My god... It's full of stars!

So much win in 7 minutes, my mind has now seen the greatest depths and heights of human imagination in 1 short hour.

*salutes for moving pokemon down a notch*

You have shown great mercy Rob, nothing like a kick ass anime video with a bunny girl owning Darth Vader to the tune of ELO
to make some of the pain go away...I am so glad the pic of Gardevoir got bumped down, I could stand to look at it any more(tear).

sweet. thanks for the video.

Ah, I miss hand-drawn, hyper-detailed old-school anime. New anime is too "clean."

thank you, you are human. I can usually never watch this video once, it's just pure unadulterated awesome.

also of note this Twilight/FLCL mashup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1gPMXeXWIc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etoplessrobot%2Ecom%2F2009%2F07%2Fi%5Fcant%5Fend%5Fit%5Flike%5Fthis%2Ephp&feature=player_embedded

My initial reaction was "How had i not seen this before?" being that im a huge anime nerd and have been since the 70's but then on second thought there is such an awesome amount of anime that is released on an almost daily basis in Japan this leaves me wondering what other potential gems i have missed out on over the years.

Oh man I love this! Thanks Rob :)

Well, that's all the anime anyone ever needs to see. It's over. Go back to your rooms. We can now go back to using Japan to make tin wind-up toys out of old beer cans.

I actually stumbled across this yesterday and was pretty disappointed in the "remastered" quality. A decent quality video of this is like my holy grail.

@Scott hall- I ponder the same question, but the bigger problem is how many awesome series are we missing out on because they will never be released in the states? it drives me nuts.

@LittleBigSteve- psshh, as if.

@Scott hall- I ponder the same question, but the bigger problem is how many awesome series are we missing out on because they will never be released in the states? it drives me nuts.

@LittleBigSteve- psshh, as if.

That was amazing. I forgive you from before.

Too bad "Fire on High" doesn't have an epic unofficial (for the song anyway) vid like this!

Though my mind will likely never recover from just the part before the jump of the "story that fills all with fear," this was simply awesome, and has decreased the percentage of terrible, terrible flashbacks by 87%.

Capsulesn'Coffee :

Ya know that most of it is garbage so i think we arent missing much. You can always go the torrent route and dl some of the massive amounts of anime released in Japan and see for yourself but honestly i would rate about a 90 percent fail ratio for most of the anime released.

The stuff we see if generally the cream of the crop and the stuff we miss we miss for a reason cause its shitty girly dating anime, tentacle rape, kiddie porn or some other form of dogshit and nothing to do with robots and cool shit like that :)

The awesomeness of this is still blowing my mind... Darth Vader, Rainbow Cloud trailling Swords of Omens(I think?), Old School Voltron, just all kinds of win.

I'm not a huge anime fan, but this is awesome anime. The animatics and pencil tests at the end are just icing on the cake!

AM I AWAKE OR DO I DREAM
THE STARNGEST PICTURES I HAVE SEEN
TWILIGHT CALLING THROUGH MY WINDOW PANE

I Fucking LOVE ELO.

Thanks...it cleansed my mind from that...thing...

also...

HOOOOLD ON TIIIGHT TO YOUR DREAMS.

I love this- proto Gainax? Very cool. It should have been an extra on the dvd of Otaku No Video. All the crazy cameos reminded me of Urusei Yatsura, I should mention.

Time to be nerdy and say that "Prologue" is the track that leads into "Twilight" and the most awesomeness you can cram into 5 minutes of 1980's music.

It's a real damn shame they don't play tracks from Time on the radio. Damn shame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAc_LA0hadA

I don't know if you've ever heard of a Japanese drama by the name of Densha Otoko, but the intro to that uses the same ELO song for the intro. It also features a bunny girl with a carrot fixation.

Just an FYI.

@ Aaron: I've read the manga, but after not finding the Densha Otoko movie I got bummed and left it alone, but now that I know it's intro is the same I'll settle for the drama instead (although I still really wanna see Takayuki Yamada's performance...). Thanks for the motivation xD.

thank you kind sir.

@Aaron I actually heard Mr Roboto inD ensha Otoko.

Weird.

honestly i would rate about a 90 percent fail ratio for most of the anime released

Not gonn alie, thouth that was gonna suck, but it was pretty fucking awesome. I have never heard that song before, and now must visit mp3 store.

You've half way redeemed yourself rob.
That was one of the few FF i actually read to the end.
And now to go download a bunch of elo tunes.

