The LOST anime Space Punch

While working on my Iczer-1 retrospective I came across a manga considered its predecessor that went into production only to be abruptly and quietly canceled.
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[@jonathan-6958]

80s anime really do have that *vibe* i love it

[@kakizakichannel]

"We should get a child actor for this lewd cartoon" everyone else: *laughs nervously*

[@ldiod4374]

It didn’t sound lewd. It just sounds like the character was changed to a kid to fit the theme of the magazine and other than that, was a straightforward action adventure story.

[@SoramimiKeiki]

What was "lewd" about this series? I have seen mangas being published in hentai magazines which had practically 0 hentai in them. Maybe you should keep your dirty thoughts to yourself.

[@Zellosia]

Damn even the Space Punch manga looks really good, I didn't know that Hurricane was so talented at drawing

[@Kuikkamies]

I would recommend looking up some of his later works if you like Uchuuken. Hariken did a one-shot comic called Monster Warrior Godzilla from Godzilla Comic (translation can be found on Maser Patrol's site) as well as his adaptation of the first Heisei Gamera movie. While his career was limited, he had notable evolution and got better with each series.

[@THEAnimeHERO]

Hurricane Ryu "My main girl is 17." Editor "We run a lolicon magazine." Hurricane Ryu "Did I say 17? I meant 9. She 9 years old. 😅"

[@poisonsnivy6439]

zamn

[@boxhead8514]

The things one has to do to sell an idea...

[@ryanmaddugal]

Editor "…I’m listening"🐷

[@yukithesnowman314]

Ryu:"17 minus 8 I mean."

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[@jonfitzpatrick9942]

Mannnnn. This was excellent. Definition of "content I didn't know I needed".

[@vicman3122]

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[@DeadassSloppy]

For the sake of people wanting to learn up on their hentai history, *Cream Lemon* was never a "tv hentai series." It was an OVA that sold through VHS sales. Japan showed some risque stuff on tv during that era, but they _never_ showed deadass hentai.

[@jonfitzpatrick9942]

In-depth history of Hentai Doc, when?

[@Kuikkamies]

VHS and Laserdisc.

[@Erytronne]

Excellent vid as usual Lemon People, the series spawned from it and the influence it had on the industry (which continues to this day) is always an interesting topic

[@Flashshadow]

A psychic kung-fu heroine battling supernatural forces? I wonder if Space Punch had some influence on the creation of Athena from Psycho Soldier and King of Fighters...

[@Kuikkamies]

Not really. Japan had a fad for the Chinese in the 1980's, and with things like Akira getting on the surface, martial arts and kung fu weren't an all too uncommon combo.

[@zettovii1367]

Dang, sounds like something Id totally watch. Shame it never became a thing

[@tomzer1]

Big Cream Lemon and Lemon People fan here. Just a note of correction; Cream Lemon was never a TV series. It was a long running made-for-video OAV series. Obviously it’s erotic content would have never made it onto broadcast TV. What you’re probably mistaking it for is “Lemon Angel”, a related project from the same producers that was made specifically for late night TV in 1987. It was also an anthology story series with a loli / moé appeal for lonely otaku, but with tamped-down eroticism. Excellent essay, though. I also remember seeing bits of the Space Punch manga in Lemon People magazine, and how odd it seemed. It looked intriguing.

[@EdmondDantes224]

How are you people able to read these Japanese magazines? Speaking as someone who got into anime in the 1990s when companies like ADV and Central Park Media started and I would've killed to have access to this stuff, even if I couldn't read Japanese (which I still can't but I can figure out enough to know what's happening).

[@masayan687]

日本の恥をほじくり返される様で身悶えしますが、破裏拳竜みたいなダークサイド漫画家を紹介してくれてありがとう。

[@reynaldipangestu259]

Come 2021 and we got a French manga also named Space Punch.

[@Kuikkamies]

To be technical, Space Punch! was a thrown-in English name by the author. The proper translation for the title Gekisatsu! Uchuuken would be something like Sure-kill! Space Fist (where fist refers to a style rather than a literal fist)

[@ShadowRealmZ373]

Hurricane Ryu what a giga chad name

[@GetBenched2010]

Any chance of you doing a deep dive into Lemon People's history?

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

"That is funny because it is a reference to things I enjoooooooy!"

[@Balevolt]

Damn, I watch you so much that I know what Lemon People is by name

[@nuke1952]

Based

[@Charlestouchdown]

Iczer-One video is the dream. Has the dislike towards Iczer-Three calmed down now?

[@countofarcadia]

Ah yes, Lemon People- the inspiration for why Gundam got Ple and eventually one became Marie. Some good came from Lemon People, so I can’t judge it too harshly.

[@yougottowinsometime7470]

Thanks for the recommendation of bubblegum crisis really good so far

[@jaytime3435]

Man just from this video, I can really see a lot potential and profit just from this obscure franchise. With the power of tokusatsu and anime, space punch could be a really good series.

