Creamy Mami! The Reason anime got WEIRD

That fateful day in 1986. That was when everything changed. This three minute short was in the middle of a $1,000,000 marketing stunt, & without it, anime as we know it would not exist. Discover the history and impact of the iconic anime series Creamy Mami. Amaze your friends with completely useless anime trivia literally only me & three other people care about. Explore the nearly lost media status of Pony Metal U-Gaim and its MSX computer game, and learn how Creamy Mami played a crucial role in the founding of Studio Bones and the coincidental creation of popular anime series like Fullmetal Alchemist, My Hero Academia, and Mob Psycho. Follow the career of Takako Ohta, the voice actor for Creamy Mami, and learn about the cultural significance of this magical girl series, which was one of the first idol-based anime. Get the inside scoop on the importance of Creamy Mami and learn how it influenced the world of anime and beyond. Marvel at how video descriptions are just padding to keep people busy in this amazing, monumental, stupendous, incredible video made to waste your time & mine.
0:00 What Is This Anime & Why Should I care?
1:27 Media Blitz
2:52 Fans Made Their Own Anime
4:39 Lost Anime Spinoff
6:52 Why Was This Made?
7:35 Lost Video Game
8:21 MSX Computer Games
9:12 The Million Dollar Dinosaur Statue
10:24 Where Did The Anime Come From?
12:05 Directly Responsible for Studio Bones
13:20 Closing Thoughts
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[@kennylauderdale_en]

Like to recommend 100 other people this madness.

[@mcwolfproductions1987]

Woah!

[@AC_memes]

Wow he's alive

[@UnderTheSameSun693]

Fancy Lala was a show on VHS that I remember. Research it. She too can transform into an adult for her Performances.

[@ThisUserNameWasNotTaken]

Rub my dragon balls kenny

[@flygonbreloom]

Okay that explains why this video kept being recommended to me hahaha. I liked it!

[@hazeemhakim5390]

God,this story just makes me think how many people is going to start their careers just from shitposting

[@barrybend7189]

Pop team Epic: First time?

[@ScamDocMaindel]

@Barry Bend, not only Was the guy who made Pop Team Epic a shitposter, he was a Touhou Shitposter. Amazing

[@barrybend7189]

@@ScamDocMaindel when the first episode alone made a Skyrim, Chrono Trigger and Guardians of the Galaxy joke in 15 minutes that's an achievement.

[@pleaserespond3984]

Toby Fox? Heck, Andrew Hussie himself? Yandere De... oh wait. PewDiePie?

[@kos2919]

Tyson Hesse also started his career in all things sonic from his ridiculously stupid sonic comic parody

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

If you can't build a giant dinosaur statue, what is even the point of having money ?

[@youngmage]

True

[@KamenGrayz]

Yeah, if I had buttloads of money I buy myself a freakin' dinosaur!!

[@Invaderpyro]

Japan has built a giant Gundam statue, so I don't know why anyone would think that a dinosaur one is out of the realm of possibility.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

@@Invaderpyro A dinosaur Gundam?

[@Belgand]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 That was my thinking. It's a total waste to make a giant dinosaur statue. Come back when it's a giant dinosaur *robot*!

[@TheLalacream]

"Just like Miki Momo before her" *shows character almost getting hit by a truck*

[@k.umquat8604]

She actually dies from that truck

[@MAndSquared]

Yeah, there was no almost about it. They straight up killed Minky Momo

[@lafreyaya9629]

Omgomg i was hoping someone would also point this out.

[@lafreyaya9629]

Omgomg i was hoping someone would also point this out.

[@user-fh6wr1xx4v]

She rebirthed to Earth in second season So possibly first Isekai anime with Truck-kun

[@kawaiiPASTA]

I literally watched Creamy Mami because of this video during the start of quarantine. I can confirm that it is a show that does literally whatever it wants.

[@albertocarlosbustos9892]

OMG like, literally you guise!!!! Blm

[@RadenWA]

Creamy Mommy 😩

[@couchpotato3197]

These designs are beyond cute. 80's character design was so endearing. Edit: I didnt mean to start a fucking boomer war I just wanted to say the robot girl was cute and I have no idea what some people are going on about below this post lmao.

