NEW GAIKING SERIES!

[Kimiden]

Found this whilest peruing aroudn the Toei Animation site (hence my Saint Seiya entry as well)

http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/gaiking/

NEW GAIKING SERIES!

Animation has been upgraded and it looks liek a bit of a new story as well. The ony lfootage that is up is onyl from the piulot film but it still ooks cool nonetheless. Here's hoping this comes otu soon and they do it right ^_^

 

[KRBlack]

I always thought the Gaiking design was kinda lame, but I'll still check it out.

 

[Gurlgamer]

I remember Gaiking back when it was packaged in the US as Force Five. *Sigh* Good times, good times...

Umm... Go Nagai did Gaiking too right? Just guessing here.

 

[kyo28]

Hmm, I think I'll watch this one when it comes out ... I hope the story will be a rather mature and perhaps we'll see this new Gaiking in Chogokin Tamashii figure and in the Super Robot Taisen video games

 

[dmario]

I remember Gaiking back when it was packaged in the US as Force Five. *Sigh* Good times, good times...

Umm... Go Nagai did Gaiking too right? Just guessing here.

yes....showtime was a new channel and this aired with Grendiazer, StarDragon, danguard Ace and Dynamo


im afraid of this one, because it look slike a kid is piloting Gaiking :nono:


SECTION 1 SECTION TWO GO!

*edit* hey where the video clips?

 

[August]

Go Nagai didn't have his name on GAIKING, but Dynamic Productions, his company did. Nagai got into a beef with Toei Animation, and walked. Toei had to hire some folks to come in and finish it up -- Nagai had his name taken off the project. Nagai never had a hit Super Robot show after that... too bad. The original GAIKING is pretty cool, not sure how I feel about this remake (set 30 years after the original), with a kid pilot and a fantasy setting. Some of the Nagai remakes, like SHIN GETTER ROBO have been kind of weak or overblown (IMHO) -- I haven't seen NEW GETTER ROBO from Geneon yet. I only saw one part of SHIN GETTER VS. NEO GETTER, and that was MUCH better than the SHIN GETTER OVA series. I'm just watching MAZINKAIZER now, and the animation is great -- and it was awesome to have the original voice actors back again. I just wish that they would use the original theme songs, instead of insipid rock power ballads. That was part of the success of those series of the '70s -- the music and theme songs were as much a part of the show, as the characters and mecha. Oh well.

 

[AkaRed]

from what I read Psychic Lover is doing the theme for Gaiking

 

[Kouji Kabuto]

Go Nagai didn't have his name on GAIKING, but Dynamic Productions, his company did. Nagai got into a beef with Toei Animation, and walked. Toei had to hire some folks to come in and finish it up -- Nagai had his name taken off the project. Nagai never had a hit Super Robot show after that... too bad. The original GAIKING is pretty cool, not sure how I feel about this remake (set 30 years after the original), with a kid pilot and a fantasy setting. Some of the Nagai remakes, like SHIN GETTER ROBO have been kind of weak or overblown (IMHO) -- I haven't seen NEW GETTER ROBO from Geneon yet. I only saw one part of SHIN GETTER VS. NEO GETTER, and that was MUCH better than the SHIN GETTER OVA series. I'm just watching MAZINKAIZER now, and the animation is great -- and it was awesome to have the original voice actors back again. I just wish that they would use the original theme songs, instead of insipid rock power ballads. That was part of the success of those series of the '70s -- the music and theme songs were as much a part of the show, as the characters and mecha. Oh well.

since 1976, Go Nagai's forays into Robot anime have included Gloizer X (lame), God Mazinger (an insult to the Mazinger name), Psycho Armor Govarian (Gundam meets mazinger) and Getter Robo Go (nice manga, not exactly super popular anime). his remakes of Getter and Mazinkaiser rock, though (in general).

Shin (true) Getter was confusing and dragging, but I still liked it.
Shin (new) Getter was confusing but entertaining.
Shin vs Neo was just plain entertaining.
Mazinkaiser rocked. I said that already. I'll say it again. Mazinkaiser rocked.

