/vr/ - Retro Games

was it always intended as a multimedia project?

>>9028875
it's possible that a video game such as Makendo was intended as mutli-media, where it was more than just a video game and could be adapted into anime or even live action.

It certainly has a very anime like designs, story, and setting.

>>9028850
They probably wanted to promote the game better and make it a full franchise, that's what OVAs and some anime shows serve for.
The only thing interesting in it, however, was the henshin scene.
The game wasn't that great either.

pokemon lol

I heard of Galaxy Fraulein Yuna decades before I knew it was ever based on a game series. The first two games just recently got fan translations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enqfBip_w2M

>>9028850
>>9028890

>>9028889
>to promote the game
That's the reason many anime exist in the first place. Even many popular ones are there just to promote the sales of the manga, which is where the real money is.
Also you can find the most absurd OVAs in the late 80s-early 90s. There's a Power Dolls OVA, and even SHMUPs got some.

>>9029064
>There's a Power Dolls OVA, and even SHMUPs got some.

I can't think of any other than "Salamander" (gradius).

>>9028850
Makendo sure is a video game. A very interesting video game and a video game nonetheless. Though as a video game the anime adaption does not seem memorable by video game standards.

>>9029078
Twinbee got a 4-episodes OVA and Xevious a movie but the latter became (probably forever) lost media after the company that made it went bankrupt and the CEO ran away with the only copies.

>>9029120
>and Xevious a movie but the latter became (probably forever) lost media after the company that made it went bankrupt and the CEO ran away with the only copies.

wut. How do you lose a movie? So there was no home release? Not even LD or VHS?

>>9029124
> How do you lose a movie?
It was only screened at a road show and the company went tits up before the home release.
However, Bandai MIGHT be in possession of the original masters since a short clip for it can be seen at the end of their retrospective video for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwVxOCH6aI

>>9029120
>Twinbee got a 4-episodes OVA

Thread #351 for requesting subs

>>9029141
Also, it's not that uncommon that (animu) movies get lost even in more recent times.
Besides the infamous case of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, there's also stuff like the Maze: The Megaburst Space movie that underperformed, was never released on home media and the masters supposedly became a flood-victim.

>>9029173
Don't forget Mario movies. Peach-hime no Daisakusen was only available in VHS quality for a while, until recently someone found original tapes and restored it to 4k.

Those other short educational movies about fire and traffic safety still have to be unearthed.

>>9029194
I can't wait until it gets ripped and uploaded so I can ignore it like all the other mediocre anime.

Power Stone got an anime, and even an English dub, but never aired in the USA.

>>9029064
Probably one of the most bizarre ones is the Chrono Trigger OVA which doesn't even really feature the main characters outside of five frames of Crono and Lucca's backsides and is mostly just the side characters and monsters doing random shit at the fair.

bomberman, sonic, and kirby. low hanging fruit i know.

The shitty hentai fighting game Metal&Lace also got an OVA, somehow.

Gungrave has an anime that is actually kinda good, at least in the beginning.
Valkyria Chronicles also has one but it's just okay.

Part of me still refuses to believe that this actually exists, even after watching it.

>>9029247
PC98 hentai games that get anime OVA is a surprisingly long list.

>>9029343
>PC98 hentai games that get anime OVA is a surprisingly long list.

is there?

>>9028893
Will the Saturn ones ever be translated?

>>9029162
It's subbed on Youtube is it not?

>>9028850
"I want to watch you as you chase after your goals, forever" sounds like a villain line.

>>9029350
>>9029343
Yes, I'm thinking of it because of the Elf thread we just had but they alone had many games get animu-ized: Yu-No, Dokyuusei, Words Worth and Dragon Knight all got OVAs

>>9028850
They could have had another clone character in Cyborg.

>>9029294
Wait, gungrave was originally a game?

>>9029568
>Dokyuusei
also got a new OVA recently to go with the game's remake

I've been playing Cosmic Fantasy lately (https://boards.4channel.org/vr/thread/9016067#p9019005)) and just found out it has an OVA (that came out between the 3rd and 4th games I think?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jscfV8T-KTA

>>9028850
The only ones I'm aware of besides the obvious Pokemon (and I think Digimon started as a video game series, right?) are mostly fighting games. Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, Tekken, Variable Geo. Also pic related, which is fantastic. Sonic should have stayed like this

>>9030046
For the PS2 yeah

Petite Princess Yucie is a short anime based on the Princess Maker franchise. Fairly forgettable but also pretty charming and has a catchy opening song.

