A lot of Mecha anime fall into obscurity simply because people back then got tired of it so the current trend of Isekai will share the same fate as well.
Strange man in a strange world stories have been going strong for literally thousands of years. I don't think isekai will suffer anytime soon, because the genre is perfectly tailored to target a specific audience and they'll always have that market of tweens and teens who haven't overexposed to the genre yet, alongside the dumpster moths that gather around the trashfires of the genre. And because of the sheer amount of isekai pumped out, the studios still occasionally pop out a gem like Konosuba that even a grizzled pre-toonami era oldtaku like myself can find enjoyable.
I could never forget “you get to burning” the modern cover with the OG vocalist is always stuck in my head. A fun but flawed show that sadly got overshadowed by a certain other subversive mecha
@7:05 Boyyy, the levels of meta 4th wall breaks in the recap episode is giving me flashbacks to the levels of meta breaks in Don Quixote. That's enough for me to like the show
holy shit, I was literally scheduling this into my watch list yesterday. this was the second anime I ever watched - after Record of Lodoss War - and me and the friend that introduced it to me actually charted how to get ahold of the movie when it released via the high seas. I've wanted to make a video essay on this as soon as I possibly could, but I'm honestly impressed and amazed someone else managed to do it instead. I give you all the props in the world. Daigouji Gai was the first anime character to make me cry.
I watched this series on VHS, that I ordered from the Right Stuf paper catalog. My first viewing was the Dub. I've met and interviewed some of the folks who worked on the dub over the years. I later got to enjoy the sub when I got the dvd's. Both are great and worth a watch. And I'm happy to see that this show still has a flame going, older titles don't always make the jump to digital let alone streaming. "You get to Burning!" Great video
Great video, friend 😊 As someone still relatively new to anime and manga, i am always interested in watching retro shows snd trying new genres. And good coincidence that you uploaded this today since i just started watching the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime today. I have always enjoyed retro shows since my childhood in Nigeria and this anime you are reviewing definitely looks like one i will enjoy.
Gekiganger 3 is Fetter Robot 1:1, so it surprises me how in Super Robot V, wich featured both Badesico and Getter Robot, none if the Nadesico Characters mentioned the fact that they were fighting side by side with the real life Gekiganger. SRW V featured also Battleship Yanato, but no jokes about that either.
I was hooked on Nadesico from the time they aired an episode or two on Toonami. Even have the five Aestivalis model kits in my backlog waiting to be built.
I remember seeing an image of this anime some months ago and looked it up since I liked the character and mecha designs, but I just forgot about it. Will try to give it a watch at some point, since now I'm more interested in mecha thanks to Gundam.
What is a little sad is that in order to get a proper conclusion to nadesco is if you play super robot wars as they do follow up what happens and some give you an interesting what if scenario in one of the games
I find it funny that Yamada's death is so mundane but his death in Super Robot Wars are quite bombastic like every time he was going to die it's on a last stand scenario And easily preventable too just give him a few kills before he died and he's good in future chapters hell in SRW W you don't even have to do anything to prevent his death
I think an anime that managed to capture the same spirit as Nadesico for me was Full Metal Panic. The series strikes a great balance between comedy and seriousness, just like its predecessor, and it also seems to have the same character designer as Nadesico.
This one was really appreciated in the manga/anime clubs in the end of the 90´s at least in Sweden....The roller coaster story line was intriguing (a couple of certain episodes was discussed a lot) for sure as well as the mecha designs.
Finally, someone is talking about nardesico! Too nad the games where never released in the west. We are missing half the story. And because stellvia never got another chance. Propably. They both had the same director.
I remember watching this show and falling in love with it immediately. I'd be interested in seeing you cover some of the screenwriter's (Sho Aikawa) other shows where he goes all in on writing about Japanese politics
this was actually very popular around the time it aired and early 00s but its very much from its era. I also recommend Irresponsible Captain Tylor for a 90s show with really great animation and good writing that no one remembers.
