You can now find it for as little as $3; definitely worth picking up. Originally planned as a full television series, Megazone 2. Original Video Animation market. It shares much of its creative staff with 1. Macross: Do You Remember Love, in particular character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto (aka . Although the rest of the cast is designed by Toshitaka Hirano, Hirano's style is close enough to the Mikimoto school of design that there is plenty of visual consistency, while still ensuring that Eve has a slightly different look that makes her stand out from the rest of the characters. This is important, because Eve is most definitely not like other girls. Megazone 2. 3 Part 1 has actually been dubbed twice before into English, first as a semi- aborted attempt at a Robotech movie called Robotech: The Untold Story. ![]() Megazone PS3 Site Opens, Gegege no Kitar. Megazone 23 - Part 1 Collector’s Edition (Artbox) (DVD 1) 2004-06-01 (from $27.98) Megazone 23, Part 1 (DVD) 1999-08-10: Japanese staff: Japanese cast. 15-09-2016 2/2 Megazone 23 Part 1. Other Files Available to Download ! 23-09-2016 2/2 Megazone 23 Part 1. Other Files Available to Download Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Megazone 23 - Part 1 at Amazon.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users./>. 7-07-2016 2/4 Megazone 23 Part 1. Other Files Available to Download Amazon.com: Megazone 23 - Part 1: Masato Kubota, Maria Kawamura, M ![]() New scenes were animated for this, and the dialogue strongly re- worked in order to link up the storylines to the Robotech TV series, but the movie only saw release for a handful of test screenings. A few years after this aborted franken- sequel, Carl Macek's Streamline Pictures released a reasonably straight dubbed adaptation to video, later ported to a bare- bones DVD release from Image. This new DVD version is, of course, a direct translation and of no relation whatsoever to Robotech or Macek's old Megazone 2. I don't want to describe too much of Megazone 2. ![]() ![]() BLOW YOUR MIND or anything (this isn't The Manchurian Candidate I'm talking about here) they were fairly innovative at the time and provided inspiration for subsequent popular entertainment on both sides of the Pacific. Suffice it to say that Shogo Yahagi is a fun- loving 1. Mc. Donald's (an amazingly realistic touch for a science- fiction/fantasy anime hero). His existence becomes decidely less carefree the night his buddy Shinji shows him a weird- looking motorcycle enscribed with the word . Shogo makes off with the special bike and in short order finds himself way over his head- - no small feat when you consider the sheer enormity of his 8. And make no mistake, this anime is very much a product of the 8. HOO BOY, is it a product of the 8. The interesting thing about this is that there are very good reasons for the specificity of details, above and beyond the mere fact that it was actually produced in the 1. The setting, Tokyo in the mid 8. Street and neighbourhood names are rattled off by the characters, who spend their time in landmarks easily identifiable for anyone who's ever spent any time in that city. This versimillitude- - well, if you can suspend your disbelief for the presence of . Metaphorically, the story (like a lot of anime, really) could be described as a dramatization of the point where youthfulness collides with mature reality, the loss of innocence that occurs when you realize how creepy and corrupt and dangerous all the adults surrounding you are. Not unlike Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield, the teenagers in Megazone 2. This again works well for the setting, because the 8. Tokyo in the 8. 0s, was an amazingly artificial time and place. The music is, fittingly, high- adrenaline mid- 8. The character and mecha designs match up well in their balance between cartooniness and realism. The actions scenes are pretty well- animated, but the character animation is sort of lackluster. OVAs of this era tended not to have big budgets (the big bucks were reserved for feature films) and it shows here. It's not terrible, but it's pretty stiff and there's a lot of inconsistency, especially in scenes where character and mecha are shown together. Just beat it. The DVD is of good quality and as is usually the case with DVD releases of old anime, the dust and brush strokes on the cels are clearly visible. Otherwise, it's a very good, clean print of the film. It's got some ads at the beginning but you can skip past them. The extras consist mainly of lots of pre- production artwork and a commentary track by the people in charge of the dub, anchored by one Matt Greenfield, which is interesting if you are into the early days of anime fandom in North America- - these folks are certainly qualified! There is also an insert with a lovely . Anachronistic slang really pisses me off. It's particularly odd given that the rest of the dub is almost self- conscious about the fact that the setting is firmly planted in the mid- 8. A Flock of Seagulls and whatnot in order to remain true to the era. The voices, by and large, are fine, not exactly the same as the Japanese voices (well, except the singing of course). Shogo seems less carefree and more, well, wussy in the dub, though, which didn't really work for me. Maybe they were trying to mitigate the scene in which he slaps romantic interest Yui during an argument by making him come off as harmless, I don't know. Speaking of which, that is really the most dated part of the whole video, big hair and idol singers aside. Back in the 1. 98. Of course here in North America we know better (DON'T WE?!) but Japan is obviously a different culture and aside from the somewhat slower rate that women's rights have gained ground over there, there's a certain precedence in Japanese culture for . So what seems really distasteful and inappropriate to us would probably just seem like par for the course to the Japanese. Nevertheless, if nothing else has improved about anime in the past 2. There are changes to details of the dialogue, most of them presumably for either clarity or timing, and I can't figure out why everyone in it answers the phone by saying . It's no Robotech: The Untold Story, anyhow, thank God. All in all, I highly recommend this DVD for anyone with fond memories of this production's initial release, as well as anyone who likes a good urban science- fiction story. It's got motorcycles that transform into robots, bad guys who may actually be good guys, brainwashing, violence, romance, some tasteful sex scenes, some rather distasteful sex scenes, catchy J- pop, and references to the obscure 8. Streets of Fire. I ask again, what's not to like? Dave reviews MEGAZONE 2.
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