U finally did all 3 films from the Night of the Vampire Robots marathon from Cartoon Network’s early days!
@Bisaju2
2 жыл бұрын
I think I am older than all of you but I remember this anime and others covered on this channel airing on TBS or TNT in 1994. others aired on scifi channel. and definitely remember the paid ad of streamlines catalog. can't believe i waited til I was 19 to watch akira back in 2000.
@mariogarv
Жыл бұрын
@@Bisaju2 Same here, i saw it back then on cartoon network as "night of robot vampires" along with a swat Kats second season night maraton, it was the best 1994´s friday-saturday night to dawn ever for me >XD
@andrejg4136
2 жыл бұрын
As much as I'm engaged in a constant war against roaches in my own home, that scene of the 'elder goddess' raining hellfire upon the peaceful roach tribe evokes some amount of sympathy.
@teddyfurstman1997
4 жыл бұрын
Without Streamline Pictures there won't be a Major Boom of Anime in the West and there won't be DBZ, Pokémon, or Toonami as well.
@Kuce
4 жыл бұрын
*wouldn’t
@MHDebidour
4 жыл бұрын
If you limit the "West" to US, in europe we had Anime on national TV since early 70's
@Strideo1
2 жыл бұрын
The anime boom was coming to the US with or without Streamline. Anime was already starting to creep into the extreme fringes of geek culture in the form of early bootlegs and tape trading clubs before Streamline Pictures brought out their first releases. If it hadn't been Streamline who got in on the ground floor it would have been another company. Without Streamline the boom might've been delayed at best.
@mdo7
Жыл бұрын
Even if Streamline didn’t exist, we would still get Pokémon & Dragonball Z in the US regardless. Also streaming sites like Crunchyroll & Netflix would still happened with or without Streamline Picture.
@TheHiphopson
3 жыл бұрын
I just found your channel so I got plenty to enjoy all this old school anime I've been craving lately.
@BroomPusher2024
3 жыл бұрын
My Medic: SuperLocalised Anime Titles are not real. They cannot hurt you. SuperLocalised Anime Titles: 3:03 to 3:30
@cj3013
4 жыл бұрын
There's a fantastic video by the channel KYDB that has to do with cockroaches in anime (weird topic I know) and he talks extensively about this, it's a solid video and I'd recommend checking it out. good work on this one
@darthjaymoonstar6
4 жыл бұрын
Twilight of the Cockroaches!! i was just thinking about this other day
@Laribhaven
4 жыл бұрын
I always wait for your videos, they are really well constructed!
@NelsonStJames
2 жыл бұрын
I was my great honor to meet Carl Macek at AnimeExpo, and I got to tell him how remarkable the editing of the Robotech opening was to so seamlessly take three separate titles and have it flow like that. Robotech imho is still among one of the most exciting openings of any animated series shown on American television.
@Dtoons
3 жыл бұрын
Jerry Beck’s Animated Movie Guide is how I first heard of this, and I got my high school to get a tape of this for the library, back in the mid-2000s. I can’t say I liked it, but I found the allegory interesting. And it’s always nice to see other people remember it too. I also remember how creepy that hand is on the poster.
@TheRealZenman
2 жыл бұрын
I went to college in the late 70's with Carl Masek and even did the student film series with him. He wasn't such an asshole then.
@ozmul5810
2 жыл бұрын
I think what the end means is that Japan cannot rely on America completely or the world stage for that matter, but fighting isn't going to get them anywhere either. So instead, they will weather what is thrown at them. Adapt and staying small, taking only what they need when they need too, and leaving everyone else alone because they have too.
@yungbenis3685
4 жыл бұрын
I love your content, KB! I want more people to watch your work.
@ComicKelsey
3 жыл бұрын
Quite honestly, I can't imagine my life without the Japanese influence on America. I love'em! ;)
@jerk5959
Жыл бұрын
They influence our life by refining our inventions to be more optimum and less expensive.
@Enshohma
4 жыл бұрын
Damn, you're killing it with your anime and Loony Toon retrospectives! I too remember watching Twilight of the Cockroaches back when I was nine-years-old with the TBS airings, Blockbuster video rentals, and Cartoon Network's Night of the Vampire Robots triple feature. Television was way better back then as far as offbeat movie choices in the late night / early morning was concerned as opposed to today where even streaming services only have the most popular, lowbrow, and over-exposed mainstream crap to feature.
@otaking3582
2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Carl Macek, the man whom the term "Macekre" is named after. Also, being associated with Spumco is a huge "yikes", especially in hindsight.
@Trixiethegoldenwitch
2 жыл бұрын
This was a fantastic watch. I didn't know almost anything explained in this video, and it was all really interesting. This film seems incredible good and interesting but also like it'd be particularly hard to watch for me so I'm ambivalent about it even just from this video!