>>9028850
I always liked how random Sega games seemed to get anime adaptions, Panzer Dragoon, Virtua Fighter and even Sakura Wars which was apparently really successful in the west since people cosplayed characters from it during the time it was releasing, despite the games never coming here until 5.

I'm always surprised by the Tales of games that received anime adaptations, Phantasia, Eternia, Symphonia and Abyss. Seems like a series like this would've attempted one and left it there, but they've done 5 or 6 counting non-retro ones.

>>9029173
Speaking of animation lost to time, Battle Mania did get a television advert that was animated in Japan and nothing of it exists except for this preview from a magazine. Seems to be 15 seconds but would've been neat to see regardless. Hopefully some Jap has it on a mouldy tape he's forgotten about in his house.

Also, gonna shill wapchan for a few anons who might wanna talk about older anime/shows there. It has an /ar/ board that's pretty popular if you guys want a similar experience to /vr/ but for anime/manga.

>>9029514
Only 1 episode and Tulip Beach OVA. Other three episodes are still unsubbed

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie is still the best video game movie of all time, and I'm not even that much of a fighting game fan.

>>9029241
Based scot enjoyer

>>9030007
kill yourself

Even the worst eroges got an OAV.
Popful Mail only a commercial (and the audio drama=.
Why?

>>9030057
Are you a based GTV enjoyer?

The Final Fantasy OVA was my first of many disappointments related to this once-great series.

>>9031436
The FF OVA is very weird and looks like it was just a side project handed to others without any thought put into it by Square themselves. It would have been much better had Sakaguchi directed it. yes, he absolutely should have been directing little anime shorts and videos like this instead of the idiotic Spirits Within. If they had just made "Final Fantasy: The Anime" film in 2D animation in 2001, it would have done okay and made some profit.

They should have also made anime adaptions of each of the games too. I can see each game being its own season. The later games like FF6 would have enough plot for mutliple seasons.

>>9028850
Makdendo is certainly a video game. One of the most video game video games ever that was a video game.

https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/9028718/#9028718

>>9031423
hah, yes, actually, but I haven't watched that video yet
figured I'd play through the games first

>>9031423
Not him, but nice namedrop. McLain is pretty cool and seemingly does this just for fun. Nice that he uses and defends the correct translation of Yume Kōjō, that is, Dream Machine. Somehow that's relegated to hardcore nerds like him to know, sadly.

The best one

>>9030046
Too young for /vr/.

>>9029173
same with the supposed Welcome to Lodoss Island compilation movie that was the opener for that Maze movie.

on would think that with Deed's game being as popular as it got, it would at least bring Lodoss as a series back into the otaku niche's eyes.

>>9031637
>Welcome to Lodoss Island compilation movie

https://myanimelist.net/anime/2840/Youkoso_Lodoss-tou_e

That got a review?

>>9031692
maybe that score is for the original series run during Lodoss CoTHK? i mean it IS supposed to be a compilation movie. so whatever original material is there must be minimal.

>>9031637
>Maze movie
Will the reels ever be found for this? Or is it just lost forever?

>>9031436
> hey animation guys, personal request, can you put a girl flashing her butt somewhere into OVA?
> hai hai director san
> gif

>>9028890
Fpbp

>>9031443
cgi FMVs are to blame. They were all the rage back then.

>>9031957
>cgi FMVs are to blame. They were all the rage back then.

Yeah, I know. Sakaguchi and Square felt they were real film-makers and got too ahead of themselves. Funny too that many of the FF7-8 CGI FMV are in fact "film maker 101" type things (how to montage, transition, etc). Meanwhile the Spirits Within is pretty bland visually.

>>9028850
>let's make an anime to promote a master system gun.

There's wonder momo but it sucks.

>>9032049
there's a what now?

>>9032049
> Bravoman, Mappy and Momo all got their respective web series in attempt to revitalize the franchises and attract new fans
> One that will perform better than the others will be chosen by Namco so they could possibly develop the said franchise further
> they chose a badly made anime

Sad but kinda expected

did they find the lost Ultima 3 anime yet?
I know the manga has been floating about for a while

>>9031443
Remember that FF Legend of the Crystals was from like 1994. It came out around the same time FFV did. In the west we tend to associate it with the FFVII/FFVIII era because that's when it was localized to capitalize on the surge in popularity.

>>9030785
This was clearly just a failed attempt at a franchise. They really were trying to push it as an animated series, promotional video and everything, but they either botched the delivery (stupid premise of a reverse Isekai with Popful Mail appearing in modern Japan) or because the fantasy anime gimmick was saturated at the time with stuff like Slayers and Lodoss War.

https://youtu.be/GrQNZe8wz0U

>>9029021
Digimon really is such a weird franchise. As a kid, i only knew about the original lcd pets the usa got and then the anime and then assumed everything else in the franchise, including video games, were just based off of the anime. Years later i delve deeper and find out there were games that predated the anime, and it was really only outside of Japan where those games (digimon world) had nothing to do with the show and in fact the show took elements from it, but the western release occurred after the anime was airing and even advertised it on the game case.

