The Old School Otaku Lounge

Fvlminatvs wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 7:31 pm
I have to rewatch Crash. I thought it was, overall, better than Crisis if only because the early Crisis episodes were very rough. I do think the last episodes of Crisis are better than Crash, though. I think I should go back and rewatch the shows.

What is funny is that I really thought AD Police had some great ideas but was far too bleak and dark in its execution. Also, I thought that the episodes needed to be longer and they felt like they rushed to a conclusion too quickly for me. It was also a pretty rough tonal shift going from it to Bubblegum Crisis, which felt like mahou shoujo meets tokusatsu in the Blade Runner setting.

Then again, I blasted through AD Police and perhaps should give it a second go the way I did Iria.

DKop wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 2:25 pmI never thought i'd see a Crash apologist online, you're a rare one indeed.

I'll play devils advocate that Crash baseline of its story is workable, but there's so much other stuff in it I can't help but to laugh at and have fun with it. The last time I saw Crash was when I was on an old podcast episodes of One Pixel Jump, where me and the hosts got into great detail on that OVA and tore it apart, which was fun for us to do. I don't fully hate Crash at all, but I have to call out the issues in it that are ever so present.

I love AD Police for its "dark and gritty tone," which some people either really like and others will mock it. I didn't have an issue with how that original OVA wanted to tell its story, which I think it did a good enough job making a series in the vain of a Law and Order/NYPD Blue type short series. At least for me it was interesting to see more indepth on a society trying to co-exist with rampaging robots running amok. I think the people that take issue with the OVA seem to pinpoint really minor stuff they don't personally like about it or doesn't akin to their tastes, but to each their own.

Fvlminatvs wrote: ↑Tue May 01, 2018 7:31 pm I thought it would be interesting to point out that Yoroiden Samurai Troopers came out in 1988, which would start airing on weekday mornings before I had to catch the bus for high school in the mid-90s as Ronin Warriors. It was my jam, dude. I felt like it was Sailor Moon for guys. My brother and I would wake up earlier than we had to before school in order to catch it. Then... one tragic day... we got up, dressed, and got our breakfasts and turned the TV on to see... The Littlest Pet Shop. They'd cancelled its run for that crap. We were pretty mad.

Hehehe. One of my memories that would fit into about that time is DragonQuest/Dragon Warrior. It was shown real early on certain channels. What I did not find out until later was that they only dubbed the first 13 episodes and then circled back. It is a pity because from what I saw it was nicely done .. but apparently it was a 'failed experiment' as they never continued it or officially released the translations over here.
Actually (double checks; some things change and series that I never thought would come over here do)... nope, no american release. Ah! Directed by Rin Taro? Neat.