i always hated the main character from Stink Bomb. Like everyone around him is dropping dead the second they get close, HTF did he not realise that he was the problem.
@@NovaBeast188 He means 1980's to Early 90's Japan. Before corporate debt and stagflation crippled Japan. Back when Anime was technically high quality and hand drawn. Back then Anime artists really doubled down on detail.
I don't know what was more expensive. The military ammunition used, the destroyed vehicles, and overall collateral damage, or the budget of this animation.
Yes! These Manga animations from the '80s and '90s are Insane!!! The Art Style is Unbelievable and they do Everything manually, at hand, no computers back then! 🙂🙂🙂
For those who have never seen this movie, the reason the character is letting off such a lethal odor is because he accidentally swallowed some experimental pills that were part of a bio-weapon program while he was battling the flu.
@@nurahiyon_dyl WE can even ask ourself if it isnt the mainpoint off the shorty behind the slapstick obvious plot. I find suspicious how confident the US general is that he has the means to handle the situation in front of the Epic fail of the whole japanese army (which in fact is a show of mainly US firepower). Was the product something developped with/for the US? Was it seen as an other opportunity to test a New weapon outside of the US, at least to develop it outside of US mainland?
Well really he took a pill that turned him stinky and killed his whole workplace. Don't remember the rest of the plot; think the pill was a weapon of mass destruction planned by the govt or smthn.
Not only did this guy succeeded to efficiently take out all military forces he met immediately, he also was so stupidly lucky that he became a Mr. Bean level threat.
As someone who has watched stupid analytical videos why Mr. Bean is more powerful than Superman I agree. He's not on the Level of Mr. Bean, but he sure is in the power spektrum of Mr. Bean.
@@azwanajeeb2167 unguided bombs shouldnt be affected by it tho also just the shockwave of all those bombs could potentially kill him or atleast render him unconscious
@@fatcatthemechabuilder8637If you watch the anime you find out he pretty much becomes a superhuman so even bombs won’t effect him, he pretty much has a force field around him.
How else would the tanks break down and explode if they’re kilometers away from the guy? As well as every guided missile going everywhere but their intended target?
Easily a Euclid-Class SCP, bordering on Safe. Remember people, SCP Classifications don't indicate how dangerous an SCP is, rather its how difficult it is to contain the SCP. A dimwitted Japanese Salaryman with a lethal smell coming from his body that can be contained by an American-made airtight spacesuit is just a Safe-Class Anomaly. One that can just as easily be captured and contained by MTFs Beta-7 ("The Maz Hatters") or Tau-5 ("Samsara").
@@theohvist128 He's a solid Euclid. Not Safe at all. Safe means "it" can be contained with no danger of contingency breach. The more stress the anomaly endures, the stronger the effects of the cloud are and can potentially disrupt the functioning of hardware or electronics intended for its containment. If you haven't seen the whole short story. even after this salary man is contained within a sealed suit, he got out of it at the end of the story just to salute the Prime Minister and the Japanese Self Defense Army's General. This -as stupid that may be-, he has the capability to breach containment and thus be cataloged as an Euclid entity. And yes, Maz Hatters will be the best MTF to deal with an anomaly such as this one but I have to say that calling out Samsara to deal with it will be way overkill and I don't think the O5 will dispatch them for this... again, Samsara are basically the Power Rangers made out of a dead god's flesh and bones. Way too overkill.
I love how armies are usually depicted as these stone cold killers, and the first scene literally removes everything related to that and humanizes them
I just gotta point out somewhere near the top. The world powers would be trying to capture this weapon instead of killing him. The man is a walking war crime.
@@jeffreydallas6047 LOL, maybe I'm part Italian, haha. Nah, my channel name is mainly because I generally don't like to put my ugly face in my videos, don't want to make my viewers suffer any more than they have to. 🤣🤣
@@TalkingHands308 it matches their voices. No one is that expressive while speaking. At least now we dont have a character yelling while completely frozen in the frame
By the way, imagine a modern game with This Art style! With Deep story and different playstyle agendas! With 3D engines like Unreal the proper textures can be achieved in this '90s Manga style. Something like this can be an AAA Title! 🙂🙂🙂
@@vasiovasio 3d can look 2d, but the problem is, the animation just never matches. best to take inspiration from 2d, but still look 3d, like crash bandicoot 4.
