Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 / ZAYAZ - Afterburner

#anime #asmr #retroanime
Anime
Title: Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01
Type: OVA
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Dec 15, 1987
Producers: Pony Canyon, Soeishinsha
Licensors: AnimEigo
Studios: AIC, Artmic
Source: Original
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi
Theme: Mecha
Duration: 41 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Music video made and uploaded by Hanahakiblank.
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[@3dartxsi]

I'm not usually one to go on about "the good old days" on any subject, but goddamn, the eighties and nineties was a golden age of ridiculously detailed, high quality anime.

[@VoidedEmptiness]

Yep, even some of the technology is stuff people are experimenting with or making prototypes of for VR instead what they were designed for in the anime but that can be done for IRL later with less physical consequences.

[@mandrac2]

Yeah... i need more of this... Sci fi need more grounded hard sci fi stuff like this. Why arn't they making those anymore?

[@commanderoftheratlegion3181]

Let’s just all remember that it isn’t the motivation or effort on the part of the design teams or animators that has gone down but the increased pressure from companies to make more in a much smaller timeline on a much smaller budget

[@bikehunter82]

To this day...... the, "Snow Base Raid Scene" from the original "Spriggan"..... I watch it once a year and continuously have to say out loud, "this was drawn by hand".

[@subtlewhatssubtle]

@@commanderoftheratlegion3181 Indeed, it's not the fault of the artists, it's the fault of corporations crunching the artists to death. Ironically, now living the dystopian cyberpunk nightmare that was animated back in the day.

[@kindlingking]

I'm convinced Madox was just some animator REALLY wanting to draw an amazing looking mecha machinery with everything else being haphazardly thrown together afterwards.

[@andrewowens4421]

It does seem the whole OVA is about showing off cool mechanics with the "plot" being haphazardly thrown out there in order to fill time. Not to say it isn't worth it to see those cool mechanics. But that's _all_ there is to see really.

[@john-Ro]

I'm not gonna complain.

[@kendrakirai]

I mean it was Shinji Aramaki. The guys got a huge history of mecha shows with more sakuga than sense.

[@jimwatson1013]

Mid 80s Japan was so rich with their strong economy that passion projects were plenty. How we got things like Robot Carnival and the OAV boom. So incredibly possible that it was just for the mech animation.

[@sina697alpha]

If you pay it, You will get it. Engineers will be very glad to provide every detail of mecha, clearly the technology of 50 years ahead. Perhaps the AI CG drawing will run through long route back to the hand-painted itself.

[@Samtastrophi]

The fidelity of kinetics in hand drawn animation is sorely missed in the modern genre

[@paprigunchikXB360]

back then it was quality over quantity. now its the other way around, everywhere you look.... even worse is that wand something decent? pay premium price for mid tier shit at best.

[@KJ-ho6sb]

so much

[@HOSAS_Gaming]

This is sad because with digital animation, it would be far easier to achieve a higher level of fidelity mechanics but we rarely see them

[@Samtastrophi]

@@HOSAS_Gaming I'm not an expert on animation so could you explain why that is?

[@HOSAS_Gaming]

@@Samtastrophi Because digital is the tool the engineers use to design the machines

[@j4ck3t]

Using real life engineering into the mechs make them so believable. Sunrise studio has a few Gundam shows where they underline this as well and those are always my favorite to watch.

[@crispy_338]

08th MS is the most realistic that I’ve seen

[@Snositi]

@@crispy_338 thats why its my favorite

[@dayaninikhaton]

I dont have a BA or Masters in ME. I WISH I could design things remotely as well as this with my 3D modeling skills

[@crispy_338]

@@dayaninikhaton You don’t need an engineering degree to design stuff like this. An industrial engineering degree would help but being a good artist and visionary is more important

[@j4ck3t]

@@dayaninikhaton You should pick up a reference book for animating mechanical parts! There are tons of reference books that show how things work and how to animate/draw it.

[@aspopulvera9130]

whoever animated this, is a mechanical engineering person

[@InternetGravedigger]

This was an anime back in the 80's, and according to a comment I came across years ago, it was technically feasible with the technology we had at the time... the attention to detail was unreal.

