The Podcast That Loves Anime
Gary Hedges joins us to discuss three more anime that aired in our youth that geography kept from us.
This week: Saint Seiya (1986), Ranma 1/2 (1989) and Berserk (1997)
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Elliot Page of Screentone Club joins Brian to talk about 1985 mecha anime Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God, The Big O’s Big Brother The Brave Express Might Gaine from 1993 and Absent Anthony’s pick, 1997’s Virus Buster Serge.
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Dwayne finally takes the second chair as we welcome Sublo & Tangy Mustard creator Aaron Long to pick from the list of anime we never got see in our formative years.
Special Armored Battalion Dorvack – from 1983, it’s Battlestar Galactica for jackasses.
Montana Jones – from 1994, it’s Duck Tales for Italian Furries.
Dokkiri Doctor – from 1999, it’s Dr Slump with more Doctor and no Arale.
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Heroic third chair Dwayne Moloney helps little red hens Brian & Anthony bake their podcast bread, and now you, the grateful woodland animals get to feast on it.
GeGeGe no Kitaro – the third outing for the iconic yokai gang, this time from 1985.
Metal Fighter Miku – Future sports from a past time. That time being 1994.
Hell Teacher Nube – yet more school bound spooky hijinks with this 1996 Shonen Jump adaptation.
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It’s an Anthony & Brian-only episode of The Anime That Didn’t Make Us this time out. And one I should have posted about a month ago. Whoops.
Oh Family! – heartwarming orphantainment with a distinctly American flavour from 1986.
Haunted Junction – another late-night anime from 1997 that Anthony would have definitely not been allowed to watch.
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TATDMU All-Star Dwayne Moloney joins us today talk about three more anime that geography denied us during our formative years.
Katri, Girl of the Meadows – a Finnish World Masterpiece Theatre outing from 1984.
Brave Police J-Decker – another in the Brave Series, this time sentient transforming robots fight crime in 1994.
Virtua Fighter – Sega’s groundbreaking fighting game comes to anime in 1995.
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Ace Comical’s very own Greg Driver is here to clamber into the DITB time machine and send cartoons back to our childhood selves that they never got to see. This week we have Toriyama’s all-time classic, the show that marked dawn of modern anime, and the finale of Takara’s Brave series.
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Dwayne Moloney from Secret of the Sailor Madness and Let’s Go JoJo joins us to look back at the first episodes of three more anime that geography denied us childhood nostalgia for.
This week we look at the third TV outing for Monkey Punch’s iconic thief, Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and multi-layered mecha anime Martian Successor Nadesico.
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Grace Chan joins us today as we once again look back at three anime we never got to see during our childhoods. Brian’s pick is children get lost in space mecha show Vifam (1983). Grace picks light novel adaptation Irresponsible Captain Tylor (1993). And finally little baby Anthony picks fantasy mecha show, Vision of Escaflowne (1996).
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Marvyn Lafayette joins us to dip into the the historical anime back catalogue that we never had access to at the time. This week, a gang of school boys let their freak flag fly, a time traveller tries to stop a one-man population apocalypse and Anthony finally gets to see some Sabre Marionette J!
Plus: we all turn into robots thanks the vagaries of Discord~!
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