I recently rewatched Nadesco and it was really fun especially since I've watched a whole lot more anime since the first time I watched it the movie is pretty good too
@Michael-y9o5g it's dubbed in English as well the main mech is really bad ass looking and worth the watch alone imo but the video already explains the short comings of it
I remember in the Nineties Evangelion was/had the most popular characters ranked for the longest months, then turn to years, and it was Nadesico the first title with Yurika that too Rei's number one spot in Japan's popularity
Keep up the great work, I feel like we would have similar tastes baised on how you described the first three episodes, would be fun to talk shop with ya.
I love this anime so much, it's a pity it never got the anime sequels it deserved. Even worse when they intended for a movie trilogy, but ended up stopping at one movie. I really wish this anime had deserved better.
Back when you could just walk in a gaming store in Hong Kong and buy pirated games I had a disc of the Nadesico game. It pretty much played like Super Robot Wars. And Nadesico is still represented fairly well in Super Robot Wars, even doing alternate stories where Gai lived and doing Gekigan Flare with Prince of Darkness Akito.
I watched this anime as a kid and didn’t know that it was a parody or a joke, I just enjoyed it. I did any other show lol. I think I still have the DVD somewhere.
A rebellion aboard a ship is called a mutiny, not a coup. I'm glad this show poked fun at the convention of teenagers fighting space wars, instead of space sailors and pilots who would be professionals, with more than a touch of Bushido.
I watched this right after watching Super Dimension Centry Orguss and Orguss 2 (which all followed a really lojg mecha binge). Orguss and Nadesico have been my favorite anime experiences in anime of all time. Can't reccomend this anime enough
Ruri is the only kid genius character in a 90s anime that was: 1) not annoying 2) had genuinely funny dry humor While the show wasn't entirely a subversion, in a few characters like her it certainly went the other way to really fun effect.
Nadesico has one of the best English dubs ever. Like FLCL, a lot of time and effort was put into adapting as much of the humor as they could manage just to keep the show’s spirit. Is 100%? No, but ADV still did a great job and it really shows that they wanted to have some fun after Evangelion.
one of the ps4 super robot wars games has a voiced reuinion between Akito and Yurika with their original actors. Its as close to an ending we will ever get.
Jiro Yamada is the boring name my parents gave me, Gai Daigoji is the NAME OF MY SOUL! such a nice review :) if you haven't already, you should do Vandread as well :)
>Forgotten >A staple of 90's mecha anime >A show that features in videogame crossovers to this day >A show you can find discussion of in Japanese social media to this day >Forgotten americans never change huh
Now that I've had a chance to watch the video- I was a young college freshman in 1999 watching the English dub of Nadesico on VHS. (Oh god, I'm so old now.) I missed most of the nuance then, but with an extra 25 years of weeb, I get the subtext, references and parody. You identified everything just right and did a great job covering why this was a real gem of a show. I'll disagree (but understand), about the movie. The tonal shift and character change was too much for me. They changed Ruri from innocent-smartass to.... I'm not sure what. But they gutted the part of her personality that was so endearing. I skip the movie. The english dub is an incredible gem of voice acting and one of the few dubs that I still enjoy without reservation. It has a who-who's list of the early English VAs, from the wild west that was anime dubbing before 2000. Everyone is having a blast, giving their all, and the translator clearly got a ton of latiuide. The jokes land so well - the sub is missing so much of the oddball humor. The OP song is also a banger in the 90s style. Horns! Dramatic musical flares! Building tension with powerful resolution! I don't think I skipped the OP once during the rewatch. The ED song (Yurika's theme song) is not nearly as good but the singer is clearly giving 120%. There's basically like two other videos on Nadesico for reviews. Good job Crusder. Thanks. (Megumi is best girl. BYE)
I've recently started watching Mobilesuit Gundam, and I like mech anime. I didn't know about this one. I'll add it to the list (the really, really long list at this point).
