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Anyone know any good retro /vr/ related manga of anime? I loved the ones that used to be in nintendo power. It seems a lot of retro games had original manga produced to go with it. I know Strider and Megaman had manga I need to download.

Here are some zelda ones.
http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Manga.php

>> No.2062891
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>>2062823
or*

Also there is the Area 88 (U.N. Squadron) manga/anime which I hear is good.
http://bakabt.me/149697-area-88-xvid-blitz.html
http://mangafox.me/manga/area_88/

>> No.2062901

>>2062891
It was the other way around. The game is based on the manga(which debuted around 1979). Also yeah, it's good.

>> No.2062923

The Ocarina of Time manga is alright. Street Fighter 2 the Animated Movie is also pretty good.

Mega Man has the Wish Upon a Star OVA, which is rather bland, and the cartoon (A FIGHTING ROBOT! MEGA MAN!) which is just utter garbage. Worth it for the cheese factor if you're watching with friends or something.

>> No.2062941
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There were a few Mario anime ova. I actually have one of the Amada vhs in my collection. (Yes Mario with a fucking gun).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1GKoG1-MJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrQV5Sq8v64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWGEag0-R2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XeaBGmD54I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDcBTnROyY0

>> No.2062969

>>2062923
I watched the SF2 anime movie when I was kid and I fondly remember Chun Li's shower scene. I also loved the Megaman cartoon as a kid. I will check out that Wish Upon a Star OVA looks cute.

>> No.2062974

Chrono Trigger had an ova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIsOuO2qZBo

>> No.2063092
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I guess a lot of retro games were also based on anime that came out first. Im not sure about Zillion but I know the gun in the anime is based on the Sega light Phaser. I think the games came out after that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvwx7PvH2XU

>> No.2063095
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2063095

>You will never find scans of the Metal Gear Choose Your Adventure book.

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>>2063095
That cover looks amazing. Too bad I cant read moons.

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>>2063116
I've been looking for a copy of that and the Contra book for years.

>> No.2063213

Ys 1 and 2 anime. Im watching it and it has pretty good music from the games.
http://fantasyanime.com/anime/ys-anime

>> No.2063273

>>2062823
Wow...I owned that Link to the Past comic AGES ago. Takes me back.

>> No.2063335

>>2063092
The Zillion anime technically aired before the release of the JP Master System Zillion game, but they were developed together as a sort of cross-promotion.

The Megaman cartoon and anime are terrible. The old school Shigeto Ikehara Rockman manga have great, adorable artwork but are pretty lackluster in content.

In fact, almost every game manga is awful. I mean, consider that most licensed games are terrible, so it is with licensed manga and anime.

>> No.2063341

>>2063335
I thought the Kunio-kun manga was a fun read, even if it barely had anything to do with the games (not that the game had a strong continuity to begin with).

>> No.2063841

>>2062823
Still hard to believe that someone as big as Ishinomori did a Zelda comic.

>> No.2064449
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2064449

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQNZe8wz0U

I wish...

>> No.2064451
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2064451

Dragon Quest The Emblem of Roto

>> No.2064452

>>2063841
I find it harder to believe it was published originally in an American magazine (it was translated afterward in Japanese).

>> No.2064482
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2064482

Has the Ultima anime been ripped and upped to the internet yet?

>> No.2064487

>>2063841
Ishinomori shat out more comics than anyone else in history, so it's not that huge of a surprise.

>>2064452
Source for claim?

>> No.2064515

>>2062823
I still own that to this day. It's pure gold. So was the Super Mario one. I wish I had ordered Metroid from Nintendo Power back in the day. I have enough of the issues that contain most of Star Fox.

>> No.2064536

>>2064482
It's from a supposed tv commercial that has been impossible to find due to its masters having been destroyed during a hurricane. And the only source of that image and news is a Finnish blog. So it's suspect that this is even real.

>> No.2064545

Koudelka had a side story.

>> No.2065454

>>2064482
I forgot Japan loved Ultima so much.

>> No.2065470

>>2064487
Zelda Wiki says it and sources it to this page.

http://www.zeldalegends.net/index.php?n=manga#alttpcomic

>> No.2065473

>>2064487
is that actually true? I heard tezuka drew over a hundred thousand actual pages of manga

>> No.2065491
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2065491

>>2065470
I did a little digging, and though this image is shitty it backs up some of what the Zelda Wiki article claimed, including that even after translating to Japanese, the English onomatopoeia were left unaltered.

>> No.2065495

>>2064449
>tfw no more Popful Mail games.

>> No.2065497

>>2064451
Not done by Akira Toriyama
>why.7z

>> No.2065510
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2065510

>>2065491
The japanese edition cover looks sexy.

>> No.2065512

The Doubutsu no Mori (Animal Crossing was an N64 game in Japan that counts as /vr/ right?) movie is adorable as hell.

