Anime Abandon: Super Atragon

[@capt.eagleva7114]

Aviators: idk, 5$? Seeing the camera, the lights, Bennet's bed and the world outside the window: priceless.

[@Magitek1112]

Also, let's not forget that Atragon also ties into the Godzilla series. The ATragon is known as the Gotengo in Japan, and it also appeared in Godzilla Final Wars and Godzilla Unleashed.

[@OriginalPatton]

I knew that sub looked familiar!

[@TK199999]

Seriously Sage, Antarctic and guy blowing up in pile of guts...and your are not gonna make 'The Thing' reference?

[@flamedance58]

Giant evil columns? Messing up the areas? We gonna meet the Avatar here? Will our knowledge of the land be great?!

[@shioriryukaze]

What's a paladin?

[@jewillia1979]

Your knowledge of the land shall be great.

[@Igarappappa]

I'm nno entirely sure.

[@Msoulwing]

***** Maybe we'll find the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom.

[@guilmon182]

***** I'm not entirely sure.

[@drthmik]

in these type of stories the Alien gives humans power as a test humans use it for war Alien responds to this "misuse" by using the power for war

[@taz31999]

drthmik they just want an excuse for committing a genocide without feeling bad about it I guess.

[@dusktiger112]

@@taz31999 I agree because like sage said they gave it to us during a war.

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

ADV was pretty much all I watched when I started getting deep into anime around the year 2000. Compared to what else was available to me at the time, ADV always had the best dubs. Truth be told, I still think they did some excellent work, and frankly I don't take issue with them re-using the same small pool of actors. I just don't get all the hate for them, they provided a ton of material for budding anime fans and, let's face it, our subculture owes them a lot. I especially don't get the hate for Tiffany Grant. She's a great actress who voiced one of the most iconic anime characters in history. Ditto for Amanda Win Lee and Spike Spencer (Who, by the way, has a hell of a gift for being able to pull off a little boy voice at his age). And don't start on the "Evangelion was bad" BS, because everyone loved it back then and a bad series wouldn't spawn a positive legacy that lasts to this day.

[@AnimeMetalFan1]

ADV definitely had better quality dubs than Manga Entertainment, thats for sure.

[@DeaconG1959]

Good God, I remember watching Atragon at the movie theater as a Saturday afternoon matinee in the early 70s...

[@supsup335]

Still like the design of the Rah. Man, who was the madman who designed this thing. I want to meet him

[@Ohnonoki]

I've missed your boyish charm.

[@SoulGizmo]

I miss you

[@lGummyWorml]

Every time I saw that huge drill on the front of the ship, I was waiting for the "Harpoon Cannon, Fire!" clip to be played. Oh well.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Gone, gone the form of man, rise the Super Atrigon!

[@vwhbj2003]

The One and Only Michael McCormick etrigon much.

[@bretthicksomega]

Bennett the Sage is to ADV as Angry Video Game Nerd is to LJN XD Hilarious

[@JacobWilsonVO]

Brett Hicks more like central park media

[@Demolitiondude]

Name changes aside. Atragon is now a ship class. The first (Atragon) is the proven prototype, the second (Ra) is a heavier class hence the super, the third (Gotengo) is the modernized recent version. Its like space battleship Yamato, it has four based on the first, which makes the Yamato a ship class. Even the real Yamato is just as much a ship class as it is the ship itself.

[@salokin3087]

Is he seriously going to review Barefoot Gen... that's some fucked up shit... well as long as you don't compare it to 'Come and See'. Good luck!

[@UrielElOsO]

Damn my curiosity. I read your comment and decided to see why it was some "fucked up shit." Again, damn my curiosity. Btw, you were right.

[@salokin3087]

UrielElOsO And i found out when i was 10... Now i watch anime abandon...

[@patriciareinecapapas7796]

[@falloutghoul1]

UrielElOsO Is it like Violence Jack?

[@UrielElOsO]

falloutghoul1 Not that fucked up, but more like "shit got real, holy hell," fucked up. You'll have to watch it to understand what I mean.