I could be wrong, but it seems like all of the anime series are just adaptions of the monsters and "lore" bits from later lcd pets the west never got, rather then anime original characters like i always assumed. But the anime became such a big hit it seems like it did inspire the franchise going forward and there are elements that may originate from the lcd pets, games, card game and shows and just mix together as a true multimedia franchise. It gets even more complex then when you factor in the anime getting its own game adaptions and tie ins.

I really wish there was some guide that shows the exact original origin source of every digimon, be it from the lcd games, video games or original designs added into the card game, anime or something else.

>>9032132
>Remember that FF Legend of the Crystals was from like 1994. It came out around the same time FFV did. In the west we tend to associate it with the FFVII/FFVIII era because that's when it was localized to capitalize on the surge in popularity.

Yeah, I'm fine with that. It's sorta kinda inspired by FFV, but not really. But it does not capture the feel of FF1-5 at all. There's manga that are done for these games and they're really cool. So you can make interesting adaptions of early FF material. Just that the OVA isn't it.

Actually now that I think about it, like FF6: Prologue would have been a better idea for an OVA. Before the release of FF6, you make a 20-30 minute anime taking place directly before the beginning of the game showing off Celes, Kefka, the empire, and Terra of course.

>>9028850
the game is called makeruna makendou.
and let's not talk about the horrible american version because it was really bad.

>>9032165
OP mentioned "video game" like 10 times because the initial thread for Makendou was deleted as off topic.

>>9032009
>Oh shit, we lost the license - quick, come up with sniper and SMG upgrades to make them look different!

>>9032009
Zillion & Eiyuuden Mashin Wataru OP/ED is a SOUL overdose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf6VYkxpfhw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rCgNlG4E-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQxC1vGgyoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNGoAkdr6hU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdvrpeY_hJQ

Also Dragon Quest Legend of the Hero Abel was an anime based DQ3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqnru7bLd9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wprp63BqkX0

>>9032128
>Ultima 3 anime
sounds cool

>>9031484
>gatekeeping hobbies based on age
cringe

>>9029241
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZaSgnYLceQ

>>9032009
It was actually made to promote a line of laser tag toys which Sega made. They just recycled the gun molds for the Light Phaser.

>>9028850
>started as game and became an anime
>character is literally a ripoff of LN/anime character

>>9033059
Posts like this never existed on /vr/ before 6th gen was fully introduced. Funny to see it now.

Had no idea until recently that Power Stone had a full 26 episode series, even was dubbed for the US.

>>9033746
based

monster rancher was the best monster collecting anime.

>>9036828
I thought Pixie was really sexy and was hoping they would romantically pair up even if I knew it was not possible.

>>9029294
It's incredible the Gungrave anime was made out of such a short game with relatively little story. Too bad it loses a lot of people when it transitions to the sci-fi stuff.

>>9032140
it may seem like a daunting mess, but it really follows a rather simple ruleset where digimon introduced in those earlier products would just be repurposed as needed in whatever following work they might appear, so the roster of the virtual keychain pets (i think this was the very first generation) was entirely or almost entirely imported into that of the digimon world game, with some given rudimentary personalities as well. the anime then built upon this pattern by giving almost every single digimon speaking parts and adding a whole dozen human protagonists instead of the one player in the ps1 game, with more of both added in every following season, game, movie etc; a "guide" to this wouldn't be all that interesting since the base pattern is essentially identical to that of pokemon or beyblade or whatever after the initial shift from digital pets to the ps1 game
what is pretty interesting to look at, however, is just how comparatively bare the keychain roster was compared to future incarnations as well as how vastly different the roles many digimon play in the following ps1 game are compared their subsequent roles in the anime (myotismon/digidracula comes to mind instantly)
apart from that initial shift from keychain pet line to proper shounen franchise, however, the following developments don't stand out from the norm of "new [product] -> more [content]" at all

>>9028893
Quite the opposite. The PC Engine games came first, then the anime which takes off after their events.

>>9030653
There was a fighting game planned for the Super Famicom and other platforms in 1994 that got a 13-episode anime, but the game itself never released.

>>9030064
>and I think Digimon started as a video game series, right?
Do virtual pets count as videogames? The original Digimon was just a spinoff of tamagotchi with the exact same "gameplay" except you could also train it and make it battle and evolve it depending on how good you raised it.