Even though the style looks like any other mainstream 90/00s anime, I’m happy that they redesigned the characters for the show. I am not a big fan of Kia Asamiya’s style of drawing. But he is a real good storyteller. Loved Silent Möbius, Corrector Yui, and Steam Detectives.
Nadesco, to me, seems to take most of its inspiration from G Gundam which was already sort of a more light-hearted and comedic take of that franchise's conventions. Hell one of the characters here looks awfully similar to Domon Kasshu, so either there's merit to this theory, or it's just a coincidence and I'm just letting the metal molecules in my tinfoil hat seep into my brain.
I really tried to watch this one, cant remember what put me off so much with it, I thought that I would enjoy it as I enjoyed Irresponsible Captain Tylor (WATCH IT, HIGHLY RECCOMENDED), as it was in the same vibe, but just could not get into it.
Oh totally, Nadesico and Irresponsible Captain Tylor have the same vibe for sure. Both of them are some of my favourite shows and I've been looking for something similar but nothing really hits the spot (closest might be Mouretsu Pirates)... I'm surprised you couldn't get into Nadesico, then, maybe it was the erratic tonal shifts?
@@twixraiderhm Well the closest I found to Nadesico was Vandread, but it was more of a serious show with silly and hell of a cheesy moments, but I enjoyed it, for Nadesico, I just could not take this show seriously the silly moments were too silly and were not balanced enough with the serious ones, just at some point it became tedious for me.
I know how you feel the anime ended it had no conclusions to the tv series and movie. They attempt a Sega Dreamcast game to link the movie it didn’t sell well in Japan.
People didnt *forget* nadesico, its just that it was a mean-spirited show that had redeeming qualities until everyone gave up on it after prince of darkness so people dont want to talk about it any more.
Joooooooooooooooe!!!!! I so freaking love Martian Successor Nadesico! This is one of my most favorite comedy anime-I'm calling the original comedy-the romance and drama elements are there to further the comedic elements of the story. And if you've ever watched an anime or two, it's worth your time to check out out! Like the characters in the show with Gekigangar, there's a good reason for anyone to Geki-get-in (the damned robot, Shinji!) because you're going to have a good time. Given its age, the dub is even decent enough-that's important for me because I'm legally blind and subtitles are hard for me to follow. I say "decent enough" because in places where it's kinda not amazing, it's kinda on purpose.
I like how the movie is a deliberate commentary on fans going too far with their interests but also has the creative lead make a loli character the main character for it. Seems hyper self aware or not self aware at all.
As someone who's played super robot wars J like a 1000 times I am way too connected to these characters to ever forget their existence again. With that being said I do remember that I found myself decently enjoying the anime when I was younger even if I don't remember much about the plot aside from The Times when I remembered it when I played j but I definitely remembered not liking the movie like it was needlessly dark and needlessly edgy and it was trying way too hard to try to set up another storyline instead of just decently wrap up the previous season. In the end I do respect that this series has its place in the world but God do I dislike the Prince of darkness movie.
I'm right after the commercial and two things. 1. Your mispronounciation of "baumkuchen" made me snicker. 2. I saw Nadesico withou having seen the big mecha series, except maybe Eva, and I still loved it. And yeah, the English dub adds a bit of a different flavor.
Almost thought this was gonna be Patlabor. Edit: everything you’ve talked about I’ve either put on my watch list or outright bought physically. Don’t ever let me down. 😂 deus vult.
Huh, guess the show was from the 90's, I was still in high School back then, or maybe late grade school. Think by the time I watched the movie, I forgot how the series ended.
Fond memories of this one! Spoiler (and yeah I know you already did it, so not really): I was devastated when Gai got offed. Please tell me I'm not the only one.
