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The Human Spider
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I absolutely love MAD BULL 34--it reminded me a lot of DEATH WISH 2 & 3, two of my all-time favorite movies. MB34 is one of three shows I gave a "masterpiece" rating to, the other two being PING PONG CLUB and GALAXY ANGEL A/AA. I always look forward to "Buried Garbage" --they always sound like the most interesting shows featured in any ANN review column.
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Mr Blister
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Well, that's me sold! *Starts looking on ebay* |
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Pippin4242
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Oh, the OVA hurt. It hurt me so much. Seriously, why can't anime ever get England right? I guess at least they didn't even try when it came to the voice acting in the dub, so it doesn't quite match up to Hellsing in terms of sheer awfulness. But yeah, the Dee joke had me laughing out loud. Kudos. *~Pips~* |
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RadicaLElly
Posts: 194 Location: Coral Springs, FL |
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Oh goodness, I know what you mean about poorly researched American cities in anime. I've always loved how Miami Guns portrayed Miami as being quite mountainous.
I still like to believe that our cops do actually wear Bonta-kun suits during drug busts. |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
Posts: 1684 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Thanks, fixed. According to what I read, the series was initially was published in Young Jump. Anime World Order, thanks for your corrections too. They've been added and credit given.
Well, of course any review column is going to be completely the opinion of the author and yours will likely differ. Given your taste for over-the-top bloody action I imagine you enjoyed Genocyber as well, which I took plenty of flak for featuring in the normal "treasure" section. The area is for me to writhe in agony revisiting some of my least favorite anime that might be good for a snicker by others. Nothing more. |
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KabaKabaFruit
Posts: 1883 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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I've heard of Mad Bull 34. I've also heard how universally bad it was. In fact, it is mentioned only once in a blue moon in the anime community.
Great article, Justin. By the way, does anyone think Sleepy looks like Final Fight mayor Mike Haggar? As for Gunsmith Cats, while Sonoda and co. did do their research in some aspects, there were a couple of things that felt out of place. One thing is: Americans don't bow when they greet people. I immediately caught this during the second OVA episode when Rally and Minnie May meet up with the drag queen. Another thing is: Why would an ambulance carry an axe? |
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billyarnie
Posts: 190 Location: San Antonio, TX |
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I was fortunate to live & work in Long Island City (Queens) for 2 months in the summer of 2005. My tourist experiences were limited to taking the subway to the WTC hole in the ground & eating at Mickey Mantle's on the day of the Puerto Rican Parade. I thought of going to Coney Island July 4th & watching the Nathan's Cramming Hot Dogs Down Your Gullet contest. Fortunately, I watched it on ESPN instead. I stayed at my hotel & we saw the fireworks from the roof that night.
My main impression was walking around L.I.C. & noticing the stoops & building fronts were like the "East Side Kids"/"Bowery Boys" movies my San Antonio, TX TV stations showed when I was a kid. WOW! It looks the same as on "L&O:SVU" & "CSI:NY" too... BTW, jsevakis, feel free to visit the River Walk in S.A. some summer... like This Summer when the Spurs are Back-2-Back NBA Champs & have their river parade... I hope... |
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LydiaDianne
Posts: 5634 Location: Southern California |
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I laughed my butt off reading the entire review.
I'm still not going to see it though. |
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Eos
Posts: 168 Location: Jersey |
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That was my impression of Red Garden, it seemed to capture the atmosphere better (tons of Broadway signs and cafes ). It wasn't perfect, but an enjoyable show. The location was meant to be more of a backdrop instead of a portrayal of the city. Acquainted portrayal
Yea, that take that citizens of a collection of boros I'm not acquaninted with! |
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jgreen
Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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You may not have seen it in the actual series...that part was featured prominently in at least one of the long-running, multi-series trailers Manga used to put on all of their VHS tapes. It may even have been in the one set to KMFDM that was on the GitS VHS, but I'm not quite sure. I've never seen this show, but I was really intrigued to know just how awful it was. Because from the trailers, it looked REALLY awful. Just not awful enough to drop $15 or so on a VHS tape. Great read, great review! |
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Julia-the-Great
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The point is so that people like me can have a laugh every few weeks. It's called "having a sense of humor." |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 9902 Location: New Taipei City, Taiwan, ROC |
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You know what? I screwed up this time. While eBookJapan, Amazon.jp, and Yahoo! Japan Comics are trustworthy sources, Mad Bull 34 has an odd release record, and apparently I forgot to check each and every volume for respective publishers. No wonder there's a big gap between volume 19 and 20. This page has a complete release list of Noriyoshi Inoue's works: the original Shueisha edition between 1986 and 1990 had 19 volumes; the Koike Shoin edition between 1993 and 1994 had 27 volumes (which was very rare for a later re-release to have more volumes than the original); there's another series, released by Koike Shoin in 2004, even after Mad Bull 2000. I've corrected them; sorry for confusion and inconveniences. |
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belvadeer
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This sounds like it sucks as much as the dub of Angel Cop
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bob_loblaw
Posts: 229 Location: Tanning in Hell |
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I'm perfectly cool with tourists visiting and checking out the buildings. All I ask is that they step to the side and do it. Stopping dead center in the middle of the sidewalk to gawk/photo-op is just... This review brings up a good question, how many titles are there that demonstrate detailed research on foreign locales? I remember articles about the Bones team traveling to Morocco for the CowBe film. Then, there's the Full Metal Panic: TSR team traveling to Hong Kong. Of course, there was the brief shots of Times Square, Canal Street/Chinatown and the (then) World Trade Center from the Read or Die OVA. |
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KabaKabaFruit
Posts: 1883 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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How about France for "Anime San Juushi" a. k. a. "Anime Three Musketeers"? I think it looked like Monkey Punch went down to France to research the famous landmarks like the Versailles for the anime based on what I've seen.
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