>>9036839
Me too. It was one of my favorite fantasies as a kid. Does any hentai or fan art of this pairing exist?

>>9032132
Reverse isekai is such trash. The megaman OVA does it too.

>>9037730
>battle
at that point, definitely

>>9031436
>>9031443
I love the novelty of it but man it suffered under the most 90s "we can't actually say what this is" marketing. Between the trailers not wanting to imply it was silly at times, and the magazine ads going "Based on (some) Final Fantasy!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GgUM7EfnMg

>>9029247
>>9029568
Variable Geo, though it could be skipped on that criteria because it's more in-line with the non-PC98 based sequels.

>>9031480
They did Simon and Mega Man dirty. I didn't play Castlevania or Mega Man until years later because that show made me think the characters were retarded jobbers.

>>9037934
Suprisingly well animated at times. In fact I believe there's a few shitty choppy fights 3/4 through, and the ones at the beginning and end are very fluid. The animation of the absurd situation of the ring coming out of the ground is very fluid as well.

I was actually getting inot the plot and remember a lot of it too. The story/setting is better than you'd expect for a hentai/rape game about fighting waitresses.

>>9037958
I was tricked into watching this and it was utter trash. Utterly enjoyable trash.

>>9029514
>>9030709
It's not like it's hard to follow. Even with no Japanese knowledge you can follow the plot, and it's not like missing a couple terrible jokes is going to ruin it. It was alright.

>>9028850
Just watched this thanks to the thread. It was pretty good. The girls were cute and I saw tits. 7/10

Pic related is like the antithesis to this thread considering it spawned a few obviously-inspired shmups

>>9038009
>Utterly enjoyable trash.
After playing the Advanced V.G. games I watched it too and I couldn't describe this OVA better. Animation is cool, characters are designed by the very same guy who worked on the games (Takahiro Kimura, he also did Code Geass), but the story is yeah, utter trash. Also the special moves are depicted as completely OP here especially Satomi - why did she had to fucking MURDER Ayako? WTF Satomi.. And on top of it, the third and final episode ends abruptly without showing the duel between Yuka and Satomi, as if they planned more episodes but had no money or interest to continue the production.

Also Yuka is the best girl.

>>9038523
So post some on-topic shit instead you retard.

>>9038545
>Anna Millers is closing its last location in Japan
End of an era, Yuka. End of an era.

>>9038583
Heh, I like how they called that restaurant Hanna Miller's in the games and their waitress uniform is nearly identical and nobody gave a flying fuck. Well, still better homage than WcDonald's, I guess.

>>9038583
;_;

>>9032124
I was watching alot of weekly anime at the time and did know there was a web series of these or a contest.

>>9038637
Source?

>>9028850
https://anime-based-on-video-games.tumblr.com/post/104359491120/anime-based-on-video-games
I should update the list someday and revive the blog but in a different site like a blogger maker. Which blogger would you recommend?

>>9032981
crazy how the best DQ girl didn't originate from any of the games

>>9038395
I still don't quite understand what was Warumon and Zakobee's dialogue at the beginning of ep. 3 all about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-B3yCuitug

I get that he was sorta scammed into buying fake bills and lost his fortune but why does he screams like hell afterwards, i'm not weeb enough to comprehend.
Love Twinbee anyway.

>>9038532
There's an Italian DVD rip out there, which is likely the best we're gonna get. The damn print that they used for both LD, VHS, and DVD, are sadly very dark as hell. You can't see half the shit in the anime. It desperately needs a remaster but that is unlikely to happen.

>>9038545
>And on top of it, the third and final episode ends abruptly without showing the duel between Yuka and Satomi, as if they planned more episodes but had no money or interest to continue the production.

Dumb dumb dumb and can't into narrative.

They defeated the antagonist so who actually wins the tournament doesn't matter. They're both winners and both embody the spirit of the true goddess. I think the 3 eps means the story was rushed, and could easily work better at 12 eps, or maybe even 26. But the actual ending is perfect.

>>9033059
Speaking of which, this series was semi-popular back in the day. Most people probably had no idea it was based on a Japanese PSX game.

>>9038545
>Also Yuka is the best girl
You mean Kaori

>>9039619
>Dumb dumb dumb and can't into narrative.
There are many more dumb things about the plot of this OVA and ending is just one of them. Plot holes, plot armors here and then - I could go on and on.

>>9039664
Aren't you the guy who responds with
>Based V.G. Bro
Whenever a V.G. official or fan art is posted?

>>9039751
>There are many more dumb things about the plot of this OVA and ending is just one of them.