I'd have to agree with August in that the original Gaiking was an interesting watch. It had some of the best talent working on it - Shunsuke Kikuchi's music, Akira Kamiya as Sanshiro Tsuwabuki and other seiyuus and Isao Sasaki's singing. My only problem was that it was too Raideen-like in it's weird designs.

yes....showtime was a new channel and this aired with Grendiazer, StarDragon, danguard Ace and Dynamo

To be precise, the shows were Danguard Ace, Grendaizer, Starzinger (renamed Spaceketeers), Getter Robo G (renamed Starvengers) and Gaiking.

Dynamo was the name given to the Daimos Robot in 3-B production's "Starbirds" TV movie adaptation of 1978's Toshou Daimos. 3-B also gave us "Shadow World" (movie adaptation of UFO Senshi Dai Apolon), a similar movie version of Message from Space: Galactic Battle, and the infamous TRANZOR Z tv show.

 

[August]

since 1976, Go Nagai's forays into Robot anime have included Gloizer X (lame), God Mazinger (an insult to the Mazinger name), Psycho Armor Govarian (Gundam meets mazinger) and Getter Robo Go (nice manga, not exactly super popular anime). his remakes of Getter and Mazinkaiser rock, though (in general).

Yeah, none of them were hits, nor produced by Toei Animation. The magic was gone after UFO ROBO: GRENDIZER, IMHO.

Mazinkaiser rocked. I said that already. I'll say it again. Mazinkaiser rocked.

I've only gotten up to Episode 4, and I think it's pretty damned good. Too much sexual jokes, but that's today's Anime for you. I just wished that Mizuki's talents were used for rearrangements of the MAZINGER Z and GREAT MAZINGER songs. 30-odd years later, they still can't be beat.

I'd have to agree with August in that the original Gaiking was an interesting watch. It had some of the best talent working on it - Shunsuke Kikuchi's music, Akira Kamiya as Sanshiro Tsuwabuki and other seiyuus and Isao Sasaki's singing. My only problem was that it was too Raideen-like in it's weird designs.

YUSHA RAIDEEN was the best at being YUSHA RAIDEEN; I like the Yoshiyuki Tomino episodes better than the Tadao Nagahama episodes, though.

Dynamo was the name given to the Daimos Robot in 3-B production's "Starbirds" TV movie adaptation of 1978's Toshou Daimos. 3-B also gave us "Shadow World" (movie adaptation of UFO Senshi Dai Apolon), a similar movie version of Message from Space: Galactic Battle, and the infamous TRANZOR Z tv show.

Oh yeah... what was the name of the US movie adaptation of GA-KEEN? Oh yeah, MAGNOS... The MFS: GALACTIC BATTLE movie adaptation was called SWORDS OF THE SPACE ARK (I still have that on VHS from a 1985 television broadcast!). The same company also syndicated the VOLTES V movie, too.

Even though these were far from perfect (the exception being the VOLTES V movie, which was made in Japan for the Japanese market, but never released), but it was great to have all of these Super Robots on American television in the early-to-mid 1980s!

 

[Kouji Kabuto]

I've only gotten up to Episode 4, and I think it's pretty damned good. Too much sexual jokes, but that's today's Anime for you. I just wished that Mizuki's talents were used for rearrangements of the MAZINGER Z and GREAT MAZINGER songs. 30-odd years later, they still can't be beat.

But they were: in the Shin Getter vs Neo Getter DVDs, there were music videos featuring 2001 remixes of Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger (by Mizuki) and Grendaizer (sung by Hironobu Kageyama).

YUSHA RAIDEEN was the best at being YUSHA RAIDEEN; I like the Yoshiyuki Tomino episodes better than the Tadao Nagano episodes, though.

Who did which half again?

Oh yeah... what was the name of the US movie adaptation of GA-KEEN? Oh yeah, MAGNOS... The MFS: GALACTIC BATTLE movie adaptation was called SWORDS OF THE SPACE ARK (I still have that on VHS from a 1985 television broadcast!). The same company also syndicated the VOLTES V movie, too.

Even though these were far from perfect (the exception being the VOLTES V movie, which was made in Japan for the Japanese market, but never released), but it was great to have all of these Super Robots on American television in the early-to-mid 1980s!

Uhm, I'm not sure if there was a Voltes movie per se. I do know there was a COMPILATION movie from selected early episodes. There was also a Philippine one made from four episodes specifically on the topic of the secret background of Gou Kentarou.