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Yubsie ([personal profile] yubsie) wrote2006-03-26 01:52 pm

Science Ninja Team ATTACK!

So much animeness yesterday. I watched a random episode of Ranma with Ryan, which was amusing. Much as one would expect of a random episode of Ranma. Amusing, but I'm not dying for more or anything. :p

Nasty evil mean Bill played... disturbing THINGS at the beginning of the meeting. Evil mean nasty Bill! Then we actually watched anime and generally glared at Bill. :p

First up was Getbackers, which I'm still quite fond of. I'd already seen the episodes we were watching, so I wrote Death/Death while still half watching. Yay only half reading subtitles!

Then we watched Yami no Matsui. Ryan turned around and stubbornly read Sandman instead. :p Poor boy is really not a fan of shounen-ai. Even though we still TOTALLY caught him shipping Kei/Goh last time we watched Pretear! :p I enjoyed it, at any rate. :p It's very pretty. :p

After that, we were nice to Ryan and watched Love Hina. I half watched and wrote Death/Death. I still managed to follow everything that was going on. We made many jokes about the fact that Ryan's living arrangements for next year vaguely resemble a harem anime (except, of course, for the part where Ryan already HAS a girlfriend who ISN'T going to be living in that house... yes, I refer to myself in the generic third person! :p).

Finally, we watched... Gatchaman. It was so HILARIOUSLY awful. It had a team of superheroes in these HIDEOUS generic superhero costumes. There was a bird motif, which meant jagged capes and pointy helmets! :p The best part had to be that they were the SCIENCE NINJA TEAM though. How can you NOT love something that's terrible enough to have a SCIENCE NINJA TEAM? :p

Incidently, Goblins? Just switch the designated update date to Sunday and stop lying to us! :p

[identity profile] jeepersjournal.livejournal.com 2006-03-26 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Well 3 series. And some OVA's. Each series is it's own story I think. I should see more someday [I just have some Battle of the Planets DVD's, which have Gatchman as an extra].

There's also been 3 dubs of the first season- the 70's Battle of the Planets dub [which had earth posing as alien worlds- which all happen to look and act just like earth!- and added an R2D2 Ripoff, and his robot dog], and a dub made by Turner Broadcasting in the early 90's called G-Force [less editing, but with horribly cheap synth music. And ADV's new dub.

Then there's also Eagle Riders, a dub Bandai made of Gatchaman F, the 2nd series

[identity profile] jeepersjournal.livejournal.com 2006-03-26 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oops.... not Bandai. Saban. Bandai made the toys.

[identity profile] jeepersjournal.livejournal.com 2006-03-26 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's the most successful anime that most fans forget is anime :)

There's also a comic adaption of BOTP planned by Alex Ross [who did the new DVD art] http://alexrossart.com/ and a lot of parodies and references in other shows [Nurse Witch Komugi-Chan cosplays as them in her show, a recent disney TV show with kid superheroes had villans modeled after them, and Megas XLR has characters mocking them and the Power Rangers]
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[identity profile] seryan.livejournal.com 2006-03-27 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
*L* SoundEffect has Battle of the Planets DVDs, that have the corresponding Gatchaman, and in some cases, G-Force episodes, as 'bonus features' on the disk. Going from one series to the other, to the other is VASTLY entertaining!
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[identity profile] seryan.livejournal.com 2006-03-27 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Science Ninja Team Go! :P