soprano1 wrote:Just saw Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie in glorious HD. What a fucking amazing show!![]()
80's love right there, damn!
Oh hey, I watched this last week. It has more of a 70s feel I think due to being early 80s but it's such a special experience. Almost dreamlike in a way and the sort of almost fantasy-like sci-fi environments just gives it a time and place that I am sure those who love this kind of very specific thing would find like a warm, comfy blanket. It's a bit too much 70s for my taste, but I do enjoy this kind of stories and happy go lucky characters like Cobra. It's sort of sad, but more beautiful than actually sad and it's too silly to get overly emotional anyway.GaijinPunch wrote:I did this a while back and so glad I did. This is what you show people when they ask why you don't like new stuff.soprano1 wrote:Just saw Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie in glorious HD. What a fucking amazing show!![]()
80's love right there, damn!
Kachou Ouji is not a very engaging show, but some of the music is pretty cool (and I like the way it's drawn, but as you said, it doesn't really make much of it animation wise).Vludi wrote:I didn't care much for the Cobra movie, the TV OP looks sick though![]()
Recently watched Kachou Ouji, the premise is really cool: a man in a midlife crisis trying go back to his golden days by playing rock music in an alien interstellar war. However the animation and writing are very lacking, overall it ended up just being "ok" in my book.
Also watched Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!, really good family dramedy with quite a bit of metanarrative and a "theatric" direction, the first half especially is masterful.
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Currently I'm resuming to sitting through Gundam and decided to go right for the 8th MS Team OVA.
I have seen this before, many years ago (and I have the first episode on laserdisc so that one I've given a few spins) but it's always fun to go back with the bluray release. Besides looking great, it too features a 5.1 mix like the one in 0083 and it's very good.
I don't know if I simply forgot or just never noticed how janky the character art can get. It never gets really ugly or anything but coming from 0080 and 0083 it's noticeable. The mechanical drawings, especially the static ones, on the other hand is very nice and has that special quality that only cell animation seems to bring out. I'm only like 3 or so episodes in and thankfully I've forgotten a lot of details since my last viewing so it keeps things interesting.
I think I might have said in one of my older posts discussing topic that 0083 is the reason I embarked on this journey of watching old Gundam shows, but the 8th MS Team is the reason I watched 0083, so in a sense my interest for the old Gundam was born there.
Compared to Seed and Destiny which I watched in high school, or Gundam 00 that just finished airing before I saw 8th MS Team for the first time, everything moves with such sense of weight, slowly clomping through the jungle. Almost to the point where Gundams and Zakus seem totally out of their element - compared to all the flying around in the aforementioned Gundam installments, it was such a different experience.
"Realistic" is not really the right word. But I don't have any other to use instead.
Oh, and the OP is dope.