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Some pictures from the fantastic anime series Saint Seiya: |
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All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku is also a pretty good anime in my opinion. |
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I watched Speed Racer and Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers as a kid, but I'm not very familiar with current anime.
Nice NS girl pictures, Weschenfelder.
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Here are the English-language Wikipedia pages for three of my favorite anime series that I grew up with in the 1980s and early 90s: Hokuto no Ken, Saint Seiya and Tiger Mask: Quote:
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It's difficult to explain in words how fantastic they are, but like I said in another thread a long time ago, these series glorify and promote humanity's best qualities, values and conduct, like strength, courage, endurance, loyalty, righteousness, self-sacrifice and epic heroism. This is all part of the traditional Bushido code of conduct, which remained in the Japanese folk soul even after the samurai disappeared, and which is present in anime. For example, take the following scene from Saint Seiya that I brought up in an older post: Quote:
Two of Shiryu's comrades, Seiya and Shun, have already fallen prey to Algol, and only the latter's death can unpetrify them. Shiryu realizes that as long as he has his eyesight he's vulnerable to Algol's attacks, so he blinds himself, i.e. he sacrifices his eyesight to save his comrades. You can watch some of it here: After Algol is defeated, Shiryu calls out for his comrades, who are shocked and devastated when they discover that he's blind, but he simply smiles, with a mixture of tears and blood running down his face, because he's happy and relieved that they're okay, even though he himself is clearly not. These powerful scenes made a strong impression on me when I first saw them as a child in the late 1980s. I had never seen anything like that in the silly and shallow American cartoons that we were flooded with in Europe. Anime was something completely different, something much, much better and much more profound. |
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And yes, I realize that nobody is going to read my long post. I guess I'm writing this for my own sake, like this is my personal blog or something. I'm sorry if other forum members find it annoying. |
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Weschenfelder's last post was June 10, 2020, so I guess he has left the forum.
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Let's return to Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) for a moment. Quote:
There's a very moving scene there that involves the main antagonist Raoh, a ruthless warlord with mystical powers and superhuman strength and stature. We see a flashback from Raoh's childhood where he and his baby brother Toki, both orphaned, go to Ryuken, the head of a martial arts school, in the hope that he would adopt them and accept them as his students. They're standing on a mountain, and with a swift kick Ryuken shatters the ground under Raoh and Toki's feet, causing them to plummet into a ravine. ("Ravine" is probably the wrong word, but my English is crap, so bear with me, folks. (Although I'm not sure who I'm talking to here since nobody is reading this.)) Ryuken then tells them that he can only adopt and train one of them, and that he who climbs up to him first will be accepted as his son and student. Toki is badly injured, his leg is broken, so he tells Raoh to leave him there and start climbing since he knows that Raoh's dream is to become a great martial artist. In the next scene we see Ryuken sitting on top of the mountain, waiting for one of the two brothers to reach him. However, nothing happens, so Ryuken assumes that both of them were to weak to pass the test. But as he gets up and is ready to leave, he sees Raoh's left hand and head stick up from the edge of the mountain. Ryuken starts walking towards him, and as he gets closer he sees that Raoh is carrying Toki. He refused to leave his brother behind so he carried him and climed the mountain using only one hand. This shocks Ryuken, and he's so impressed with Raoh's strength and valor that he decides to adopt and train both him and his brother. Here's a screenshot from that scene (it's a picture that I posted on the first page of this thread): I'll write more about what happens to Raoh and Toki tomorrow. Last edited by Stewart Meadows; March 31st, 2021 at 08:36 PM. |
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My awful description of Raoh's childhood flashback doesn't do it justice. (I'm a terrible writer, which is why I usually just post newspaper articles here on the forum, and let them do the talking.) I dug up the following Youtube clip of the scenes described in my previous post, so just ignore the crap I wrote and watch this instead: |
