Hey Halo -- this is how you do an anime adaptation. You crank up the awesome all the way, then you twist the knob so hard it breaks. And then you pick your skull out of the wall behind you, because it's been blown clean out the back of your skull.
In less exciting news, the trailer for the Wolverine anime was also revealed, and... well... he has a mullet. A really, really large mullet. Now, writer Warren Ellis says the anime is just a test, and won't be used -- apparently the series will actually be an expanded version of the '80s Wolverine comic when Logan was living in Japan and fucking with ninja (metaphorically and literally) by Chris Claremont. Frankly, if Iron Man going to be that good, I don't give a shit about the Wolverine anime.
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Did they make Pepper Potts blonde? I can't quite make out, but they better have given her freckles at least, dammit.
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manga artists need to STOP messing with DC and Marvel. More so Marvel because I hate seeing my favorite heros turned into sailor moon and pokemon looking rejects. The new Iron man anime looks pretty good so far.
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Just because you give someone retractable claws in his hands it doesnt make them Wolverine. He looked like every damn anime character i have ever seen. Test or whatever it is, that is a huge pile of fail.
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Incredible sucking design on Wolverine. This guy actually looks like the total opposite of Wolvie. I can't believe Marvel gave this a green light.
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Was Iron Man fighting Captain Harlock?
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Iron Man? Awesome. "Wolverine"? Looks like Vega from Street Fighter. And that's preety much it.
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The Iron Man trailer made me smile on a Monday morning. The Wolverine trailer made me laugh. Looks dreadful. Although if they sold it as a Daken anime, I could understand it better. (Daken is Wolverine's son, and he looks a little bit like this animeverine.)
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Thought both looked pretty amazing. Sure, it's not traditional Wolverine, but I'm willing to be flexible for quality animation. Looking forward to both coming out.
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@Listy- Farscape is getting a re-release on dvd from A&E home entertainment.
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Iron Man looks amazing. Wolverine looks like an extra from Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust. Yeah.. wtf?
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as for the iron man holy shit fuck is that awesome... as for wolverine... thats not wolverine there is no way thats wolverine... he's too pretty.... seriously logan is like 5'3 and hairy as all hell not pretty boy with long hair.... damn you japan
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as for the iron man holy shit fuck is that awesome... as for wolverine... thats not wolverine there is no way thats wolverine... he's too pretty.... seriously logan is like 5'3 and hairy as all hell not pretty boy with long hair.... damn you japan
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its clearly intended to be Wolvie, because MARVEL stuck a big fat MARVEL label on it. marvel at the boldness! I like anime, and that wolvie is just bad. wrong, bad, wrong.
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I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't Wolverine. He didn't have claws, you can see he's holding it between his knuckles..weird
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I have always believed that there are some characters that should not be portrayed as Bishonen. This proves my point. Wolverine is not Wolverine if he's pretty. As demo, however, it's pretty impressive. Iron Man is just awesome. GreyFox 00: What about Farscape?
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@Tom For an ANIME Iron man looks very pretty I think of course it can't be compared to Disney MOVIES especially since this will be televised as a series and not a feature length film. Compared to any cartoon on American television this is absolutely fabulous looking
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Are you kidding? Iron Man looks like the usual low frame rate anime crap. Lots of digital shiny and fuzzy effects and half-assed animation. Rent Disney's Lion King or Aladdin if you want to see professional animation. Anime is once again high on design and low on actually doing the animation work.
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Wolverine? More like Catman Mullet-ah
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get iron mans nuts out yo mouth... both look blah... anyone remember snikt? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverine:_Snikt! Tsutomu Nihei's artbook "Blame! and So On" has some other wolverine illustrations in it too...
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Both are very generic. Nothing new, Iron man looks good, but its obviously going to be the same generic mech anime. And wolverine just looks...awful. Ill be sticking to western animation thank you very much.
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"And then you pick your skull out of the wall behind you, because it's been blown clean out the back of your skull." how is that even possible?!