The ending is fine, and might I say even perfect. The main conflict was resolved, and the actual tournament was not the conflict it was more of a background thing.

>>9028850
I just played this game to see what it was like. What a god awful experience. There's a delay in turning left/right, you start sinking into the ground if you stand still, if you walk for more than 2 seconds she bursts into a run and you smack into enemies, enemies spawn out of thin air right in front of you, it's possible to get stuck with a shitty power up and can't get a replacement. I'm hardpressed to think of a game with worse and more sluggish feeling controls.

>>9039213
Welcome to Pia Carrot
the PC-FX port has an English patch

>>9028850
Salamander
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K_MfGMoneA&list=PLm1VM-2qaUewfi2uPZmEd1NSMn-YsNXBC

>>9028850
>Did everyone forget me because im not retro?

>>9037945

yeah they did simon dirty... but what they gave us was the most hilarious and best Simon ever.

>>9028850
Wizardry has a great OVA. It’s on YouTube if anyone is interested.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ezcAwmp2iVI

>>9037945
They did Simon perfect.
>>9040549
So much so that I think it should be canon. Gaston with a whip.

>>9040553
>Wizardry has a great OVA.

It was VHS and LD only sadly, which means we are running out of time at making the best rip possible. A user listed the OVA among their plans for a domesday duplicator rip, but it never came to fruition. This produces a much clearer sharper image than previous capture methods. Not perfect, but it's about as good as you can get with LD.

LD are also subject to disc rot so the time to rip these are running out.

Get the word out that someone needs to do the Wizardry OVA.

>>9040472
Alucard taking it in the ass is hardly good or canon.

>>9040826
This is such a huge puzzle for me. Why would anyone think this is what people want to watch?

>>9040831
It was actually written ages ago. Like in 2007.

https://www.wired.com/2007/08/castlevania-mov/

The reason the series feels so weirdly paced is because it was written as a movie and it appears that they just arbitrarily cut it up into episodes. So that's why each episode just seems to stop at some random spot. Alucard having gay sex has literally been the plan for over a decade because Warren Ellis, if you know his work from comics, is one of those types who writes like an edgy 15 year old.

>>9040854
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/first-time-warren-ellis-wrote-castlevania-animation-ten-years-ago/

>"This is going to be an actual goddamn film with an actual goddamn story."

Case in point.

>>9039751
>Aren't you the guy
Guilty as charged lol

>>9040373
they made anime too of course

>>9040410
The first Konami-produced anime ever AFAIK.

>>9040373
Thank (You).

>>9040887
Good to know you're still around, based V.G. Bro. I still prefer Yuka tho.

>>9040887
Reminder that the book has never had a proper scan, only a very ancient early 2000's scan.

I also like how this girl is clearly under 18, so the anime goes out of its way to ensure she never has to fight and thus lose.

>>9037206
Yeah like see i get there are "gens", like Pokémon based on "new lcd series + anime using new characters + video games using new characters", what i mean is, for the west, at least what ive seen, is unlike Pokémon, there isn't really a easy way to find out what "generation" each monster was introduced because we never got most of the lcd pets and were only ever seen in the western anime and game adaptations. Like ive seen wiki type guides state that Myotismon/Vampdemon and DemiDevimon were characters made as original villains for the first anime series, rather then first appearing as lcd monsters, which is hard to verify if thats true or not, i mean they are all owned as one big media franchise by Bandai regardless, but if this was Pokémon, fans would have a solid database of this info. Also stuff like the old man mon from Digimon World 1 and the anime, pretty sure he never was an actual lcd monster and was just made as an npc for the game but its hard to verify what his origin even was in any English format.

>>9037763
It could be a fun idea, like jrpg protag essentially becoming a super hero/Batman type vigilante in the real world, but its never done like that.

>>9041032
>I also like how this girl is clearly under 18, so the anime goes out of its way to ensure she never has to fight and thus lose.
In Japan the legal age is 13 or something like that, and Manami is 15, but acts like a little brat (which is why she's my go-to punching bag for practice). And in the original PC-98 games, well... you know what happens to her.

>>9041104
>In Japan the legal age is 13 or something like that,

anon that's one of the longest debunked myths. You can't bang 13 year olds in Japan. In practice it's 18.

>>9039979
Filtered.
>There's a delay in turning left/right
On ice. Movement does has some weird rules to it but it isn't hard to adapt.
>you start sinking into the ground if you stand still
You will sink also while moving, and only in deep snow and sand.
>if you walk for more than 2 seconds she bursts into a run
She runs slightly faster after a few seconds on flat terrain; she will do a full scrambling sprint on hills which allows you to attack while moving.
>enemies spawn out of thin air right in front of you
Acquire reaction time or don't try to speedrun your first playthrough.
>possible to get stuck with a shitty power up and can't get a replacement
You literally get multiple chances of changing power up/gaining shield (yellow) every round. Just wait for the orb to change color.