[@JMarcosArt]

I agree 100% percent! It really annoys me when people tell me anime characters from the 80's looked ugly

[@alanvitorj.b.fragamoreira7668]

I personally don't find them as cute as what Japan would come up with in later decades but it's definitely quite distinct and unique.

[@cyanryann64]

@@JMarcosArt and that's just others opinion btw anime characters from the 80's are ugly

[@JMarcosArt]

@@cyanryann64 If you say so

[@JMarcosArt]

@@paraclonebasedtrooper8225 Another thing I've noticed is that 80's anime characters generally looked tougher than modern ones. (This goes for both men and women characters). Today, most designers just want to make the characters pretty XD

[@franciscoherrera4543]

"Bill Gates was reportedly so upset with this totally badass misuse of money."

[@couchpotato3197]

@@acidonia150 Bill was just upset he didnt think if it himself

[@azadalamiq]

@@acidonia150 bill gates was retired by then. he is "in name only" connected with Microsoft, he had 0 connection to the xbox.

[@michaelmartin9022]

Hmm, maybe he can use that wasted money as an excuse for the pile of shit that was Doom 95.

[@eng3d]

Bill Gates moved to Japan and launched the MSX that it was a success and yes, MSX has magical girls turned into robots.

[@thejman5683]

then again when he saw the chainsaws in gears of war, he said "I LOVE THAT CHAINSAW"

[@yakikorosu3211]

"a realistic, down-to-earth show that was completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots." I never thought there would be a real-life use for this particular Simpsons quote. If only I could also win things by watching.

[@NBS_Studios_Official]

You kids don't know what you want! That's why you're still kids, cuz you're stupid!

[@agentepolaris4914]

There's something about the 80's and Japan that is just so magical and infatuating... the happy and care-free vibes, the music, the aesthetics. Sure I'm aware it was by no way a perfect time (which decade has been?) , but still sounds like a very interesting roller coaster of a decade and place; I especially love how optimistic all was in those times, compared to how doomerish the mood was in the following times. Please don't start a stupid generation war in the replies, I'm just a dude born in the late 90s expressing his interest for a time that he couldn't get to live.

[@youthoughtaboutit6946]

The 80’s for Japan was a lot like the 90’s for a lot of the west in a lot of ways. An comparatively economically prosperous, yet surprisingly experimental and artistic optimistic time that got a damper put on it afterwards and never truly recovered. The 90s saw the economic bubble burst in Japan which led to stagnation, the effects of which have never been able to be remedied, and the west in the 2000s got things like the Great Recession, the rise of Islamic terrorism becoming more wide spread and just general cycles of tension and societal stress causing events.

[@davidreeding9176]

I will start the stupid generation war in your comments.

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

@@davidreeding9176 Guddamned whippersnappers.

[@DJBSharpMusic]

​@@skaldlouiscyphre2453Don't you mean Gundammed Whippersnappers?

[@broskijoeski127]

@@davidreeding9176 let's go to war brothers. The best gen to live is the Roman Empire in the year 800.

[@andreluismartinsbezerra9660]

In 15 mins we had: Old magical girl show > mecha spin off > japanese computer market > 1 million dollar dinousaur replica > first gig for many animators that would become importat figures in the anime industry HOLY HELL, WHAT A RIDE

[@TheLegendsmith]

This shit is like finding out that Ainsley Harriott went to the same school as Gabe Newell.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

​​@@TheLegendsmithwho is Ainsley?

[@Izelikestea]

​@@NoNameAtAll2a British TV chef.❤

[@KamenracerX]

​@@NoNameAtAll2The "Heh heh, boi" chef guy

[@Hardworlder]

I'm still not completely convinced that every video you've ever made isn't just made up. Like, this can't be real, right? None of this is real.

[@ondiiina]

This is all just one big joke

[@mknaomidestiny]

I draw all these for Kenny in my garage, we have had so much good laughing at you guys.

[@NGMK]

This just might be another Sseths alt account...

[@Kraigon42]

He uses Polybius to edit his videos.

[@souljastation5463]

It's strange to read this comments when you live in a country where Creamy Mamy is hugely popular (and for good reason, Kazunori Ito, writer of the series, was part of Mamoru Oshii's team). The nobody singer who sang her songs built her career on Creamy. Oh, and they also dubbed the tentacle OVA in my language, sure we found it a little bizarre but we're not shocked by it like you seem to be.

