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Buried Garbage - Mad Bull 34

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Plus there are omissions aplenty! No Mafia? NO MAFIA? What about the cyborg wheelchair-bound Latino mafia, huh?! Or the Chinese suicide assassins who "no care about own lives" and their tanks they drive down the middle of the street? Or that time Sleepy fought the Predator (with the Alien's head) in the middle of a baseball stadium? I could understand if you neglected to mention the part with the kittens that have shotguns strapped to their backs. That was only in the manga, along with the part where they fought Dracula. Plus there was a more recent sequel manga, Mad Bull 2000. You think "America's Mayor" was able to successfully make it a crime to be homeless and/or be in possession of Japanese-style coffee cans that double as grenades all by himself?! NUH-UH. You may say that the New York of today is not the New York of this anime, but that's only because Mad Bull cleaned up the streets, one shotgun blast at a time. Criminals got the message: you don't eff with the crossdressing cop with the .45.

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Justin, I must say that you have moved up in my book for making a Fake joke. It takes a real man to bring up Dee. At least NYC in Fake (the manga, since the OAV takes place in the woods of England) actually felt like NYC.

I have only seen the 1st vhs of Mad Bull and I was floored at how utterly odd it was. I still have it in a box somewhere. Now I must dig it out and watch it again. Just to laugh at it. Oh and I might even share it with a few friends. haha. Sadly, I'd rather force them through Fake than make them watch Mad Bull.

Which edition did you read? Bothe eBookJapan and Amazon.jp listed 27 volumes, released from June 1986 (volume 1) to June 1994 (volume 27).

Buried Garbage wrote:

Screenshots ©1990 Kazuo Koike/Noriyoshi Inoue•Shueisha, Inc./Pony Canyon, Inc./Magic Bus.

I wonder why Shueisha was involved? The manga was published by Koike Shoin, a publishing company owned by Kazuo Koike.

Believe me, it is possible to enjoy Mad Bull 34, at least if you live outside of NYC. I thought it was pretty funny and I wasn't overstrained by the general over-the-top attitude of the whole thing. (snip) This aside, I question the purpose and sense of the "Buried Garbage" column. Even if the titles presented there are pretty interesting, the meaning of it outside of the fun of the author writing it is cryptical to me.

At least NYC in Fake (the manga, since the OAV takes place in the woods of England) actually felt like NYC.

Yeah, while you, the cool and worldly New Yorker rudely push passed them on your way to do IMPORTANT things, cause your such an IMPORTANT person, in the most IMPORTANT city in the world, right?

I will always remember Mad Bull 34 for one thing and one thing only: Hand grenade jockstrap. I think they pulled that gem out at the end of the last episode and some ten years later I'm not at all sure how I got that far in the series.

This aside, I question the purpose and sense of the "Buried Garbage" column. Even if the titles presented there are pretty interesting, the meaning of it outside of the fun of the author writing it is cryptical to me.

dormcat wrote:

Which edition did you read? Bothe eBookJapan and Amazon.jp listed 27 volumes, released from June 1986 (volume 1) to June 1994 (volume 27). Buried Garbage wrote: Screenshots ©1990 Kazuo Koike/Noriyoshi Inoue•Shueisha, Inc./Pony Canyon, Inc./Magic Bus. I wonder why Shueisha was involved? The manga was published by Koike Shoin, a publishing company owned by Kazuo Koike.

Thanks, fixed. According to what I read, the series was initially was published in Young Jump.

Hey, I can't help looking at monsterously large buildings that eclipse the sky when I'm in a city that's four to five times bigger than the biggest one around where I live. You should be glad that there are people who come from all around the world to admire the place you live in.