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DaiGaurd a ripoff????




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dozi



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:34 pm Reply with quote
I don't know about the rest of you but I think DaiGaurd is a totaol ripoff of Martian Sucsessor Nadesico's series in a series GEKIGANGAR III.
I would like to your views on this subject so please post away.
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Maccers



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:38 pm Reply with quote
[Personally] Me thinks not. Surely you wouldnt want to base a series on a series in another series that was teased the hell out of, eh?.
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dozi



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:44 pm Reply with quote
Maccers wrote:
[Personally] Me thinks not. Surely you wouldnt want to base a series on a series in another series that was teased the hell out of, eh?.


It could happen.
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Allen
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:18 pm Reply with quote
dozi wrote:
I don't know about the rest of you but I think DaiGaurd is a totaol ripoff of Martian Sucsessor Nadesico's series in a series GEKIGANGAR III.
I would like to your views on this subject so please post away.


This has come up before with any big robot series. Gundam beget Macross beget Eva beget Nadesico beget RahXephon, etc. (It's not literally like that, just making a point.)

Basically, big robots are a genre. And occasionally it becomes necessary to try and reinvent that genre. DaiGuard takes that idea and puts a twist in by making the robot pilots typical Japanese Salary Men. So they are office workers that pilot a bit bot. I actually think its a nice twist to the standard formula of crazy eccentric millionaire gets a bunch of unrelated kids to pilot his big robot to save the world from aliens.

In Japan, the salary man is a known stereotype, so its a grounding point for people to relate to.
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:38 pm Reply with quote
I seriously doubt it. Gekigangar was made to parody every super robot series out there (super robot as in Mazinger or Getter Robo, not as in Gundam or Macross). Daiguard is sort of like a real world aplication of a super robot show without really being one. It falls along the same line as Moldiver or Shinesmen where you've got average Joes and Janes thrown into fantastic superhero roles and can't believe how corny their reality is. It's a somewhat unique series in that sense and if you were to say it is ripping off Gekigangar then you may as well say it's ripping off Gaiking, Giant Robo or whatever else as those are the originators and Gekigangar is just a parody of them.

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Nani?



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:40 pm Reply with quote
Having seen both Nadesico and Dai-Gaurd, I would say no.

Dai-Guard is a (mostly) comedy that parodies corporate Japan as well as the big robot genre.spoiler[The tendency of the Corporate world to do things on the cheap is key to the humor of this series.]
I do recomend it as a a good, light, underated show. I wouldn't be suprised to see a box set in the next year or so.

All the best,

Nani?
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