[@UndyingNephalim]

That feeling when you realize corporations clamping down and destroying fan fiction of Creamy Mami in the 1980's would have prevented 90% of all anime afterward from ever existing.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

We could have stopped this. Imagine a world without anime. It would be such a peaceful place.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

​@@kennylauderdale_enTrue.

[@MLBlue30]

​@@kennylauderdale_enMy God, no more weebs?

[@erenyeagerist7681]

​@@kennylauderdale_en no. The world would be too boring without anime. There are countless of anime masterpieces. If anime didn't exist, we wouldn't experience these masterpieces like Studio Ghibli. Your channel would not exist. Speaking of peace, the ultimate reason why the world is not at peace is becuase of USA.

[@erenyeagerist7681]

​​@@kennylauderdale_enno. The world would be too boring without anime. There are countless of anime masterpieces. If anime didn't exist, we wouldn't experience these masterpieces like Studio Ghibli. Your channel would not exist. Speaking of peace, the ultimate reason why the world is not at peace is becuase of that hegemon empire.

[@Jayfive276]

The anime whose title is the porn parody of itself.

[@KallusGarnet]

lol you have to love the Japanese.

[@souljastation5463]

Only in America. I'm from Europe and we grew up watching Creamy never suspecting her name could have had other meanings. BTW, it's strange to see that what most of you consider completely outlandish and totally bizarre for me was just my childhood.

[@sylvierose2799]

@The Lawnmower Ix. 091 I both love and hate u

[@ironmaster6496]

Creamy Mami vs Kinky Momo

[@sashkinpashkin]

@@ironmaster6496 Ha~ Nice.

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

You: "I have no idea why they made magical girls into a mecha Series" Me, hearing the phrase 'magical robots': "I have never before wanted anything quite as strongly"

[@barrybend7189]

Cutie Honey: Am I a joke to you!?

[@AscendantStoic]

The only prominent "magical robot" i know is is Escaflowne, it's quite an unexplored territory which is quite surprising considering how every other genre and trope has been done to death.

[@gespenstkai9487]

Lyrical Nanoha, Magic Knight Rayearth, Mashin Hero Wataru...

[@TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

@@AscendantStoic which Escaflowne? I have the first of one of the mangas, but in the back there's an explanation that there's two separate series covering the same events. (I prefer manga when available)

[@RexcorJ]

Knight & Magic: I'm right here.

[@phantomspaceman]

"Creamy Mami, an anime about a little girl that gets abducted, experimented on, and can turn into an adult whenever it's legally convenient. The show was an unparalleled success and spawned a fan series with more aliens and robots." Someone should have had a talk with Japan a long time ago and we just assumed things would work out on their own. This is how Fate/kaleid happens.

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Sounds like we should just keep things going as they are then for more Japanese Mahou Shoujo greatness.

[@jamalisujang2712]

Is that a bad thing?

[@Kalvinjj]

"This is how Fate/kaleid happens." See, it DID work out. Better than expected even.

[@yohann3825]

@@KalvinjjFBI ITS THIS PERSON RIGHT HERE

[@RetroCrush]

Also, we will be releasing more Creamy Mami extras and music videos on our upoming sreaming service. Some are currently live on our KZbin :D

[@AngieParty12380]

You guys are seriously the best

[@capscaps04]

I would love to use your stream services but I can't since I'm not from America.

[@tylercoon1791]

Dangerously based

[@maddieb.4282]

@@capscaps04get a vpn?

[@ianfinrir8724]

You guys are alright.

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

Bill Gates: You used all our money for a Brontosaurus statue? MSX: Yes. Bill Gates: Yes, and you call it Brontosaurus despite the fact it's obviously a Brachiosaurus.

[@blacksalena0]

MSX: We actually call it "Ultrasaurus", Mr. Bill.

[@michaelmartin9022]

MSX: It's a... regional dialect

[@CyberVonCyberus]

Bill Gates : Hmm, what region ?

[@ericriley1985]

Just so you know, the sign on that statue very clearly said "Ultrasaurus". Kenny just misidentified it as a Brontosaurus.

