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Also, you now are remembering the time when Dr. Slump, Gat-chan and Arale stumbled onto Queen Emeraldas‘ world

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I miss when anime crossovers were fun.
 
Safir said:
a recommendation: Death Toll just finished translating

Souboutei Must Be Destroyed
by Fujita Kazuhiro (of Ushio and Tora)
shonen, 25 volumes, 250 chapters

Haunted house mystery / horror. Souboutei is the name of the house in which traditional haunted house stuff is happening. It's completely unwoke and has no faggots, troons, lolis, or other coomer shit. The women are beautiful.
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pictured: an average woman

Content warning:
- kids die, a lot
- an underage schoolgirl gets her bob (and implicitly vagene) out a lot

Otherwise, it's crazy enough to be best experienced completely unspoiled, so go read it.

If you're unconvinced (e.g. don't like horror)
I fucking lied, it isn't horror at all (although plenty of horrific shit happens). The "action/horror" tag doesn't begin to do it justice.

It's a shonen manga about shonen manga. It sounds pretentious but the author is badass enough to pull it off.

The cast of characters is appropriately bizarre. Some of the characters, right to left:
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- completely normal Japanese schoolboy
- alien cultural exchange ambassador
- Japanese spirit summoning witch sisters
- European pyrokineticist
- her husband, a tech billionnaire
- American paranormal researcher
- JSDF officer
- 1930s Imperial Japanese officer
- 1930s shrine maiden / saint
- manga artist (author's self-insert but with hair)

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- ninja schoolgirl, here seen getting culturally enriched with a drill to the face

The main protagonists are a hapless manga artist who keeps getting rejected by publishers, and a schoolboy who nevertheless looks up to him. Neither of them has much in the way of special talents:
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However, in a manga about manga, drawing is sometimes useful:
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It's a wholesome 70s story that fell into a time tunnel and ended up 45 years later in the year 2023. Go read it.
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What a journey that was. I was a little worried when the translations slowed down since the Karkuri Circus translation is apparently stalled and has been for years, but then the team pumped out the last few chapters in a few weeks. I remember thinking Ushi and Tora was a good anime but this is a classic I'll forget. It had a wild story any other author today would turn into an incoherent mess, a wildly varied and endearing cast, and one of my favorite villains of all time. Somehow all the craziness just flows together cohesively. This is an author who has mastered his craft.

God damn I ate good last week. Zatch Bell off break with an incredible Kanchome/Folgore chapter, the final chapter of Souboutei Must Be Destroyed, New Chainsaw Man without a hiatus afterwards, and even a new Jojo part.

... And then this week starts and fucking Leiji dies aaaaAAAAAaaaghadsfdsa.
 
Trashfire Garbagefuck said:
What a journey that was. I was a little worried when the translations slowed down since the Karkuri Circus translation is apparently stalled and has been for years, but then the team pumped out the last few chapters in a few weeks. I remember thinking Ushi and Tora was a good anime but this is a classic I'll forget. It had a wild story any other author today would turn into an incoherent mess, a wildly varied and endearing cast, and one of my favorite villains of all time. Somehow all the craziness just flows together cohesively. This is an author who has mastered his craft.

God damn I ate good last week. Zatch Bell off break with an incredible Kanchome/Folgore chapter, the final chapter of Souboutei Must Be Destroyed, New Chainsaw Man without a hiatus afterwards, and even a new Jojo part.

... And then this week starts and fucking Leiji dies aaaaAAAAAaaaghadsfdsa.
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Wait.... Zatch Bell is still running? Last time I heard of that I thought it was just a Yu-Gi-Oh wannabe cash-in that came and went.
 
skykiii said:
Wait.... Zatch Bell is still running? Last time I heard of that I thought it was just a Yu-Gi-Oh wannabe cash-in that came and went.
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I assumed it was just a middling battle anime with decent jokes I watched part of forever ago. I went back to it a a year or two ago because I felt like reading a decent 00s shonen manga. I did not expect it to get as good or emotional as it did. The anime isn't worth watching outside of the songs but the manga was a great read even if the art starts out mediocre. Also Parco Folgore is in it:


It ends well in it's original form but the Gash Cafe chapters he for the wide-volume release hint at there being more, which the sequel builds off of.
 
Guess its time to sit back and let The Galaxy Express Three-nine take me on a journey, a never-ending journey.... a journey to the stars....

(How much of Leiji's manga is in English now? I recall awhile ago it was frustrating to find anything that wasn't a sequel or a spinoff).

EDIT: My apologies if this has been answered earlier in the topic, but where can I watch the GE999 movie online? Not for myself--for me I would just torrent it--but I have a friend for whom that isn't an option.
 
