The guy who wrote Tetsujin and Giant Robo also happened to write one of the best super robot manga of all time. “Why haven’t I heard of it?” you may ask. >Mitsuteru Yokoyama is approached for an anime adaptation a la Mazinger or Tetsujin. >he shrugs and gave the studio full creative control, so they made a generic 50 ish episode combiner team toy commercial like Voltes V, Voltron or Grendizer with no actual fidelity to the original manga.>An OVA was commissioned in 1994 (pic related) but only two episodes were produced due to poor sales and the Japanese bubble economy finally popping. >12 episode adaptation was made in 2002 but still took creative liberties by giving the protagonist a love interest. >No official English paperback release of the manga and zero acknowledgement outside of Alberto the Impact from the Giant Robo OVA.If you’re convinced that super robot shows are goofy or light hearted, give it a read. You won’t regret it.
>>23781148Who do you think you're talking to?
>>23781148I forget which but there was some lolrok cartoon that I'm pretty sure boosted the scene from the end when the kid yells for mars
>>23781148Also paradoxically in the SRW 64 Manga, supposedly Godmars ends up fighting this version of MARS
>>23781158I think I meant Gaia from op pic but I haven’t checked it out personally so see what the scenario actually looked like
>>23781156First time I’ve seen a guy on the mecha board complain about a post recommending mecha
>>23781148>“Why haven’t I heard of it?” you may ask. Because it wasn't one of the best. Gaia is invincible and unstoppable. None of the God robots stand much of a chance. The ending is abrupt and stupid, almost buildup to it whatsoeverYokoyama's best mecha manga is Babel II and it isn't even close.
>>23781158IIRC it's the entire cast vs Big Fire piloting Shin God Mars (as in manga Gaia combined with the manga God robots, something that did not happen in the manga itself)
>>23781148>so they made a generic 50 ish episode combiner team toy commercialIt's a 64 episode show about wanting to fuck your hot twink brother, you fucking philistine.
>>23781148>If you’re convinced that super robot shows are goofy or light hearted, give it a read. You won’t regret it.Saying that just gives the impression that you're a faggot whose opinion can't be trusted
>>23781166If you think the ending was abrupt chances are you didn’t actually fucking read the manga
>>23781204He literally just decides it on a whim based on one random squabble he seesIt feels Yokoyama didn't give a shit about the story in this manga, like he thought that he didn't have to try because the ending would be so unusual that people would talk about it anyway. Granted even that much was more effort than he put into Giant Robo, but still, neither Mars nor its adaptations are any good
>>23781171Oh right that’s what it was, still had anime godmars fighting it so I was at least right
>>23781345Bait used to be funny
>>23781162Look you want to recommend something cool but don't act like you discovered something that's not even all that obscure. We are familiar with the works of Mitsuteru Yokoyama
>>23781148Great design.
People never heard of it cause for a long time Godmars WAS the adaptation, and the one you posted is an infamous adaptation that fucks up the tragic ending that was kind of the whole payoff to the manga. Also it's not very search English optimized for English speakers.
>>23781148>12 episode adaptation was made in 2002 but still took creative liberties by giving the protagonist a love interest.It’s actually a really, really close adaptation, often featuring exact panel recreations, and a vastly superior ending that adheres more closely to what the manga was trying to say. It’s just animated like shit.
>>23781796I found the animation to be good, even if it wasn’t flattering when it came to Gaia but it’s literally just how he’s drawn in the manga.
My favorite part of the 1994 OVA is how there's a preview for episode 3 but no actual episode 3. I don't think I've ever heard of something ending that abruptly.
>>23786193Hurricane Polymar Holy Blood was like that too, even if Tatsunoko says there were no plans for an episode 3. Supposedly the idea was that all their remake OVAs would be 4 episodes, but then they dropped the idea after Casshan. Some think the New Polymar staff did the cliffhanger as bait or revolt.
>>23786193IIRC the studio did that with multiple OVAs where they'd budget it for two episodes and if it didn't hit the sales numbers then it would go no further.
>>23786334I saw on a blog that apparently the sponsor of it just yanked funding after it undersold once lmao. >>23786193I’m mildly annoyed that we didn’t see the redesign for the forth sacred item animated but I’m glad we have it in the first place. That and we only have like three scenes of the gender swapped Uraeus who became a Lalah Sune clone for no reason.
>>23781148Huh I didn't know god mars was based on a manga.Do I read the Manga and watch the anime or are they same thing?
>>23786963God Mars is almost nothing like the manga aside from a few shared names and the concepts.
>>23787126Yeah, Yokoyama was known for having a liberal and commericially minded approach to how adaptations of his manga were handled.Probably why he isn't as discussed or even gets shit picked up as readily as his peers. It's hard to pinpoint what makes Tetsujin Tetsujin or Babel II Babel II when every adaptation is accurate to varying extents.>>23786368There was a 2 book novel that set out the rest of the story. Director said he wanted to make something that'd surpass the ongoing Giant Robo OVA.