[@sergiom.a.1236]

@@CyberVonCyberus MSX: Chiba, where it snows.

[@Kerorofan1990]

Million Dollar Dinosaur Money sounds like a cocaine fueled 80's synth band.

[@evapalma9899]

No, a modern metal band

[@juancarloscuaocastellanos8813]

Or a very strange Indy band.

[@sydneygibson6664]

Sounds like the sequel to Dinosaur Laser Fight..

[@enriquecadlum189]

Not gonna lie; i clicked on the video expecting it to be about another silly anime idea to be forgotten by time and spend a few minutes laughing at, but stayed and was inspired as all hell by what a circle of extremely devout and skilled Otaku can and will do if left to their own devices. Pretty inspiring lol

[@jetfire851]

The name sounds like the came up with the dirtiest phrase that could also plausibly be a magical girl anime title.

[@user-qv6fg1zr6y]

Creamy mommy tag

[@frumpplays2463]

Is there a more generic company name than General Products?

[@barrybend7189]

General Motors.

[@TheSomewareMan]

Stuff to Buy

[@BadlanderOutsider]

It's actually a SF reference to General Products, a company run by aliens known as Pierson's Puppeteers from Larry Niven's Known Space universe. They picked the name, in the fiction precisely because of how universal and genric it is and are primarily known for making genric spaceship hulls for people to adappt to whatever they need. So while it sounds quite generic and random, it's actually anything but in the context of them being producers of unofficial merchandise for fantasy and SF works as well as their own works (GP being run by Artmic and proto-Gainax).

[@tisisonlytemporary]

Stuff

[@harrisonlee9585]

Standard Oil General Dynamics

[@reel-rookie807]

You should just become a historian for Japanese animation at this point. The lengths you go through just to find the smallest bit of information on this stuff is insane! Keep talking about old/ important media and keep up the good work. It’ll keep people talking about it for years hopefully taking some of these properties out of obscurity.

[@LL-oq5sf]

Honestly iam gale this channel exists Thai person is valuable I watched Doraemon as a child Searched for more manga from the same mangaka, and found laughing Salesman... And surprisingly, this channel have a video on " least selling anime" which is laughing salseman

[@SiegahertzCarmin]

I know people already said it... DAMN Those fan design are nuts! No, really, they're great! They look like megaman Zero characters. 15 years prior. Even the concept of a robot magical girl kinda make sence: combining Astro and momo? Yeah, why not? I'm actually surprise this wasn't done in another fashion somewhere else.

[@drakkenmensch]

Homer: "Gaim? What's a gaim?" Homer: "Oh a GAIM"

[@guytorie]

I wonder if the creator of My Life As A Teenage Robot saw Pony Metal U-GAIM at some point.

[@astrodreamer946]

Wow, I forgot that show existed. I used to love watching that as a kid. Thanks for reminding me of it.

[@hedgehog3180]

We have not explored girl robots enough as a society, if we can have a She-Ra reboot we can have a My Life As A Teenage Robot reboot.

[@araxx020]

OMG I WONDER IF THAT IS THE CASE! I even remember there was one episode where Brad was driving a bycicle and singing the Minky Momo song

[@user-qq1xj5zk9n]

I bet yes

[@TheWickedWizardOfOz1]

Clearly, the thing to do now is get an interview with Bill Gates and grill him on this subject.

[@deltoroperdedor3166]

Bill Gates 2 seconds into the Japan flashbacks: "sorry, I did too much coke back then"

[@deltoroperdedor3166]

@Christopher I P Well, "big in Japan" had more than one meaning back then

[@kellodrawsalotkello7058]

Nowadays populair oc's and fan characters can go far into fandoms and even end up having small cameos in comic books or shows, it's amazing to see how beloved this character

[@mmfsnotsakuga3408]

Fun fact about PONY METAL U-GAIM both Hiroyuki Okiura (Director of Jin Roh) and Hiroyuki Kitakubo (Director Blood the Last Vampire) worked as key animators on this short

[@Kazeryuun]

This actually took me for a wilder ride than I thought.

