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Announcements from Discotek’s Otakon 2022 panel! Lots of exciting news, including finally getting confirmation that Discotek will be putting out the original Urusei Yatsura TV series in 4 bluray sets, starting next year! Discotek also announced they have made a new tokusastu imprint label called Toku Time, which will be what their toku shows will be branded with in the future. Check out all the images above for most of the new classic release info they announced at the panel!
#news#Discotek Media#Urusei Yatsura#Project A-ko#Lupin III The First#Sherlock Hound#Dino mech Gaiking#City Hunter#Machine Robo#80s anime#70s anime#anime on bluray#Otakon 2022#tokusastu
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Discotek Media's Announcements at Otakon 2022
Discotek Media’s Announcements at Otakon 2022
Discotek Media announced during its panel at Otakon 2022 that it has licensed the following titles:
The 1981-1986 Urusei Yatsura anime
The City Hunter films and specials
Machine Robo: The Running Battlehackers
Senki Zesshō Symphogear XV
The Princess and the Pilot
The Tales of Symphonia OVAs
Discotek also revealed more details for its release of Project A-ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody, Shaman King,…
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#anime#Cat&039;s Eye#City Hunter#Dino Mech Gaiking#Discotek Media#Machine Robo#Otakon#Project A-ko#Shaman King#Sherlock Hound#Symphogear#Tales of Symphonia#The Princess and the Pilot#Urusei Yatsura
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(#MechaMarch2024) Dino Mech Gaiking - Broken People From War
Go Nagai and Legal Battles
Go Nagai is an incredible creator with an amazing sense of creativity. He is also an infinitesimally horny person that has created some very raunchy works. At the same time, Go Nagai was also a very creative mind. Along with that, he has created some really edgy works that make so many turns no one expects to occur for better or for worse. Those three things usually…
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Let's conclude our Cutie Honey 50th anniversary trivia with the final episode: “A Poison Flower Falls to Hell.”
Screenwriter: Masaki Tsuji
Art Director: Urata Mataharu
Animation Director: Satoshi Jingu
Director: Osamu Kasai
With the exception of Junpei’s girlfriend Mami and the nameless Panther Claw subordinates, all of the (living) characters in the series appear for the final episode.
The suspenseful drumming that plays before Eagle Panther attacks the truck was lifted from Go Misawa’s soundtrack for Devilman.
Honey has always lovingly addressed her father as “papa”, but in this episode she refers to him as the more formal otousama or “father.” This was probably done to demonstrate to the audience how much she has grown from her battle with Panther Claw.
In the original manga, Sister Jill’s headquarters was called maboroshi jyou or “Castle of Illusion.” The name was probably changed to avoid confusion with Cutter Claw’s “Castle of Illusion” from episode 10.
Jill’s headquarters in the manga looks like a traditional European style castle, while the anime version evokes more of a haunted house.
The dreamlike landscape Honey falls into is modeled after the surrealist works of Salvador Dali, specifically one of his most famous works, The Persistence of Memory, which depicts melting pocket watches. The floating lips could possibly be based on Man Ray’s Observatory Time: The Lovers, a painting featuring a giant pair of lush red lips in the sky.
The second half of the episode features a few references to one of Toei Animation’s earlier films, The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon.
Released in 1963, the film tells the story of Susanoo, the youngest son of the gods who created the Earth, and his journey in finding his mother. The stylized film featured the talents of animation veterans such as Yasuo Otsuka, Yoichi Kotabe, Isao Takahata, and Kimio Yabuki.
References to The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon:
The human shaped fire that attacks Honey is animated almost exactly like the Fire God that Susanoo faces.
The phantom serpents are a dead-ringer for the eight-headed dragon. The only difference is the coloring. In the film their colors are similar to Maleficent's dragon form from Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. It’s worth mentioning in the original storyboard the illusions were meant to look like generic snakes.
After the Panther Chateau crumbles, the gloomy skies clear up and Honey finds herself in a flowerbed under a blue sky. This is similar to the end of the film, in which the defeated dragon turns into a field of flowers and the dark skies become bright and sunny.
The bone-chilling organ music that plays during Honey and Jill’s confrontation is Fugue in D Major, BWV 580 by Johann Sebastian Bach. The rendition featured in this episode was performed by French organist Marie-Claire Alain.
While the animation director for the finale is Satoshi Jingu of Anime Room, the key animation for the second half of the episode was handled primarily by Yoshinori Kanada. While he was relatively unknown at the time, he would go on to be a very influential figure in the animation world, working on titles such as Dino Mech Gaiking, Birth, Princess Mononoke and others.
Kanada’s style is particularly noticeable during the “Honey Special” sequence and Honey's reunion with the Hayami family. It’s very possible Kanada had worked on the other episodes animated by Anime Room (episodes 6, 13, 16, and 24) but he only received credit for this one.
Supposedly, the final episode was originally going to be handled by Shingo Araki and Hiroshi Shitara, but both men were too busy working on Majokko Megu-chan.
Despite getting pretty good ratings, Cutie Honey was canceled due to concerns over salacious content. According to Go Nagai’s autobiographical manga, Gekiman! Cutie Honey Hen, nearly everyone involved was blindsided by the cancellation. Toshio Katsuta in particular was quite surprised, since Honey made better ratings than its predecessor, Microid S. Katsuta was actually quite confident Honey would last three or four seasons.
Because of the series' abrupt cancellation, Katsuta and Nagai both agreed to have Honey defeat Jill at the end of the series, while leaving Panther Zora’s fate being left to the interpretation of the fans.
