Considering this came out in 1991, it was a spot on predictor of the growing population of elderly people. I think the problem here is that if you aren't Japanese, you wouldn't understand even half of what's actually going on in this movie.
I work often with AI and there are two things I can tell you that make Roujin Z a bit more plausible on the technical front (though I agree with you somewhat in a couple other areas). Though far from perfect, an AI can determine from a picture the age and weight of a person and from that make an educated guess of their voice. The second is that those of us who write code for a living often reuse code in ways that can be very counterintuitive to people who have never written a line of any language in there life. The library of code that determines what is being excreted from an elderly man's undercarriage could also be used to determine whether a region is facing a chemical or physical attack. This and many other things make the military application of parts of an intelligent hospital bed more plausible.
You forgot one very important thing ai is trained over multiple cycles so already has good enuf inventory of information or real data to work with and guess from. So the moment that ai was fed with the womans face it could match multiple items in it's inventory and try each time until the voice starts to come close to the original voice.
@@gwadamit8116 ''So the moment that ai was fed with the womans face it could match multiple items in it's inventory and try each time until the voice starts to come close to the original voice.' No. Not at all. This is simply not true, and a stretch. No AI will ever be that advanced.
What's interesting is that the comedy and satire elements of Roujin Z are well within Otomo's wheelhouse, but not in his work that's easily available in English. His early short manga, many of which were compiled in the single volume Memories (which includes the Magnetic Rose story adapted in the movie Memories) are often very funny, especially Hair, Chronicle of planet Tako and That's Incredible World.
I like this movie, not perfect but abit silly fun to watch. "can the computer do a simulation of her voice?" ...... yeah that scene could been fixed by a line and scene with "I need a voice or audio sample first" and they got her voice from the oldman's home movies or something, that would make more sense.
Roger Ebert found this legitimately good while showing great understanding of anime. Are you gonna listen to one of the most knowledgeable critics or the uncharismatic nerd who fails at grasping the simplest plot points and constantly talks out of his ass?
LOL Yeah but remember this was the early 90s when we thought computers (and, if you're into comics, chemicals) would be able to do literally anything. The way I remember it, this is something we would have thought computers would be capable of within the foreseeable future.
Well we are becoming one step closer to make almost any science fiction into fact, and that is intriguing but scary at the same time. But I'll be dead before "The Matrix" and super AI's become real.
Your opening statement is so true. Being in school in the mid to late 90s and trading anime VHS 📼 and being part of a sort of underground thing. It stirred something on me with me to this day. It made me learn Japanese and I still speak to to this day
Even if I grow old and can't move at all, I'd hate being constrained to a bed like the one in this film. I'be already lived a mostly sedentary lifestyle and have no plans on ever returning. That is, unless I could go out with a thick blanket covering my lower half, and have it modded to play games, act as a work computer/digital art studio so I could still work, and let me exercise myself. Point being I have no plan to retire, and my hopeful future publishers, kids, grandkids and great grandkids would have to force me to do so at gunpoint. I'll work til I'm dust.
I know, deep down, that at some point Steamboy will be addressed. It's the result of a more experienced, learned Otomo. If only cause he made the ending more definitive, and with a more optimistic tone for that ending.
Buddy, I love yah. Just dug my old DVD of this out. Cardboard cover with the little black plastic clip on the right side. Such a good movie. I think it's actually a lot more relevant and interesting than you think. But your take is so funny man. You're the best.
Putting your own life and career ahead of your ailing parents isn't assholish, it's common sense. I was a caregiver for my father and stepmother before they passed, but only when I could afford to do it and had time because if I don't keep _myself_ taken care of, I can't help anyone else. A good parent would understand this and make sure their kid takes care of _themself_ before worrying about Ma and Pa.
ya know ... i was actually an Otaku really heavily during that time. You arent wrong. Though the first time i realized anime was a real thing was when TBS did their late night run WAAAYYY before cartoon network. The line up was Heavy Metal ( I know not anime but its what drew me to the night) followed by Vampire Hunter D (while desperately flawed I still love it) and Robot Carnival .... They ran this exact line up several times in the early to mid 90s
This reminds me of an anime vhs I had that I haven’t seen in forever. It starts out with a teen aged male trying to defend his neighboorhood from a robo invasion and he defeats one of the mechs by throwing a can at it.
