Here’s the thread to gush over Giant Robo, bitch about Tetsujin not being translated and hold a 60 message debate over whether Yokoyama really invented mecha.And top pretending that mecha with faces aren’t cool.
>>23917228Ancient Greek invented mecha
>>23917228Who are your personal best Yokoyama Star System characters?
>>23917228Gigantor is a better name than Ironman 28. Fight me
>>23917604I quite liked Sangetsu’s character design and overall vibe but he doesn’t even get a chance to show off his powers apart from jumping pretty high and running fast. If the SRW doujin is to be believed he can multiply himself too. I couldn’t figure out what manga he’s originally from either, maybe masked ninja Akakage?
>>23917228I'm still sad we won't ever get to see the Siege of Babel. It's probably better this way, the mystery of what comes before and after The Day the Earth Stood Still is part of the fun.
>>23917228>debate over whether Yokoyama really invented mechaDid he invent people commanding golems and robots? No. Did he invent giant robots? No. But he meaningfully codified the Japanese anime/manga subgenre of giant robots.
Manga editor Shin Aizawa (Super Robot Wars) had this to say today about Yokoyama souring on GR OVA and Godmars:>"I worked on the "Super Robot Wars" manga for many years, but the use of material from "Giant Robo" and "Six God Combination God Mars" was strictly forbidden. Why? I once visited the still-living great master Mitsuteru Yokoyama. The master's confession, tinged with anger: "I hate them. I hate that my own works were being treated like that." The tyranny of media mix."https://x.com/wingletter/status/2069385329292021821
>>23918415That's weird given that the claim behind Godmars is that Yokoyama himself told them to not to directly adapt his manga.
>>23918418Yeah, if this is true he must have felt distaste in his old age. Some people are wondering if Imagawa's T28 anime was the last straw for him.
>>23918446Ngl it explains why he gave up on sci fi manga after Babel II. I noticed that his 70s manga like Mars and Sono Na Wa 101 seem increasingly angry and needlessly violent, it was his way of asserting control over his own works. Then twenty years later he finds out that Giant Robo and Tetsujin 28 are bound in legal crap so you can’t make a straight OVA adaptation kek
>>23918446I thought T28 2004 was really great. Is that the incorrect opinion these days? I thought it was extremely entertaining and well done. Why would the original author be angry about it?
>>23918690Maybe Yokoyama was ahead of his time when it comes to getting pissed about endless remakes and adaptations.
>>23918690>Is that the incorrect opinionWhat the fuckAnyway, Imagawa's Tetsujin was good. A good open-ended question about the use of technology without beating you over the head with a moral lesson.
Ms Takamizawa walked so Misato could run
>>23921460And as long as I have a face, she will always have a place to sit.
Is this the thread where we are supposed to argue about that every single robot is a real robot aside from uhhh God Mars?Oh and that mecha was created for trannies? I think this is it.
>>23921502Shut the fuck up faggot. Kill yourself.
>>23922205t. someone who thinks Gunbuster is a real robot
Has anyone here watched the new Akakage?>>23918415This has been a topic on JP Twitter for a while but the sum of it is>Banpresto turned their back on Yokoyama for SRW64. He stipulated only Daisaku, Ginrei and GR1 to be included. They ignored him.>He was far more angry at the manga editors for including characters that had not been adapted into the OVA at all.>HikariPro hasn't been too keen on licensing characters they have more control over since the SRW64 shitshow, and they created Gan Eden to replace Big Fire after Yokoyama complained.>HikariPro don't license their characters in crossover projects because of this. This is the real reason why the Giant Robo OVA and original/2004 Tetsujin 28 aren't in SRW. Godmars and Shin Tetsujin are TMS-owned.>>23918446You're thinking of FX he didn't like. He died the evening the second episode of 2004 aired, and his only requests were "don't make Shotaro handle firearms" and "Kenji tricks Shotaro to lead Tetsujin to a burning furnace" because that was his original idea for an ending. >>23917631He's from Suikoden/Water Margin.>>23917604Probably>Murasame Family>Taiso/Dai Zong>Koumei/Kong Ming>Cao Cao>All versions of Ginrei>Akakage>Wolf Constellation protagonistKouichi and Yomi feel like one character to me but they're there too.>>23921460Truly under-appreciated character.
>>23917604I genuinely cannot name or remember a single one apart from the little boys and Alberto... Sooo Alberto. He's the only one that counts anyway.
>>23922871So you're saying he left an impact
>>23922897I don't get it but yeah.