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Raoh and Toki grow up to be great martial artists thanks to Ryuken's training which gives them superhuman abilities - although the word "superhuman" might not be correct here since they're not really given any superpowers like Spider-Man, the Hulk and similar American comic book characters. The source of Raoh and Toki's powers is their own inner energy that they're taught to channel, and that's something that every person can do with the proper training. This martial art is known as Hokuto Shinken in the series. Ryuken eventually realizes that Raoh is an evil, ruthless, greedy, ambitious man who wants to use his powers to subjugate the entire world, so he tries to stop him, but Raoh kills him and then sets off to build an army and found his own empire. Toki is Raoh's complete opposite: he's a gentle, thoughtful, kindhearted man who wants to use his powers to heal sick people. He was supposed to become the successor of Ryuken's Hokuto Shinken martial arts school, but then tragedy struck: a devastating nuclear war turned the entire world into an inhospitable desert (this is the famous backdrop for the series), and Toki was exposed to the nuclear fallout because he chose to leave his safe bomb shelter in order to save others. The fallout turns Toki's hair white and leaves him terminally ill, so the series' main hero, Kenshiro, is instead chosen as the Hokuto Shinken successor. Kenshiro is the youngest and most inexperienced of Ryuken's students, and he and Toki are very close friends. Realizing that his illness will never allow him to continue being a martial artist, Toki becomes a wandering doctor and uses what time he has left to treat and heal the people who survived the nuclear war. He harbors no ill will whatsoever toward Kenshiro for taking his place as the successor to Hokuto Shinken, and instead does everything he can to guide and encourage him. Eventually though, Toki realizes that he can't sit by and watch his older brother Raoh kill and subjugate innocent people, so he decides to fight him and put a stop to his reign of terror. Kenshiro asks Toki to let him fight Raoh instead, but Toki refuses because he doesn't feel that Kenshiro is ready, and because he believes that it's his responsibility to stop his evil brother from doing harm. The fight between Toki and Raoh is impressive, Toki is still very strong despite his illness, and he fights heroically, but is ultimately defeated. Here are some screenshots: After Toki's defeat, it's up to the series' main hero, Kenshiro, to stop Raoh. |
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Not to interrupt your story too much Stewart, but Weschenfelder's NS girls made me think of these ones: Girls und Panzer
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Kenshiro is largely based on Bruce Lee and Mel Gibson's character Mad Max, who were popular in the 1980s. And in the second series, Kenshiro dons a pair of sunglasses that were inspired by Sylvester Stallone's character in Cobra.
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From the soundtrack of Saint Seiya: |
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Rocky vs. Drago is a good comparison. Raoh vs. Juza reminds me of Rambo vs. Kourov. (My favorite scene of the movie)
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Eu não sou muito fã desses animes e desenhos animados. Mas o bom dos mangás e animes - a despeito da aparência infantil e cartunesca - é que são produzidos fora da esfera imunda de Hollywood. A possibilidade de uma alternativa ao lixo globo-homo é extraordinária. Cavaleiros do Zodíaco, Dragon Ball, DBZ, Yugi-Oh! e afins construíram uma geração, que a repugnante da Fátima Bernardes e da Globo está destruindo. Os japoneses até mesmo conseguem a façanha de restaurar a honra e a dignidade da nossa cultura e da nossa história, como em séries como Vinland Saga. E isso sob condições de degeneração similares às nossas, sob ocupação americana. São um povo realmente admirável. The Jews fear the Samurai.
https://www.tecmundo.com.br/minha-se...criminacao.htm Porém, eu acho intratável (e incompreensível) algumas coisas, como o exagero pitoresco e desproporcional de personagens, mesmo em se tratando de obras de fantasia. Um exemplo é como esse aí de baixo, d'A Viagem de Chihiro: O Mundo dos Pequeninos (The Secret World of Arrietty), de 2010, parece muito mais relaxante, quase divino. É isso que deveria ser produzido no mundo. Esse é o futuro que nós poderíamos herdar. Mas ao invés disso, nós temos judeus. http://images5.alphacoders.com/690/690588.jpg
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