[@lugia361]

holy shit I remember this anime I was 5 when I saw this, I saw it when I was in Bronx visiting my uncles comic book shop.

[@lugia361]

see why you gotta try to pervert my childhood memory dude was a vet who served his country so i would like ya to stop right there.

[@ZaGorudan]

14:46 Something about this scene reminds me of Evangel- oh, Sage made the reference for me. And speaking of Evangelion, doesn't the commander look like a gruffer Gendo Ikari? And doesn't our protagonist look like an older Shinji Ikari? ...and apparently he also has daddy issues. This was released in 1995? The same year as EVA? Wow. This HAS to be a coincidence.

[@Ankan637]

Mark Juneburg I don't understand why Eva-fans see similarities to literally fucking everything. This is why every other mecha fanbases hates you.

[@ZaGorudan]

Ankan637 ..so? So what? Just because I noticed something was eerily similar to another thing is no reason to curse me out. Pretty uncalled for, man.

[@Ankan637]

Mark Juneburg Yeah, but Eva-fans finds "eerily similar" things all the time, in all types of media.

[@aceotaku]

Mark Juneburg I too noticed the gendo resemblance, and was surprised sage didn't comment on it

[@ZaGorudan]

aceotaku Now that I think about it, I realize that Sage was probably trying to avoid the "low hanging fruit". That, and he probably wrote too many Eva references already.

[@GabyGeorge1996]

Fun fact: Atragon is actually part of Godzilla’s canon, as a creature named Manda first appeared in Atragon and later appeared in a Godzilla movie

[@indigotyrannova6113]

This ova needs more manda

[@PrimusProductions]

Indigo TyrannoVA manda?

[@indigotyrannova6113]

One of the godzilla monsters. I believe atragon was a toho movie first where manda appeared

[@carbootstudios2459]

Yeah, Manda debuted in that film.

[@powerbrony3791]

Also fun to note, both Super Atragon and Atragon where both brought to us by our lovely people back in Toho Co LTD. You may have heard of them before because they where the ones who birthed the all mighty Godzilla.

[@DenshaOtoko2]

relax I was born and raised here so relax. I've been a supporter and benefactor of you guys since 1993.

[@jonmcgee6987]

Always thought the liberty was Iowa # 6. After checking out the ships of WW 2, she's a sister ship to the British Nelson and Rodney Battleships. Still it's an older anime title and i like it.

[@SBXIII]

I had no idea this was ever released on DVD. I never actively searched anywhere to buy the disc, but when I bought the VHS for some pocket change back in 2010 I decided to look up the title on ANN's Anime Encyclopedia. I vividly remember seeing no listing of a DVD anywhere on Super Atragon's encyclopedia page at the time, though that seems to have been corrected since then.

[@SBXIII]

Also, nice Devo reference.

[@0n1baka]

Did anyone else at first that that was the ship that fights Godzilla

[@aceotaku]

Slenerdman hmmm you mean it isn't?

[@gojirasnob8809]

aceotaku yes that ship do battle with godzilla later series

[@autobotfan11]

Slenerdman It is the same ship.

[@michaeldoyle5177]

Slenerdman It's featured in Final Wars because the original movie was made by Toho.

[@SMAXZO]

+Slenerdman Yeah...the Atragon was later repurposed as the Gotengo.

[@Mobysimo]

How does the crew know what an Atomic Bomb even is? Weren't Nukes a closely kept secret during the war?

[@FranklinEdmundChesterDelanoRoo]

Flaws of plot.

[@dashzilla9358]

Huh, not one Godzilla joke. Props Sage, props

[@Tareltonlives]

I remember thinking a while back that a remake of Atragon would be awesome. I now stand corrected.

[@akumaten]

Why does that Maryl chick have that Kikaider color scheme?

[@gregoryjames7696]

I couldn't stop staring at the speck on your shirt and I turned it off 5 minutes in.