>>23922941Alberto the Impact is his full title, anon...
>>23922871>I genuinely cannot name or remember a single one apart from the little boys and Alberto/thread
>>23922236It's as much Real Robot as Ideon (which is real robot).
>>23923957Ideon is a Real Nigga Robot
>>23923959It's real. All of it.
>>23917228Whos' the robot in the GR OVA opening who looks like William Murderface from Metalocalypse causing a blizzard?
>>23924106I thought murderface robo was from Mars originally?
>>23924106>>23924155It’s Uranus or Uranaeus from Mars indeed. It’s piloted by Kawarazaki the Turbulent unsurprisingly.
>>23924209>Uranaeus It's just Uranus.
>>23924366Uranus is also the name of the Aztec statue looking thing Ivan pilots.
>>23925206Ivan's mech is a dogu
>>23925206There's Uranus, Uraeus and SinFor some reason the Giant Robo OVA renamed Sin to Uraenus.
>>23929204>>23921460takamizawa!
>>23929204Cute
So to recap what everyone already knows, in the 50's & early 60's before the modern tankobon format because universal in the late 60's, Yokoyama did a separate book version of Tetsujin, an abridged & sometimes rewritten version of the original, & that’s what was reprinted for decades, the original serialization version wasn’t fully reprinted until 2004. The abridged version itself consists of the 7-volume "long-form detective manga edition" which covers the first chunk of the series, & the 20-volume Kappa Comics edition which covers most of the rest of the series (except the very last arc with the dinosaur robot Galon). I bring all this up simply because I’m morbidly autistic & obsess over stupid, meaningless statistics, so I did the math to find that the “long-form detective manga edition" covers roughly the first 6 volumes of the original serialization version, but in only 45% of the total number of pages 849 pages (give or take) vs 1808 pages (give or take). So there you go in case anyone else here likes obsessing over stupid, meaningless statistics.
>>23931323Try that again in a non word puke fashion
Just finished reading Mars. I kinda knew it was going to be one of those older manga with an abrupt bad ending but dang I was really hoping that things would turn out ok for the earth for once.
lanky manga neon blue Tetsujin 28>fat 2004 desaturated Tetsujin.
>>23929204sauce? I just get Lupin III images.
>>23918415Reading this, I would take this with a grain of salt. I’m sure Yokoyama has had reservations about adaptations of his work. I think he even respected Imagawa’s vision when making Tetsujin-28 ‘04 to some extent. But to think he has held this about SRW specifically would explain why his work unfortunately isn’t in any subsequent iterations of the game. Then again, he’s dead and we can’t really pry into why he felt this way. Maybe he was just a cantankerous old artist who found it weird and strange that his work is being used in such a way with video games.
What's up with Shinseikiden Mars? I can't find the english sub anywhere.
>>23917228When I saw this thumbnail I thought it was Brago for a second
>>23933548It used to be on anikai but iirc the only English sub comes from Malaysia and it hasn’t been ripped or subbed again since. The existing subs are riddled with spelling errors and the actual quality is dogshit at around 360p. As far as I know it hasn’t received a new DVD release since its release and higher quality versions exist only on Japanese streaming sites.
crabstick subs my beloved, soon becoming a lost art
When did you realize that Mars is Japanese The Day the Earth Stood Still?
>>23933695alwys stick obtainment can be with heart and machine
>>23933715Immediately. A lot of his late 60s/first 70s manga are adaptations of hollywood movies. Phoenix Queen is a adaptation of She for example. Yokoyama mentioned being inspired by Carrie to do a split panel in one of his manga.>>23933239Other tweets claim Yokoyama hated mass crossover IPs for devaluing his work in his opinion. It's why HikariPro intervened when a Akakage pachinko was made without their consent in 2011. Also see >>23922795
"Klaatu barada nikto">planet fucking explodes
>>23933808For as bad as the 00s adaptation of Mars was, I liked the alternate end where he just leaves the planet as something somewhat more optimistic. The OP song was pretty good too. If only the 90s OVA was finished.
>>23934196I really liked the design for OVA Gaia. Moderoid or chogokin really need to make a Gaia or Poseidon sometime soon. Shitty candy toys don’t do them justice
>>23934196one of these days I'll dig up whatever ROK shitheap boosted the ending to Marsit was one of the ones VF ran back in the day, but yeah at one point it's very obviously the scene from the end of Mars when he calls out
>>23933715Has there ever been a spin on that story that acknowledges that they're all like, "oh we don't like humanity being so violent & destroying everything they don't like, so we, in our irreproachable moral superiority are going to..... do exactly that ourselves."
