@@frankreynolds445 Funny you mention that as I hope you can join me in spirit while I am watching both of those as well as the original Dragon Ball too ^_^
These two movies, Dominion: Tank Police pt 1&2, and Venus Wars, were the first anime movies they showed on the SciFi Channel, which is really the first time they started showing these on TV
Right??? I also loved TNT for their 100% Weird Friday night movie blocks, and MST3K on Comedy Central. IFC and Bravo also showed anime and foreign films, and the super obscure, short-lived channel N1 also showed anime and other risqué content. Between those channels during the 90s, I was a happy kid! 😭
I had this on VHS! I'd never thought I'd see this again. I had to stay up super late to see it. Project A-Ko went on to be my favourite anime film for over 10 years. Watching it on the new Bluray is a weird experience because in my head this is the film I remember. I've seen it uncut, but not in HD completely uncut in it's proper ratio. These are the kind of films that hit the brain in a totally different way at 2am. I miss being a teenager sometimes.
yea and they hit diffrent as a teenager espically when it is 2am and your sitting on sofa all alone and something like this is on. Just an awesome experince
I just came here after seeing a comment. I didn't think Ralph Bakshi would be into anime (or at least, I assumed that he would have very few specific tastes in anime).
There's no better way to start. 🤩 Haha, I remember picking up on the subtle erotic elements of Project A-KO when I first saw it as a kid. 😆 That first panty shot of her waking up in the morning blew my teenage mind!
At the time SciFi also had an entire weekend of anime which was Project A-ko, Venus Wars and Dominion Tank Police on repeat. IIRC it was titled Anime Weekend ‘94.
Do you remember? Was this the first anime event they had? I remember it being project a-ko, lensman, vampire hunter d and an anime vignette show that was top-notch.
I was 8 years old and my Big brother was 13 when he introduced me to Anime!! This Was one of First Marathons! Our Dad didn't understand it, He was just happy we wasn't Fighting 😂😂😂! The rest is history! Dad DID end up Loving 'Fist of the North Star' Tho😂😂!
🥰🥰🥰 I caught only a small part of Project A-KO during this same airing. I think it would be the next year when I would finally see it in its entirety, and I was *NEVER THE SAME AGAIN*, especially when I realized that the music I'd previously heard on promo commercials for Gamera belonged to this movie!!!
just gonna say this was dope blast from the past in my recommends. I remember always getting super excited to watch the anime marathons sci-fi channel would put on. I was seven for this one, made a 36 year smile with some nostalgia. rock on man.
This happened the same day as the OJ Simpson chase. Not lying and I remember the why and how of missing it because I wanted to see the rest of Project A-ko. Started watching at home before being picked up for visitation from Dad. We get to his house and first thing he has on is the chase. Tells me 2 steps into a 10 feet walk not to touch the TV. I was pissed at OJ and knew after the chase I would have no control of the TV for the weekend. Only time I could touch and watch the TV on my own was usually 1 hour into the visitation if he was busy. I HATE YOU OJ!
Svi-fi channel anime is my first experience to anime. I remmeber watching Project A-ko as a kid and i think ziriam the show about the bounty hunter. I am so glad you uploaded this man.
@aestheticcar8315 Ninja Scroll was the peak of cinematic anime storytelling in my opinion. Didn't bother with the series, it was trash I hear. Anyway, you're in for quote a treat if you have any love for pre-millennium anime
@@Chef_Alpo I was born in the early 2000s when the whole anime boom was happening. I love old school anime’s and currently watching Magic Knight Rayearth and Rurouni Kenshin season 3. I will watch Ninja Scroll if I can find a copy at an anime con this year. If not I’ll just watch it on a website.
Ralph Bakshi hosting an anime marathon on the Sci Fi channel? Those are 3 things i didnt think would triangulate well, heck i was confusing bakshi with robert crumb being like "why is crumb so fat?" 😂
It's a strange sight to see but also makes complete sense. Ralph was pushing the maturity of animation just like how anime was doing. They were bound to cross paths in some way.
dude imagine its the 1980s and your in Japan and they tell animators to make a giant space sailing ship lol they all probably i,,editaly understood and got to work on the giant laser sails...theyre like look were not gonna abandon thisamazing european sailing ship technology lol they made like a star destroyer with sails ....its just so funny how it looks like a giant 18th century sailing ship but closeup its like the enterprise
@@jikosauce Do you mean at the time??? There were only a handful of channels that aired anime in the early/mid 90s, and they were mostly titles from Central Park Media and Streamline Pictures, may both companies Rest In Peace!