"Can the computer replicate her voice?" Did she go to Inver Hills Community College? I have to get this movie for my mom, she knows a lot of nurses that stupid.
Silly Japanese, have you not heard of Dreadnoughts? It's like a cross between a Mech suit and Darth Vader's life support system, surely it would be the perfect way of dealing with the elderly. That, or a Handyman suit.
It's not the dumb line, but the one part of this movie I always remembered years after seeing it on Sci-Fi Saturday Anime was her line reading of, "We're going to the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEACH!!!"
I just watched it and i gotta say, it starts really nice, i was expecting a pretty serious and dark plot, instead i got a silly action-comedy :( The visuals are nice whenever the machine starts combining with other stuff, and the ending was unexpected, but overall nothing to really recommend anyone but the die-hard anime fans.
You came with the wrong expectations i am afraid. But as someone who codes for life i think it came close to the concept of programming more than another anime of that time. It wasn't some random binary numbers and a lot of keyboard smacking.
actually that stupid question could probably be done now adays with AI and shit, not sure if im right or not but all i know is AI needs to stop now before we end up in terminator future
Yooo I've been looking for this anime for a long time. I didn't know the name all I know was the clip of the highway chase. I've seen one day when I was little one Sunday morning early morning.
*3:21** this video **_(ORIGINAL)_** is now almost 6yrs old, so i can't, **_JUST CAN'T_** be the first **_"CORRECTIVE ASSHOLE"_** who heard the phrase, **_"grandpa WED-BETTER."_** if i am, i'll be expecting my **_"NO-PRIZE"_** through **_UPS over-night. _**_#ZOINKS_*
Best era of anime was mid 90s to late 90s..... I have to agree. Then 2001-2005. Anyone that says 2018 was the best year anime of all time clearly missed this golden period.
Roger Ebert thought this was a good movie and recommended it, showing great knowledge of anime a very long time ago. Yet instead of listening to someone knowledgeable people will treat it as mediocre because an uncharismatic, unintelligent nerd on TH-cam who fails at grasping basic themes & plot points in the things he reviews said so.
Dead Stock Paradise What your saying would be true, if we were mindless sheep who were incapable of making our own opinions. Also if you really think so lowly of Sage then why are you even here?
Because I think his TH-cam series is cancer. Weird obscure old-school anime is some of my favorite stuff and I respect the medium of animation hugely, so seeing him monopolize discussion on these forgotten classics and criticize them with the mental capacity of a 14 year old (despite being middle aged) is extremely obnoxious. I don't think he's even genuinely mentally ill like Mr. Enter; he's often feigning stupidity for the sake of pointing out nonexistent 'plot holes'. He's a manipulator.
Oh, I get it. So instead of ignoring his channel like you so easily could do, you decided to watch his videos just to waste your own time. Have fun! P. S. He monopolizes this? There are other people out there who review old anime titles so I wouldn't say he controls the entire discussion. Sure he's got quite a bit of popularity for someone who reviews an obscure subject, but like I said earlier we aren't sheep.
Well I see that you still don't know the difference between a monopoly and modest popularity. If Sage monopolized the consensus of old anime, as you like put it. He would have exclusive power over it, which means no one would be able to post about old anime, no one could start a forum about it, and no one else could make a video about it. He doesn't have anywhere near that kind of power, he's just a guy that quite a few people enjoy watching.
Considering this came out in 1991, it was a spot on predictor of the growing population of elderly people. I think the problem here is that if you aren't Japanese, you wouldn't understand even half of what's actually going on in this movie.
