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Fronzel
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I love the way that Cobra opens; with a schlubby guy with a boring job looking for some cheap entertainment...who discovers by being hooked up to a machine which induces dreams that he's really the biggest badass in the universe who deliberately wiped his own memory.
It's like it's openly admitting the whole thing is a silly masculine fantasy. It's a clever way of establishing the tongue-in-cheek tone. It would be been too much, but I would have laughed if the series ended with him waking up back in the dream parlor. |
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Bingal
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My biggest guilty please.
Yes, it's sexist and chauvinistic, the main character is a big Gary Stu and the entire thing is littered with silly plot contrivances. But I love it so damn much. There's something extremely charming about this pulpy goodness. |
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Beltane70
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I'll have to disagree about the opening song being unmemorable, as it's easily one of my favorite anime opening songs!
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configspace
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I really wish Nozomi/RS would start releasing blu-rays, because the BDs for this look even better! Glad to hear about the extras though. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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I wish they hadn't scrubbed the grain so aggressively, but it could have been much worse. |
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goral
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How is that a bad thing O_O? You have too much progesterone in you. SAC is one of the best anime I've seen, well worth the money. |
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Great Rumbler
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That was almost certainly inspired by Philip K Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale [later adapted as Total Recall], which had a very similar setup. |
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Covnam
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I bought this on a whim after checking out the trailer and not knowing much about it. After reading this review I'll have to move it up in my backlog, it (luckily) sounds really good.
I enjoyed reading this review, but I'm not sure how an extra can be a negative though since it has little to no bearing on the content of the release. |
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GATSU
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Rumbler: They share the same premise, but it's pretty clear that certain action scenes in Total Recall were 'inspired' by Cobra. Verhoeven would've been aware of Cobra when he was living in Europe, too. Plus, his previous work, Robocop, was already being compared to another anime, 8-Man.
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Knoepfchen
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A We Can Remember It for You Wholesale inspired anime starring a character who inspired Vash the Stampede? Definitely putting this on my list.
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GATSU
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Knoep: I think Cobra's more likely to have inspired Bebop and Space Dandy.
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Key
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Such as. . .? And I want specifics if you're going to make this claim. Or, you know, it's just possible that it was drawing directly from the same source material that Cobra was. (To argue that Cobra doesn't have some distinct similarities in premise to Philip K. Dick's much earlier work would be ludicrous.) |
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Great Rumbler
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We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is from 1966, which is what I am directly referring to. Mentioning Total Recall [which came out in 1990] was because most people probably haven't heard of the original story. |
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yamiangie
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Ah I got a few friends to watch this for our livestream and we were all wondering why it had a Total Recal vibe.
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GATSU
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Key: Well, for example, that scene where Ahnie is trying to escape an underground burrowing machine? Was an episode in Cobra.
I'm reading the summary of 'Wholesale, and other than the initial similar beginnings, it seems to go in a different direction than Cobra. Last edited by GATSU on Thu May 29, 2014 4:24 pm; edited 8 times in total |
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