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FUCK YEAH IRON MAN ANIME The Wolverine trailer would be cool to...if it were for anything else but Wolverine. Huh.
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Huh... the only real problem I have with the Wolverine one is just that it doesn't look a thing like Wolverine... he's just some generic anime dude.
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Is a super-mullet really <i>less</i> ridiculous than Wolverine's actual hairstyle? ;) I enjoyed both of these teasers and am looking forward to both releases. The animation quality is high, as Zann pointed out. Of course the story will be what decides the awesomeness or lack thereof. Which is why I wonder if these are actually the villains that Iron Man and Wolvie will be dealing with. The best thing about Harlock Jr. -- am not crazy about his appearance before he 'suits up' -- is his sheer nonchalance (for good reason -- in the teaser he seems more powerful than IM).
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Wow. I'm not even a big Marvel fan and the Iron man trailer is mind-blowingly good. Odd choice in character design for Wolverine, but I gotta applaud the quality of animation in both the trailers. If they can maintain that standard throughout the series I'll pay good money for this shit.
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In the Wolverine trailer, did the Gatekeeper and the Keymaster hounds unleash Gozer?
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yeah, they did an awesome job with iron man. Im not really into anime but Iron Man looks really good. Wolverine on the otherhand, does not look like wolverine to me. I think because in this version, he looks like really tall and thin. I think it would work if he was more stockier or muscular even though he's tall, like on the live action movie.
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Well that just goes to show you that it's not just Hollywood that can crap all over an idea from Japan but that it works the other way round.
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I'm not feeling either of these. What was that animupirate in the Iron Man one?
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The woman with the green hair in the Ironman trailer, right up until the end I thought she was wearing a hat because of the way the hair was drawn. Otherwise, it looks cool. I hope we get a really good English dub, because Japanese sounds mentally retarded. @BoomstickMike: A lot of the other shots clearly show the blades coming out between the knuckles. If it didn't say Wolverine, I wouldn't fucking have thought it was. Just a cheap anime style copy.
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iron man...the hero for pansies
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Why is Wolverine Tall, girly, and not Wolverine-like? Ironman... whoa... They should make a Spidey anime instead of Girlverine...
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I'm going to have to spend hours picking the skull fragments from my ceiling, The Iron Man anime trailer was simply to much for my feeble mind to handle. Fucking Awesome! Wolverine....meh, not so much.
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So hey we just finished this animation test for a Castlevania Anime what do you guys think? Yeah it's pretty cool, but nobody in the Belmont Clan has claws I think you're just going to confuse people with this. Shit...hey wasn't Marvel looking to work with us on something?
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Not Bad. Ironman that is. It depends if they reinvent the whole character or if they keep Tony Stark and the whole concept. Which I doubt. They obviously reinvented Wolverine as a spoiled brat from the 80's who shaves every half an hour. Idiotic.
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Since when was Logan a bishonen?
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You know what I hated about the Wolverine one? The old "slash someone, pose, then about 10 seconds later show the enemy being cut in half" thing. It's freaking stupid, cliche and I just don't get why animes do this SO often. It doesn't look cool, just silly. Up until that point, the trailer was just "meh": I honestly didn't care so much about the mullet, or the fact that his claws don't seem to pop out of his knucles anymore (as BoomstickMike pointed out) or even that he turned into a typical anime nancy boy, being skinny, tall and kind of girly. I was open to these changes, because Wolverine is in 11 out of 10 marvel books, so it could be refreshing to see a different version of him. But the "lag" effect on the final claw slash made it go from mediocre to crappy just like that. At least for me. The Iron Man one did look pretty impressive, though.
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AWESOME!!!! AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!!!
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Oh, and Elijah, Selaphiel: If memory serves, "anime" is simply the Japanese term for animation, without distinction of where it comes from. Ergo, all cartoons, from Mickey Mouse to Astro Boy to South Park to Gurren Lagann, is anime.
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Iron Man is great. And Wolverine... well, I'm amused they aren't basing the anime on the manga, and yet, I'm still reminded of it somehow.