@ Rush Shepard - Well Roboto was the theme song for the first episode of the drama.

@ Kagoyasha - I would honestly not bother watching Denshu Otoko. It gets really tiresome and silly. I made it into around episode 4 or 5 before I couldn't stand any more of it. It did have a moment or two that made me laugh though.

That was great. Thanks for posting that. I'm not a huge anime fan but that really impressed me.

Can anyone recommend anything similar? Are there more "Daicon" movies?

Awesome...a friend of mine gave me a copy of this a few years ago and the quality was horrible (taped on a Betamax and later transfered to VHS) but it was so full of WIN..then I had to track down the song for my MP3 player

@Scott Hall- good point

Such a classic animated short. Just adding to it is that it was done by amateurs for a con. They later went on to form a juggernaut animation studio.

Densha Otoko actually made me laugh quite a lot. also, it's fun to watch with friends~

I've watched this short many, many times over the years. I still adore it. Thanks Rob!

Man I love 70s - 80s anime. The newer stuff just doesn't have the umph they used to. Exceptions of course, but that style just does it for me. Fuck, that was WIN.

Seeing stuff like this just makes me sad. Anime used to be so pretty to look at, with lots of rich detail and character. Every bit of animation to come out of Japan in the last ten years or so has been so flat, ugly and lifeless it's just depressing. The stories have always been pretty dumb outside of Miyazaki and a very tiny handful of other shows, but it used fun to watch just for the look of it.

So...this is how awesome Heavy Metal would be like if you were watching it on drugs, right?

So, with that as a baseline, I'm guessing watching this on drugs would be like being in an old Maxell ad.

My life for you...

Poor Enterprise. What did it do to deserve being destroyed? I like the Star Wars part. I can recognize Captain American, Batman & Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman, Spiderman, Vehicle Voltron, Macross, Gundam, Conan?, Captain Harlock, Robby the Robot, Power Rangers, Gort, Ming the Merciless, Kamen Rider, Godzilla, and some other things. Pretty awesome. I miss the 80s anime.

I know this isn't a music blog, but what are your favorite albums? Thanks for the video.

DAMN! The fact we americans can en masse watch something like THIS some 25 years later is the very meaning of the intarwebz EXISTANCE!

WORLD WIDE web for NOTHING!

Ah, I remember watching this and being impressed with it a couple years ago, and it's nice to see some people have uploaded cleaned up versions.

Rob, I think this version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDBIwRe2AE) might be even less shitty than the version you have above, as it's ripped directly from the laser disc and the visuals are not remastered (meaning the colors are not as washed out and look much richer, IMHO).

This explains where Haruko got that bunny outfit from in ep 5 of FLCL, I always thought that was a little off but she's such an erratic character I never questioned it.

There are couple more Daicon films, but are fan made parodies of live action japanese heroes.

This "kids" were fresh out of an intership as grunt animators in Macross, and the quality leap from the previous short film they made is astounding.

As you can imagine, this will never be re-released since this is the biggest copyright infringement ever.

I gave you time
To steal my mind
Away from me...

Thanks for that, Rob. I remember being blown away by this video when I first saw it back in the 80's - and needing to have the daicon pun explained to me.

That really takes me back to a long ago time.

You rock!

.....HO...LY....FUCK.....ING....SHIT
GREATEST FAN FILM EVER

This really makes me wish I knew something about old anime. Looks so badass!

I saw a part of this video at a panel at anime expo on Friday.When I got home planning to look it up on youtube. I decided to check out what I missed on TR first. Boy was I shocked to see this here! This made my day. Thank You Rob.

Now, does anyone want to make American equivalent of Daicon animated film? Or is everyone too lazy and full of excuses?

@Marissa: I'm sorry, but it sounds like you're generalizing. I'm not saying that new shows are better, but I think you're looking at the wrong shows. Even though they don't put more graphic details than they used to, but movement got better.

This just gave me a geek orgasm. A geekgasm.

@Marissa

Don't lose hope! Some great-looking stuff did get made within the past ten years. If you get a chance, please consider renting one of the following films:

- Metropolis
- Paprika
- Spriggan
- Animatrix
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
- Tree of Palme
- Blood, the Last Vampire
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
- Spirited Away

If you have not yet seen it, also consider renting this 1996 film: Katsuhiro Otomo's Memories.

-+-

At the least, watch these commercials by Studio 4℃:

Le Saundra shoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLiz4xWEc30

Nike ID
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xo4diUQ1uQ

...and keep searching for the good stuff! :^D