@pyroromancer
3 жыл бұрын
i found that cooking with several cloves or garlic every night keeps cockroaches away. I live along the equator in a country where the deepest any sewer system goes is 3 feet below road levelz but usually only a few inches. Meaning cockroaches are everywhere. Also if the US was only concerned about flexing its military might. They would have outright bombed Tokyo and Kyoto. The two cities in Japan housing the most military and political leaders as well as culture centers. Instead the only targeted militaty factory cities. Millions of troops on both sides and milliona upon millions of Japanese (mostly from starvation) would have been killed if the Allies launched a land invasion of the Japanese main islands. Nuclear weapons ended the war years soonerz resulting in less deaths and suffering. American forces refered to the carnage at Okinawa on how bitter a land invasion would be, mostly of all the suffering of Okinawans. I recommend the short book written by an Okinawan survivor "The Girl with the White Flag." Imperial Japan was a forced military state that saw it's own people as resources to fuel and act as a shield.for the state, and it was ready sacrifice every child to a bitter end. It's hard for anyone to say nukes were the best option, but they were the best option.
@darkcoeficient
Жыл бұрын
I feel like a visit to The Pacific War Musseum in Fredericksburg Texas would help a lot. I also took pause when he mentioned the flex.
@TheMightyPika
4 жыл бұрын
Hot damn this is a great channel.
@bluebaron6858
Жыл бұрын
In the 90s, The whole "anti Japanese" sentiment from the US... Is that why 4kids dubs turned out that way in the late 90s?
@dwainsimmons3447
6 ай бұрын
No
@lizbarillas919
3 жыл бұрын
I always enjoy watching your videos, any chance you can do one on the anime film "Kenya Boy".
@dwainsimmons3447
6 ай бұрын
Streamline pictures made the first uncut dubs in the 80s.
@shibainu9043
3 жыл бұрын
you are crazy underrated
@what1fun1v3rs3
5 ай бұрын
I wonder if a blu-ray could fix the lighting issues the dvd has
@adammcclelland5746
Жыл бұрын
I have this movie in my favourites.
@veggienoon3906
2 жыл бұрын
Joe's apartment
@StoneCresent
3 ай бұрын
This story reminds me of Japan's bubble economy and its collapse. Given the other allegories to Japanese history in the film, Naomi and her progeny's survival will not be easy.
@DragonKingX78
2 жыл бұрын
I forgot about this one.
@Smacgregor88
4 жыл бұрын
Didn't Tiny Toons did something with Roch Sisters?
@the_most_ever_company
2 жыл бұрын
The Roches -- an actual band (their first album was produced by Robert Fripp no less, check out "Hammond Song", it's gorgeous), playing "themselves" as cartoon roaches -- and yeah, in retrospect that episode almost certainly pulled from this anime
@primusvsunicron1
3 жыл бұрын
16:52 oh hi Tiger Mask
@jasonhunter2819
4 жыл бұрын
That is a kind of soft and unsophisticated take on the use of nuclear weapons. There is definitely an aspect of there being a boastful shock of destroying a city with a single bomb...but the only reason they chose such minor targets as Hiroshima and Nagasaki is because all of the other major cities had already been firebombed. Fire bombings that were, in certain ways, more horrible than the atomic bombs were. Fire bombings that had already become an acceptable form of strategic warfare in Europe, so the aspect of the nuclear attacks being acceptable due to racism is a fairly flawed argument. Especially given the *very* loud voices in Congress in the post-war period to hurry up and nuke Moscow and other Russian strongpoints. That however does not diminish the racism of the theatre either. Hell, one of the reasons the Pearl Harbor attack was so successful, and that their follow up attacks in the Philippines and elsewhere in 1942 were so successful was because the theatre generals didn't think the non-white Japanese could *possibly* amount to much of an organized threat to anyone but other non-whites.
@mafeuk
2 жыл бұрын
4:10 Japanese animation history AND American animation history happening at the exact same building.
@PabloKMorillo
4 жыл бұрын
excellent vid, this gives me an idea.
@sirgilmour
Жыл бұрын
Did anime try other attempts to mix live human with animated characters such as Roger Rabbit? if so could you write them down here?
@SPIDEYMODS616
4 жыл бұрын
Wish I knew the anime title for at the 3:08-3:12 it sounds right up my ally to watch Big fan of Astro Boy... tried looking up ”FutureScape” and nothing came of related to the anime
@KaiserBeamz
4 жыл бұрын
It's Bubblegum Crisis
@SPIDEYMODS616
4 жыл бұрын
KaiserBeamz thx u
@alternatehamlet
4 жыл бұрын
@@SPIDEYMODS616 Dunno if the timings are off or something, but 3:08-3:12 looks like Project A-Ko ("Supernova" in the weird localization) and 3:12-3:17 look like Bubblegum Crisis ("Futurescape").