There are sure lots of mistake here : The army doesn't think about telling him from afar that he's a threat due to the gas his body is releasing. This guy doesn't even realise that he kill soldiers by just walking to them and doesn't even realise that he's not affected by the gas cloud who's following him.
@@callofhaloinfinite6336 if a walking death monster that can kill poeple just by walking near them the last thing any military would do is ask nicely for him to stop.
@@glittery_fairy not everything but many things aged very well around the late 80s to late 90s. we don't get a lot of anime that looks good in the 2000s and 2010s
Given Studio Madhouse is still operating and has animated several extremely well known anime in the years since (Death Note, One Punch Man, Overlord, Hellsing Ultimate and Hunter x Hunter to name a few), I think their budget was just fine.
Love how he's watching the soldiers drop dead of nothing and doesn't question if he's the cause of the gas or why he's able to breathe it, yet no one else can.
Because of this video I looked up Stink Bomb and the other two films in the Memories series and they are so so beautifully animated, just a joy to watch. I'm so glad this popped up in my recommended
And then you have a bunch of kids who really want to convince people that the japanese animation of today, with poor quality animation, filled to the brim with 'fanservice' tropes, and typically centered around absurdly cliche settings and storylines that half the time don't take themselves seriously, is somehow "good".
@@ajikoko8905 It's such a shame. There was once a time when Japanese cartoonist had a wide range of different styles. few animators back then cared about conforming to a specific set of aneurysm-inducing tropes. and what's more they actually put incredibly more effort into the quality of the animation itself. There is just a fundamental difference in the nuance of details and quality, when each frame is being drawn manually one-by-one by trained artist and animators, which is EXACTLY what makes them expensive. It is baffling that a defense of modern anime is founded on precisely the fact that this talent is getting scrapped for people who are are less artistically inclined, but can use computer tools. Increasingly, the more 3D animation gets, ironically the worse their detail and visual quality becomes across the whole industry, Because all of the gritty details that could show up when drawing every frame one-by-one totally disappears when you just tell 3D models to move parts of their body from point A to point B. No love, no care for subtle frame-by-frame details, no striking artwork, nothing, just slap some textures and animations on a character model and call it a day. 3D Models are literally an outright excuse to be lazy, and yet even animations that are still 2D still manage to suck because of all of the other irritating tropes brought up. I don't think things will improve unless the whole industry just implodes on itself one day, and through the ashes could creativity and truly quality work reemerge.
@@HM-rz8nv That's why I stopped watching anime, even though I really loved it 10-15 years ago. Now if I watch anything (rarely), it's some old titles. Anime nowadays became really cheap and flashy. I liked only Attack on Titan when it comes to new titles.
If anyone is curious about WHY they're so animated, it's well known that the human face expresses most of our emotion, so if you have an entire army of identical people wearing gas masks, you gotta really ham it up to get that emotion across!
They even had realistic range on the tanks. Usually in movies the tanks are fighting from like 100 feet apart. In this they're firing from like 2.5k away which is quite realistic.
@@roricute dude, im just saying most anime isnt realistic, unless youre only talking about good anime which you were clearly not specifying. Its not just anime anyways
@@joseaca1010 I see where you're coming from and you're not the first to think that. Allow me to just say to you now that the Type 90 is *NOT* a Japanese Leopard 2. For context, Japan operates Type 74, Type 90, and Type 10 tanks. If you really want to tell them apart, look at the turret and find the gunner's sight. The early Leopard 2s, namely the 2A4 (which is what the Type 90 closely resembles) has its gunner's sight partly "inside" the right turret cheek (left side if you're looking at its front) while the Type 90's is on top of the turret and on the left side of the turret (right side if you're looking at its front). The M2 .50 caliber machine gun is also a dead giveaway if present. The front of the hulls of the aforementioned tanks are also noticeably different and so are the smoke grenade launchers.
It's kind of hilarious to think that all of this could have been avoided if they just shot him with the APC immediately. Instead they fled like this one dude was Godzilla.
I just love how the range of the tanks in this animation is way closer to real life than in most hollywood films. In far to many instances they basicly fire at point blank (for a tank).