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Ok...so not only did they give Wolverine a MULLET- they didn't even have the balls to give him facial hair- just long locks place before his ears and unattached!*sigh* I knew it was coming...after that toilet paper roll they called a manga. (That manga turned Logan into the stereotypical whiney teen full of angst- everything he isn't)
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Iron Man looks really cool. Takes what's best about Shellhead and pumps it up. Wolverine, honestly, I don't think that's him. It doesn't look like him at all. It just looks and feels like standard anime fair.
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When did Wolverine become a chick?
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Iron Man looks really cool. Takes what's best about Shellhead and pumps it up. Wolverine, honestly, I don't think that's him. It doesn't look like him at all. It just looks and feels like standard anime fair.
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Who is iron man fighting with? captain harlock? well.... another shitty character we dont need,.... and the japanese guy cosplaying wolverine??? thats why i hate anime....
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Good news everyone! That CAN'T actually be Wolverine! Notice at the end (around 1:50) when he flicks his claws that they aren't coming out of his knuckles, he's holding them between his fingers. oh, and Iron Man Vs. Robo-Pirates?!?! That is just too amazing for me to actually believe!
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@Elijah The studio animating it is Madhouse, which is a Japanese studio. So, *technically*, it's anime.
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why is Wolverine so young and skinny and not big and hairy?
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Evil Monkey Popee: The gold & brown suit is a FAR better costume for Wolverine than the 'tiger stripe' one!
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Agreed Ironman looks awesome. I would watch that for sure. Wolverine certainly looks and feels different. Not a huge fan of the character design at all. Sure I agree he doesn't need to be identical to the Wolverine we know and love...but come on he needs a little more in common than just the claws.
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Iron Man looks really great. Now I can just forget about Halo and look forward to this. On the other hand... Wolverine looks like Joe Dirt.
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Iron man looks freaking amazing, if madhouse is able to keep the same awesome animation quality and action, I think I'll have to get some new undies. I have to agree with everyone, wolverine looks like a fucking pussy, he lost his beard, lost pretty much all of his ruggedness, got rid of his ferocity, grew out his hair to epic proportions, and he fucking polishes his claws.
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Iron Man and Japan just seems to be the perfect mix. It makes sense. I want it. Now! Wolverine though... what the fuck was that? You would never even guess it was him. They should have done "Enemy of the State/ Agent of SHIELD" storyline. Would have been a great anime.
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Ok, can someone please explains what makes something an anime? I was pretty damn sure it meant "Japanese cartoon," but with these being, apparently, American cartoons written by an Englishman, it seems I was way off. Somehow. Aren't these "anime-influenced"?
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While I will admit the Iron Man trailer did kick a ton of ass(also reminded me a bit of Karas), I dont really see anything wrong with the Wolverine trailer...besides the ultra mullet. I dont care that he doesnt have his lame ass yellow suit. I'm glad to see that MadHouse is seemingly going to take an original approach to Wolverine's appearance. I thought that was the whole point of these anime adoptions was to take an established character and allow someone to try something new and different with them(NERD GASP!!!).
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That's not Wolverine, that's just some asian dude with long hair and metal claws. Ick.
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these both look hot, question, will they be subbed or dubbed?
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Wow the Iron Man looks GREAT, Woleverene on the other hand, if you had not posted that it was a Wolverene anime I would have never guessed,the character design choice seems REALLY odd
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ALSO WHY HAVEN'T YOU SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE RE-RELEASE OF FARSCAPE?!!!!
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Idk rob. Depends on the story the have lined up for them. If its like Iron-Lad then failure. If wolverine isn't bloody then failure.
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Mind = Blown. Is the only reaction I can muster to the Iron Man one. Not crazy about the character style they've got going on in Wolverine (something about the longer faces I think...just not my thing.)But still, these really do put the Halo one to shame
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Iron Man looks Incredible but WTF is up with Wolverine?
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Wolverine without his trademark haircut = failure Wolverine without his traditional yellow & blue suit = double failure
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