I work often with AI and there are two things I can tell you that make Roujin Z a bit more plausible on the technical front (though I agree with you somewhat in a couple other areas). Though far from perfect, an AI can determine from a picture the age and weight of a person and from that make an educated guess of their voice. The second is that those of us who write code for a living often reuse code in ways that can be very counterintuitive to people who have never written a line of any language in there life. The library of code that determines what is being excreted from an elderly man's undercarriage could also be used to determine whether a region is facing a chemical or physical attack. This and many other things make the military application of parts of an intelligent hospital bed more plausible.
You forgot one very important thing ai is trained over multiple cycles so already has good enuf inventory of information or real data to work with and guess from. So the moment that ai was fed with the womans face it could match multiple items in it's inventory and try each time until the voice starts to come close to the original voice.
@@gwadamit8116 ''So the moment that ai was fed with the womans face it could match multiple items in it's inventory and try each time until the voice starts to come close to the original voice.'
No. Not at all. This is simply not true, and a stretch. No AI will ever be that advanced.
@@Vorteksio3 Never is a very strogn word in AI. Remember when AI would never beat us at Chess or Go?
this anime is primed for a more in-depth reboot
oh hell no
I agree with Andrew, leave the show alone.
What's interesting is that the comedy and satire elements of Roujin Z are well within Otomo's wheelhouse, but not in his work that's easily available in English. His early short manga, many of which were compiled in the single volume Memories (which includes the Magnetic Rose story adapted in the movie Memories) are often very funny, especially Hair, Chronicle of planet Tako and That's Incredible World.
I like this movie, not perfect but abit silly fun to watch.
"can the computer do a simulation of her voice?"
...... yeah that scene could been fixed by a line and scene with
"I need a voice or audio sample first"
and they got her voice from the oldman's home movies or something,
that would make more sense.
I like to think the theme song is saying "Give it to Ming! Don't take it from Ming"
Roger Ebert found this legitimately good while showing great understanding of anime. Are you gonna listen to one of the most knowledgeable critics or the uncharismatic nerd who fails at grasping the simplest plot points and constantly talks out of his ass?
Dead Stock Paradise ummm...the uncharismatic nerd who fails at grasping the simplest plot points and constantly talks out of his ass
LOL Yeah but remember this was the early 90s when we thought computers (and, if you're into comics, chemicals) would be able to do literally anything. The way I remember it, this is something we would have thought computers would be capable of within the foreseeable future.
Well we are becoming one step closer to make almost any
science fiction into fact,
and that is intriguing but scary at the same time.
But I'll be dead before "The Matrix" and super AI's become real.
Your opening statement is so true. Being in school in the mid to late 90s and trading anime VHS 📼 and being part of a sort of underground thing. It stirred something on me with me to this day. It made me learn Japanese and I still speak to to this day
"HARU", the name of the old man's late wife, is in reference to HAL 9000 (2001: An Space Odyssey).
daisy daisy, give me your answer due
Even if I grow old and can't move at all, I'd hate being constrained to a bed like the one in this film. I'be already lived a mostly sedentary lifestyle and have no plans on ever returning. That is, unless I could go out with a thick blanket covering my lower half, and have it modded to play games, act as a work computer/digital art studio so I could still work, and let me exercise myself. Point being I have no plan to retire, and my hopeful future publishers, kids, grandkids and great grandkids would have to force me to do so at gunpoint. I'll work til I'm dust.
A machine that absorbs other electronics. Now I get where Swat Kats got their concept for the menace in the finale "Unlikely Alloys."
This movie is awesome! Its actually on of my favorites.
I know, deep down, that at some point Steamboy will be addressed. It's the result of a more experienced, learned Otomo. If only cause he made the ending more definitive, and with a more optimistic tone for that ending.
MrFinalMax Fun Fact: Steamboy was This Nuka-Cola Man's first non-shonen anime and started my fascination with WW2/Cold War Futuristic Sci-Fi.
review Bardock father of Goku, I'm curious on what you think of it.
I work in health care of the elderly and I can say this, i would totally love a machine that can clean number 1s and number 2s instantly.