>>23936500>t. Batman
>>23936500The original more or less does by making the obliteration from the Gorts clearly something applied evenly to everyone in interplanetary space.
>>23936500Maybe "The Gentle Vultures" by Asimov?The androids in God Mars are definitely one of the most unhinged examples of the trope. It's not enough for them just to blow up earth, they go out of their way to kill civilians. Do we ever see whatever race created them in any of the anime adaptions?
Wait so let me get this straightMARS the manga was the originalGodmars is the anime which just kinda used the name and premise but was otherwise completely different?Then there was an OVA more recently that was more accurate?
>>23937015From what I've read there's a movie version of the seriesA one episode OVA based on the series A two episode OVA And lastly a 13 episode TV show that may as well be an OVA Also several character and robot designs show up in Giant Robo
https://myanimelist.net/manga/77453/Giant_Robo__Babel_no_Roujouhas nobody read this? the site says it's six volumes and in the same setting as the animation.
I'm really enjoying Babel 2. It's a little crazy how Yomi went straight from "join me" to "kill this guy" though.
>>23937015Doesn't really matter, the entire IP is dogshit, from the original manga, to the God Mars anime to any of the OVA adaptations. Literally all of it is a waste of time unless you're curious about the origin of stuff from later crossovers>>23937126They're both psychics; they can probably tell they are incompatible with each other in an instant
>>23937015Pretty much. Mars is a manga and there is an 1994 OVA and a 2002 TV series based on it.Godmars is "based" on Mars the manga but in reality it's completely different save for a few same names and some other minor concepts. There's also a movie and an OVA for Godmars. >>23937169kys
Off topic but does anyone else really love stock phrases like "have you taken leave of your senses"? It's such a pretentious way of saying "are you crazy?".
>>23938067Yomi robe pattern is most memorable
>>23938067>are you out of your vulcan mind
>>23938067Suikoden's scanlation sometimes goes off with old fashioned english.
>>23938067>Not Babel psychically transmitting suicide messages in 101
>>23939180I thought 101 would just be Yokoyama’s last attempt to cash in on Babel II’s success but turns out it’s about Babel being a fucking menace electrocuting people willy nilly. A highlight of mine is when one of the psychics he’s taunting throws a whole ass car at a police officer after trashing a restaurant. + legit Ginrei>>23939136Same with Sangokushi. The dialogue when Liu Bei sits down with Zhuge Liang is almost Shakespearean but it works very well within the context of the story and reads nicely.
>>23939136It is medieval China. Kotoryuho has a ongoing translation that's much the same.>>23939968101 was made years after B2 to retcon the arctic storyline (that was a cash-in by editors to coincide with the tv show). Ginrei appears in the earlier Wolf Constellation, and its protagonist is a fusion of both Murasame brothers from Tetsujin 28. Kenji's brother is also Ginrei's boss in 101 as well and that's where he got his 2004 hairstyle from. 101 also has a ton of design reuses, it's essentially the proto Giant Robo
>>23940013forgot pic
>>23939180I haven't read 101 yet (I'm reading Babel 2 for the first time) but I hope it's even crazier. It'd be interesting if Babel 2 ended up conquering the world anyways just because everyone keeps trying to kill him in fear of his powers.
>>23940013I don't understand the need to retcon it, and frankly, that last arc of the manga is better than 101Getting rid of the three servants and having Yomi be completely absent until the final volume really just took most of the life out of the original story. The only redeeming factor is Babel getting cheekier
>>23940075101 is better enjoyed as a seperate original manga than a Babel II, personally. The magazine run wiped out all mentions of B2 and I think Yokoyama's intention was a original esper story that got rid of the B2 iconography.>The only redeeming factor is Babel getting cheekierI disagree. He's pretty serious and even self-righteous in S-101 beyond that one scene. He has a few boyish mannerisms and behavior in Babel II, even up to F-City.I reccomend you give the below read, even with machine translate. It pretty much matches my personal opinions on 101:https://vocus.cc/article/5f64a1fcfd89780001eac3c7The Chinese have really good opinions and tastes in Yokoyama's mangas and characters.
The Babel II manga was a big hit in the Korea, to the point where in the 80's they did their own sequel, Babel III. Too bad it's probably next to impossible to get your hands on.
