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Post by kog3100edw on Aug 1, 2011 15:36:18 GMT -5
I would posit StarBlazers/Space Battleship Yamato as an old cartoon (in the era under discussion) that has potential to wow kids or adults. Not on a technical level because it still had all the budgetary limitations of episodic made-for-TV animation... and in some ways it is worse if the particular limitations that anime had (as opposed to US television) bother the viewer.
But on almost every other level it is far and away better than almost any other TV cartoon at its time.
This is an anti-nostalgia thread I know. But a question as to what would or could hold up well was implied. Am I disqualified because this wasn't originally a western show?
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AllenSmithee
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Post by AllenSmithee on Aug 2, 2011 2:50:55 GMT -5
Robotech is pretty assy though, when you could really watch proper Macross.
Leiji Matsumoto is so radical. I really need to see more of his stuff, as it is all distant memories of the French version of Harlock. I think they called it Condor.
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Post by runinruder on Aug 2, 2011 4:08:50 GMT -5
Robotech is pretty assy though, when you could really watch proper Macross. I don't find that stuff like Roy ogling an underage girl's rear end or Miriya hurling her baby across the room really enhances the experience very much, and some of the scripting liberties Robotech writers took led to much more sophisticated and interesting moments/exchanges. I do think the original Mospeada destroys Robotech New Gen, however--the music is more fitting for the events and animation, and some of the characters are much more appealing.
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