Comments on: The Speakeasy: A Reverse Thieves Podcast – Drink #002

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By: Yes I Am Quoting Myself « OGIUE MANIAX

Yes I Am Quoting Myself « OGIUE MANIAX — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:25:32 +0000

[...] school, podcast, shin mazinger shougeki z hen, super robot For the Reverse Thieves’ second Speakeasy Podcast they compared Gurren-Lagann and Shin Mazinger, discussing why the former has a much more universal [...]

By: Daryl Surat

Daryl Surat — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:47:17 +0000

This podcast kinda sorta came about as a result of something I’ve always wondered, so I’ll weigh in. The perennial “next step” after TTGL I always suggest is not Shin Mazinger Z. It’s too slow-paced at places and is way too different than most other things.

The question I often propose is “why is TTGL popular but not GaoGaiGar or the recent Getter Robo remakes?” Especially in the case of the latter, those are not only “where TTGL came from” but they’re also very, very similar in content and tone. What, then, is missing from one that is present in the other, aside from the “Gainax” label? The fact that the first half of GaoGaiGar simply isn’t very good doesn’t much enter into it because people never even bothered with the first volume to find that out.

By: SDShamshel

SDShamshel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:03:04 +0000

Your words about people mistakenly believing that, if a person likes such and such show, then they’ll definitely enjoy watching the series that inspired the one they liked, really struck home with me. It’s a mistake I’ve made in the past, thinking that the key to selling a show was to talk about its historical significance. It also made me think of the following hypothetical situation.

“Hey, what’s your favorite cereal?”
“Frosted Flakes!”
“Well if you like Frosted Flakes, I think you’ll enjoy CORN FLAKES! It’s the ORIGIN of Frosted Flakes!”

The person recommending Corn Flakes has his heart in the right place, but doesn’t realize that the reason why the other person likes Frosted Flakes so much might be mainly because of the sugar frosting, i.e. everything that Frosted Flakes have that Corn Flakes do not.

Reducing things down is not the answer for everyone, and just like Frosted Flakes vs Corn Flakes, I think people enjoy the total package of Gurren-Lagann, making it difficult to sell some fans on the idea of Gurren-Lagann stripped down to its bare essentials.

By: reversethieves

reversethieves — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:05:27 +0000

I admit it is mostly my problem as opposed to Narutaki’s but I mispronounce things in English all the time too. I will try harder in the future.

- Hisui

By: wah

wah — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:36:30 +0000

Please please work on Japanese pronunciation, it’s not that hard!

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:18:51 +0000

Hmmm, character development. Yes, GL has much more but you also need to realize that GL takes place over a longer amount of time, including a big time skip. Shin Mazinger, for the most part, takes place in a relatively short time span. Not much development would take place in that span. Plus, of course, Go Nagai characters only grow so much… or else they wouldn’t be hot-blooded characters they need to be.

Character design… yeah, older character designs never win over most newer fans.

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:07:10 +0000

As far as strong female characters go, Yoko doesn’t hold a candle to Tsubasa Nishikori (Koji’s mom).

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:34:02 +0000

Looking forward to listening to this at work tomorrow. I’m a big fan of both things and I’m also curious why one is moderately popular here while the other isn’t