@@johnnycab8986 Hey now, that's a lie and you know it. This kind of animation is expensive. If can dislike a style but don't act like it was poor quality. Though it seems like you have no clue about the expense of animation based on your comment.
That's because this kind of animation is very labour intensive, time consuming and expensive. Only big projects have the money for this and just a reminder, this is a short not a full movie or series.
@@johnnycab8986 Nah, the budget is inflated but the same money is literally less than it's worth decades ago, ie. inflation. People that time could pay off a car earning a few thousand a month, but you'll need to pay for decades with today's salary, if you can get anything decent. That cost of living can literally affect people's motivation to put out quality work in such a demanding industry.
I found stupid at first how much lucky the stinky guy was to avoid all those bombs and weapons thrown at him, but I now realize this is the whole point of the anti-war message of the movie. They created the ultimate bomb, but because someone they didn't intended to obtained it in their place, they have to resort to a stupidly high amount of conventional weapons to match it, and destroy everything while trying to stop it.
it is explained that the chemicals exhuming out of his body can ruin and destroy any machine and system within a distance as long as air has a way into them.
@@yqisq6966 Minus the awesome animation and hilarious expenditure of ordinance. And, you know, they fired one missile and shot it down without issue. Though I've seen someone make a pretty sick fan-vid in DCS of Raptor vs spy balloon.
Personally, the best part about this is that all of the vehicles are illustrated perfectly, and that they are all JGSDF vehicles. I see Type 90s, A Type 87 RCV, Some AH-1 Cobras, F-4 Phantoms, UH-1 Hueys, Type 75 MLRS vehicles, and a Pave Low. I can tell that these guys did their research.
AND they draw the soldiers INDIVIDUALLY (most of the time). Each of them have different movements even when moving in groups. Nowadays is copy-paste for life
Anime was always close to real object/place , I remember the The Diary of Anne Frank by Madhouse , the entire block where Anne lives was close to the real place.
For context, the guy on the bike accidentally became the ultimate bioweapon. His stink is lethal, extends far past the visible cloud, and it also makes electronics go haywire (hence why no weapons were able to home in on him and all the tanks went crazy).
@@Slash766 Probably filters cant handle this much of stuff and begin to fail or something. I mean u meed irl to change filters in gasmask because they dont work forever
@@aurorafox1283 there's indeed a cap to them, and not everything will be filtered as oxygen Does need to be passed through, and a closed system with oxygen bottles are expensive and heavy, neither are things any army likes for their regular Joe, That said even with haywire electronics saturation bombardment like shown Should've killed him
One way to kill him that will actually work: Battleship Bombardment, except for the fact that the IJN Yamato is the world’s worst submarine, along with the Bismarck. The thing about battleships is you can fire from a lot further away than a tank or sniper, and don’t have to actually hit the target because of the fireball and shockwave produced by the shells.
@@Overlord99762 I think at this point we can clinically classify him as retarded. A drunken baby could've figured out what was going on before this guy.
@@avensis8526 the chemical he produces would still be able to travel outside his physical limitations so they would need to start working on a containment dome to which no air could escape. Either that or make some really friendly looking drones and have them care him a space suit with a note that reads. "Put this on and do not take it off under any circumstances. You are a living bio weapon and are the cause of all this destruction. Please comply so you do not kill anyone else".
When watching this I'm reminded of that one episode of Samurai Jack where an entire robot army accidentally destroys itself without jack having to anything, while Aku watches with the most flabbergasted and bewildered look of awe. Me and Aku are mood kindred
I love how the animation is above even Akira level (and way WAY above Ghost in the Shell from the same year) just for what is basically a Japanese Monty Python sketch.
I remember watching this as a kid, but now having a better understanding, the animation on the army is jaw dropping. They didn't have to maintain this level for a whole movie, just the short film, so they really went all out. it's top tier.