[@Bluecho4]

This is my understanding of how human life works in general. No matter how well you _think_ you understand a Thing, it was actually wilder and more recursively complicated than you could possibly imagine. We just forgot about it, or else the Thing was obscure enough that few people knew it in the first place.

[@IronicCliche]

I feel Kenny's style is best described as "beautiful, meandering romps into utter madness".

[@michellesing7498]

I believe they combine genres to create this magical girl mecha because they loved both genres and as they say "why not both" i do the same thing when i draw! It's the inner fan obsession, like how ppl make alternate universes of their fave characters!

[@SakuraStardust]

80's Japan definately didn't have any shortage of Idols or Magical Girls. What a time to be alive.

[@kennylauderdale_en]

It's been awhile. Good to see you're still online.

[@SakuraStardust]

@@kennylauderdale_en Thanks, I'm slowly getting back to creating content again 👍🏻

[@keenobrown919]

"Blaster Mari, where they introduced a magical girl into the Gundam universe for god knows what reason." I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

[@hedgehog3180]

I would love to see this but like it's a newtype girl with a suit that has a psycommu system that just is magical girl like for some reason.

[@juancarloscuaocastellanos8813]

"Blaster Mary" sounds like a name for a Motley Crew's lost song, or a very alternative rock band. Like The Darkness, but with more glam.

[@Jayfive276]

There was a magical girl extended universe?!?! scanners.gif

[@Belgand]

Not so different from Isekai Quartet, really.

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

Mecha and magical girls were huge back in the day.

[@sneakytingvega5638]

I’m starting to get the feeling that the “Pony Metal U-GAIM” anime short was sort of an inspiration for “My Life As A Teenage Robot”.

[@Kopie0830]

Watched this when I was a kid on Brazil tv, creamy mami, minky momo and 3 other shows like this because my sister likes this a lot. Sadly, she died on 2012 on her sleep due to heart issue that was undiagnosed. RIP Maria. I hope your in a better world on the other side.

[@jacob_ian_decoursey_the_author]

"Doesn't even have an article on the Lost Media Wiki" Justin Whang has entered the fight!

[@MettatonBrinstar]

"Pony Metal U Gaim" SHOW ME THE WAY TO YOU!! LEAD ME NOW WHERE YOU ARE!!

[@juanortiz9123]

Ah i see you're a man of culture :)

[@MinuteBracelet]

U GAAAAAIM U GAIM NAO KOTOUUUU

[@michaelmartin9022]

"Yes, well, the urge just come over us, Mr Horne" "Yes, just came over us, it did. And I said 'well, I'm game'" "Oh yes, Mr Horne. There's no one gamier"

[@Ali-Britco]

I'm trying to remember where this is from, any help? :(

[@WormyJester8]

@@Ali-Britco Heavy Metal L-Gaim

[@fluffcake]

What I came for: retrospective about a beloved cute magical girl series What I stayed for: history lesson on otaku culture and anime studio industry

[@yoshimasterleader]

MSX: We worked our budget to exhaustion to build a giant mechanical Dinosaur. Bill Gates: Why would you do all that? MSX: Because it's cool.

[@-Raylight]

I remembered Minky Momo and Creamy Mami really vaguely It use to aired in my local TV Channel, good times.. I guess Magical Girls are Mother of all modern anime

[@eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063]

More like grandma of

[@MisterSiza78]

Huh, so thats how things like frame arms girls and macross idol/valkyrie kits came about

[@couchpotato3197]

Mecha girls were really popular in the 80s I remember seeing a lot of scans of gundam girls from the 80s.

[@MrRuano825]

I'm seriously looking forward to the Mecha-Girl extended universe featuring Azur Lane, Girls Frontline, and Frame Arms Girl/Megami Device.

[@couchpotato3197]

@@MrRuano825 Frame Arm Girls are collectables in Dearh Stranding lol

[@sylvierose2799]

And Alice Gear Aegis!

[@rkgk1517]

I'm really happy that dinosaur statue existed for one glorious moment. I'm glad that someone had that vision and saw it through. They followed through. You can't stop a dream.

[@MissCaraMint]

I agree. It’s just so damn beautiful.