>>23940095*recommend
>>23933593I bought the malaysia DVD for like 20 bucks after you made this post and it looks to be standard 480i, not 360p. Haven't checked the subs yet tho.
So the first 26 episodes of the original Tetsujin anime (the ones that adapt the manga) are subbed.archive.org/details/tetsujin-28-birthIf by any chance someone watches that & then wants to try watching the rest through the Gigantor dub, the dub's episodes are in a totally different order, so here's the guide for that. If you notice any Gigantor episodes unaccounted for, that's because, contrary to popular belief, some of the earlier episodes were actually adapted in Gigantor, those ones were usually multiple episodes combined into one.
I finished reading Babel 2. I really liked the concept but good god did they overuse Yomi. Mad scientist characters are their best when they're coming up with crazy plots from the shadows (pic somewhat related) but Yomi is almost always a punching bag for babel.
>>23941733Huh, must’ve been compression. It’d be worth it for a subs group to rip the new HD scans on niconico and make subtitles that don’t suck.
Site i was using to watch the toku giant robo subbed is kill, is there anywhere else to find it subbed?
>>23944319Try dailymotion
>>23943399Somebody wrote up a full guide with sources on the logic as to what eps were picked recently.
>>23944350No luck anon
>>23942525Now you get to see the first actual time Tatsu is in animation, but with that different face.
>>23944319I was going to say Internet Archive, but then I searched and it seems to have been deleted. It was listed as Giant Robo Collection.>>23944501And he wouldn't have his actual design in animation until GAO, but he and Ryu's faces are always covered up as a recurring gag.
>>23944503>>23944319Never mind, found it in a different namehttps://archive.org/details/giant-robo-episode-2-great-magic-ball-grover
>>23944508Anon i said subs.
>>23944547https://archive.org/details/florida-scrubs-giant-robo-02-v-3_202512misclicked
>>23942525Alternatively, after watching those 26 episodes, you could read the Kappa Comics version of the Superhuman Kelly arc translated by the same guy, since it picks up immediately where the anime left off with the Robby arc.Err, or at least it does in the uncut version of the manga, the Kappa Comics version doesn't adapt the Robby arc at all so its version of the Superhuman Kelly arc is standalone.
>>23944319>>23944562ngl I didn't even know there were subs for Johnny Sokko
Really wish I could live in the timeline where the original anime kept adapting the manga instead of pivoting exclusively to original stories. They hadn't even got anywhere near to catching up to where the manga was at the time. For context the anime stopped adapting the manga at the Robby arc, & at the time the manga was in the Dr. Bigfire arc, so they probably could've gotten all the way up to the Saturn or VL2 arcs before they were caught up.
>>23944837>>23944501Literal whos and glup shittos like Kenji's family and Robbie cannot be this important holy fuck.
>>23945190But Alberto surely has a great impact, right?
>>23945190Imagine being so retarded that any character you aren’t familiar with is a glup shitto. >>23945209I see what you did there kek>>23944837I was surprised to find out that Fire II despite having those fins on the head it doesn’t have any connection to Doctor Dragnet at least in the 2004 version. I really want to see how that arc played out and also the circumstances around Monster’s first appearance.
>>23945190Boo
>>23945259what's this from?
>>23945209You really wanna force this one joke huh.
>>23945209yes
>>23945284https://www.goodreads.com/series/391667-tetsujin-dakkan-sakusenmodern-day retelling of tetsujin's first storyline. everyone lives. The Tetsujin project here is to create service robots for construction/public good
>>23945291It's definitely as forced as his fans thinking they can deem others nobodies. GR's never getting that sequel.
>>23945221>I really want to see how that arc played outAlmost the same as the 2004 anime>MonsterMecha used by a christian extremist group
>>23945713Usually, I've seen his fans come after Ginrei instead. Mainly the Koreans and about 2 English accounts elsewhere.
>>23945787>Usually, I've seen his fans come after Ginrei instead.yeah busting out that hot gluewait, what?
>>23945787Eh. I'm at the point where the G-Robo OVA fans are almost a different thing than those that talk about Yokoyama's original manga. I think I've said it before but Ginrei's presence is often brushed off so I wonder if that plays into it.>>23945777I know they were called Iron Cross but I don't remember them being religious extremists.>>23945803Speaking of, here's this year's WonderFes figure for her:https://x.com/muranusi/status/2078080136872902827
>>23924209When i first saw this mf in the opening of the giant robo ova i assumed he was a robotic disembodied angry italian guy's head for some reason.