[@ShadowWolfRising]

"I will attempt to help Humanity........by helping one of the countries that make up the Axis forces, who committed horribly war crimes in this war (Except against the Jews for some reason............yes seriously, the Japanese even protected the Jews from the Germans, refusing to hand them over. Given who they were allied with, reading about that was pretty jarring.)." "And i will prove how horrible humanity is by Allying using the country who only entered the war when one of the Axis forces attacked them." wot?

[@asher8754]

The Japanese probably respected Jewish culture as being somewhat similar to their own

[@MrX-bd1ou]

@@asher8754 ...no, they hate the jews.

[@MrX-bd1ou]

japan was very indifferent with the jews (like most people in the world)

[@josephglatz25]

Actually the reason was that the Japanese actually believed Hitler's take that the Jews secretly controlled the world, but pursued the exact opposite response, trying to court them and win them over. So, saving the Jews they could made sense from that particular conspiracist's perspective.

[@mattisheretonight]

the fact you released this on 4/20 is the perfect reference to Commander Stoner. *salutes*

[@CornishCreamtea07]

In a Manga UK podcast they said that Japanese licenses used to tell them that a show or film that had bombed, was really popular in order to get some return on it. Or in some cases bolt a successful title onto a failed one as Sage said. Though I have also heard they used to deliberately pick shows that had bombed, because the license was cheaper.

[@ibalancenow4486]

Really one of the most original, well scripted channels on KZbin. The content pretty much doesn't age. Great work i could watch you all day. Still as a fat guy you where cooler just kidding not really

[@therumpusroom614]

9:10 "Are we not men?" WE ARE DIVO!!!

[@UnnamedVibesTree]

If you're going to review Barefoot Gen, then I know that you're doing research on Keiji Nakazawa's life and work. That said, please try to read Ore Wa Mita. It's a one issue telling of the Nakazawa's actual experience surviving the bomb that later evolved into Gen. It puts perspective on the changes made to the source material in reference to Nakazawa's biography. I can't wait to see how you compare it to Grave of the Fireflies.

[@puppymolly123]

I just got this DVD at a pawn shop, I'm so excited

[@wild-strike]

I’m sorry but when it comes to the name I have to disagree with you. The target fans are clearly fans of the 1963 film, specifically those in America. Now you might go “Wait this movie has fans?!” Well yes… Godzilla fans. The Goten-go (the ship in Atragon) is a warship that frequently is put in Godzilla media it has been in countless video games, a few TV shows, and would later be in Godzilla: Final Wars. Also the Goten-go had a short name change to the Goten and was put in the 1977, WAR IN SPACE. The Goten-go has a mini film series going on here. Also in the original book Undersea Warship the Goten-go is called the Lightning bolt. So with the name changing from Lightning Bolt to Goten-go to Goten and with the 1963 English name being Atragon the new name being “Ra” isn’t much of a surprise due to its constant name changes. Also by this time the name “Atragon” became more of a name to refer to the story rather than the film.

[@Kuudere-Kun]

I just watched Atragon and found this looking for KZbin videos on it. I repeatedly thought watching the movie that it could benefit from an Anime remake, but that would be getting a full season, hopefully two cores, not an OVA that has even less run-time then the original film. Not that it matters since this plot doesn't resemble that film much at all.

[@saintninian]

Holy Shit! When I was a kid I used to watch Venus Wars and this late night on Much Music (I think) I've been trying to remember what this was called for years so I could re-watch it. Thanks to Sage I've re-watched both... and they sucked the farts out of a dogs ass. Thanks Sage.

[@rogelioVela1985]

ship with a drill? man, I remember seeing one of those in the ps2 game, Naval Ops Warship gunner and the second game of it :D

[@DarthBobCat]

Eh. I like Meryl's performance, from the scenes I've seen. That particular scene you snarked at was pretty damn pat, but her performance sold me.

[@popc5245]

That white dot in Bennet shirt has taking all of my atention during the vid lol

[@wardan1230]

hey a Toho anime and has a Toho monster Manda who appeared in Destroy All Monsters and Gozilla Final Wars

[@MetalPcAngel]

was going to bed, got a test in the morning. . . well looks like I am sleeping late tonight!