The game isn't amazing or anything, but come on.

>>9041113
>In practice it's 18.
Only for "indecent" acts, and only at the prefectural level, not the penal code. The age of consent is indeed 13.

>>9037763
> Reverse isekai is such trash
Almost any isekai is trash, few examples are done well
>>9041092
Wasn't Goemon anime kinda like that?

>>9041026
>>9041032
Based V.G bros...

>>9028850
>>9028885
>>9041150
You know guys, you've convinced me to try that one again after all the years.

>>9041150
I kind of liked the fighting game. Makenro was my favourite character and pun

>>9040410
man i watched this because i fucking love gradius and absolutely nothing happens in it. it's mostly people standing around talking.

armed police batrider was great material for an OVA and it never got made for some reason

>>9037929
Its because they were trying to trick people. It's not that they weren't allowed to say anything specific, it was deliberate misdirection to latch onto FFVII. But since it had nothing to do with FFVII in either plot or tone they just played up the vague "its Final Fantasy!" angle while leaving out that its a silly comedy sequel to a silly comedy SNES game that never (up to that point) came out in the west.

>>9041228
>Almost any isekai is trash, few examples are done well
Ironically the Super Mario Bros movie is great about this. An Isekai starring a fat middle aged man is absolutely hilarious.

Megami Paradise, Villgust, Cosmic Fantasy and Idol Fight Suchie-Pai have an OVA
>>9038523
What a lovely pair!

>>9041219

Anon, go to Japan, date a 13 year old, and tell us how it goes.

>>9042294
Pretty sure a Japanese girl would like to date a +30 weeb gaijin wizard.

>>9042268
>Villgust,

I can't tell what was first. It was a manga, ova, game, so it looks like it was intended to be multi-media by design.

>>9042294
I think they literally have laws preventing that specifically. It's to prevent sex tourism.

scraping the bottom of the barrel here

>>9042417
The hell is this?

>>9042514
the OVA for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvEedhMfYeI

>>9028850
>mfw I didn't even realised it was a tie-in until 2006

>>9040472
More likely because it's a piece of shit.

What kind of shitty writer looks at fun, campy source material like Castlevania and says "Hey, you know what this needs? To take itself way too seriously, complete with pitifully juvenile attempts at political intrigue, ridiculously inappropriate reflections to our own social climate, and the occasional fight scene in which the show tries embarrassingly hard to be "badass and koo".

I wouldn't even let the writer of that steaming pile compose my work e-mails for me, can't believe that hack is being allowed anywhere near Hyper Light Drifter. What an asshole.

>>9042417
I love how it starts with typical highschool romance only to throw all that away with a demon apocalypse and completely forget about the love interest guy for the rest of the story.

>>9040472
Didn't the same studio that animated Fairly Oddparents animate this? You're right that it's not retro, but it's not even an anime

>>9042541
He thinks he's Kentaro Miura but isn't

S in honor of Bernie passing. Virtua Fighter anime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOy6pW3lPyc

>>9042534
>>9033746
That brown genie girl Rouge was smokin hot.

>>9042532
Thanks, I'm gonna check it out.

>>9028850
Great otaku thread:

>>9042294
It would be certainly frowned upon, as it would be dating a 14 year old in Italy and a 15 year old in France, and someone might even call the police on you, but that doesn't change the fact that the age of consent in Japan is 13.
>>9042367
Exactly, all the laws are to prevent prostitution, sex trafficking, etc.

>>9042183
Oh, I know it was all about deception. Even without the FF7 connection, anime back in the 90s was still marketing on "DUDE IT'S COOL AND EDGY AND NOT FOR KIDS". Trailers for things like Slayers, Project A-Ko, and Sorcerer Hunters play them up as if they're pure action shows and not goofy comedy shows with some action moments. We're talking about an era where a company had MD Geist as their company mascot, and where ADV would end ever set of trailers with a sizzle real of HUH DO IT NOW.
It took until the Pokemon's success to really rip that bandaid off and marketing teams to go "ok ok that anime stuff can be more than just titties and explosions and blood"

>>9042978
It's probably because of confirmation bias. TV shows were generally a no go for licensing because they couldn't get the broadcast slots and most shows weren't suitable for syndication. That means they went with straight to video material like OVAs and movies which were by their very nature had more adult content being free from TV standards. But since that's the only thing we got at the time, the assumption became that anime was all about boobs and blood. Anyone who was there shares a lot of connected experiences since there were about 15-20 OVAs/movies that populated every video store anime section in the country. It also probably helped that it bridged a gap for a lot of us. If you were in the 11-15 age range in the late 90s the anime section was a great place to find cartoons that generally had higher stakes and adult content right as you were outgrowing Saturday morning cartoons. It felt like you were discovering something.