[@junreaksaa]

Thing about those days People want it to be as authentic as it can be.

[@thenoisyninja]

I have a pet theory that the reason me has anime is so good is because Japan was pushing its education system to focus on mechanical engineering. A lot of manga art supplies are the same as those used in mechanical and architectural drafting back in the 70’s and 80’s.

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

​@@InternetGravedigger it would've probably had like 30 seconds of fuel time and I'm sure there weren't motors with enough torque that were small enough for it

[@orcastrike7750]

None of this shit is remotely accurate in an engineering sense 😭

[@darkninjacorporation]

“Cassette Futurism” might’ve been the most incredible aesthetic for sci-fi in general. No matter how old it gets, it *still* looks futuristic! It honestly feels less believable seeing so much sci-fi with touch screens, holograms or neural implants or something. There’s something about wires, switches, latches and hydraulics that just feels like it may still become real.

[@RyMaNF0v]

This is my ASMR, man I miss the good old days. Everything from the designs, fluid movement of the animation, and killer soundtrack. 🧑🏻‍🍳💋👌🏻

[@fajarastanaprima2771]

The detail, the movement, just really great. The effort to make such visual, just crazy

[@blaxpoitation8528]

Insane bro. Damn I miss the stunning visual beauty of 80’s & 90’s anime. Throw in that synthwave music, and you got yourself a certified masterpiece

[@kazunoriN]

The quality of the animation is still surprising than today.

[@bastage5932]

Since the move to digital production in animation, I feel like the floor for quality has been raised, but the ceiling for that quality has also gotten a lot lower. It's improved somewhat in the last 5 years or so, but we still haven't seen the kind of quality and fidelity we got from the best anime of the 80s and 90s.

[@UnboludoCualquira]

Yeah, Even one of the Best animated animes of today "fate" doesnt habe Even half of the absurd amount of details that this animation has, and it whas made like 30 years ago ​@@bastage5932

[@yellowprime8491]

Gotta thank the 80's bubble economy of Japan. Studios were thrown crazy money and purchasing power was a lot higher.

[@boi7316]

The last modern Cel animation I've seen is the Redline movie

[@rhiethreal]

The 80s and 90s had the best animation in history. Things went downhill from there because they started relying more and more on computers.

[@n0isyturtle]

This entire sequence is dope as fuck. Hand drawn frame-by-frame in 1987 Damn, that attention to detail is just crazy.

[@alterac1541]

It's even crazier to know the one that animate the mechanical sequence is Hideaki Anno. The creator of Evangelion himself

[@fungisrock8955]

It all makes sense now, my mind goes back to the part in Eva where Ritsuko goes and unhacks the supercomputers and has to take it apart to climb inside first. Both are basically mech/tech hentai.

[@Demonskunk]

Man, I miss this stuff. The high detail hand-animated machinery of the 80s and 90s really just has a feel to it that modern CG can’t match.

[@KCJbomberFTW]

This was made in 2016

[@gorden2500]

​@@KCJbomberFTW Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 aired in 1987 dude

[@pinkpenzu]

​@@KCJbomberFTWsit down kid

[@_kazu1444]

これが当時手描きだったのがまた凄い。 現代でこれ再現しろって言ったらどこのスタジオもCGで誤魔化すでしょう。

[@DarkCamui]

Oh damn the 80s era when animators graduated from mechanical design school or learned from Kawamori like designs. Wait didn't the artist and director for this go on to make Appleseed?

[@TRDGE]

it's a damn SHAME that we don't get more mech anime like this anymore. Imagine if Gundam internal mechanics were showcased this way.

[@sunso1991]

I couldn't believe Madox was a one episode anime. Just what all that builtup and detail for 1 episode?! I need moooore

[@plixplop]

Wow, not only the animation but the sound design is on point too. All the mechanism SFX sound heavy duty, precise and fit the environment they're set in

[@EarlHare]

For me its the shadows. They are so much more realistic than anything made in modern 3d software, they completely capture that fuzziness and the contrast between light and dark. It's hard to explain, i'm not an art nerd sorry, there's just something about these scenes that tricks my brain into believing it might be real or traced from a photograph or something.