[@marche800]

Ironically the video was uploaded on 4/20

[@kyubihanyou]

***** Nowhere resembling the correct use of the term.

[@JRex-yo6um]

Why do I get the feeling that Toho should have a anime Godzilla movie instead of this?

[@carbootstudios2459]

It's confirmed.

[@captainkaiju2273]

I wonder what OP’s reaction to this past year and a half was like...

[@hound89]

Suncoast, that brings me back.

[@powerbronyjr.424]

Cool fact, both films where made/produced by Toho CO. LTD who also made the Godzilla series.

[@cameronstarkel5629]

22:05 All I can think is Rei and Asuka doing Shakespeare...

[@Seraph419]

13:29 First time to see that someone brings up the myth of "The Bell" (Die Glocke), one of the wonder weapons from Nazi Germany... interessting. And yeah, i see the Evangelion reference too

[@zonmisty1231]

You almost made it suav 😣 You were about to be the hero. 😢

[@timothyhenrichsen4979]

Ships designed to travel within the arctic and Antarctic circles have stronger hulls in comparison to the navy warships of the time. Some are even made of titanium.

[@mathieuleader8601]

with Bennett's beard and dark shades he would do great cosplaying as the Dolflamingo Family executive Trebol.

[@EHH246]

The original live action film did seem to do one thing better than the anime based on that trailer. It actually showed the underground civilization rather than just two members of it.

[@bdpickett]

Manda would have really helped here. Yeah, Manda made its first appearance in the Live-action version of this.

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

The shelf has gotten pretty stuffed, looks good.

[@FoolyCoolyBlackLagoony]

Oh fuck, Landlock. Watched that years ago, I was bored to tears.

[@DenshaOtoko2]

This material was also copied from Gigguk's Evabridged parodies.

[@xaagripha7326]

Love your show sage. but you ever here the operation high jump? If not you might get a chuckle off of that.

[@joholloway8818]

I personally don't have a problem with adv's(and funimation's) habit of using a partially pre-set stable of actor's, nor do I have a problem(for the most part) with said actor's.(those few I've met at con's and the countless more I've heard) that said I do see where bennet is coming from, just like anything else hearing the same voice's over and over again and again will eventually dull one's enjoyment of there preformance's.

[@Mrcookiemonster515]

16:28 Plays space battleship yamato theme.

[@d.c.stranded7134]

Home Alone 2... sweet

[@mariecarie1]

I bust out laughing at 6:40. That's the most boring spontaneous combustion ever.

[@kolbykauffman4180]

This whole anime is just so...bizarre...Not in the typical way I'm used to seeing on this show. It's just executed so...the random combustion guy...And the Commander is my dealer...I don't know...

[@OttoVonGarfield]

commander Stoner and his 2nd in command Captain Ganja, to the rescue to save us all from bombs and a bad time.

[@alfan0079]

atragon without manda? phew

[@afrikasmith1049]

I just realized that this film could take a few pointers from Marvel Studios when it comes to science fiction and WW2.

[@josephglatz25]

Umm, does Japan have a thing for re-skinning the Yamato? They made into a space ship, and a submarine, and I'm guessing a bunch of other things. I don't get it. The ship was thrown away on a suicide run at the pacific fleet at Okinawa and a couple hundred dive bombers found it and sank it before it even got close. It only was involved in 1 surface engagement with other warships before it's sinking at Leyte Gulf, where it ended up running away from destroyers and jeep carriers that had no reasonable chance of sinking it. Yes, the Japanese admiral didn't know that, and the skies were filling up with ground support aircraft at that point, which made him think that Taffy 3 was just the picket screen of the main American carrier fleet, but the Yamato seemed kind of useless in the grand scheme of things.

[@Crawldragon]

I think the Japanese just like naming things Yamato. It's a word that represents the majority ethnic group in Japan, a province from which their royal family used to rule, and a few other various parts of Japanese culture. It seems logical to name influential military ships after this, the way Americans sometimes name their ships after American ideals and symbols like Liberty, Constitution, and Endeavor.