>>9042417
Looks cool! Will check it out.

>>9043024
Oh, I'm sure and I more just look back on it with a fond "oh you" sort of headshake more than anything.

On topic, Mystical Ninja got an anime adaptation based on... I want to say the third or fourth SNES game?

>>9042978
>It took until the Pokemon's success to really rip that bandaid off and marketing teams to go "ok ok that anime stuff can be more than just titties and explosions and blood"
But they were wrong.

>>9029232
this is a great little short. it's been a while since i watched it.

>>9028850
Most famous will always be Pokemon.

>>9028850
>>9029232
Reminds me of this which diverges from Final Fantasy V greatly as well.

>>9030773
You're so jealous——hahahahahaha, my God.

>>9028850
Shin Megami Tensei - Tokyo Revelation. Not directly inspired by one of the games, but it's based on the games since it's called Shin Megami Tensei. (the original OVA Digital Devil Story seems to take inspiration from the first Megami Tensei game, but is really based on the book it itself was based on)

>>9044442
It used the villains from the fourth SNES game (Seppukumaru and his crew); but the actual series was kind of a "characters jump out from the video game and end up in modern Japan" reverse isekai. Somewhere around I have a signature from Goemon's dub actor - probably not a huge claim to fame but a fun oddity.

Thanks for bringing this up, looking them up made me realize the two Goemon OVAs got fansubs not long ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKWQI2xqHtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8MEkVRpbRs
always loved how the first one ended with a lyrical version of the game's theme song

>>9044765
If we go the Persona route, Persona 3 got a 4-movies adaptation and a 24-episodes anime spinoff. Persona 4 Golden got an anime adaptation as well.

>>9045063
>>9044765
There was also a live action adaption of one of the Saturn SMT games. The one with a detective. Only the most god awful 240 resolution nico rips are available.

>>9044939
Yeah, I picked up the entire series in a righstuf sale a while ago at a mega discount (alongside Megaman), so I intend to watch it sometime.

>>9029120
>crucifix
Xevious is based?

>>9028850
Oh jesus I almost forgot that Viewtiful Joe had an anime adaptation. Thanks for reminding me. It was ass. The game rocks though.

>>9046523
For some reason your post reminded me Blue Dragon did as well.(not retro)

>>9028850
>Slayers becomes popular
>They want to make a game of it

>Writer says it's stupid to make a game based on media that's already out, so he writes a new story based for the game based on the final part of Slayers he had planned

>You literally kill Xellos and have the the showdown with his boss Greater Beast Zelas Metallium in the game

>Postgame secret boss is wandering into the cave where the biggest strongest shard of Shabranigdu is sealed in the body of Ray Magnus and you just casually kill it without even knowing what it is

>Meanwhile the writer just kind of lost interest in writing the series and abandoned it before any of this actually happened in the books so this game is the only way to experience what the actual ending of Slayers was supposed to be like

>>9042570
Castlevania was done by Powerhouse though I heard the American-made animation was so shoddy that a ton of it had to be redone in India.

>>9046523
VJ anime is only remembered for two things: how shit it was, and Sprocket's titties.

>>9044939
>Seppukumaru
This is really the name of a character? Kek.

>>9046849
He's a sportsmaster and he's under the misguided notion that seppuku is simply the most extreme sport that he hasn't mastered yet.

Also his full name is Harakiri Seppukumaru.

You guys made me remember Virtua Fighter also got an anime adaptation

this thing for some reason in my country it was called "El defensor virtual"...

>>9046956
Discotek just announced they're putting the complete series on SD Blu Ray.

>>9046956
>>9047102
Keeping in mind that it was aimed at kids it's not half bad.

>>9047163
>every fighting game has a direct to video ova or a movie aimed at teens
>VF goes for a tv series which is like the only place you can find any story for the entire franchise and aims it at kids
You keep being you, Virtua Fighter.

>>9042417
>>9042532
Interesting game, although the character's movement is a bit floaty and that grappling hook mechanic isn't as good as in, say, Bionic Commando. Got filtered by the very first boss though.

>>9047102
is it gonna be some terrible vhs to dvd to upscale bluray?

The Go! Go! Ackman is quite short but fun.