Nadeshiko has some of the same issues as Cowboy Bebop, the arcs start to sag at the end (you can tell they are making a lot of it up as they go along). That said, the opening bits are REALLY GOOD, and the dub is one of the best (it's funnier, because the Japanese cast was pretty ordinary, while ADV basically dragged in their EVA cast in lieu of therapy. This makes Japanese original lines like "You mean episode 26 wasn't the last episode?" MUCH funnier (and then Tiffany Grant pops up voicing Ryoko) plus they carefully re-did all of Izumi's jokes so that they would be appropriately groan-worthy. In addition to all the other classic Anime references, two of the episodes are basically Star Trek homages/parodies the "sub hunt" episode is basically, "Balance of Terror" from the original series (BOTH are lifting from "The Enemy Below"). And the episode where everyone is off their meds is VERY like several Next Generation Episodes, most closely "Cause and Effect". Prince of Darkness was "Endless Eight" long before even Lucky Star. It took a flying high show and pretty much killed it dead (dead enough that it's obscure today). Someday, we will get a show done by someone who grew up watching Nadesico, and it will be amazing, because they will have thought the whole thing out BEFORE they started. Oh, and how could you leave out "That's just the boring name my parents gave me!! GAI DAIGOJI is the name that belongs to MY SOUL!"
Or you can say the super robot show within the show, and the real mecha genre homeage in Nadesico (it's not a coincidence that the Nadesico resembles the White Base from Gundam, and the show did an entire idol singing episode in reference to Macross) and meta references/commentary on the mecha otaku cutlures as satirised via the entire Nadesico crew as well as the Lizards is a *gasp* deconstruction *gasp* of the mecha genre. Yes, Nadesico is the *actual* deconstruction of the mecha genre of the 90s that 99% of western fans didn't get and then falsely attributed to EVA to (which was actually an otaku love letter to the mecha/tokusatsu genre from Anno).
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The problem of the movie, is that you have to play the sega cd game, that is practically a season 2
Nadesico is fantastic. Thank you for spotlighting such a lovely series. You truly are a cultured crusader.
2:02 Spat out my drink. Perfect edit.
I just started showing this to my brother in law and he's absolutely in love with it already. Absolute hidden gem of an anime.
Too bad it lacks an ending...
Good thing SRW V gave it one, lol.
A lot of Mecha anime fall into obscurity simply because people back then got tired of it so the current trend of Isekai will share the same fate as well.
Isekai probably won't end for a long time. The idea has more possibilities than mecha could ever.
Strange man in a strange world stories have been going strong for literally thousands of years. I don't think isekai will suffer anytime soon, because the genre is perfectly tailored to target a specific audience and they'll always have that market of tweens and teens who haven't overexposed to the genre yet, alongside the dumpster moths that gather around the trashfires of the genre. And because of the sheer amount of isekai pumped out, the studios still occasionally pop out a gem like Konosuba that even a grizzled pre-toonami era oldtaku like myself can find enjoyable.
now its "teenage exorcist team" , there's 6 different series of teenage exorcists running on shonen jump alone
I could never forget “you get to burning” the modern cover with the OG vocalist is always stuck in my head. A fun but flawed show that sadly got overshadowed by a certain other subversive mecha
Aw hell yeah, another non-CG mecha to put on the (eternally growing) list
It's a real hidden gem. Having grown up with older anime I knew the references.
@7:05 Boyyy, the levels of meta 4th wall breaks in the recap episode is giving me flashbacks to the levels of meta breaks in Don Quixote. That's enough for me to like the show
holy shit, I was literally scheduling this into my watch list yesterday. this was the second anime I ever watched - after Record of Lodoss War - and me and the friend that introduced it to me actually charted how to get ahold of the movie when it released via the high seas.
I've wanted to make a video essay on this as soon as I possibly could, but I'm honestly impressed and amazed someone else managed to do it instead. I give you all the props in the world. Daigouji Gai was the first anime character to make me cry.
I watched this series on VHS, that I ordered from the Right Stuf paper catalog. My first viewing was the Dub. I've met and interviewed some of the folks who worked on the dub over the years. I later got to enjoy the sub when I got the dvd's. Both are great and worth a watch. And I'm happy to see that this show still has a flame going, older titles don't always make the jump to digital let alone streaming. "You get to Burning!" Great video
Great video, friend 😊 As someone still relatively new to anime and manga, i am always interested in watching retro shows snd trying new genres. And good coincidence that you uploaded this today since i just started watching the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime today. I have always enjoyed retro shows since my childhood in Nigeria and this anime you are reviewing definitely looks like one i will enjoy.
