a mech vs man fight but now I realize id pay money to see a cat and mouse game like this (granted they can build a 20mm resistant transparent dome around it )
The girl turns her head so as not to see the death of the pilot, but a few scenes before the guy already shoots many people in the audience and they were left watching.
Absolutely THE MOST brutal takedown I've ever seen in an anime. No instant death pressure points or fighting ghosts, no exacto swords or magic or anything. Just an old tank rifle, a couple of mines, a truck jack and hit-and-run tactics that would make Solid Snake proud.
Oh, I almost forgot, and a handheld Pile Bunker.
Funny you say that because 1:01 that's Akio Otsuka, Solid Snake's Japanese VA.
You forgot the bullet and debris deflection aura. His ass is not walking out of a wall shattering impact with just being out of breath.
Gave him the ol' Rubiconian Handshake
Reminds me of Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans
how in the fucking world he hauled around so much?
I think that’s the first time I’ve ever seen the audience get wasted by stray shots in an anime before. Most of the time the stands are just miraculously empty.
Check out Robot Jox.
That is because this is before anime became a kids show. Even your young adult stuff is too scared to actually kill anyone up close like that. Back in the day, anime had balls.
I love how absolutely no one cared about 10 seconds after the fact, like it didn't even happen.
@davidtipps4927 lmao okay nobody asked
@@davidtipps4927 friend I passed young adult status several years back. I’m just not very familiar with Armored Trooper VOTOMS and its spinoffs. It’s been on my watch list for a long time and I just never got around to it.
The craziest thing is how Mellowlink spent the entire time sprinting while lugging two huge mines, a hi-lift jack, a massive AT rifle, and a pile bunker. Plus ammo. The dude is insane.
Don't you mean "the dumbest thing"? The fact that he outran bullets the entire fight was silly.
@@patron8597 He didn't outrun bullets. The guy in the armor was playing with him. The people in the stands even point out how skilled both are and their tendencies in battle. That said, running for several minutes with minimal breaks with 50-70lbs of gear/weapon is tough.
Furthermore, it can be inferred from the design/art choices the aiming in the mech is direct. Not assisted. So 360 no scope head shots while playing sick riffs in your cockpit aren't happening in this universe.
@@patron8597 He was using cover, and the guy in the stands behind the chick said that Mellowlink was familiar with how inaccurate Silve Fox's gun was.
its anime bros
its better when you dont try to explain with realism
he had plot armour
(otherwise this fight ended at the bell)
I don't want to disappoint, but everything in fiction has script armor, If not, we wouldn't have story @@Turbo-DF
pay to win vs mechanics abuser
So he's sprinting around with an anti-tank rifle, two anti-tank mines, a truck jack, *and* a rocket-powered piledriver? The quads on this guy...
Hey, its not impossible especially when it's life or death. A lot of elite soldiers, the Chad's of their units, pull that kind of stuff off in training just to dunk on the new recruits.
Typical anime rubbish.
It's a cyberpunk setting wouldn't be strange if he was augmented somehow@@johnm3907
…ok. I’ve heard of VOTOMS in the past but…this is the first time I’ve seen it in action. I’m genuinely impressed by the quality.
Same. I think I may like it more than Gundam.
It needs a revival
This is an OVA released later about a different character than most VOTOMs content. The story in Mellowlink is a little weak but the animation is pretty good. The animation of the original VOTOMs anime is pretty good for its time, and rarely ever reuses footage
Yeah like above, this isn't the real Votoms, so to speak.
I like the story of Mellowlink, for what it's worth. I especially like how most episodes focus on the individual revenge missions.
In my opinion Mellowlink is far and above the best part of Votoms but you may enjoy all of Chirico's story in the other series so try them if you want
"Won't you be my mommy ?" 😂😂😂 mate nothing changed
Oh yeah, they knew exactly what they were doing.
never leave home without your pocket jack
One dude, unseen inside a metal cockpit, gets skewered - she flinches
fifty innocent spectators turned into red mist - no reaction
She just thought the mech looked cool
Sometimes your imagination can be more disturbing than the reality.
Using an anti-armour rifle against mecha and needing to use strategy and equipment to overpower them is a premise with limitless potential. I wish this idea got more fleshed out, maybe a 0083 Rebellion style reimagining that uses more scenarios and builds off the foundation of the OVA.
I'm happy to hear that the masters have been found, gonna have to rewatch it now that it's in better quality.
Observe there is an anime for that. Called massive heavy object. It's about two mech engineers who fight mechs with nothing but their brains and hands. And the girl one of them likes who happens to pilot with heavy object herself. Trust me the fights are SUPER TENSE and the dudes? they're no where NEAR as tough as this guy but full on fight mechs that were strong enough to survive missile strikes straight from high orbit.
For Board games look at Heavy Gear
@@tsunertoo9149Oh yeah I saw that one. It's pretty decent. Although the mechs in that show are more like giant moving fortresses than achual mechs like 40k titan sized.