>> No.2065531

>>2065512
Yes I think it counts. Veoh is such a shitty site but this looks pretty good.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v1075578FmZgwyQa?h1=Doubutsu+no+Mori+%28Animal+Crossing%29+Movie

>> No.2065538

>>2065510
I'm just surprised Nintendo even knew of Ishinomori, though that's a given considering his huge popularity in Japan. I wish they could branch out again and hire some other famous veteran manga artists to do any one-shot manga adaptations of their franchises.

>> No.2065552

>>2065538
whose even still around though

there's like Toriyama, Araki, Urasawa, Go Nagai, Yoshihiro Togashi

anyone whose actually good I just can't see working for nintendo on a licensed property like that

anyone in the industry with real talent is so fucking jaded and angry at the mere mention of that kind of contract hell

>> No.2065651
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2065651

Remember when Konami had a variety of game franchise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cViI7unsESs

Holy fuck this one has Gradius & Castlevania parodies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQm5EJFpffU

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>>2065538
I would love more classic manga artwork. Nintendo used to have really great art for their games.

>> No.2065674

>>2065668
but Nintendo has cancer like every other big company and their games suck now.

>> No.2065679

>>2065668

They still do really. I much prefer modern Ken Sugimori to 90s Sugimori, his new style is much more distinct and fitting to Pokemon than his Toriyama-esque style was.

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>>2065668
Yeah, I also loved the old Tezuka esque vibe the old Mario art had going for it. I also liked the cool ass Katsuya Terada art they had for the first few Zeldas. Wished they would use an artist that draws in a similar style, like pic related.

>> No.2065682

>>2065538

ishinomori was a prolific artist with years of industry experience under his belt when they hired him to do the zelda comic. cyborg 009 was written in the 60's and it ran for a couple of decades. his work was the basis for kamen rider, so he influenced the highly successful super sentai genre in a big way.

shigeru miyamoto and the other big names at nintendo and other japanese game development studios and electronics companies were children in the 60's and 70's. they grew up reading ishinomori's work. why the fuck are you surprised they knew about him? read a fucking book

>> No.2065686
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>>2065679
I don't like his new art nearly as much as the old art. Maybe it's because I really like Toriyama but I don't generally care for this decade's style of anime to start with. Especially the coloring. I don't know if it's because he does it digitally now but all the colors look flat and lifeless.

And I can't stand the fact that Red in FR/LG looks awful and they've retconned that design to be the standard in any other game he shows up in these days.

>> No.2065687
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>>2064449
Slayers is pretty much what a Popful Mail anime would have been like.

>yfw Popful and Lina have the same voice actress

>> No.2065695

>>2065686
>Especially the coloring
Agreed, Sugimori's watercolor work was great.

I don't wanna be all "everything was better in the 90's," but good watercolor is pretty hard to top.

>> No.2065701

>>2065686

There is a certain charm to the watercolor that digitally colored art lacks but I much prefer the character designs of the modern games especially the girls

>> No.2065704

>>2065701
you are the cancer

>> No.2065707

>>2065682
>why the fuck are you surprised they knew about him?

I'm not, hence why I said,

>though that's a given considering his huge popularity in Japan

What I meant to say was that I'm surprised they used an artist who's pretty much unknown in the US at that point in time. I give them props for having the balls to do that.

>> No.2065713
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>>2065701
Watercolor is so distinctly Japanese though, don't you think? Digital art is just whitewashing their artistic traditions.

>> No.2065721

>>2065713
YES

THIS GUY GETS IT HOLY FUCK

sorry I just almost shat myself there for a second

>> No.2065729
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>>2065713
>implying there can't be any good Japanese digital art

I love and prefer watercolor as much as the next person but I also believe digital has its own potential. Only few digital artists know how to make use out of such potential, and I'm very well aware Ken isn't one of them(though his early digital art I'd admit was decent imo).

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2065763

This was weird.

>> No.2065768
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>Yu Yu Hakusho
Good anime licensed games are fine too.

>> No.2065772

>>2065763
I remember seeing ads for this at game/comic stores. This should have been the last final fantasy movie not that other cgi one...

>> No.2065781

>>2065772
Me too. It always appeared in the back of gaming magazines as well.

I was wondering when Spirits Within was going to be mentioned. I actually liked most of the movie, but it shouldn't been titled Final Fantasy anything.

>> No.2065793
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>>2065454
Ultima even had its own manga.
I think Japan had a thing for CRPG's in general, pic is a Wizardry anime OVA

>> No.2065841

>>2065763
This movie was actually pretty good

The only weird thing about it is that its not a "videogame movie", which if anything only contributes to it not being total shit.

>> No.2065847

>>2065768
That first person YYH fighter was the shit

it was like a tactical fighting game or something

I'm not really sure I've played anything much like it since

>> No.2065890

>>2065793
Much better taste back then

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>>2065686
>I don't know if it's because he does it digitally now but all the colors look flat and lifeless.

Are you sure you're not mistaking Sugimori for the new main artist, Yusuke Ohmura?
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?utf8=%E2%9C%93&tags=yusuke_ohmura+
I thought there was something funny going on with the character designs for the more recent Pokemon games, and it turns out Sugimori isn't nearly as involved as he used to be. His shading has definitely not gone flat in any case.