You just juggled my memory, I completely forgot I had watched this show 15 years ago xD
Thank you!
This show was my first exposure to the mecha genre and even anime in general, so it always have a special place in my heart.
Gekiganger 3 is Fetter Robot 1:1, so it surprises me how in Super Robot V, wich featured both Badesico and Getter Robot, none if the Nadesico Characters mentioned the fact that they were fighting side by side with the real life Gekiganger. SRW V featured also Battleship Yanato, but no jokes about that either.
I was hooked on Nadesico from the time they aired an episode or two on Toonami. Even have the five Aestivalis model kits in my backlog waiting to be built.
I remember seeing an image of this anime some months ago and looked it up since I liked the character and mecha designs, but I just forgot about it. Will try to give it a watch at some point, since now I'm more interested in mecha thanks to Gundam.
Im glad to see you're getting sponsored. That means your channel is growing
Ave Manga, Deus OVA, and a big thanks for all the vids
This is wild, I just finished a week-long rewatch of Nadesico. As in, last night.
I know dude I was there. I'm still there.
If you want a 2000's era super robot throwback comedy with a bouncy love for its genre and pace, try Godannar.
The way you describe the tonal balance of this series is giving me Full Metal Panic vibes. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll add it to the list.
What is a little sad is that in order to get a proper conclusion to nadesco is if you play super robot wars as they do follow up what happens and some give you an interesting what if scenario in one of the games
I find it funny that Yamada's death is so mundane but his death in Super Robot Wars are quite bombastic like every time he was going to die it's on a last stand scenario
And easily preventable too just give him a few kills before he died and he's good in future chapters hell in SRW W you don't even have to do anything to prevent his death
I think an anime that managed to capture the same spirit as Nadesico for me was Full Metal Panic. The series strikes a great balance between comedy and seriousness, just like its predecessor, and it also seems to have the same character designer as Nadesico.
This was one of my favorite “obscure “ anime I found at my library when I was younger. I cried at end of ep 3
This one was really appreciated in the manga/anime clubs in the end of the 90´s at least in Sweden....The roller coaster story line was intriguing (a couple of certain episodes was discussed a lot) for sure as well as the mecha designs.
What a fantastic video to watch at 5 am at work.
I remember checking the DVDs of this from the library back when they had a whole section in the YA area devoted to anime. It was a wonderful surprise.
ight you convinced me to watch this
Sp glad a classic is getting some love.
Finally, someone is talking about nardesico!
Too nad the games where never released in the west.
We are missing half the story.
And because stellvia never got another chance. Propably.
They both had the same director.
For me, this was the anime that nobody else ever watched or heard about but that I'll always remember anyways.
I remember watching this show and falling in love with it immediately. I'd be interested in seeing you cover some of the screenwriter's (Sho Aikawa) other shows where he goes all in on writing about Japanese politics
I'll talk about him when I make a video on Angel Cop
@@CulturedCrusader thats gonna get demonetized lol
"This guy." You son of a...
this was actually very popular around the time it aired and early 00s but its very much from its era.
I also recommend Irresponsible Captain Tylor for a 90s show with really great animation and good writing that no one remembers.
Do Slayers series next
I recently rewatched Nadesco and it was really fun especially since I've watched a whole lot more anime since the first time I watched it the movie is pretty good too
Movie? Japanese only or also English dub?
@Michael-y9o5g it's dubbed in English as well the main mech is really bad ass looking and worth the watch alone imo but the video already explains the short comings of it
I remember in the Nineties Evangelion was/had the most popular characters ranked for the longest months, then turn to years, and it was Nadesico the first title with Yurika that too Rei's number one spot in Japan's popularity
I saw the thumbnail without my glasses on and for a brief moment I thought this video was gonna talk about Teknoman/Tekkaman Blade.