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

"And every once in awhile, you would have a show where an idol fights ninjas with rocket launchers, just so they could sell---" My brain: .... _more rocket launchers?_ "--more records." My brain: .... oh, yeah I guess that was where he was going with this. My bad Don't know why my brain did that, but now I can't get the image out of my head of some sort of "rocket launcher idol" XD

[@erkman4900]

Hahahaa

[@RexcorJ]

"Rocket Launcher Idol" is my dream girl. Well, one of.

[@richmcgee434]

Rocket launchers really don't need much of an ad campaign. They pretty much sell themselves. :)

[@rwdplz1]

My brain went to 'more toys'

[@michaelmartin9022]

Get your asses in gear, Japanese diaspora living in Texas.

[@edwardwhelan5875]

These Robot Magical Girls are the most metal things I’ve ever seen in my life! Heh, Metal, get it......... I’ll leave. No but seriously this was legitimately fascinating.

[@ITSMRFOXY]

Meme! Aproved.

[@telstartelstar]

Kenny coming back to change the thumbnail of this video each week is funny as hell

[@tommytwotacos8106]

"Every once in a while you'd have a show where an idol fights ninjas with rocket launchers just so they could sell more records."

[@cesariojpn]

Honestly, I thought the title said "Creamy Miami" and thought it was strange 80's Engrish.

[@Sudo_Nimh]

"million dollar dinosaur money" is my new favorite saying that no other human will get

[@BGcam]

I really enjoy learning about these lost media that are actually hugely influential to the arc of larger fandoms and anime history.

[@joetalentoh]

Man I don't even watch that much anime anymore but I am absolutely obsessed with these anime deep cut videos

[@halfchiangel88]

I can't believe nobody talks about the giant dinosaur statue anymore, I feel like that woulda been a big talking point at some time

[@VagabondTE]

Dear God I love this channel! Make no mistake you are genuinely doing a service for the world. That's not even a joke. I'm serious. Your videos brighten my day more than I can express. More robot/space armor girls please. That was my thing when I was into anime as teenager and I always felt like they got buried under magical girls. I had no idea there was so much stuff I would have loved to get into.

[@copisetik5984]

Man, I love your channel. Being 43-years-old and watching your vids reminds me of so much weirdness as anime was creeping onto American screens and just seeing whatever because it was new and wild as hell. Staying up to catch one of the three anime (Vampire Hunter D or Robot Carnival or Twilight of the Cockroaches) on USA Network's "Up All Night" block, sending off blank vhs tapes to a fansubber in Texas to get the newest episodes of Fushigi Yugi mailed back, watching Superbook on Sunday mornings because the Christian Network is the only tv your grandma would let you watch. Buying VHS releases with two episodes of Ranma and watching them over and over and over. Trading series with friends not because you were interested in their stuff, just to have something new to watch. The first time you find an "adult" anime in a kids section because the people who worked at the store thought animation = kids. Such crazy times...thanks for the nostalgia, friend.

[@lookatthepicture4107]

"Abducted by UFO and gifted magical powers by talking alien cats Pretty *standard* magical girl stuff" God I love Japan

[@juliepepin3988]

Or a girl given endangered cat DNA to save earth from aliens, pretty standard simply put differently

[@Jerfish1]

“Million dollar dinosaur money” - that is when you know, you truly have made it. Just don’t let Bill know.

[@ViviSectia]

I'm starting to think every 80s magical girl series has a story like this around it.

[@DR3ADER1]

What can I say, the 80s was a time to be alive. Even though I was born in 1998. Looking back at the money-filled, corruption-backed excess of the 1980s gives me enough giggles and knowledge to last 12 days. Few people can claim with dead seriousness that there was an attempt at making a video game based on a mecha doujinshi tribute to a magical girl Anime that was cancelled early in development because the people behind the funding blew their money on a massive Papier-Mache Dinosaur that they commissioned Toho of Godzilla fame to construct, that pissed off Bill Gates so much that they had to scale everything back. Oh, and somehow, GAINAX and one of the founders of Bones had a hand in advertising the doujin with an obscure animation that only just popped-up on KZbin 3-5 years ago. Then again, this was the same decade when a couple of Frenchmen decided to build a race car that wasn't intended to finish an endurance race, but instead, was built to reach 400 km/h (or 252 mph in Tea and Crumpets/Freedom units) down a public road, because they could.

