But boi I wish there was more explanation of the lore to read/watch about just out of curiosity. Everything is going so fast (well it's a racing anime...)
There's so much to love about this scene. That they named a world ending bio weapon "Funky Boy", that the president has maternal instincts towards it enough that he doesn't want it to suffer when they put it down, to the technician who is loving every moment of his job.
If they asked you, if you wanted to have direct cerebral uplink to an orbital deathlazor, i bet you'd too be grinning like a loon. The only person in existence who'd feel sad is Shinji whom his dad had to literally force to get into the robot.. ugh...
People are inherently amoral and unethical creatures willing to do any insanity. So no wonder technician has no hesitation to do any dirty work on command. This people like him are dead inside, amoral and unethical to the core without any shred of humanity inside.
I just noticed the racer that breached Funky Boy's containment facility falling off him upon surfacing. Imagine being so far off course on a race that you end up in a top-secret government facility and then actually ending up back in the running because you accidentally rode their kaiju-sized bioweapon up.
@@clydecraft5642 (drills underground to avoid interference (Accidentally finds secret base (“WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS PLACE AAAAAAAAA” (proceeds to wake up bioweapon and it goes apeshit (Continues the race like normal
"I get the feeling this is something we are not supposed to be seeing!" Said with childlike wonder and curiousity (and a bit of Schadenfreude). I love it.
I think that when something as powerfull as that has a silly name the name isnt gonna be as silly anymore. For example little boy and fat man are 2 nukes.
well if you wanted to talk about something illegal in public, naming the weapon funky boy makes sense. kinda like how in movies (and possibly irl?) the suitcase that controls nuclear launches is called the football.
You don't see massive influence from Akira here? Both with the orbital platform and Funky Boy itself. This is just the Spinal Tap approved version (that is, cranked up to 11).
Also if you want some really far out there weapon designs, look at Space Pirate Captain Harlock and superweapons powered by neutron stars and essentially giant trash compactors that manipulate gravity itself.
Funky Boy didn't die. They didn't know he could regenerate. The general then went after Funky Boy himself with a new/other bio weapon that he became and controlled. Never showed the fight ending between the two as the race continued.
We practically got everything we could possibly ask for in this anime. Super heros, Nazis, mechs, 50's greasers, F-Zero, a love story, Italian mafia and giant god damn world ending baby monsters
To be fair we call nuclear weapons Fat Man and Little Boy, which do more damage than that laser. So this is completely normal, id even say hyper realistic in terms of writing.
@@Michael-bn1oi idk, the Hiroshima bombs were terrifyingly destructive. Funky boi looks like he's about the size of a very small city block and that blast wave didn't even kill the characters that were close enough to be sent flying. Both little boy and fat man we're far more destructive than that, and so bright that it blinded people several kilometers away.
@@usov656 Maybe the Tsar Bomba, Funky Boy isn't 'small' considering he's at about 15 stories tall (using the nearby people before breaking out) on all fours, the disintegration blast being roughly 7fb^3, the following explosion being roughly double that. Looking at the numbers, FB is about the SIZE of the Hiroshima fireball, and using that information, the explosion alone would have been bigger than the radiation radius, maybe not the air blast, but that's sort of moot since we see the airblast here and it hits everything in the region.
Wonder what funky boy was created to fight and destroy? And how long it took to make it. I'm even surprised the military president didn't want funky boy to suffer from the cannon lazer.
@@SquishyProductions Ah, I see. Now ai know the reason why I gave up on anime in 2012, because Japan said, "were the late 80s and early 90s really *that* good?".
I like how we're putting more and more of the film to youtube bit by bit :D I put the yellowline race, and now we got funky boy here. I did post the whole film and uh, got a nice strike for that. Worth it.
Alright this is a long shot but for anyone here that watches F1, I always thought that the commentators in Redline are like David Crofty and Martin Brundle before the duo even existed lol. One is extremely energetic and talks the most, the other is far more tame and is a former racer in the event they’re covering.
These guys made an illegal bio weapon with enough power to wipe out an entire planet… _…and they named it Funky Boy. _*_FUNKY BOY._* Whoever they had naming these things needs a raise, effective immediately.
Such a cool masterpiece of a movie! Definitely up there with other greats, such as; Akira, Ghost In The Shell, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaä and more.
Actually, Supergrass put the end line in a roboworld military base, also, is Supergrass who is behind the race, the true purpose was to destroy roboworlds government the race is just a cover.
You know that they raced on purpose to expose machine world for having bioweapons right? And the president's assistant is a spy for the leader of the people who holds the race? This movie has so much to it
Homestly, the roboworld president’s inclination about the race venue being a ploy by an enemy nation to fuck with them sounds reasonable to me. Like, lets say its the funny magic princess booba empire people doing it and they want to weaken roboworld without backlash. Why spend resources getting yourself involved when you could just get a bunch of space redneck car enthusiasts to do it for you? All the princess people have to do is drum up a bit of media coverage that the race will be on robo world soil, and if robo world says yes, they lose, and if they say no the face public out cry and millions of tom dicks and harry’s calling them assholes, which is more destructive than a thousand funkyboys. Even if robo world does what you said and says “ok, but you cant go here or here”, that just begs the media to ask why cant they go there huh? Whats hiding? Which is the last thing robo world wants. God, do i love the social weapon.
"If this gets out, we'll be in violation of the peace treaty" You got a giant glow in the dark blob thing named Funky Boi blowing sections of a city up with mouth Kamehamehas. Word already got out, bro bro.
I watched this for the first time on shrooms and when Funky Boy did his roar, I had the biggest smile on my face, like watching my favorite cartoon as a kid again.
Based Germany: Names a simple tube that fires a propelled grenade charge? "Panzerschreck" Even more based Roboworld: Names a cosmic horror abomination that could give Cthulhu a run for his money? *"Funky Boy".*
Man, this movie was an absolutely triumph and the whole time feels like something that never should have existed. Never seen a single project with so much Sakuga
To be honest, being exploded may have been the best thing to happen to Funky boy. It just looks and sounds like a creature that's in constraint pain by existing.