Keep up the great work, I feel like we would have similar tastes baised on how you described the first three episodes, would be fun to talk shop with ya.
I loved this series. Fond memories of watching this when I was younger lol
I love this anime so much, it's a pity it never got the anime sequels it deserved. Even worse when they intended for a movie trilogy, but ended up stopping at one movie.
I really wish this anime had deserved better.
To me this is one of the best english dubs for the era.
Back when you could just walk in a gaming store in Hong Kong and buy pirated games I had a disc of the Nadesico game. It pretty much played like Super Robot Wars.
And Nadesico is still represented fairly well in Super Robot Wars, even doing alternate stories where Gai lived and doing Gekigan Flare with Prince of Darkness Akito.
One of the better anime of all time
Yupp.
I remember it quite good.
I got first in touch with this title by a Magazine called Animania from the year 2001/1.
> read Magazine like Mazinger
Bros, am I cooked
That's one of those anime where the show for me was ok but has one of my favorite opening songs.
I watched this anime as a kid and didn’t know that it was a parody or a joke, I just enjoyed it. I did any other show lol. I think I still have the DVD somewhere.
Nadesico, Ave Maria, and a Deus Vult? You get a like and subscribe.
Nadesico has, hands down, THE BEST mid-season clip show of all time!
The show within the show BECOMES THE SHOW!!! 🤣🤣🤣
For those who know this show and liked it, may I recommend "Irresponsible Captain Taylor".
Please cover Giant Robo the Animation, it's a 90s OVA series that's fantastic but utterly forgotten, perfect for you
Patience. I'll probably be watching Iron-Blooded Orphans first but I will get to Robo.
A rebellion aboard a ship is called a mutiny, not a coup. I'm glad this show poked fun at the convention of teenagers fighting space wars, instead of space sailors and pilots who would be professionals, with more than a touch of Bushido.
I watched this right after watching Super Dimension Centry Orguss and Orguss 2 (which all followed a really lojg mecha binge). Orguss and Nadesico have been my favorite anime experiences in anime of all time. Can't reccomend this anime enough
Everyone wants a sequel to a classic show until the sequel happens. I agree, better to just imagine it! No need to resurrect this one!
It's a series I forgot. But I definitely enjoyed it
i feel bad that i only learn nadesico from the SRW series.......T.T
I never watched it. All I remember is Ruri was EVERYWHERE for about 2 years.
Oh and I struggled very hard to not call it Nabisco.
Ruri Ruri was best girl.
Ruri is the only kid genius character in a 90s anime that was:
1) not annoying
2) had genuinely funny dry humor
While the show wasn't entirely a subversion, in a few characters like her it certainly went the other way to really fun effect.
Nadesico has one of the best English dubs ever. Like FLCL, a lot of time and effort was put into adapting as much of the humor as they could manage just to keep the show’s spirit. Is 100%? No, but ADV still did a great job and it really shows that they wanted to have some fun after Evangelion.
Now, this sounds like a super robot reconstruction, and I need to finish watching it.
Nice, I'll check it out.
one of the ps4 super robot wars games has a voiced reuinion between Akito and Yurika with their original actors. Its as close to an ending we will ever get.
Do a video on Eureka Seven! Love the content, thanks!
Jiro Yamada is the boring name my parents gave me, Gai Daigoji is the NAME OF MY SOUL!
such a nice review :) if you haven't already, you should do Vandread as well :)
>Forgotten
>A staple of 90's mecha anime
>A show that features in videogame crossovers to this day
>A show you can find discussion of in Japanese social media to this day
>Forgotten
americans never change huh
Now that I've had a chance to watch the video-
I was a young college freshman in 1999 watching the English dub of Nadesico on VHS. (Oh god, I'm so old now.) I missed most of the nuance then, but with an extra 25 years of weeb, I get the subtext, references and parody. You identified everything just right and did a great job covering why this was a real gem of a show.