[@SrAntonio301]

This era of anime is never coming back

[@ironclad4451]

armored core 6 was a good game, but I feel like the armored core series desperately needs the grittiness and character that retro mecha anime brought to the table.

[@BigdaddyBigfoot-km9hr]

Oh this is back in the days of the 90s pornographic levels of robotic details. Every button every switch every knob has a purpose that you can figure out just looking at. A far step from the later Gundam series where it's a two-button joystick that were supposed to believe pilots are maneuvering these giant robots with perfect human movement

[@funky_dude709]

It blows my mind how incredibly talented these animators were. This was 1987. Before you could just google a quick reference image or have access to vast digital libraries. Imagine how cool it would have been to just walk into the room(s) where all this was happening.

[@haritmohansaxena732]

they would straight out ignore us, too busy to notice...

[@TeoTH80]

It pains me to think that no matter how much our technology advances, animation will NEVER look this good EVER AGAIN.

[@cmbaz1140]

sadly when it comes to humans ...yes. However once AI reaches a certain level everybody can and will be able to use it to make their dream animes the way they always wanted to... We will see an explosion of true creative anime content

[@guyfromboracay]

@@cmbaz1140I always keep hearing this same line from AI proponents, but at the rate it’s going I’m super skeptical of that claim. AI can’t even get finger poses right, so, I have my doubts it can do something as visually dynamic as this even in the long term.

[@ShawshankLam]

@@guyfromboracayFinger posing is not longer a problem for AI….emmmm…a year ago……

[@guyfromboracay]

@@ShawshankLam yeah, I’m unfortunately exposed to the latest AI generated images and the only thing that’s improved… well, nothing really. It’s still the same over-rendered, overly-colorful, overly-detailed, mishmashed products from a year ago. Still skeptical. 😐

[@ShawshankLam]

@@guyfromboracay Those are rookie level usage of AI image generators if you can tell it's AI-generated. For the skilful artists with AI tools, you can't really tell the difference.

[@wakamoto361]

animes with METAL and PANIC tend to have the craziest animations for no reason whatsoever

[@DeterminedGoat]

There's more animation in this sequence than an entire episode of a lot of series that come out these days

[@kaoru288]

this level of detail reminds me the reason as to why everyone loved Iron Man 1. seeing all those mechanical details move in tandem and would make sense as to why theyre there and all form into the suit seamlessly, tis leagues better than the future iterations of the suit

[@madoxb9555]

As Madox, and a mechanical engineer, I’m happy to carry on the torch

[@joseaca1010]

I dont know why YT recommended me this, but i just realozed something, the intro of Metal Gear 2 is heavily inspired by this anime

[@RealNotallGaming]

80s level

[@mr.libluckiestinfinitebene2589]

Animations back then always GREAT GOODNESS

[@sticky170]

So much detail and it looks totaly functional.

[@bikehunter82]

....and this was all hand drawn.... amazing.

[@genir-uc7bh]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="76">1:16</a> Animators used Mike Oldfield albums as technical captions, nice

[@boi7316]

Huh?

[@animationcycles7109]

Awesome! Someone else noticed. :D I just happened to leave a slightly more detailed "hunt" on how to find it, in a comment I just left. Yeah it's a fun little Easter egg. Too bad when I first caught it in the late 1980s, there wasn't any internet (google) to decipher it. Found out a few years ago, going " huh...I wonder...(google search) on all the key words. :D

[@Spudtron98]

Looks like someone had good taste in music.

[@ptassa270]

Animations like these do a good job of making mechs like that feel like real machines.

[@sharky-1992]

That middle finger was priceless

[@blaxpoitation8528]

An awesome, visually magnificent piece of anime nostalgia here. Gyat damn I miss the intricacy and attention to detail of 80’s and 90’s anime. Throw in that synthwave music, and we got a certified hood classic. Beautiful.

[@1moblin2]

Japanese technology, innovation,, electronics, ideas, animations, anime, schematics, cultures, traditions, art style & direction, food, video games, gaming consoles, smart phones, cameras, TV's, headphones, computers, movie production films, cars, hell everything Japanese people create are the most out of this world Greatest Stuff to Ever Exist......Long Live Japan!

