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Post by aphrodisiacc on Oct 21, 2016 10:51:31 GMT
Sooooo I'm just cruising YouTube... then I see this COMMERCIAL for the mobile game Candy Crush Saga, from Japan, and you won't believe it. OMG. They even put HOWARD SANDS in this!!
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Post by Rad on Nov 2, 2016 15:07:08 GMT
Ha! Wow, that is awesome!!! :-D
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Post by inthestyle on Nov 14, 2016 3:25:31 GMT
Don't forget, Jem was originally animated over there~
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Post by aphrodisiacc on Nov 14, 2016 3:52:54 GMT
inthestyle yep, Toei Animation! I wonder why Jem did not get an actual release in Japan like it did in Europe and South America!!!
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Post by kev on Nov 14, 2016 6:29:41 GMT
I always wondered why Japan never did a Jem anime since Magical Girl animes are really popular. They could do it like Mermaid Melody and have the Holograms defeat a different band every episode that are signed to Misfits Music, and the Misfits are like the ultimate band that eventually battle the Holograms after the other bands lose. Oh and Jerrica can't tell anyone that she is Jem or else she will lose her voice lol that wouldn't be anything like Jem but I would watch it anyway  |
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Post by aphrodisiacc on Nov 14, 2016 13:24:38 GMT
Oh wow, I love vintage anime
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Post by inthestyle on Nov 14, 2016 20:19:32 GMT
Maybe the question of "why Jem was never released in Japan"/"why they haven't made her into an anime" is just that. Jem IS our Western version of "magical idol singer", so while she seems so unique to us, she'd just be one more version of the same thing over there (though she's still unique enough that I bet they'd eat it up). Also, if you wonder how she *hasn't* made it over there, all I can say is I saw one of my favorite anime, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, long before I saw Jem -- then I saw Jem and kept shaking my head and laughing... lacustrine-duet.tumblr.com/post/146817303421/for-the-jemandtheholograms-gang-while-i-trulyAnd doing spit-takes. (SEED is part of the reason why I love Jem as much as I do.) |
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Post by inthestyle on Nov 14, 2016 20:34:48 GMT
The other thing is, while watching the bonus disk for the series I couldn't help but notice the storyboard director say that a) they had to give Toei some gentle direction so that Jem didn't end up looking totally like an anime character  , but also b) that he was majorly inspired by the openings and endings for Urusei Yatsura, the first animated things he'd seen where the animation was on-beat and the lyrics actually described what you saw. Talk about your vintage (awesome) anime! Outrageous! (And I have no idea how he would have seen UY in 1984-5, so I guess it's perfectly possible that people making shows over there have seen Jem at some point.) |
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Post by aphrodisiacc on Nov 15, 2016 2:06:50 GMT
I love Urusei Yatsura.
Have you checked out Artzie Music? It is a music channel on YouTube that is dedicated to Future Funk. Lots of the GIFs for the songs they post are from vintage anime.
YouTube.com/ArtzieMusic
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Post by kev on Dec 1, 2016 20:35:24 GMT
I know of Mobile Suit Gundam but I have never seen it. That's pretty cool that they have a Jem influenced character. I'll check it out sometime. I love Urusei Yatsura. Have you checked out Artzie Music? It is a music channel on YouTube that is dedicated to Future Funk. Lots of the GIFs for the songs they post are from vintage anime. YouTube.com/ArtzieMusic I recognize some Sailor Moon and that's about it haha |
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Post by inthestyle on Dec 2, 2016 23:29:08 GMT
I know of Mobile Suit Gundam but I have never seen it. That's pretty cool that they have a Jem influenced character. I'll check it out sometime. Nope, not the original Mobile Suit Gundam! (That one's from 1979.) (There's a very small coincidental thing between Rio's 1979 yellow turtleneck in Out of the Past and the original Gundam. That's all.) SEED is a Gundam series from 2002 in a totally different universe. With very different animation. It is cool, though. They have three Jem-influenced characters! (And it's very, very funny, in-between how dark and serious the show is.) |
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Post by kev on Dec 3, 2016 8:33:35 GMT
Gotcha. I've heard of it but I'm not sure if it was the original or SEED.
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Post by Raya24 on Feb 25, 2022 15:46:13 GMT
The video looks amazing and it's so cool how the people who created that Candy Crush video made the characters look similar to the Jem and the Holograms characters.
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, but also b) that he was majorly inspired by the openings and endings for Urusei Yatsura, the first animated things he'd seen where the animation was on-beat and the lyrics actually described what you saw. Talk about your vintage (awesome) anime! Outrageous!