>>23924209
>>23945953Is it safe to assume he was based on this since it came two years prior to mars?
>>23946390I think it’s more likely that it’s based on a Japanese Daruma doll. The colors and how the face is designed (especially in the GR OVA) give it away.>>23945945Ironically this is the case for Gallop, he’s just Garon’s (the Loch Ness monster looking robot from one of the openings) detached head that can fly when his main body is either damaged or in the process of combining.
>>23947548two things can be true at the same time. In the same manner Tetsujin is Frankenstein's Monster+B-29 Plane
>>23947618You mean 27, right? 27 is obviously based on Frankenstein's monster.
>>23947548That doesnt sound like an angry italian anon
>>23947635Both. Tetsujin 27 was originally "28" after all. 28 is more B-29 Bomber than Frankenstein though.
>>23917604 takamizawa >>23921460 eh she's too much of a comedy relief character to really inspire serious /ss/
Hi /m/en I just finished reading Babel 101. What should I read next? I've already read Giant Robo and God Mars as well as the small part of Tetsujin 28 that's been translated. Babel II: The Returner looks interesting but there's also Yokoyama's historical fiction to check out and I still haven't read Astro Boy or Lone Wolf and Cub (except for the first three volumes)
>>23956020hop on suikoden my nigger
>>23918324Actually I invented both of those things
>>23956161Welcome back Yahweh.
>>23955961Otsuka's wife walked so Takamizawa could run.
>giant robo OVA>tetsujin 28 2004What else is translated?
>>23956020101 is done being scanlated? Thought it was stuck on 4/5 volumes finished
>>23955961>>23921460Half of Misato's character was inspired by that woman from ep 14 of Space Runaway Ideon.
>>23956364nah sorry for getting your hopes up. I just read what was on mangadex and assumed the story stopped being serialized there because of a problem with the magazine or something.
Is it true that shotacon is so named because of people loving Tetsujins Shotaro?
>>23955961That's what they did in the film, but the whole is Imagawa's mental break over the Zangetsu shit never being animated put to film. She works better with Kenji or personally Ryuusaku depending on what you're going for. In '04 she does a good job of symbolising the New Japan, I think.
>>23957014*whole film
>>23956464Cheryl, right? I need to watch it again.>>23957014>She works better with Kenji or personally Ryuusaku depending on what you're going forCringe
>>23956022Are you even a true Yokoyama fan if you weren’t initially pissed off by Suikoden’s inclusion in GR but on the second watch found yourself wanting a Suikoden anime?>>23956320In terms of anime basically everything worth watching. Only Yokoyama related show that there isn’t subs for would maybe be the old Masked Ninja Akakage anime.
>>23957891>Are you even a true Yokoyama fan if you weren’t initially pissed off by Suikoden’s inclusion in GR but on the second watch found yourself wanting a Suikoden anime?That's just you. Most people don't give a shit or have that knowledge.>basically everything worth watching. 50s Sally is funny. The Akakage anime does have subs but I can't remember if it's the full series.
>>23957891t. never read suikoden or the original water margin
All these Takamizawa posts and Babel posts have to be samefagged, right?
>>23958524No. Just because we're not talking about that one OVA doesn't mean there's a big conspiracy.I think the fact Babel II and its follow ups got translated means more people are talking about it. There are some non japanese accounts I've seen recently that have started drawing and discussing characters in Tetsujin/Giant Robo other than Alberto, the kids, their dads or Kelly.
>>23958524No? I literally just started reading Babel 2 for the first time so I'd figure I'd post about it
>>23956022Am I going to have a hard time enjoying this if I don't know much about Chinese history? It's a subject I'm interested in but it's very overwhelming.
>>23959535You don't need to. Yokoyama's Suikoden is a heavily abridged family friendly adaptation. His other Chinese stuff get pretty close to edutainment at points as there will be sections within any given chapter dedicated to explaining historical practices and events. All of those mangas come with simple to understand TL notes too.
What's the consensus on Babel the Returner? It kinda has the same vibe as that Kikaider reboot manga Kikader: Code 02 that nobody talks about lol.
I don't normally drop stuff but I dropped Babel the Returner because it became clear the plot was going nowhere and for some reason it turned into a janky God Mars crossover. Plus the last two volumes aren't even on Magnadex. I don't know what the fuck that was and I'd prefer to read something better.
>>23959611I'm reading his Genghis Khan manga now and it's so fucking good. I'll probably read Suikoden/Water Margin next.
