Fight! Iczer One
I recently watched Fight! Iczer One, an anime OAV from the mid-1983s. I think you should watch it, too. Imagine:
An even older Pacific Rim predecessor than that Evangelion episode
But with eldritch horror-themed aliens
And Oops! All Lesbians
Also the most reluctant protagonist I have ever seen. Shinji Ikari has nothing on this kid.
I don't mean to imply it's unjustified, but it's still hilarious to watch a girl spend a good chunk of her own movie like
The one caveat to my recommendation is that there's nudity. It's mostly non-sexual, and nothing with our unhappy protagonist is sexual, but said protagonist is in high school, so that's not something everyone will be comfortable with.
If you can get over that, my first sentence has a link to the whole subtitled movie on YouTube!
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Okay so I just found out about the 80s OVAs Fight!! Iczer 1! and how it's a precursor to NGE but also more importantly it's about lesbian catgirl aliens and now I need to assimilate this 80s mecha space yuri into my being
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Iczer-2 from the Iczer-1 series by AIC and Toshiki Hirano
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Honestly? I believe that if things like Tekkaman Blade, Iczer-1, Detonator Orgun, and ULTRAMAN can get into SRW, then Symphogear probably could.
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weee question time! what are your fav niche 90s moe anime? things akin to yuna OVAs, and that good good slayers artstyle. (it's tiring trying out 1st episodes to see which are girlies having fun and which are just bad fanservice) one of my favorites ever is tenshi ni narumon!! would love to hear your recs!
preface: so i think i have severe brain rot because i've really only watched like, weird edgy 80s/90s OVAs aside from yuna. iczer-1, md geist, cyguard, etc. my attention span really sucks with anime so it's rare i watch anything unless i get like, hyper-fixated on it or i'm exercising (i've been watching heartcatch precure and loving that lately during workout times)
HOWEVER. yokohama kaidashi kikou is an absolute iyashikei classic and heals my soul every time i see anything from it. expanding out to TV anime, i think the to-heart anime is gorgeous and chill. i also really like the score to kakyuusei 1999, utterly obsessed with this bgm even if i've never seen the show or played the game lmao
https://youtu.be/Tfm637pisyk
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Information on the origins of Tenchi Muyo! is revealed!
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For the better part of three decades, co-creator of Tenchi Muyo!, Masaki Kajishima, has held fast to the claim that Tenchi Muyo! was “all in his head since high school.” However, for Comiket 100, interesting information has come out shedding light on what the origins of this juggernaut franchise actually are.
For the forthcoming Comiket, Kajishima will be releasing a redone version of his doujin The Night Before the Carnival: Heisei Edition 1, which released at Comiket 54 on August 16th, 1998. Released with brand new commentary, this new doujin is called The Night Before the Carnival: Original Edition 22.08.
Heisei Edition 1 – 1998 & Original Edition 22.08 – 2022
Across both doujins, we are introduced to characters “Masaki” (featured in red, said to be the daughter of the first emperor of Jurai), a blue haired character named “Lashara Moon” (A name reused in Photon: The Idiot Adventures), a character named “Lyon”, and probably the most recognizable character named “Koro-chan” (a Ryo-Ohki lookalike who is half cute cuddly character and half dragon, it’s name being used as cute creatures in Photon, as well as Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar). The character can also transform much as Ryo-Ohki would, and can use an ability called “Ghost” which lets him permeate matter (aka phase through walls). Sound familiar?
Masaki
Also of note, is that there is a young beast female character who is referred to as “Humanoid Ryo-san”. It is also implied that a female beast character can quickly mature and mate, a concept that Kajishima has apparently been wanting to do for a long time…
Koro-chan concepts and Lyon
“The story centers on the common inheritance-related troubles of aristocratic daughters who are running away from pursuers aiming to assassinate them. The protagonists are caught in the middle of the action, and as they run for their lives, they become completely savage.”
As mentioned in the doujin, these images were being made 10 years prior to the doujin’s original 1998 release, with the Lashara piece showing a date of June 16th, 1989, true to the “Heisei” part of its name.
Lashara Moon and Humanoid Ryo-san
Despite Kajishima’s claims to the contrary, this new information of his actually corroborates what Hayashi said in an interview from 1994, that Tenchi Muyo! was nothing more than “idle discussion” between himself and Kajishima in ’90, and gives us an interesting view into some of the ideas Kajishima cannibalized from this to use later in Tenchi and beyond.
One year after these concepts were drawn, a job working on AIC’s Iczer-3, and merging his ideas with Hayashi’s and others’, and Tenchi Muyo! as we know it was born.
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