[@alidaraie]

There will be no decade like the 80s ever again. The 60s has been romanticized but we all know all the real shit happened in the 80s

[@eggguy20]

Don't forget that Hollywood in the 80s was so self-aware of action hero movies getting popular that in the 90s, they ended up making action movie spoofs and parodies as a weird homage which ended up resulting in the creation of Black Dynamite

[@blackcat1642]

They also crashed the economy and ruined our prospect of retirement and a dignified adulthood

[@DR3ADER1]

@@blackcat1642 Wasn't the first or last time that happened, we humans love to take things to extremes.

[@blackcat1642]

Yeah but this may be the last time *climate change intesifies*

[@Z-WARD]

This is the funniest rabbit hole video essay I’ve ever seen

[@antonydrossos5719]

3:05 I would watch & read the KUSOTARE out of Pony Metal U-Gaim!

[@kieranmclaughlin264]

Wait.... can't we just make a modern pony metal U-Gaim game?

[@azinyefantasy4445]

Gainax or studio bones probably holds the rights to it since they did the video which means the original doujin was sold off. With pieces of crap out now like xenon valkyrie, what would the game even play like as a slice of life?

[@michaelmartin9022]

I think the basic versions of Fusion 2.5 or Game Maker don't cost over much to register...

[@monkeyscientist9913]

Honestly, I love when Kenny tackles these obscure older anime or lost animes. It's awesome hearing someone be so passionate and entertaining about forgotten media of this calibre. Before watching Kenny, I didn't give a shit about Minky Momo, Twinkle Nora Rock Me, or even Creamy Mami. After discovering this channel and the awesome anime gems he covers I feel like I've been enlightened to this world I never knew existed. I get so stuck up on my favorite anime from the 90s and early 2000s that I forget that there were so many gems buried in the 80s.

[@tinymetaltrees]

My mind is blown by the logic of hiring the Godzilla people to make a life size dinosaur statue. Because, y'know, they already know how to make lizards as tall as buildings so it will be a snap. Flawless.

[@__dane__]

It’s funny how magical girls and mecha did eventually become a genre mashup that works extremely well. See Symphogear

[@1997811isaac]

Henkei Shoujo: Anime girl transforms into mecha, it’s something never seen before! Pony Metal U-Gaim: Hold my Bolts.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

I think Cutie Honey predated U-Gaim by a decade, but uses an older looking robot as the heroine instead. Honey herself is one of the coincidental inspirations for Jenny Wakeman.

[@KumoriGurasu]

Literally I forgot about that promotional short until you said "Pony Metal" and then everything came flooding back right as the clip rolled. This is the craziest fever dream, the Internet is just one big dream simulator. But I totally need more mecha magical girls shows. There'd be elements for an episode or two, but the only full-blown mecha magical girl series I can think of were D4 Princess and Magic Knight Rayearth and yet that wasn't fully-realized until the second season. Japan should've been all over that, especially Gainax. Instead, Gainax makes... magical girls advertising cars.

[@Mnemoniforma9.00]

If you're into these wild early magical girls, you need to delve into the madness that is Jungle de Ikou!

[@paganpeach8359]

I'm so glad youtube recommended this vid. A few days ago I was trying super hard to remember the name of this.

[@PabloAvilaEstevez]

Hell yeah, the graveyard shift does have some benefits

[@megamage911]

Kenny: "Hey guys, want to hear about this magical girl mecha anime? ALSO GIANT DINOSAUR STATUE!"

[@525Lines]

The whole magical girl thing was inspired by Betty Boop, which was largely an extension of the newspaper comic gags, but nobody in Japan knew about the comics and made their own interpretations. Funny since anime is largely an extension of the manga and we're mostly blind to manga. It's a circle, man!

[@reiatomsk]

This video was amazing. Thanks for your good service

[@CocoHutzpah]

Between this and Minky Momo, you've convinced me to watch the magical girl shows of the 80s. In all seriousness, I'm surprised that nobody picked up their old Pony Metal U-Gaim stuff and made a PC-98 game out of it.

[@ElitekidMu0]

Creamy Mami and Minky Momo should be more recognized than ever before thanks to Kenny. Nice vid!!