Buddy, I love yah. Just dug my old DVD of this out. Cardboard cover with the little black plastic clip on the right side. Such a good movie. I think it's actually a lot more relevant and interesting than you think. But your take is so funny man. You're the best.
wow... I never pictured this as an analogue manga before. i first saw it as a rip on YT as a curiosity piece
Was NOT expecting that ending card. Awkward.
Oh my god! Bennett actually goes outside?
The nurse girl is super cute.
Kubo Edgeworth Too bad she got fried
@@blueenigma7178 wait she did
glad to see this one back
Warhammer Dreadnoughts.
You're doing it wrong Roujin Z
Putting your own life and career ahead of your ailing parents isn't assholish, it's common sense. I was a caregiver for my father and stepmother before they passed, but only when I could afford to do it and had time because if I don't keep _myself_ taken care of, I can't help anyone else. A good parent would understand this and make sure their kid takes care of _themself_ before worrying about Ma and Pa.
All the yes.
ya know ... i was actually an Otaku really heavily during that time. You arent wrong. Though the first time i realized anime was a real thing was when TBS did their late night run WAAAYYY before cartoon network. The line up was Heavy Metal ( I know not anime but its what drew me to the night) followed by Vampire Hunter D (while desperately flawed I still love it) and Robot Carnival .... They ran this exact line up several times in the early to mid 90s
7:20 "Wed-Better."
Anyone else catch that? XD
Everybody gangsta until Grandpa gets a 6 Million Dollar Bed.
"You never think that you wasted your time after you're done watching it."
False.
& i thought the elderly people in Japan wearing exosuits were a thing, they could go full Warhammer with those.
Why does Bedwetter Grandpa look like Rick Sanchez caught in a jet engine on 3:46?
Seeing as this movie is over 25 years old, I think the real question is why does Rick Sanchez caught in a jet engine look like Uncle Wetbedder?
holy shit your right
I remember liking this movie... Not enough to pay 200 bucks for it on amazon, but I did like it.
3:54 he said "GRANDPA WED BETTER!" LOOC!
This reminds me of an anime vhs I had that I haven’t seen in forever. It starts out with a teen aged male trying to defend his neighboorhood from a robo invasion and he defeats one of the mechs by throwing a can at it.
Wow, I'm the thousandth like. Fascinating.
"Can the computer replicate her voice?" Did she go to Inver Hills Community College? I have to get this movie for my mom, she knows a lot of nurses that stupid.
14:14 ...And they died!! (I just came from a phelous review)
Silly Japanese, have you not heard of Dreadnoughts? It's like a cross between a Mech suit and Darth Vader's life support system, surely it would be the perfect way of dealing with the elderly. That, or a Handyman suit.
"At least as good as Akira" Yeah I'll agree with that... too bad I'm not an Akira fan.
It's not the dumb line, but the one part of this movie I always remembered years after seeing it on Sci-Fi Saturday Anime was her line reading of, "We're going to the BEEEEEEEEEEEEEACH!!!"
Holy crap I forgot about the Buda ending. I loved this movie when I saw it back in early 2000s
Ok this has been driving me crazy, but I need to ask, does anyone know what the anime vhs is on the bottom far left close-ish to Ultimate Teacher?
Otomo was only the writer, this movie was directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo of Golden Boy fame
I just watched it and i gotta say, it starts really nice, i was expecting a pretty serious and dark plot, instead i got a silly action-comedy :( The visuals are nice whenever the machine starts combining with other stuff, and the ending was unexpected, but overall nothing to really recommend anyone but the die-hard anime fans.
You came with the wrong expectations i am afraid. But as someone who codes for life i think it came close to the concept of programming more than another anime of that time. It wasn't some random binary numbers and a lot of keyboard smacking.
It's time.
time for what
Justin Priester
Making Christmas?
Will you ever review Steamboy?
9:07 lol I see the cameraman.
Scott Pickering we all do.
14:00 "Come, my love. Come."
*creepy old man grunts*
"Were all going to the beach... *IN HELL* "
Grandpa Wetbedder. Nice
cyborg beds for elderly patients
You say that the best years were "the mid-to-late 90's" and then cut to Wings of Honneomise, that was made in 1986 (or '87).