I'll disagree (but understand), about the movie. The tonal shift and character change was too much for me. They changed Ruri from innocent-smartass to.... I'm not sure what. But they gutted the part of her personality that was so endearing. I skip the movie.
The english dub is an incredible gem of voice acting and one of the few dubs that I still enjoy without reservation. It has a who-who's list of the early English VAs, from the wild west that was anime dubbing before 2000. Everyone is having a blast, giving their all, and the translator clearly got a ton of latiuide. The jokes land so well - the sub is missing so much of the oddball humor.
The OP song is also a banger in the 90s style. Horns! Dramatic musical flares! Building tension with powerful resolution! I don't think I skipped the OP once during the rewatch. The ED song (Yurika's theme song) is not nearly as good but the singer is clearly giving 120%.
There's basically like two other videos on Nadesico for reviews. Good job Crusder. Thanks.
(Megumi is best girl. BYE)
Been on my list for while, guess I'll binge the whole thing to avoid any spoilers.
How dare you make me enjoy myself smh.
I've recently started watching Mobilesuit Gundam, and I like mech anime. I didn't know about this one. I'll add it to the list (the really, really long list at this point).
MSN is the gintama of mecha.
Even though the style looks like any other mainstream 90/00s anime, I’m happy that they redesigned the characters for the show.
I am not a big fan of Kia Asamiya’s style of drawing. But he is a real good storyteller. Loved Silent Möbius, Corrector Yui, and Steam Detectives.
Nadesco, to me, seems to take most of its inspiration from G Gundam which was already sort of a more light-hearted and comedic take of that franchise's conventions. Hell one of the characters here looks awfully similar to Domon Kasshu, so either there's merit to this theory, or it's just a coincidence and I'm just letting the metal molecules in my tinfoil hat seep into my brain.
is not that forgotten, the black Sarena Moderoid model kit come out tomorrow lol
Alright you have my attention
I really tried to watch this one, cant remember what put me off so much with it, I thought that I would enjoy it as I enjoyed Irresponsible Captain Tylor (WATCH IT, HIGHLY RECCOMENDED), as it was in the same vibe, but just could not get into it.
Oh totally, Nadesico and Irresponsible Captain Tylor have the same vibe for sure. Both of them are some of my favourite shows and I've been looking for something similar but nothing really hits the spot (closest might be Mouretsu Pirates)... I'm surprised you couldn't get into Nadesico, then, maybe it was the erratic tonal shifts?
@@twixraiderhm Well the closest I found to Nadesico was Vandread, but it was more of a serious show with silly and hell of a cheesy moments, but I enjoyed it, for Nadesico, I just could not take this show seriously the silly moments were too silly and were not balanced enough with the serious ones, just at some point it became tedious for me.
What a time that was
I know how you feel the anime ended it had no conclusions to the tv series and movie. They attempt a Sega Dreamcast game to link the movie it didn’t sell well in Japan.
People didnt *forget* nadesico, its just that it was a mean-spirited show that had redeeming qualities until everyone gave up on it after prince of darkness so people dont want to talk about it any more.
Joooooooooooooooe!!!!!
I so freaking love Martian Successor Nadesico! This is one of my most favorite comedy anime-I'm calling the original comedy-the romance and drama elements are there to further the comedic elements of the story. And if you've ever watched an anime or two, it's worth your time to check out out! Like the characters in the show with Gekigangar, there's a good reason for anyone to Geki-get-in (the damned robot, Shinji!) because you're going to have a good time.
Given its age, the dub is even decent enough-that's important for me because I'm legally blind and subtitles are hard for me to follow. I say "decent enough" because in places where it's kinda not amazing, it's kinda on purpose.
I like how the movie is a deliberate commentary on fans going too far with their interests but also has the creative lead make a loli character the main character for it. Seems hyper self aware or not self aware at all.