@SPIDEYMODS616
4 жыл бұрын
Monika Schaeffer hmm well when I click ur time stamp I get 3:08
@alternatehamlet
4 жыл бұрын
@@SPIDEYMODS616 Not what I'm saying. No reason to believe clicking on text will take you to an unmatching time. Just saying both of you are talking about Bubblegum Crisis (people in fancy helmets) but the anime I see at the timestamp you gave is Project A-ko (bionic girl in school uniform) and I was trying to help in case you were actually trying to figure out what Project A-ko was.
@Klonoa7H
3 жыл бұрын
The clips are bit loud. Is that intentionally done in post?
@streamlinedub
4 жыл бұрын
Where the hell have you been
@gareckthetailor9918
Жыл бұрын
thunder warrior is some shit lol
@DylanFergusC
4 жыл бұрын
Looks good
@lordjavathe3rd
4 жыл бұрын
those womebn are pretty!
@Enshohma
4 жыл бұрын
Anime: even anthropomorphic cockroaches are gorgeous in our medium!
@SpectrumAssociates
4 жыл бұрын
I can bring out a better intro. Nice video.
@buddyzilla4557
2 ай бұрын
The metaphor is messy from the start because they are trying to use an amphromorsim as a stand in for a much more complex situation. You are trying to break this down as a much more simple situation than it was and unintentionally insulting all sides of it. The truth is that the idea of the roaches simply seeking out food is not comparable to he Japanease aligning with a monstrous regime and aggressively striking against a country that was yet to be involved in the already ongoing warfare. Granted they gave warning that was hidden from us by government decision (a misleading and wrongful act) but still an act of unprovoked aggression for hostile self serving desires while aligned with others doing the same AND committing serious atrocities. The roaches are innocent in just surviving how they evolved to with no consious intention of harm to anything around them. The Japanese are thinking and feeling people. Those making the decisions were fully aware of the harm they would bring and were willing to do so for benefit. The other difference is that you ignore the concept of the Japanese being very loyal to the imperial rule to the point they were doing the unheard of at the time and suicide bombing. There was a lot of clear organized indoctrination on the part of Italy and Germany but Japan seemed already in a state where the people were merely considering themselves as pawn extentions of their ruler. This is not fully accurate or a right view to take in hindsight but in the heat of war, it absolutely was a big part in why people viewed them differently than the other members of the axis powers. They absolutely were also creating comparable popaganda. You also claim the bombing was simply an act of power showing and that may be an aspect of it, it is very manipulative to your own agenda pushing a youtube video for your career in the manner that it would be most successful to ignore the statistics on the overal lives/collateral destruction that was prevented in hot wars as a result. Also keep in the majority of civilian damage would be on Japan's side if continued population and battling occured in thsi warfront. It bombings were an atrocity and one I do agree should never have happened but you make it so black and white to villainize one side for the edgy crowd watching your videos and that yellow journalism is disgraceful. You've proven to be someone with more self respect, respect for your audience and integrity but I feel you really let us and yourself down with the obvious selling out you did for this video. It's really sad to watch one where you joke if you ever become one of those youtubers you give permission to hunt you down and end your life (even as a hyperbole jest) then act like one in a video you did after. I hope this did not/ doesn't become a pattern for you. It's important to view things more objectively and fairly even if it doesn't get the views and angsty teen weeb persona would.
@Launchpad05
3 жыл бұрын
The themes of 'Twilight Of The Cockroaches' can basically be summarized by millennials with two words. "Okay, boomer.'
@t0xcn253
Жыл бұрын
What the heck is "coonskin"? Way to subvert my expectation that you were about to show me one racist example of "live action actors interacting with animated characters" (i.e. Song of the South) by showing me a completely different racist example. What it with this technique that lends itself so readily to... well... racism? Speaking of racism, that "Tokio Kid" poster is just...wow. "Ah yes, the good old days when we thought that Japanese people were literally actual goblins." And that hilarious article about how to make sure your racism towards "Japs" isn't directed at the Chinese, where they mention the Japanese prime minister having features that "betray aboriginal heritage" just sneaking in another layer of racism there real casual like... Anyway I love the effort that went into this analysis. The part about the older generation in Japan being contrasted with the Boomers really got me tho. I see that headline saying "the greatest generation" but we all know that wasn't the Boomers: it was their parents, the ones who grew up in the great depression and fought in world war 2, right?
@MelissaPhotojournalist
3 жыл бұрын
you really need to take a history class and not just read wikipedia
@mon41
Жыл бұрын
This got a Joe's apartment feel along with a video game called bad mojo, where the player controls a cockroach.
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