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Major Buzzkill said:
I’m halfway in with Sonny Boy. Very interesting premise. I just can’t believe it came out last year because I got the impression that it was somewhat older. What are your guys’ thoughts?
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I quite liked it, the dog episode was one of my favorites.
Major Buzzkill said:
I also got sucked back in the Spy x Family train. It’s very amusing and cuter than I thought it was. Is it true that it’s made by the same guy who created AOT?
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It is not, Spy x Family was the author's first work to get animated. He did work as an assistant for Fire Punch though.
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
This is the new Discotek release, isn't it?

Fun fact: when the Japanese were allied with the Nazis in World War II, they read in Mein Kampf about how the Jews controlled the world and the banks and they decided "We need to get some of these guys on our side!"
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There's a funny interview with one of the staff from Angel Cop. Where he's just like "Yeah, Anti-Semitism just kinda caught on in 80s Japan for a bit."
 
I'm borrowing the Ōban: Star-Racers DVDs from a friend, and when you get over that no one in this show has noses, it's actually pretty entertaining, and it looks and sounds nice (it's the same composer behind Now and Then, Here and There). Made by one of the guys behind Code Lyoko, and 15 years later it is just pleasant to look at, and the voice-acting is pretty solid (it's Hamtaro as the main girl lmao). It just continues to further convince me that male creators who make homages to anime, if not outright actually make an anime like Ōban here, knew what the fuck they were doing. Female cartoon creators can't seem to get it right without outright lifting scenes directly from/making shitty references to the same damn two shows, and they can't seem to write girls like actual characters unlike the male creators.

And the OP and ED, omg.
This aired on Jetix in such a raw form? Man, I would've been all over this in high school if we had cable.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
This is the new Discotek release, isn't it?

Fun fact: when the Japanese were allied with the Nazis in World War II, they read in Mein Kampf about how the Jews controlled the world and the banks and they decided "We need to get some of these guys on our side!"
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FatMebius said:
There's a funny interview with one of the staff from Angel Cop. Where he's just like "Yeah, Anti-Semitism just kinda caught on in 80s Japan for a bit."
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You should see how they were treated during the war when they took The Philippines where they gave refuge to Europeon Jews


 
Kari Kamiya said:
I'm borrowing the Ōban: Star-Racers DVDs from a friend, and when you get over that no one in this show has noses, it's actually pretty entertaining, and it looks and sounds nice (it's the same composer behind Now and Then, Here and There). Made by one of the guys behind Code Lyoko, and 15 years later it is just pleasant to look at, and the voice-acting is pretty solid (it's Hamtaro as the main girl lmao). It just continues to further convince me that male creators who make homages to anime, if not outright actually make an anime like Ōban here, knew what the fuck they were doing. Female cartoon creators can't seem to get it right without outright lifting scenes directly from/making shitty references to the same damn two shows, and they can't seem to write girls like actual characters unlike the male creators.

And the OP and ED, omg.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwHkv1NnXwIhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4VtMEUul8This aired on Jetix in such a raw form? Man, I would've been all over this in high school if we had cable.
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Yeah, it was a pretty fun series overall. There was a successful Kickstarter recently to bring the series to Blu-ray with a new remaster, helmed by the original studio. They also discussed the possibility of an Oban sequel, releasing some concept art as well:
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So keep your fingers crossed, maybe we'll see more of Molly and the gang someday.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I'm borrowing the Ōban: Star-Racers DVDs from a friend, and when you get over that no one in this show has noses, it's actually pretty entertaining, and it looks and sounds nice (it's the same composer behind Now and Then, Here and There). Made by one of the guys behind Code Lyoko, and 15 years later it is just pleasant to look at, and the voice-acting is pretty solid (it's Hamtaro as the main girl lmao). It just continues to further convince me that male creators who make homages to anime, if not outright actually make an anime like Ōban here, knew what the fuck they were doing. Female cartoon creators can't seem to get it right without outright lifting scenes directly from/making shitty references to the same damn two shows, and they can't seem to write girls like actual characters unlike the male creators.

And the OP and ED, omg.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwHkv1NnXwIhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4VtMEUul8This aired on Jetix in such a raw form? Man, I would've been all over this in high school if we had cable.
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i remember watching it on Jetix. it was a decent show. the best anime show on Jetix was still Medabots.


the intro always hypes me up.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I'm borrowing the Ōban: Star-Racers DVDs from a friend, and when you get over that no one in this show has noses, it's actually pretty entertaining, and it looks and sounds nice (it's the same composer behind Now and Then, Here and There). Made by one of the guys behind Code Lyoko, and 15 years later it is just pleasant to look at, and the voice-acting is pretty solid (it's Hamtaro as the main girl lmao). It just continues to further convince me that male creators who make homages to anime, if not outright actually make an anime like Ōban here, knew what the fuck they were doing. Female cartoon creators can't seem to get it right without outright lifting scenes directly from/making shitty references to the same damn two shows, and they can't seem to write girls like actual characters unlike the male creators.

And the OP and ED, omg.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwHkv1NnXwIhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4VtMEUul8This aired on Jetix in such a raw form? Man, I would've been all over this in high school if we had cable.
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Damn I recall this, that was the shit back in the 2000s. Surprisingly involved emotionally for something made to be kid friendly.
After that Romain, being the weeaboo he was, went over to Satelight and met Shoji Kawamori, where he did an adaptation of Valerian (the same comic later adapted by Luc Besson as the City of a Thousand Planets movie) and then he stayed mostly as a background artist on some of the more out there mecha shows Satelight has been doing for the most of the 2010s, such as Basquash, Nobunaga the Fool and Cannon Busters.
 
Watched the entirety of Popee the Performer. (Or as the Opening calls it, Popee the Clown)

I remember watching a few episodes of it a few years back. Starting with the sword swallowing one which I found out was actually banned initially. (Would explain the completely different music choice compared to almost every other episode)

It's crazy to me how this was released on a children's network way back when, and I love how absolutely absurd it gets.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I'm borrowing the Ōban: Star-Racers DVDs from a friend, and when you get over that no one in this show has noses, it's actually pretty entertaining, and it looks and sounds nice
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Damn, I haven't thought about this show in forever. I remember enjoying it but I also had a hard time actually finding other people who watched it.
 
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