@Demicleas I like how realistic the show approaches mechas, like, how could u use a humanoid giant machine on earth. I can see they thrive in space (realistically), but for ground war, don't we just end up with mobile-artillery platforms 😂
Battletech has a decent amount of moments where infantry are used to great effect against mechs
It's all fun and games 'til someone pulls out a pile bunker
Bro, came here to say the same shit
Armored core vets: *sees Pilebunker* …I was not familiar with your game, little one. You are free to go.
gotta give that good ol rubiconian handshake
@@Darkoriax17 So many matches. They have to hit me many times, I just need to hit them once.
Thanks for helping spread awareness of how Mellowlink is raw af.
I miss 80s style anime so much: The art style, the lighting effects...everything looked so detailed. Modern anime is too "clean".
Gritty is the word you're looking for. :)
@@llLoWangll It's not just that, there's this visual quality to actual cel animation that just looks different than computer-colored frames, I think it's just the way light hit the colors. Plus there's this barely perceptible softness to it. Plus the actual art style but it's not just that. I don't know quite how to put it into words, older anime just has this different visual "vibe" that I miss.
Gotta have fat ink lines and real watercolor in the backgrounds
I just hate how oversaturated most anime is nowadays. The colors are often ridiculously bright and they contrast with each other in a way that quickly makes my eyes feel really tired.
@@DarkButz yeah being able to choose colors by value instead of by mixing pigment really brightens things up in a really jarring way.
All this shooting and explosions were a diversion from the real attack. Mellowlink exploited Fox's weakness of gloating. All Mellow needed was to get close.
I’ve been slowly been learning the design inspirations for the weapons of armored core 6
Love the old mech sounds from the 80s-90s.
Gundam, Robotech, this, etc..
I just got a blu-ray box set of Armored Trooper VOTOMS 'cause of your uploads!! I'm a handful of episodes into the first series, it's awesome as hell!!
Looking to do the same! Where’d you cop it from?
@@LombardoJoe also streaming on HiDive
Harbor freight farm jack and ramset gun for the win.
Yep. Wipe it off and return it.
I had this with space adventure Cobra dodgy video copy 30 years ago. Nice flashbacks
2:32 **100 ONLOOKERS KILLED.** 2:40 "OK now back to the action!" lmao. The animation looks so good I have to watch the whole thing. :D
Just so everyone knows, this was one of the anime specifically called out by Mike Pondsmith (Cyberpunk 2020) for what sets the tone for a Cyberpunk game.
Source of this? I'd love to see that.
@@SergioSergio12345 He literally made a Votoms tabletop RPG
@@dogus4728 H U H
@@SergioSergio12345 Its sucks ass and only had one booklet when its advertised that it would have more book releases later on. the book uses the OG Anime as almost a adventure guide while really giving you nothing to explore the rest of the universe with. its the F90 Of RPGS
@@heymay724 Thats fucked up, the west has truly fallen
Great stuff, never tire of rewatching mellowlink fights. For how "simple" the main plot is, it works, and everything around it is amazing.
I love when someone takes direct advantage of a villain's sadism or something like that. Full reversal on the fear factor, too! Garvin goes from sadistic glee to feeling more fear than he ever had in his life. This isn't a clip, it's a poetic excerpt.
Thats... gundam sound effect...
The movement
well this was made by the same guy as the original gundam so i wouldnt be surpirsed if they reused sound fxs
@@mrtyler603 also sounds like the sound used in MegaMan on the N64 for his rocket skates
Also the head of silcerfox reminds me of the reconquista in g grunts seems they pulled that design from here
@@mrtyler603 Not "made by the same guy" exactly, but you're on the right track.
Gundam was created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, VOTOMS was created, directed etc by Ryousuke Takahashi.
However both series were produced by the same studio, Sunrise. As for sound design, you can hear a lot of sound effects repeated in Sunrise shows in the 80s and 90s.
Ryousuke Takahashi is directing another anime this year, called The Fable based off a manga. Crazy that he's still making stuff when he's been at it since the 70s.
Doing the lord’s work
Actually my first exposure to Votoms, still my favorite character from the series
Geez, this was what was airing in japan while we were getting Transformers & G.I.Joe! The best we got was Robotech, but we really missed out!
Thank you for uploading, what a cool watch. I wanna find the full thing now.
There’s a lot of gundam sounds in there.
Made by the OG Gundam people so quite possibly they're reused assets, or re-recorded using the same gear.
A lot of studios used the same sound libraries back in the day
animation studio for this was TMS Entertainment
Who ironically also did American cartoon "Peter Pan and the Pirates"
If you look "Mellowlink" resembles..........
2:32 you have murdered over 1000 people at your shows “they come for the experience, if they didnt want to get shot, theyd stop coming”
Holy crap this animation is awesome! I gotta watch this fully immediately
That fight was rad! Great use of the cloak to actually cloak capabilities
I am not much of an anime guy outside of Gundam stuff in middle school and Jin Roh recently but im here for this.