I was born in 1999 but makes me have nostalgia for something I never really got to experience until late. I know cable is on life support, and streaming has made anime a lot more accessible for everyone, but part of me still wishes Syfy could air anime again.
I was born in the early 2000s and this was when Sci Fi 2.0 was still on. I’m glad back then in the 90s a channel like this would air anime’s to the public so that Japanese animation can get more of a following.
Ohh this brings back memories of going to Suncoast video and checking out the anime section when I bought Akira on VHS for $19.99 of which I still have.
😭😭😭 I had the same experience!!! Suncoast had an amazing "Japanimation" VHS selection in the mid 90s, a wall full of titles from Central Park Media, Streamline Pictures, A.D. Vision, U.S. Renditions, Animeigo, etc. That's all gone now!
SciFi channel was amazing back then, I could watch that channel for hours, the anime they premiered was classics uncensored (to an extent what was available to the west) as well. And they stayed like that well into the early 2000s. Was such a shame they got rebranded to syfy and shed all the amazing qualities they had
No. There was only 3 anime’s on the tape I have. The third one I couldn’t get on RU-vid (due to copyright) is Venus Wars. Also I don’t have another tape of the broadcast from May ‘94. The tape I have I ordered on eBay.
I have the Loudness "gotta fight" record. It´s a 12 inch 45 RPM single, with the Odin theme song and the flashpoint instrumental featured in the action sequence of the Odin movie. It was criticized in the Japanese media of the time for being too similar to the Yamato of Star Blazers.
Odin was kinda like Star Blazers but instead of them finding a cure they found Odin. Also I’ve been listening to Loudness recently and I gotta say some of there songs are really good. Odin, Crazy Night, Down & Dirty, No Way Out. Legendary songs.
Looking at the timeline it seems the marathon was recorded on a 4hour video tape. So chances are OP ran out of tape. Unless he threw in a another blank to record the rest of it, this might all be that remains.
@@kernsanders3973 not necessarily... you can adjust the length (but the quality tanks) for up to 8 hours. This feels like that, but it's still good to have on for the nostalgia dopamine hit
The dub for "Odin" sure is barebones, nothing but talking and hair metal. No sound effects, no foley, no reverb or effects on the voiceover, just talking or hair metal. I'm wondering if it was just done for budgetary reasons, or if they actually didn't have access/rights to the master audio, so the dub lost all the sound effects because they didn't have access to the original multitrack recording. the sci fi channel used to show really interesting stuff. I miss these hosted marathons they actually added a lot of insightful information and background about the productions.
Same creative team I think, Leiji Matsumoto (RIP) taught at a school and many of his students became famous manga artists and animators in there own right, and all had a easily seen Matsumoto inspiration in their style. Area 88 is probably the most famous of his students' work.
Not going to lie , but I'm not a big fan of Ralph bakshi's form of cartoons . I think I'm really here for these vintage 1990s commercials ! Especially a look at the Sci-fi channel as it was way back in the day . I remember when they used to have advertisements on other channels ending with " to get the Sci-fi channel contact your local cable provider ! " ❤
Please refrain from starting off comments with 'not going to lie' especially if your statement is spoken out of fact. By confirming your honesty...it changes it into an oxymoron.
@@samrester6254 not going to lie , NO I don't . And I don't think I care give as many shitz as you do . I seem to get by just fine with my blue collar , high school graduate , some college-level of edumacation 😏 . I mean fuck man you're coming at me like I'm speaking Ebonics , and that's coming from a guy who slips into speaking ghetto depending upon the amount of 'STUPID' from guests & management I encounter during a workday !!!
Odin was kinda crap, but Project A-Ko is quite fun. But I think the nostalgia trip I get from vintage 90s commercials is more entertaining than anything else in this vid. Especially Ralph Bakshi, who I had no idea was such an underwhelming personality. You would think the author of such inspired cartoons would have a lot of interesting things to say, but really not so many, it turns out.
I had the chance to say hello to him at a festival in LA, he barely glanced at me and scowled a lot, said something under his breath which was probably not inspirational.... It was not how I had imagined it was going to play out, for sure.