In an interview printed in the 1981 Cutey Honey Roman Album, Go Nagai talks a little bit about what Honey and Zora were up to after the finale. He says Zora began harvesting animals from the Amazon and transforming them into androids, probably in preparation for a battle against Honey. He also says Honey is destined to only fight Panther Claw, so she'd probably ignore any unrelated criminal activity. I guess we can assume Honey got a little downtime after her victory against Sister Jill?
And that's all our trivia for Cutie Honey! I hope you enjoyed all the interesting tidbits I've collected over the years. Maybe someday I'll do this for the other series...
Special Thanks:
@brickme
Ayumi Shinozaki
Josh M.
Charlie from Skaro Hunting Society
Phix Cabral
Jonathan Castleman
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Yamagatake From Dino Mech Gaiking. I don't really know this guy or the anime has from, but I will say that he's a huge beefy sumo and I love those.
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Anime List from “History of Mecha: The 60s and 70s”
As promised, here are two lists for you related to “History of Mecha Pt. 1: The 60s and 70s”. The first list covers all of the anime we mentioned during the course of the panel and in the order in which they were mentioned. The second, longer list below is the one which includes everything in the applicable decades that fit into our determinate factors for mecha anime that we ascribe to the purposes of the panel series. Do enjoy!
Shows in the panel:
1. Tetsujin 28 [1963]
2. Flying Ghost Ship [1969]
3. Astroganger [1972]
4. Mazinger Z [1972]
5. Zero Tester [1973]
6. Getter Robo [1974]
7. Great Mazinger [1974]
8. Mazinger Z vs. Devilman [1973]
9. Mazinger Z vs. The General of Darkness [1974]
10. Brave Raideen [1975]
11. Super Electromagnetic Robo Combattler V [1976]
12. Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V [1977]
13. Tosho Daimos [1978]
14. Invincible Superman Zambot 3 [1977]
15. Mobile Suit Gundam [1979]
All mecha shows:
1. Tetsujin 28 [1963]
2. Tetsujin 28: The Birth [1964]
3. Flying Ghost Ship [1969]
4. Astroganger [1972]
5. Mazinger Z [1972]
6. Mazinger Z vs. Devilman [1973]
7. Zero Tester [1973]
8. Getter Robo [1974]
9. Mazinger Z vs. The General of Darkness [1974]
10. Great Mazinger [1974]
11. Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo [1975]
12. Brave Raideen [1975]
13. Getter Robo G [1975]
14. Tekkaman: The Space Knight [1975]
15. The Great Battle of the Flying Saucers [1975]
16. Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo G: The Great Space Encounter [1975]
17. Kotetsu Zieg [1975]
18. UFO Robo Grendizer [1975]
19. UFO Robo Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger [1976]
20. Dino Mech Gaiking [1976]
21. Gowapper 5 Godam [1976]
22. UFO Senshi Daiapolon [1976]
23. Super Electromagnetic Robo Combattler V [1976]
24. Groizer X [1976]
25. Blocker Gundan IV Machine Blaster [1976]
26. Grandizer, Getter Robot G, Great Mazinger Decisive Battle! The Great Sea Monster [1976]
27. Magnos the Robot [1976]
28. UFO Senshi Daiapolon II [1976]
29. Gasshin Sentai Mechander Robo [1977]
30. Planet Robot Danguard Ace [1977]
31. Ginguiser [1977]
32. Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V [1977]
33. Balatack [1977]
34. Danguard Ace vs. Insect Robot Troop [1977]
35. Invincible Superman Zambot 3 [1977]
36. Danguard Ace: The Great Space War [1978]
37. Tosho Daimos [1978]
38. Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 [1978]
39. Daikengo [1978]
40. Future Robo Daltanius [1979]
41. Mobile Suit Gundam [1979]
42. Toshi Gordian [1979]
#nos anime#anime#anime research#anime analysis#mecha#mecha anime#mecha history#history of mecha#real robot anime#super robot anime
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Discotek Media Announces Anime Releases for January 2023
Discotek Media Announces Anime Releases for January 2023
Discotek Media has announced that it will release the City Hunter Classic Movies and TV Specials Collection, The King of Braves GaoGaiGar television series and the Japanese language version of Shaman King on Blu-ray, as well as Tetsujin 28 FX, Virtua Fighter the Animation and Dino Mech Gaiking on Standard Definition Blu-ray on January 31, 2023.
City Hunter Classic Movies and TV Specials…
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#anime#City Hunter#Dino Mech Gaiking#Discotek Media#Shaman King#Tetsujin 28#The King of Braves: GaoGaiGar#Virtua Fighter
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(#MechaMarch2024) Psycho Armor Govarian
An Aftermath of Go Nagai vs Toei
After the rights fiasco of Go Nagai suing Toei for removing his name from Dino Mech Gaiking for the royalties, there was a long legal battle between the two. All of which meant that Toei still held the rights for a lot of Go Nagai’s properties for a while and Go Nagai moved over to Studio Knack for a while. You know, the studio that produced the horrible and meme…
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Anime Screenwriter Shozo Uehara Passes Away
Anime Screenwriter Shozo Uehara Passes Away
Screenwriter Shozo Uehara passed away on January 2, 2020 due to liver cancer. He was 82 years old at the time of his passing.
Uehara was born in Okinawa in 1937. After graduating from Chuo University, he joined Tsuburaya Productions.
Uehara’s anime credits include writing scripts for Getter Robo, UFO Robo Grendizer, Dino Mech Gaiking, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Captain Harlock: Mystery of the…
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