I never thought in my life that I would see a Mellowlink clip with 300k views; 'we are so back', as they say elsewhere
Metal Gear Solid Boss battle the anime!
I love this show 😊. One of the many inspirations I had for a comic I made as a kid 😁. It was kind of dumb but I had fun making it 😂.
This is amazing!
Welp that was awesome. Time to go watch the entire series.
The best votom series ive watch for along time after airing the tv series im still love watching it many times
Thanks for the video.
The Solid Snake of Votom Hunters
Is there a recent translation for this show? This is the first time i have seen it with any english
This is great! I've never heard of it before.
2:30 bring your metal raincoats. front row gets completely flippin' annihilated...
Even with that VHS quality audio, it's hard NOT to recognise Akio Ootsuka!
I like that the fire select on the mech machine gun is not linked to the UI in the cockpit, he has to use the mechanical hands of the mech to switch as if it were a real gun.
This is beautiful
A chunk of the audience getting absolutely smoked like a holiday ham made me laugh so hard I almost choked
These older anime art are great!
Dude should just have opened his hands
she about to be your mommy after she win those 136 to 1.5 betting odds.
This is really cool
I need to watch this anime NOW!
Its been ages since I've seen this
Love some classic votoms oavs
Finally..... i know where that 4chan meme from 2005, is from.
"Hey Silver Fox"
...why are you all sweaty?
"I started a fight club"
Dude his stamina is UNMATCHED THAT WAS AMAZING 🤯🥴
How sniping in a CQC scenario looks like
LOL 5:38 Schweppes?! it's actually a ''soda'' that I'm drinking right now
Pilebunked
They lent a Gundam for this unofficial Spin Off, this production team is very smart
Now i understand the reason for the cape!
oh hell yeah mellowlink, this one rocks
Does anyone know of a place where one can watch this series with english subtitles? I've been looking for years but can't seem to find it anywhere.
If just look the statistic on the paper, Armour Trooper vs humans, overall in terms of speed, fire power , durability and Stamina, there is nothing a mere human can match it.
But in the end the dude win, what a match!
Dang this season of aqua teen looks crazy!
Damn this looks so crisp, I thought the masters of this show were lost in a fire and it couldn't be remastered. Did you use AI to upscale it?
No AI was used to upscale. Apparently the masters for Mellowlink were found in 2021 and released on the Perfect Soldier Boxset Bluray (which i got this from). No info was given how they were acquired, I'm assuming the studio managed to find them in their archive.
Shining Heresy masters are still being looked into by the studio.
@@EpicBlargman Awesome, this is one of my favorite animes. It's great being able to see it in proper HD.
Are these episodes available anywhere to download in High quality. I would love to watch them.
pile bunker my beloved
Old School anime rocks!
1:48 "You think you can fight me with that anti-anti-tank rifle?!"
"Armored Trooper" here.
Bodied by a pile bunker before pile bunker was meta
One of Tomino's creations!😮
Pretty cool anime.
Epic
When your long-range sniper rifle also has a close-quarters combat bunker-driver
This reminds me a little of Heavy Gear from Dream Pod 9.
This is where DP9 got its idea for Heavy Gear.
I see Gundam and this use the same sound effect pool
HARD
Mellowlink is such a god damn hunk
Wow ive never seem this anime but I do always prefer this kind art style ever since I watch gundam seed and desert punk when I was a kid
I was concerned for the safety of the public and the video casually showing them getting blasted lol
Holy shit. Is this a VOTOMS spinoff? Because this looks fuckin' awesome.
Yes -- follows the story of one soldier who was betrayed as he hunts down his old commanders who were responsible.
I haven't yet found a good place to watch the whole series, but I'm very interested.
It's votoms, but there's always a Char somewhere anyway
I was wondering how you make a show out of a mech vs man fight but now I realize id pay money to see a cat and mouse game like this (granted they can build a 20mm resistant transparent dome around it )
Даже в старых аниме обоймы с боеприпасами меняли ....
And thats why Gundam/MS pilots sit in the chest protected by thick armor.
I like that they were mad at him for running in the fight. Dude has no armor, guys.
Why mech guy didn't just move in the end?
The girl turns her head so as not to see the death of the pilot, but a few scenes before the guy already shoots many people in the audience and they were left watching.
He waited to be spotted before firing his rifle every time, only to be caught.
What anime is this.😮
holy shit those spectators got WASTED
what a plot armor, kira yamato would be proud LOL
After playing AC6 this final pilebunker was orgasming
Silverfox is definitely a Zeon stooge. 🤣🤣
Ya'll should check out space adventurer cobra
It is hilarious nobody give a damn about the accidental massacre, they stay in their seats and continue to watch the duel.
I was like: They doesn't care about safety of fans, do they? Ritchorets, high angle shots...
and then 2:31 happened.