[@spamcan9208]

Really interesting to see the historical side of amine. Research into older, obscure things is hard enough. Adding a foreign language on top of that makes these videos all the more impressive.

[@sebastianharrison6118]

Great vod I learned so much

[@yoh_moriyama]

I need a time machine to get back to 80's, man those were the times.

[@t.r.s.eakamuneebatif9173]

You know your day is going to be good when kenny lauderdale releases a video!

[@etaka]

This is just another example of your amazing detective work and editing. You deserve a larger audience and following.

[@skinnysnorlax1876]

"Most of the episodes are fairly normal" He says as a flying bear is on-screen, and just before the main character wears a chibi godzilla suit.

[@ZeromusHarvey]

Magical girl idols in power armor? *Cough cough*symphogear*cough cough*

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

There has to be footage of that brontosaurus. I'm honestly asking: do you have any idea if your content has any sort of Japanese audience? I feel like if some people with the right skills got together and made an effort to translate your content and get it out there, enough hype over these obscurities in their native land could genuinely lead to things being unearthed more and more. As an archivist, myself, I greatly appreciate what you do here. ;D

[@thehermit8618]

We should try to show this to as much people living in japan as possible

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

@@thehermit8618 Thax for supporting my tiny desire. ;D

[@SlapstickGenius23]

I pinned an image of a rather obscure advertising extravaganza for the wildly mocked Kenya Boy movie’s ill funded premiere onto my Tropical Princes Pinterest board. The only major evidence is of the two main celebrity voice actors being costumed as Kenya Boy Wataru and Kate.

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

@@SlapstickGenius23 Whoa, neat. ;D

[@SaberknightX]

Dang I never expected Bill Gates to be the bad guy in my Otaku history class!

[@KuramaAndOthers]

You put in such a monumental amount of research into your videos, it's commendable!

[@pokehybridtrainer]

The obscurity levels of this video is so god damn high. I love this. This is like finding gold in the trash- forgotten about for a long time but valuable right now.

[@Dylanquinn666]

I love those ink concept drawings tbh. Serious Mega Man vibes.

[@spinoo5393]

I was just watching heavy metal L-gaim and got this

[@nicholasagnew2792]

This video is wild. Great job man

[@spaghetti_dm]

Creamy Mami and Minky Momo are quickly becoming my favorite Cryptids thanks to Kenny.

[@LOfTheLancaster]

Looks like this anime has a crazier backstory than what I remembered it, holy hell. Keep up the good work Kenny, and thanks as always. Unrelated topic, but you sound an awful lot like Ross Scott (the Freeman's Mind guy). Just want to point that out.

[@brandonpierce2539]

I don't know who Ross Scott is, but I always thought he sounded like the KZbinr called AntDude.

[@yoyohayli]

C-Creamy...m-mommy??

[@mpo48]

ohnonono

[@ShadowRealmZ373]

I was here for some Magical Girl Idol and ended with into a rabbit hole that lead to fan made spin off mecha manga/anime/video game, dinosaurs and Microsoft

[@TrippyKitty08]

as a frequent reader of 80's era doujinshi I can confirm that mechs were huge. Fan versions of Zakus and Gundams were everywhere too. And a lot of times these mech drawings were paired up with cute girls. Makes sense that someone would take the extra step and do something like this.

[@BattletoadOVerload]

Creamy Mami looks like something I could really get into.. I love me some 80s weirdness and animation.

[@catsrdbest4024]

Can't believe I just got recommended this video....what I've been missing all this time Great video!

[@sugarcoatedslaughterhouse4937]

To be fair, I too would buy more records from an idol if I saw them fighting ninjas with a rocket launcher

[@Katarn84]

What do dinosuars have to do with '80s computers? They both went extinct! By the way taht is a brachiosaurus.

[@hierofania8330]

I just love everything about this. I love that it's a fan project. I love that amazing people had their careers start there. I love the giant dinosaur. Thanks Kenny for another great video.

[@psyborg_]

Thank you for making interesting videos about retro anime! Really enjoying these!

[@paulyiustravelogue]

Creamy Mami was one of my all-time fav tv anime series, and many of the songs appeared in the show by Takako Ota are very nice, catchy songs too. Among them “Beautiful Shock” is my absolute fav.