>>9047594
There's also a Ninja Gaiden OVA. Not sure if it's an original story or based on one of the games

>>9047605
It's a sequel to 2 and an original story. But it overlaps with a lot of what happens in 3.

>>9047594
>Garlic Trunks

Nice going Toriyama...

>>9046542
I love this game. Don't recall the postgame secret boss. I do remember finding the secret dragon slave spell near the end of the game though.

>>9046956
this is a reminder that HAS to be mentioned whenever the Virtua Fighter/El Defensor Virtuoso anime is talked about here: the chilean are fucking crazy!

>Akira Yuki = Alex Yuki
>Pai Chan = Erika Chang
>Jacky Bryant = Roberto Fandini
>Sarah Bryant = Sara Fandini
>Wolf Hawkfield= Lobo / El Lobo de las Sombras
>Kagemaru = Victor Hagakure/Victor el Ninja
>Shun Di = Fausto/El anciano Fausto
>Lau Chan = Carlos Chang
>Jeffrey McWild = Jaime Martinez

>>9047861
The mountains where Ray Magnus/the biggest Shabranigdu shard is sealed is the postgame dungeon where you play as the Lina clone with the name you entered and can use real Lina in your party.

Your party just kind of bumbles into his cave and he says some ominous shit but the Lina clone just thinks he's trying to hide treasure from her and murders him, then goes "what was that guy's problem". It's retarded as hell, and also the one and only appearance of the single most important character in the Slayers backstory in the entire canon.

>>9047605
>>9047615
It's funny since it uses 2 as a basis exclusively, so it's smack in the middle of the games where Irene shoots Ryu in the back and Irene grabs a machine gun and blasts at biomutants. But since Irene in 2 is pretty much just "Ryu's girl he rescues", she's the sweet girlfriend who is so shy and is soooooo scared when she has to use a gun to defend herself.
Was funny to me in a meta sense when those three OVA exclusive characters are thinking about helping and the girl of them is like "Yeah let's do this!" and the two guys share a smile and then tie her up to a chair and leave her behind because silly woman you're useless.

Darkstalkers somehow managed to get both a western cartoon adaptation and an OVA miniseries. Was it really that popular back in the day?

>>9048959
Capcom was really pushing it.

>>9049024

>>9049028

>>9048605
Ah I remember now. Yeah it was kind of dumb, I still really like this game though. Maybe it's because I'm a huge Slayers fan.

First anime tits I ever saw thanks Chun Li.

>>9048269
It was not uncommon in latin countries to adapt characters names in anime.

>>9040831
I watched the first two seasons and then didn't watch anything after once Alucard getting ass-fucked got meme'd. I didn't hear anything particularly good about season 3 either so it doesn't feel like I missed anything.

If the whole series was them storming the castle with Bloody Tears playing in the background, I would've creamed my pants.

>>9040854
>>9050837
>Make four seasons of Castlevania 3
>Skip straight to Rondo of Blood
I've only watched the first two seasons, but season 3 and 4 should've been Simon's story. Make it a JJBA-esque story that follows each generation of Belmont. Instead they just skipped straight to Rondo, probably so they can bridge it into Symphony of the Night for the Alucard fanservice even though seasons 1 and 2 already covered half of the important plot points from SOTN including him fighting Dracula who comes to feel remorse because of it. They're gonna fuck this up so bad

>>9028850
Kek we got a weeb

>>9051913
At least Castlevania 3 was legitimately gothic. Rondo is fundamentally a shonen anime at heart so this is going to be tonally wrong.

What's so confounding too is that the show isn't even all that visually interesting. Think of the number of enemies Castlevania has. Yet the entire show fills the monster roster with the same generic gray animal looking thing. This feels like a cartoon I would have been all over had it been on HBO when I was 13. Like Spawn, which also wasn't that good in retrospect but hit all the marks for a young teen. At least we got to see that cute redhead vampire's tits, I guess.

>>9051929
A lot of them on this site, in fact.

>>9051929
I'm looking at OP pic for a while now, since this thread keeps getting bumped.
The sheer desire of having anime high school girl sit on my face with her soft, peachy, fragrant butt grows stronger each time i look at it.
Is that really too much to ask? Is our world really that limited so we can't have such simple things?

>>9052007
Oh no, a coomer.

>>9052007
Kys

>>9042019
I only watched the first out of three episodes of Salamander. IIRC it wasn't until 30 minutes when the three main characters came into the story.

I never played the games or whatnot. I just wanted to watch some sci-fi anime with character designs by Haruhiko Mikimoto.

IDK if the ramblings even served a point in the story/themes.