Its hilarious how he's so oblivious to everything going on around him, then it turns into like a dark morbid humor when you realize that those soldiers actually straight up died, but you don't stop laughing 😭😭😭
@@beemy.6923 well that falls on what you think is funny. Still don't see the point in shaming someone just because you don't share the same sense of humor as them 🤷♂️
@@beemy.6923 it's him that has a bad sense of humor. i think it is even more funny when you realize how this story was probably thought up, given that it is considered impolite to be confrontational in japan. imagine being the author, working overtime in your insulated office building without any ac trying to politely tell your colleague to take a shower, only to come up with this. "oblivious smelly man dooms the human race with his overpowering stench and doesn't take a hint." you'd have to have a stick up your ass not to find that the least bit funny.
I love how the dude is probably the luckiest and most oblivious person on the entire planet while can't grasp what is happening while slowly killing Japan. It's absurd and I love it!!!
Mister President, we have to consider a nuclear strike. The Japanese people would never forgive me for launching a nuke at our own country. The survivors of the stinkpocalipse might forgive you. It looks like we have no choice...
I miss this old style of animation, was so good and had a lot of aesthetics, one of the best "new" animes was Megalo box and had today quality where it needed to be, but had this old school style and in my opinion is one of the best animes from the last 10 years
Yeah right, this is from the same era as Rurouni Kenshin also know as Samurai X and that show has the typical "speed lines" plastered over still images to imply fast movement and a bunch of internal monologues and info dumps in the middle of supposed action scenes. The movie looks great because the people behind it want it, not because it is from a magical era were everything was good.
@@alexdorian336 Relax mister literal, if you can't understand what I said is your problem, but I've no said that this era was perfect although I like Samurai X, I'm sayin that I like this stile, I also gave an exemple of a anime from 2018, why are you like this, always need to have someone trying to lecture about what you should or should not like, bro like whatever you want, stop being a crybaby that can't handle people who have a different opinion and this opinion have 0 effect in your life besides hurt your childish feeling
with them throwing that much ordinance at him, there's no way he would be alive. The multiple explosive pressure waves would've knocked him off his moped and would've killed him. That green cloud is doing some fucky shenanigans to the military's equipment.
Man. Older anime did a fantastic job with military designs, their fight sequences, and just their overall looks. Wish we had more of this. Edit: Man I didn't expect to get so many likes. So I say this as my comment because I grew up watching Gundam, Escaflowne, Apple Seed, Ghost In A Shell etc.. and in today's age nobody gives a shit about mech or military animes. It's all about high school kids with demon powers with plot armor- filler episodes etc. lol. I feel like the studios just went with whatever the fans wanted. People grew leas interested in this storytelling, so studios stopped going for the mecha designs or military themed shows.
They have this video on youtube called AKIRA Animation the Hard Way. It shows why that video looks so good even after it being so old. From animating the shadows to 3/4 isometric shots. Really interesting explanation on animation. I bring this up because this also looks like the same animation style in some ways.
And now they're mostly cgi. Just how dire japanese animation studios have fallen? They should've already improved tenfold after all these years. It's so sad that animators and studios are not getting the income that they deserve.
@@lain5782 it has something to do with Bubble Era popping. During Japan's Bubble Era, Japan had surplus so they were able to produce a great number of excellent anime but when the Bubble Era popped, that was the start of anime going downhill which heavily took effect in the 2010's. Blame MURICA for that co'z they're the ones made the Bubbe Era popped in 1992. As a result, anime studios are having a hard time with their budget of making great quality anime.
Don’t forget that these are animated by people. Probably those who specialized in mech are aging and not much young animators are coming in this genre.
I salute you. Please I hope you and future animators will make the golden these came back, for example Disneys animes not the CGI laden turds they make nowadays.
@@Svn6twomm no, it won't. Unless AI can start drawing. It is never coming back SGI is enough for kids and it is leagues cheaper The soon you accept, the better.
This animation quality is nuts...Never have I seen something that looks so fluid and yet so clear and well shaded at the same time...this is comparable or even better than top animation studios of today
The weirdest part about the entire plot of this is when you realize that there is a stink level that can be reached to legitimately kill a person. You can actually die because something smells that bad.
Pretty much works the same way as an allergic reaction. Your nose alone won't kill you, but if other parts of your body try to "protect" you in an extreme way, it can be very damaging.
@@Predatornc1 my text-to-speech did a whole bunch of really weird on that but there was a chemical spill irl that caused a smell so bad it rendered people unconscious for half a kilometer around and like forced evacuation of people out 3 times that distance.
