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LightningCount
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Zoids is just a tough franchise to pin down and nail. It often gets pushed to the side with stuff like Pokemon, and it seems to have embraced that mindset in recent years, but the Chaotic Century/Guardian Force seasons are basically Gundam-level if you give them a chance. Really good characters and story and interesting mecha scenarios. Even Zoids New Century Zero, while not as good as the previous two seasons in terms of story, manages to be a G-Gundam-type effort that is really fun and not without its interesting twists. (Still waiting for a DVD re-release of the latter.) I even think that third season of Zoids influenced IGPX.
Zoids itself was seemingly a trailblazer in the 3DCG cel-shading used prominently in anime today. In its day, there really wasn't an anime series that did it better that I can think of. But I just don't think the later series, from what I've seen, capitalized on what those early seasons set up so nicely. They keep trying to relaunch and catch overseas attention, whether it is Fuzors, or Genesis, or Wild...but the aesthetic/concept mix never seems quite right to me. It's kind of frustrating, because as awkward as the premise seems to be, those early seasons totally caught me by surprise and won me over. They're usually underrated and underappreciated by scifi/mecha anime fans. |
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MoonPhase1
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I wish we could revisit the Zoids we got used to as kids of watching on Toonami.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I'm surprised this game is being released in English when no one has touched the new anime yet for some reason. I hope this game can do decently enough to drive an interest in reviving the Zoids license in the West.
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Primus
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An English dub of the first Wild series has already aired in its entirety in South East Asia and a western one has been in the works for a while. animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2018-10-01/hasbro-lists-zoids-in-mipcom-lineup/.137559 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfUFt6AD0U4 https://www.facebook.com/indemandtoys/posts/2438855906358313 The western rollout has taken longer than it should've but this game's localization only strengthens the idea that it'll happen. What we've seen indicates that there will be plenty of renames, though. The toys show new names for the species and the game's description confirms that Bacon's been renamed to Quade and Death Metal is now Dark Metal. |
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