2 Dec 09 - Review of "Birth", plus News

Akira Toriyama and Masakazu Katsura teaming up to make "Jiya", Bakemonogatari does very well on Blu-Ray, anime-related nominations for this year's Annie Awards, and Naruto #6 on Yahoo! for 2009. Plus a review of the obscure 1984 anime OVA "Birth," with amazing animation and not much else.

For links and more information on all the news covered this week, see the corresponding blog post at http://www.otakunovideo.net/blog/?p=433

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• anime
• manga
• light
• novel
• news
• akira
• toriyama
• masakazu
• katsura
• jiya
• bakemonogatari
• annie
• miyazaki
• ponyo
• naruto
• birth
• ova

[Master10k2]

Have you read Masakazu Katsura's manga Zetman? I'm actually making a MMV from it.

[ONVPodcast]

Nope, haven't read that.

[TeddyBearWithSexHair]

Did anyone else think that the giant robot looked like a really fat Zaku?

[ONVPodcast]

Ha! Not dissimilar. And this came out 5 years after original Mobile Suit Gundam, back when all of entire anime fandom was Gundam-crazy, so that'd make sense.

[TheRealSentai]

Yeah, the animation is pretty damn good. Through, the music felt waaaay off track. But the animation, damn. Really good stuff.

And, very-very anime art style.

[ONVPodcast]

About the music: Yeah, sadly this was par for the course for Hisaishi in the 1980's. Something about Miyazaki's work touched off Hisaishi's orchestral instincts, thank goodness.

[Zeta441]

the 08th MS team is my fav OAV

[phone999]

wow what a great team up jiya i cant wait

[ONVPodcast]

It was made in 1984, actually.

[goanimeorg1]

Thanks for the updates!

[TheRealSentai]

WOW!

Now, thats a new level of...Sad. I mean, really.

Hell, I fantasize about stuff too. But I do know whats real and whats fake,

Well, hope he's happy.