I started out concerned that this man stank enough to be lethal at like 50 yards, but now I am much more concerned about the army literally being incapable of hitting him with ANYTHING lol
The thing that gets me is how AMAZING the gas masks and chemical gear in general here looks. I'm a collector of gas masks and the like, not super familiar with Japanese gear (honestly not much is known about Japanese gas masks, due to language barriers and the like) but I do know the basics of their stuff. General stuff, the voices sound appropriately muffled, from what I can tell anyway. Not overly muffled (like the TF2 pyro) or crystal clear, just right. Now, onto the masks on display. First off, most of the troops have Type 4 masks, details look really damn good, absolutely no complaints. The commander and some of the troops have the Type 3 mask, which from the few pictures of these things I've seen, is completely perfect, even the hood seen on the mask is replicated very well, maybe a bit too much of the mask exposed, but I can cut them some slack on that. The tank crewmen have what appears to be the US M25 tank crewman mask. I have no idea if that's correct, never seen any evidence of Japan using those masks, or making their own indigenous clone, but considering everything else is correct, yeah, probably right. The mask the grandmother is the worst looking, not detailed enough, on par with other well animated gas masks I've seen. Not sure if it's a real mask, again, Japanese gas masks are not my forte. Not bad by any means, just a slight letdown considering everything else on display here. I've saved the absolute best for last, the Type 2 mask that the chopper sniper has. The mask looks great, but the thing that made my jaw drop is that the exhale valve on the front is actually animated, it opens to let out air as the guy talks. That is something I have NEVER seen animated before, such a small, but spectacular detail. This short film easily gets a 11/10 for me in terms of animation, just, great work.
I feel like the gasmask used by the grandma is a respirator made for civilian use. It looks like a gasmask from the japanese company KOKEN LTD. (興研) they named "Koken 133949 Dust Mask Sakai Type 1821H-02 " I've seen it being used during the cleaning of Fukushima after the tsunami of 2011, it just doesn't have the part to cover the mouth. Maybe to show the expression or maybe because it's an older model. But I could be wrong.
@@AisuUchibiVTuberThat is incredibly close, but the lack of a oral nasal cup is sorta distracting, I can cut them some slack on that, because it does let you see her face as she's yelling, which is cool, it balances out. I do feel like you're right about what mask it is, still, excellent catch.
Not to rain on your parade but this was a result of some of the greatest brains in the industry collaborating together to make a series of short movies that share some themes. Not your average 90s TV budget anime.
I know the first story of "Memories" is really great and all but this one deserves to be loved too! Just look at it! You don't have to be an animation historian to know this animation doesn't stink!
The problem is there's not as much specialization in it as there was when cell-animation was the norm, and animation studios worldwide were in high competition! Most studios today want the shortcut on budget and production timeline, so the quality suffers in key areas! Take western animation long ago and now...Your average Adult Swim western schlock today would never stand a chance against the Canadian animation team who made Rock & Rule, or anything Don Bluth or Richard Bazley made (Secret of Nimh, Space Ace, Dragon's Lair, Iron Giant, etc).
The fact that they used fully accurate JSDF vehicles though. The Type 75 MLRS, the Type 90 MBT, the Type 87 RCV, the F-15Js, the AH-1S, the Type 82, F-4EJ, and Type 81 TAN SAMs(?). They really just went all out while keeping true to accuracy. I also did not know the JSDF used Sea Stallions.
Just to remind you of a crazy little fun fact : At the end of WW2, a US researcher actually obtained credits to develop the ultimate stink bomb to end the war by demoralising the japanese soldiers. The stink was created, but never used. Maybe the story of this manga was inspired from it. Who knows ?
I have a headcannon that no matter how much of this manufactured stink they have, its still not as bad as real stink in disgusting public toilets. I think NileRed made some in his vids lol
Perhaps. In WW2 gas was only used by German to fight against Polish Underground State. It is because wind is unpredictible and therefore in WW1 it often happened that you ended up poisoning your own troops
Magnetic Rose is fantastic, my ideal of a Dead Space animation but truly strong with the horror and mystery, instead of the crude and raw gory-fest that the originals given! hahahaah