>>23960007Does he meet Takeru or Marg or something?
>>23960266It straight up starts retelling the entire first part of the mars manga like ninety chapters in
>>23960533They also imply one of the US Agents is a reincarnation of Ginrei or something. And Sally's not!Hilary Clinton. The original characters are so fucking irrelevant or forced you can't care about all their little problems. This is something virtually every B2 adaptation is guilty of: They'll throw in too many characters and forget the inherent appeal behind Kouichi v Yomi/whoever.A lot of the stuff HikariPro let get put out after Yokoyama's death is just "please clap at the references".>>23960058His later historical manga like Genghis Khan is pretty overlooked. Shiki is a collection of little anecdotes throughout Chinese history, and Wolf Constellation pretty much disproves the "hard boiled" trait people keep saying Yokoyama. Ginrei appears more prominently in the latter than in 101.Genya is one half Genghis Khan apparently. Which in hindsight makes sense for the sheer destruction he causes.
>>23960650*keep saying Yokoyama has
do you guys think yokoama would have been ballsy enough to tackle korean history had he not died when he did?
>>23960764now I want Yokoyama doing the ancient Finnish vs Korea hypertech war
What's the first chapter of Babel 101 where Ginrei appears?
Has nobody made a simple cast listing of the various Giant Robo characters and where they're from?
>>23960786She only appears in chapter 2 and is never brought up again. As for Wolf Constellation she's on chapters 14-16, 18, 22, 26 (death), 33 and 34 (schizophrenic delusion).
Has anyone seen Akakage? It aired alongside the flying phantom ship.
>>23965855I saw the 80s anime (and Sangokushi) as that anime was dubbed and in syndicatiion in my mother tongue until around the 2010s.
The way he draws different characters smiling in the exact same manner in his historical fiction manga is kinda goofy
>>23961071Yes, Mike Toole did back in the day. However, the site has since died. I think it's on the Wayback Machine somewhere but I'm too tired to go and look for it right now. You're looking for around 2000-2001
>>23961071>>23968521Found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20021213201347/http://www.animejump.com/giantrobo/index2.html
Chinese history was fucking brutal, this is almost as good as I, Claudius
>>23973349Sangokushi's final chapter is pretty bitter. It's one of the few ROT3K adaptations that actually go as far as to depict Liu Shan's surrender. Everything everyone died fighting for on all sides was for nothing.>>23960764He retired in 2001 with Legend of Yin Zhou (pic related is him saying in the margins saying he can finally rest now). By 1997-2001 his drawing quality outside of stuff like covers and "important" panels had degraded in terms of proportions. He developed diabetes and was hospitalised in 1999. He had a Sun Tsu manga as well a remake of Comet and Giant Robo in the works in the late 90s but cancelled them. He discussed wanting to do the Battle of Chengdu as a extra part of Sangokushi because he rushed through it back then.His sister claims he'd have periods where he'd reject medication and was disturbed by a character's death in ep2 of Imagawa's Tetsujin, saying "this show is too much, it's only for hardcore maniacs". He died later that evening.
>>23957891>In terms of anime basically everything worth watchingsince when was 60s Tetsujin subbed?
>>23977457Anon's a retard
>>23974060>Sangokushi's final chapter is pretty bitter. It's one of the few ROT3K adaptations that actually go as far as to depict Liu Shan's surrender. Everything everyone died fighting for on all sides was for nothing.I really do like how it portrays the Jin factions victory. I see some adaptations trying to portray Jin as having outplayed the three other kingdoms in the long game when what really happened is that they just swooped in and picked off the weakened kingdoms like vultures after almost all their talent had already withered and died.
>>23957891I always liked the Chinese stuff in Giant Robo long before I knew they were from Water Margin. Rewatching Giant Robo as I read Water Margin has been an absolute blast.
>>23978112>>23977629I found Water Margin and what I read of Sangokushi boring
>>23978511ok
I want Giant Robo Parts 1-4 and 6Or at least Shin Mazinger Great HenI will not be placated
>>23978664Better find a genie to wish them in from another universe, then, because even if they get made here they won't be as good
>>23977457In all honesty the episodes that aren’t subbed aren’t worth watching since they don’t follow the manga at all. IIRC Babel II 1973 isn’t subbed either, I can’t even find the raw episodes.
>>23980528>since they don’t follow the manga at allYou know what else doesn't follow the manga? The Giant Robo OVAI don't give a damn whether the show follows the manga or not, it is THE original mecha anime and I want to watch it