[@Alpharius93]

I did not expect this in my feed today but omg I needed some good ol' hyperdetailed engineering anime with synthwave ASMR. Thanks for putting this together!

[@hanahakiblank]

You're welcome 😊

[@maikeldekwant]

This has that metal slug feel to it :3

[@MarwinO3]

That's badass. I miss this type of animation the gritty mature mecha feel.

[@Koz4k]

Pure art

[@rojingavril3197]

И всё сделано вручную. Сейчас даже имея технологии не могут повторить что могли в 80-х.

[@ILoveYou-uj3vs]

80s anime looks like this ?😱 Wooooww 👍👍👍👍

[@waskithonugroho3955]

not all like this

[@Th3ba1r0n]

This should be a genre of anime ASMR. :3 Mechanical Suit montage.

[@l1ghtd3m0n3]

Back when everything was experimental and artistic and not profit-driven like the new anime industry. The passion here shows in all the painstaking detail they went into.

[@justinpeterson7246]

That was beautiful 😍

[@abduljilanids]

This movie has so many iconic scenes that I still find in video games and movies.

[@mitchjames9350]

The attention to detail Anime in the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s had.

[@connorcooke1502]

This is basically how I thought power armor in fallout would work like

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

It is baffling to watch this and just well I'm at a loss for words cause this is on another level

[@stratometal]

I had seen this ages ago, and when Iron Man came out and they did the same detailed techpron, I knew I was not the only one in love with such a technological visual spectacle. Masterpiece.

[@duraeusentenu]

You'll never get this quality of animation again

[@queefcheif9306]

i love old mechashows, i wanna see how people invision humans being intergrated into a machine

[@chthulu27]

I have never seen the sort of hyper-articulate work this represents in any medium other than anime.

[@chichiboypumpi]

Ah when anime was much of an artform and mostly made-in-Japan, to my reckon Madox is the more qualified to be called mobile suit.

[@c0r3theta]

I really can't understand why there was so much anime about mecha in the 80's and 90's. Like even in manga there was a lot. It's something that is monstrously detailed and nobody would likely look at it... How come some of those old cartoon/anime that my parents could have watch are better than recent anime where the back-ground character can look like a sore thumb when you pause but with that, you could read the industrial label on the robot leg or thing like that..

[@zippydaspinhead]

The answer is money. Anime made in the 80's and 90's wasn't always passion projects, but the margins were not expected to be what they are today, and with little exception were made for local audiences. Today everything must make X amount of money or cause Y amount of shareholder growth, and anime is a globally popular medium. As a result the intersection of passion, time, investment dollars, and talent to produce such high quality animation is rare. Add in new technology for computer generated imagery and other animation related advances, the explosion of popularity in anime in the last couple of decades, the retirement of those that used to do everything old school and hand drawn, and the ever marching needs of our capitalistic society and it becomes clear. No one does this level of detail anymore because its not profitable, or at least not as profitable as a "good enough" version of the same thing.

[@oatmeal3013]

as much as i love gundam, i adore the intricately detailed and purely cold and grey aesthetics of this style of mech.

[@fl00fydragon]

This is definitely the fetish of one of the animators Gods bless them for that

[@user-jv2it9se4n]

すげえな90年代アニメ

[@user-co3zg7tu4g]

昔、ビデオテープ持ってました。１万円ちょっとした様な？ 知り合いに貸したらそれっきり・・・ メタルスキンパニック マドックス01　Huluで観れるみたいです。

[@vevans0009]

Engineer: "We have all the materials to construct one and even work. The problem we are trying to solve is HOW to get the pilot to safely handle it without getting crushed."

[@AnuragTumma]

This is simply superb, now one of my favourite videos

[@hanahakiblank]

Wow, thanks!

[@CockatooDude]

Man the animation team really went all the way figuring out how all this stuff might work. They must've either really thought about this for a long time or consulted a lot with engineers, there's so much thought put into the suits.

