Kid Fenris
Italian director Camillo Teti's Titanic: The Animated Movie tackles such delicate subjects as maritime disasters, the loss of over 1500 lives, and PARTY TIME.
updated 18 years ago
There's no official word on why this was cut, so feel free to speculate. Perhaps the song is too similar to some popular tune. Perhaps there were other rights issues with the music. Perhaps a rebel animator sneaked something scandalous into the background.
The most likely reason this was removed, I think, is the shot of the little scurrying fur creatures (yes, I know they're called Bushwoolies) around the 39-second mark. One of them is running with and waving around a pair of scissors. That might've been a big no-no in a cartoon aimed at children.
My apologies for the video quality; this is a phone recording of the screen. If there's enough interest, I can look into getting a direct capture of the VHS tape.
Thanks go to my sister for finding the tape and recording the video. Check out her webcomic here: faeryunderground.tumblr.com
Edit: Thank you for all the comments! I'll do my best to get a clearer capture of the tape.
Also, Wind Whistler is the best Pony.
Anyway, Casino Games is a fun little outing with a lot of personality. It's also made by Compile, the developer of MUSHA, The Guardian Legend, Golvellius and a lot of other neat shooters and action games. Share that trivia far and wide!
Astute fans of terrible cartoons will note that this version of the movie is different from the "UNCUT" one seen on this site. This edition features the PARTY TIME rap, and many of you doubtless saw it reviewed on the Nostalgia Critic.
Please argue over which version is superior.
Shinesman is an adaptation of Kaim Tachibana's much longer manga series. The rather memorable dub came from Coastal Carolina Sound Studios, which unfortunately closed down in 2003.
The Shinesman DVD appears to be out of print. If you like the series, ask Media Blasters, Discotek, or another anime publisher to re-license it.
Twilight of the Cockroaches is a strange little movie dubbed by Streamline Pictures back in the 1990s. Rebecca "Reba West" Forstadt considers the roach-girl heroine to be her weirdest role. I can't imagine why.
Lily C.A.T. is a 1987 anime film and, of course, a gigantic Alien rip-off. Yet it did not rip off Alien's habit of showing competent female characters.
An unorthodox top-view action title, Bounty Arms featured two commando heroines, Rei Misazaki and Chris [Last Name a Confusing Mess], using telescoping cybernetic limbs called Relic Arms. As shown in the clip, the Arms worked like grappling hooks (as in Bionic Commando), whips (as in Castlevania), bullet deflectors, and flamethrowers.
My apologies for the low quality of the clip. Better footage should be available soon.
More on Bounty Arms: http://www.kidfenris.com/bountyarms.html
Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon also shows off the work of a young Hayao Miyazaki. As the story goes, the princess was originally scripted to be a mere puppet-like creature, but Miyazaki suggested and animated the scene that's shown here.
http://kidfenris.blogspot.com/2009/03/miyazakis-travels-beyond-gulliver.html
Boring history: Diatron 5, also known as Space Transformers, is a 1985 Korean cartoon featuring numerous imitations of anime characters and a story that never even approaches coherence. It was dubbed twice; once with an American-sounding cast, and once with the apparently British voices heard here.
The British-ish dub is commonly sold as Space Transformers in dollar-DVD bins across the U.S. Look for a cover showing either a bootleg Optimus Prime or badly colored Kaneda from Akira.
Trivia: Teti reportedly told his animators, many of them unpaid and recruited straight out of art school, to blatantly copy as many popular cartoon characters as possible, claiming that everyone buys animated films based solely on how many characters they recognize.
Those of you who've requested uploads of the entire film should know that this clip best represents what it's like. Are you really willing to sit through 72 minutes of this?
Some points of interest:
-The slow-motion recap of William and Angelica's five-minute courtship. I assure you that there's nothing wrong with the video; the movie really IS animated like that.
-The moment at 2:35 when the singer's eyes jump around on her face.
-Our lovely couple apparently having two different conversations at 4:15.
-The adorable mock-Fievel mouse turning into an elastic, pupil-less demon at 5:42, 5:49, and 5:55.
Clash of the Bionoids. Yep.
Blah blah blah Clash of the Bionoids blah blah blah blah Macross movie dubbed in Hong Kong blah blah blah awful awful awful
This comes from Masterblaster, a dull little thriller in which a paintball tournament leads to a killing spree. But at least it has Snake.
Standard background info: this is from Bounty Dog, a mid-'90s anime OVA. It's not particularly good, but you can still get it on DVD if you have some strange fascination for mediocre one-shots by future Tenchi Muyo director Hiroshi Negishi.
Clash of the Bionoids is a dubbed, edited version of the film Macross: Do You Remember Love. Clash of the Bionoids is also terrible.
Yes, the correct title of this badly dubbed Macross movie is "Macross IN Clash of the Bionoids," but that makes no sense at all.
My apologies for the low sound quality.
Clash of the Bionoids is, of course, the laughably dubbed version of Macross: Do You Remember Love, which has never been properly released in North America. Clash, meanwhile, survives in VHS bargain bins across the nation.
My apologies for the low sound quality.
I don't own the movie and probably never will. I'm just posting this trailer because it was on my old Warriors of the Wind tape.
Also included: the tragic, highly unrealistic sacrifice of Anime Rambo's OTHER childhood friend, and a little anecdote that explains how the whole mess is really the fault of White People.
All of this was penned by Sho Aikawa, the same screenwriter who brought us such retarded gems as Violence Jack and Angel Cop. He later scripted Fullmetal Alchemist, The Twelve Kingdoms, and Martian Successor Nadesico, but he'll always be Mr. Dog Soldier to me.
I have a hard time picking a favorite part of this. While it's tough to beat the look of pure, undisguised menace on Jack's face when he announces his name, there's good competition in the moment at 29 seconds, when Jack appears to stab the mayor squarely in the crotch.
Unfortunately, Violence Jack is available on DVD only in Europe, and this is all I'll be able to upload for now. Both Manga and Right Stuff have lost the license to the series, but if we send lots of letters to the right companies, perhaps someone will bring it out. I suggest writing Media Blasters. They've published worse than Violence Jack.
Trivia: This episode of Violence Jack was written by Sho Aikawa, who'd go on to script anime like Fullmetal Alchemist, Martian Successor Nadesico, and The Twelve Kingdoms. If you ever meet him at a convention, be sure to ask about Violence Jack.
During the '90s, the scripts for dubbed anime would frequently throw in excessive profanity, as seen in series like Angel Cop, Cyber City Oedo 808, and Mad Bull 34. Violence Jack, however, towers above them all.