[@thesupremenecroticdakimakura]

Yamato sounds nice.

[@josephglatz25]

Not just the name, but the ship itself. The Yamato class battleship profile and design has, counting this and Space Battleship Yamato, appeared twice in Animes in forms other than the actual, historical ship.

[@thesupremenecroticdakimakura]

+Joseph Glatz I know. I'm just saying it might be a simpler reason. Think naming ships "Enterprise."

[@josephglatz25]

Phacteria That I understand.

[@raycearcher5794]

The voice acting isn't all bad, Doug Smith is in there!

[@christopherflowers6583]

17:49 - 17:57, quote of the century.

[@JadedWarlock]

Thank God you didn't pull Gantz. I don't think I'm ready for something like that again.

[@mrjuderaw87]

4:25 and we already having a conversation haha. That was like a DR who episode. (Oh man that joke was kinda far) "i make it here or there" ...pause... (ok thats hillarious) "thats what i thought"

[@Awsomeisimo]

They are being affected by " Giant evil columns " The tapestry of ages

[@zinnixtoma1]

I seen this yeeears ago i rememevered it fondly.... i should of left it in my 13 year old brain

[@max72590]

Praise the sunglasses who gave me the ability to see bennet's room in the middle of the review, also was he wearing white trousers or those where his review's notes on his legs?

[@LeBluinator]

Clicked on video because i'm a big fan of Godzilla from the Showa tho the millennium.

[@Amanoob105]

You'd think someone like me would know better than to have been trying to take a drink watching this without taking a moment to hit pause. 21:10. My screen needs a wipe.

[@AaronCMounts]

CPT Hayate is like someone animated the Macho Man, Randy Savage and gave him a battleship.

[@rgd963]

I remember watching the live action Atragon on the ABC's 4:30 movie where is was a Staple on Japanese monster movie week

[@rathorclemenger6125]

I've gotta ask: Are you going to do the Gundam Wing series (including the movie)?

[@zillafire101]

I think we can all agree this would've been better with Don Frye and his manly fucking moustache.

[@Joshtika18]

Just curious, did you REALLY just pick something random off the shelf, or was that scripted? I don't mind either way, I'm just curious. Oh, also, Shamanic Princess. I want you to review Shamanic Princess.

[@mangamer5166]

"Не мёжет биить!" - фраза улыбнула :)

[@Iceteague1]

Matt Greenfield ADR Dircted work is good or great but he can be mix on some especially in the 90's.

[@akumaten]

22:37 OMG!!! YOU'RE THE BEST!!!

[@sephytcd8349]

10:13 thats some jojo shit right there

[@shinny_grimmy]

I missed everything after the point he said he's reviewing Barefoot Gen.EEYES!!!!

[@ZanraiKid]

So, I looked up Landlock on ANN... Wish I hadn't.

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

17:07 "You mustn't watch this shit!"

[@DemitriosX]

17:58 is that the voice actor who played Dr. Light in that terrible Mega Man cartoon?

[@williamhowe1]

You sunk my battleship!

[@hollyhandgrenade42]

You look kinda badass in those glasses.

[@Raygathex]

Honestly this anime sounds kinda great.

[@Mi_Fa_Volare]

I propably have the same glasses you have funny American with hat :D

[@captainautobots]

ADV churns out another winner.

[@GamieCorporation]

I swear this reminds me of harlock space pirate. The 2013 movie.

[@daisuke6467]

Seems like it would be pretty good.

[@TheNukaColaMan10]

I want to eat a barrel of Buckshot already AND IM NOT EVEN A QUARTER WAY THROUGH!!!

[@TRETHEGAMERMAN]

Subterranean aliens does this mean this movie takes place as the showa Godzilla series

[@MrTomaszLukasz]

Are there any Anime Abandon live events that I could watch? I can't find them :(

[@SoloWing88]

Aliens in the antartic, with modern military doing naught against it? Is this someone time traveling to sh!t on Yukikaze?