Please review SD Gundam Force.
Hey, are the unedited versions left on Bennett 's site?
CLAMP's X movie is an exception though 💙
actually that stupid question could probably be done now adays with AI and shit, not sure if im right or not but all i know is AI needs to stop now before we end up in terminator future
Roujin-Z is awesome and a sin on you for calling it forgettable.
Butthurt bitch
anime abandon what do you think of trying gum
Yooo I've been looking for this anime for a long time. I didn't know the name all I know was the clip of the highway chase. I've seen one day when I was little one Sunday morning early morning.
Wed-better.
*3:21** this video **_(ORIGINAL)_** is now almost 6yrs old, so i can't, **_JUST CAN'T_** be the first **_"CORRECTIVE ASSHOLE"_** who heard the phrase, **_"grandpa WED-BETTER."_** if i am, i'll be expecting my **_"NO-PRIZE"_** through **_UPS over-night. _**_#ZOINKS_*
So what did they change when they reuploaded this?
If you read this line:
It has been reedited to meet TH-cam Content ID Standards!
There's your answer.
probably less old man junk
The animation is pretty good but yeah the story is bonkers
what's the anime at 0:32 with the muay thai fighters?
IronIsSolace fatal Fury. I forget which specific one.
thanks
What anime is it at 0:00:30
14:43 GREEN vs BLUE confirmed.
Nice car
There were so many assholes in this movie.
9:08 bruh. bruuuuuuuhhhhh.............
That ending puts a whole new spin on the idea of "white washing".
Best era of anime was mid 90s to late 90s..... I have to agree. Then 2001-2005. Anyone that says 2018 was the best year anime of all time clearly missed this golden period.
What animes could you recommend from this "best era"?
that 'give to me' thing you ripped from Manga Video was cringey in the 1990s, and now we got a fedora gentlesir using it. even more cringe.
Okay i wish that didn't happen. That is the most bullshit ending i have ever seen
11:46 Evil Kermit the Frog is evil!
That ending.......?
@6:19 AAAAAAHHHHHH
3:53 Freudian slip, Wed better. XD
0:30 SAUSE ?
Watch tetsuya iron man
poo-poos
I'm pretty sure it's pronounced roh-zheen *ZED* 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Lol
Roger Ebert thought this was a good movie and recommended it, showing great knowledge of anime a very long time ago. Yet instead of listening to someone knowledgeable people will treat it as mediocre because an uncharismatic, unintelligent nerd on TH-cam who fails at grasping basic themes & plot points in the things he reviews said so.
Dead Stock Paradise What your saying would be true, if we were mindless sheep who were incapable of making our own opinions. Also if you really think so lowly of Sage then why are you even here?
Because I think his TH-cam series is cancer. Weird obscure old-school anime is some of my favorite stuff and I respect the medium of animation hugely, so seeing him monopolize discussion on these forgotten classics and criticize them with the mental capacity of a 14 year old (despite being middle aged) is extremely obnoxious.
I don't think he's even genuinely mentally ill like Mr. Enter; he's often feigning stupidity for the sake of pointing out nonexistent 'plot holes'. He's a manipulator.
Oh, I get it. So instead of ignoring his channel like you so easily could do, you decided to watch his videos just to waste your own time. Have fun! P. S. He monopolizes this? There are other people out there who review old anime titles so I wouldn't say he controls the entire discussion. Sure he's got quite a bit of popularity for someone who reviews an obscure subject, but like I said earlier we aren't sheep.
Some people deserve to have their flaws pointed out when they monopolize online consensus on old anime like this
Well I see that you still don't know the difference between a monopoly and modest popularity. If Sage monopolized the consensus of old anime, as you like put it. He would have exclusive power over it, which means no one would be able to post about old anime, no one could start a forum about it, and no one else could make a video about it. He doesn't have anywhere near that kind of power, he's just a guy that quite a few people enjoy watching.