>>23787309Has the novel been translated or put online at least?
>>23781148Almost looks like something out of The Big-O.
>>23781166I can vouch for Babel II, Poseidon rules and yet he's not even the best part of the manga/show. Also those aniki songs
>>23781148Thank you OP.I started reading the Manga and I'm on chapter 7 and it's pretty great.
>>23781345>He literally just decides it on a whim based on one random squabble he seesYou just described taxonomy, which justifies Mars
>>23781345>He literally just decides it on a whim based on one random squabble he seesYeah the entire manga went over your head. Mars was brooding about it for a while up until that point because of the things humans were doing as the situation got tense.
>>23791141The Big O is essentially a Yokoyama work made by someone other than Yokoyama. Everything from the setting, the designs, the story...all done in Yokoyama's style.
>>23787126>tfw fans hated Gash's character design so much and complained about him being ugly that the staff killed him
Just for clarification, Yokoyama himself told Godmars' staff to do their own thing instead of adapting his work.
>>23787126Left looks like a brave. Like One of those supporting bots in GaoGaiGar.Also not a fan of the Egyptian-style Gaia. Same for Giant Robo.
>>23781148>generic 50 ish episodeWiki said the show was a hit and even won a prize. Was it bad or popular?
>>23798603>Also not a fan of awesome robot designsDamning...
>>23798609I don't like robots with human faces.That shit is for androids, not giant mechs. They don't even do anything with their mouths, totally useless and pointless feature.
>>23798614I don't like turboautism disguised as reasonable opinions
>>23798605Very popular with fujos, they even held a funeral for Marg
>>23798619Your normie NPC opinion is irrelevant
So it's just called Mars 1976? I don't get it what's the name of this thing. >Muh Giant RoboMarketed to hell in the US and you're made to believe it's the best because of that.
>>23798614The Greek and Roman sculptures that became the inspiration for the obari-bots give a sense of masculine magesty. You are a small time noob.
>>23798605The show is fine but the amount of stock footage can be grating. It's a show that's is unironically referred to as being about the characters and not the robots. >>23798622That and the movie version only happened because fujos organized a petition that collected about 100,000 signatures. The names of the organizers are in the credits and you'll never see a greater concentration of names with the Kanji for "ko."
>>23798633The name of the manga is just "Mars", but that's extremely generic and there are completely unrelated series with the same name.
>>23781345This reminds me of Baran in Dragon Quest Dai, who also said "I was fighting to protect humans like you??" before wiping an entire town out
>Mars gets violently hit in the head>goes genocidalDid they accidentally fix his programming?
>>23798633>Marketed to hell in the USI literally never heard of it until I got pretty deep into mecha OVAs at which point is was kind of a process of elimination. Good but way too many recaps.
Just finished reading Mars. Great manga. 9/10. Now I want to watch god mars and the 2002 anime.Always love tragic media like this where the story shows that humanity are pieces of shit like Ideon, The Moon, Baldios and Layzner.
>>23800034God Mars is quite literally a completely different work. It's more like Grendizer than Mars imo.
>>23800145The middle part becomes a serviceable Leiji Matsumoto clone that our heroes kinda third wheel around the entire time.
does someone have a download archive for god mars but less than 15GB?there's torrent on nyaa but it has no seeds
>>23802096nope
>>23802096The series is on yt officially so just watch it there
>>23798657Top left is kinda sexy.
>>23804320>>23804892nevermind. left the torrent on all night for 2 days and it was downloaded even with those few seeds.
>>23807703get ready for some absolute fagkino
>>23781158>>23781171Weird, Google said srw 64 has no manga.Mind giving some directions to see it?
3 episodes in and I'm enjoying it a lot. I see The chief is the police guy from Tetsujin 1980 too lol
>>23810169The show really isn't THAT bad as some people claim.I think its biggest issues are that it feels like as if it crammed its almost completely unrelated 26 episode long "second season" in the middle and that the titular God Mars is less of a main mech most of the time and more of an elaborate three minute long "combination-God Fire-Mars Flash" finisher for Gaia.
>>23810194If nothing else, it's consistent. Granted, a lot of that consistency comes from the copious reuse of footage (unique scenes of the Cosmo Crusher is rare as fuck) but it's never terrible. You can really tell the third season was after the movie because they tripled down on what the Fujos wanted out of Takeru.
>>23781345You were filtered
>>23809649The anon(s) you're responding to are probably confusing a doujinshi for official. Pretty sure it's on e-hentai etc. /m/useum definitely have it on them last I lurked there.>>23781345I never understood when people here say the ending came out of nowhere as if leading up to this he:>was sealed into a single room like a caged animal by the japanese military>one of his only true friends died meaninglessly when the SDF over-reacted>the entire sewer scene where a mob attacked him right before thisIf anything, it's almost a surprise that Yokoyama didn't repeat the ending in His Name is 101 (the Babel II sequel)
>>23814892*leading up to this he wasn't