2:01 is that a patlabor uniform? lol
As someone who's played super robot wars J like a 1000 times I am way too connected to these characters to ever forget their existence again. With that being said I do remember that I found myself decently enjoying the anime when I was younger even if I don't remember much about the plot aside from The Times when I remembered it when I played j but I definitely remembered not liking the movie like it was needlessly dark and needlessly edgy and it was trying way too hard to try to set up another storyline instead of just decently wrap up the previous season. In the end I do respect that this series has its place in the world but God do I dislike the Prince of darkness movie.
"Cross Crash!"
I will always be thankful for Nadesico for creating the deadpan loli archetype.
I'm right after the commercial and two things.
1. Your mispronounciation of "baumkuchen" made me snicker.
2. I saw Nadesico withou having seen the big mecha series, except maybe Eva, and I still loved it. And yeah, the English dub adds a bit of a different flavor.
1. I'm trying my best
2. I still preferred the sub, but I agree the dub gives you something unique
YOU GET TO BURNING!
Almost thought this was gonna be Patlabor.
Edit: everything you’ve talked about I’ve either put on my watch list or outright bought physically. Don’t ever let me down. 😂 deus vult.
A Patlabor video may be in the works...
Huh, guess the show was from the 90's, I was still in high School back then, or maybe late grade school. Think by the time I watched the movie, I forgot how the series ended.
You get to burning..........
Fond memories of this one!
Spoiler (and yeah I know you already did it, so not really):
I was devastated when Gai got offed. Please tell me I'm not the only one.
The only canon conclusion to Nadesico PoD is SRW V's
Nadeshiko has some of the same issues as Cowboy Bebop, the arcs start to sag at the end (you can tell they are making a lot of it up as they go along). That said, the opening bits are REALLY GOOD, and the dub is one of the best (it's funnier, because the Japanese cast was pretty ordinary, while ADV basically dragged in their EVA cast in lieu of therapy. This makes Japanese original lines like "You mean episode 26 wasn't the last episode?" MUCH funnier (and then Tiffany Grant pops up voicing Ryoko) plus they carefully re-did all of Izumi's jokes so that they would be appropriately groan-worthy.
In addition to all the other classic Anime references, two of the episodes are basically Star Trek homages/parodies the "sub hunt" episode is basically, "Balance of Terror" from the original series (BOTH are lifting from "The Enemy Below"). And the episode where everyone is off their meds is VERY like several Next Generation Episodes, most closely "Cause and Effect".
Prince of Darkness was "Endless Eight" long before even Lucky Star. It took a flying high show and pretty much killed it dead (dead enough that it's obscure today).
Someday, we will get a show done by someone who grew up watching Nadesico, and it will be amazing, because they will have thought the whole thing out BEFORE they started.
Oh, and how could you leave out "That's just the boring name my parents gave me!! GAI DAIGOJI is the name that belongs to MY SOUL!"
Unpopular opinion but I liked the movie a lot. A little bit more than the series.
I'm not exactly sure why.
ANyways,, thank you for the great video.
Or you can say the super robot show within the show, and the real mecha genre homeage in Nadesico (it's not a coincidence that the Nadesico resembles the White Base from Gundam, and the show did an entire idol singing episode in reference to Macross) and meta references/commentary on the mecha otaku cutlures as satirised via the entire Nadesico crew as well as the Lizards is a *gasp* deconstruction *gasp* of the mecha genre.
Yes, Nadesico is the *actual* deconstruction of the mecha genre of the 90s that 99% of western fans didn't get and then falsely attributed to EVA to (which was actually an otaku love letter to the mecha/tokusatsu genre from Anno).
They still make merch for it all the time. New Aestivalis kits just came out. How is it "forgotten"?
I always wanted see this. Just cause it was in a super robot war game (forgot which one it is) I played a long time
Gekigan Flare!
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAND IN THE AD
You get to burning
Cheers for your vids! Really helps work go by just a little bit quicker and also helps me find new anime to binge. Have you seen Gun x sword and if you have, what are your thoughts on it?