[@fabivsplay5688]

on those days, the detail on mechas animation was better than many recently movies with more technology and expensive, full detailed make me remember the old Ghost in the shell too and Macros, some one else saw the "APU" detail? (Accelerated Processing Unit)

[@racineg33]

This is my kind of ASMR. All the wizz pops, clankity clanks, bop bip bop, fwooosh...etc. Let's not forget how mecha animations like that are a rare breed. Top notch. Gonna have to find this anime, hope there's a good english dub.

[@vapa117]

Growing up animes like this is what got me into engineering.

[@R3TR0J4N]

Metal Skin Panic man... its like Terminator influence in Anime and mecha genre

[@crozraven]

the animators are 100% a petrol head & love those machine control panels on planes.

[@egirlSkeletor]

oooh yeah thats the good stuff

[@SpankzVonSpankington]

This art style and those old animes are why Im still obsessed with mechs and human piloted machines

[@Jack_Wolfe]

These are really handy, thanks.

[@satoshiprinston9184]

なんだろう、手につけるセンサー類をテープで留めてたり完全に電子化していない部分や吸気口？の網とか小さいロックだから2個付いてるんだとか、矢印が赤く目立つように表記されてるなとか、妙にリアリティがあってすごいな あくまでも人間が使用することをベースに考えられてる

I love this! every.. freaking.. second..

[@KevinStPerea]

Y por eso soy fan de las series de mechas ya sea los robots, la parte política, la militar o la trama siempre con el realismo imaginativo que se puede. Uff

[@archentity]

The artwork is so good that the thumbnail looks cg.

[@nzsailo8991]

This what i call god tier animations

[@magnum7385]

I wish animation was still this good. The CGI nightmare ala Berserk 2016 makes this look all the better.

[@edgarb.6187]

I almost thought the soundtrack was actually from the anime until the synth came. I love synthwave.

[@sassysaddles9981]

Details are crazy, i miss good old days

[@brianbergmusic5288]

This hand-drawn montage makes me imagine that if you gave this animation to a crew of engineers and industrialists (with a fat budget) that this weapon could ACTUALLY be created. And ZAYAZ *Afterburner* being paired with this... chef's kiss. Radically inspiring badassery in the Deus Ex-Machina spectrum!

[@Dem_Can]

i make sure to crank a few ones to this video every time whenever i catch it on my other social media feeds thanks broder

[@user-fv1yl8lc1z]

확실히 요즘 애니랑은 비교가 안된다 시대를 초월한 하이퀄리티다

[@erikasl.7050]

Beautiful.

[@LumenSeeker]

Freaking Awesome!

[@ShiryouOni]

Damn if we had half this amount of detail in modern mech anime I'd be happy.

[@truth-12345.]

Getting stuck and compressed in that mecha when it is being hit is terrifying.

[@GiGatoQ]

Studio artmic. I just found the anime author, there's a lot of retro anime. Thanks for the anime title

[@anthonycampos7417]

This is a vibe and a half

[@nagasako7]

One day maybe AI can generate art of 90s Japanese midnight oil animator. People want 90s Japanese animation but it requires incredible toiling.

[@alessandrovazquez-eu8jc]

Ese nivel de detalle mecimpresiona, mis respetos

[@THEKHAYYYAM]

damn, the music is incredible

[@Meedalery]

Unreal hydraulic vibe!

[@MSM-03C_HY-GOGG]

すげえ…

[@noahdigit430]

This takes a ~somewhat~ grounded approach, it being more of a exosuit-mecha hybrid concept (Mecha are often way to oversized, square-cube law and such). love the attention to detail, Sci-fi needs more credit than it deserves.

[@sitisarah826]

90s graphics design art

[@Pumpkyria]

Miss when Japan had a fetish for making crazy stuff, a hard on for details on details and you know all those frames were made from literal sleepless nights. 80s/90s Japan artists/animators had some hardcore passion Thanks for sharing means a lot! ; )

[@hanahakiblank]

❤😊

[@sangheilicommander1056]

man i normally don't like ASMR but this, I'll make an exception

[@gadbizon]

these are the sounds of happiness for children of the 90s and 2000s

[@mysteriumxarxes3990]

Cool stuff

[@0ortCloud]

낭만 그자체 ㄷㄷ

[@GB-um2lf]

It's hard to believe every scene was hand draw back then.