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skykiii said:
(How much of Leiji's manga is in English now? I recall awhile ago it was frustrating to find anything that wasn't a sequel or a spinoff).
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Too little. I imported most of the Japanese books.

More importantly, of the big three, only Galaxy Express 999 is a finished story (sort of). The English fan translation is not finished. It lacks the second half of chapter 1 (the city and the train); I haven't looked further and have no other opinion on its quality.
There's a wiki with synopses, but it gets the ending of the manga completely wrong, like I think the guy looked at the pictures and made an uneducated guess without even bothering to MTL.
If you're going to buy the original books, buy the large format softcover 10-volume set, it can be gotten fairly cheap on yahoo auctions. Small books are a bastard to read.

Otherwise, the best way to take the train right now is to watch the series. It's on Discotek blu-ray. I think the nyaa pirate release of the blurays doesn't have the tv specials, which means you aren't going to find out who'd win in a duel, Maetel or Emeraldas. There are 113 episodes + 3 specials (expanded versions of existing episodes) + summary.
The endings of the books and the series are different from each other (but are equally awesome) and from the ending of the movie (lmao robot incest garbage).

The Harlock + Emeraldas and Yamato books are fully translated and published in okayish right-to-left hardcovers by Seven Seas, but the stories themselves are incomplete. They are awesome and you should read them, especially part 2 of Yamato, it's one hell of a black pill. Translations are good and very quotable, there's an "I hate the antichrist" on almost every page.

skykiii said:
EDIT: My apologies if this has been answered earlier in the topic, but where can I watch the GE999 movie online? Not for myself--for me I would just torrent it--but I have a friend for whom that isn't an option.
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Unfortunately I don't know, but you should know the Rintaro GE999 movies are bad. Like real bad, crimes against humanity bad. Beautifully animated but the plot is a fuck. (I have the new remastered edition, with the scripts and all.) The best thing I can say about it is it probably inspired one of the excellent original episodes of the series (Legend of the Young Warriors). I'm not telling you or your friend to not watch at all, but please try to see the series first.
 
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Safir said:
Unfortunately I don't know, but you should know the Rintaro GE999 movies are bad. Like real bad, crimes against humanity bad. Beautifully animated but the plot is a fuck. (I have the new remastered edition, with the scripts and all.)
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I rather like the first GE999 movie. Adieu though I agree sucks, in part because it basically shits all over the first one.

Full stop, you can't have big emotional beats hang on things like Tetsuro's journey being over, the possibility that "even if he sees Maetel again, he won't recognize her," that its time to move on with life... and then have the very next movie go "PSYCH! Nah, lets get onboard the train again! Let's have a new character who dies tragically just so we can repeat the emotional beats! Lets try to do the this-is-for-sure-the-last-time beat even though the audience has no reason to trust it now..."

Its one reason I'm glad Tolkien never did a sequel to Lord of the Rings. How dumb would it have been if five months later, all the Elves came back, Sauron turned out to still be alive and Frodo somehow still had the ring? Oh and Gollum actually conveniently caught the side of the cliff so he didn't die, and everyone just got over their trauma from the first time..... I should stop before Amazon reads this topic and gets ideas.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lH1LeAqgaVY
I'm wondering if Ten's lipstick mark is the inspiration for Nel in Bleach
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I got to say that the last couple of episodes were fantastic, after I felt like the humor wasn't working for me in the previous season. Don't know what changed, probably the cast expanding and the plots being more crazy.

Also the new Vinland Saga is basically this meme:

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Started reading Souboutei. Good shit. The house is definitely inspired by the Winchester Mystery Mansion, which I like. Also it mentioned Thomassons! Those were referenced in Flip Flappers too! I like it.
 
Found this fun looking photo on 4chan’s /a/ board after news came out that Leiji Matsumoto passed away:

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It’s an actual old photo that probably dates back to the 80’s (or early 90’s) where these group of individuals cosplayed as the crew of the fictional members for Captain Harlock and the Galaxy Express 999

Someone then compared it to the animated original:

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Granted it is with a few members, but this is the one thing that I miss about seeing anime fans back in the 80’s and 90’s — they actually look like they care for the source material and are looking like they really have fun hanging out with friends and the like with like minded interests, while not being based on gimmicks or trends that will be long forgotten by the end of the week, or if lucky, the end of the month.

You don’t really see that now these days with current day anime fans, and it says a lot about how much has changed in almost 30-40+ years.
 
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So, a few pages back I asked for recommends for mystery/thriller/horror anime.

For some reason, nobody recommended Paranoia Agent. But I wound up watching it anyway just now (its a name that kept coming up for me because for some reason, searches for "Golden Bat"--you know, that superhero skeleton anime--kept also getting Paranoia Agent hits).

Now that I've finished Paranoia Agent... WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH?
 
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