[@Kuikkamies]

It could, but considering the TV adaptation would've removed most of the things that made the comic momentary sub-culture phenomena, it would have been effectively a completely different show. Though I agree on we are in need of more speculative fiction wuxia in our media landscape.

[@jaytime3435]

@@Kuikkamies ever heard of devilman crybaby? Or cowboy bebop? Or evangelion?

[@Kuikkamies]

@@jaytime3435 Yes. The first one was terrible, the second one had a terrible Netflix adaptation and Evangelion's a great Ultraman reference.

[@jaytime3435]

@@Kuikkamies ok well besides flaws just because television's have guidelines or need certain changes doesn't mean an adaptation couldn't be unobtainable to it's original form

[@Kuikkamies]

@@jaytime3435 Clarify on "could not be unobtainable to it's original form" if you will

[@flyingningahero5961]

Shame I missed this, damn bell

[@Kuikkamies]

Nice to see my scans getting love.

[@astrothewolfman]

Wow. For some reason I thought Space Punch was apart of the Cream Lemon series.

[@Supersmallchibiwolf]

Cool video. ^_^

[@BohbearonYT]

Space Punch won’t really make sense unless you watch the Prequel One Punch and it’s sequel Punch Line.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

I heard there as a horror spin-off called Go For a Punch. .... I'm sorry.

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@SuperCosmicMutantSquid And then there was the racing spinoff, Falcon Punch.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

@@ExtremeWreck And then the sequel for that Hawaiian Punch.

[@jamesmoss3424]

One day space punch will be found. 😀👍

[@MercuryFalcon]

It's not actually lost, it was just never made.

[@jamesmoss3424]

@@MercuryFalcon that makes sense now thanks for telling me.

[@TB-eb3vm]

@james moss did you even watch the video shit wasnt but 10 minutes long and your attention feigned? Tell me your a zoomer without telling me your a zoomer.

[@the-NightStar]

@@jamesmoss3424 Maybe you should have WATCHED THE DAMN VIDEO.

[@jamesmoss3424]

@@the-NightStar I did watch the video.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

4:07 "Why are Megazone 23 characters in this....oh wait...." And I know people are bringing up the loli aspects of this but would anyone have known if it weren't mentioned? I say that because without context or background this looks like a straight up action series that's more in line with shonen with female protagonists and none of the art work gives off anything that most people connect with 'Loli'. It reminds me a lot of 80s Western shows that were co-Produced with TMS, right down to the 'She's a girl with special powers who holds the fate of the universe in her hands' vibe it gives off. Imagine it airing after a show like Citites of Gold or Ulysses in syndication at like 7 in the morning....only for DHX or Treehouse to swoop the media rights 30 years later and fuck up distribution for home media release. No, I am NOT bitter about any nonspecific series. Totally not. 🙃

[@igotno_username1739]

I had to go back and listen to what you were saying about Fight! Iczer One about 8 times to figure out what you said "Nixon one? Nixer one? Fight Mixer won?" I think I'm tired of hearing "Iczer" it's a weird word.

[@elbarto6668]

Nice

[@CGMedia2023]

What's the music playing at the beginning of this video?

[@avrinrose5457]

Can you talk About Kaitou Joker?

[@rej3ktedits986]

Half of my time watching this I was like 'hmm this is really interesting and inciteful!' and the other half was 'JESUS CHRIST JAPAN GET THERAPY'

[@Karma20XX]

I'm glad they didn't cast some poor girl in the live action role since it was a loli thing

[@OfficialMediaMon]

It's an odd choice to keep referring to this as "Space Punch". "撃殺! 宇宙拳" comes up with results for this cancelled anime, while "スペースパンチ" comes up with completely unrelated results.

[@OfficialMediaMon]

Also, I could have gone without you defending Lemon People and fucking... Cream Lemon. Dear lord, man.

[@MercuryFalcon]

​@@OfficialMediaMon Exploitative media doesn't phase me but also all I said was "it was very popular and regarded among artists." Cream Lemon is just good.

[@VexX6]

@@OfficialMediaMon I get not liking the Lolicon magazine but what's your problem with Cream Lemon theres real talent behind that shit

[@OfficialMediaMon]

Lolicon garbage is still lolicon garbage.

[@TB-eb3vm]

@@OfficialMediaMon project more

[@baloowailey6278]

Hmm, who were the seiyuu's for that voice segment, they sound very familiar.

[@gustavovaladez1323]

Was that one guy looked like Ron Jeremy

[@Khultan]

What's the animation quality?

[@PenguinVideoStore]

"So what if it came from a (lolicon) hentai magazine?" Kinda answered your own question there, bud.

[@Kuikkamies]

Nothing wrong in that. While Lemon People did sell itself as a lolicon magazine for a while, in truth its more like the Japanese equivalent of Heavy Metal. It's selling the magazine that still influences Japanese popular culture a bit short.

[@Kuikkamies]

@UCY4TTT1Joo6C6dj43O7_-_A I can't hear myself, this is text. You're also moving the goalpost there. There is nothing wrong in a work coming from Lemon People. Numerous other cult classics have risen from the same pages, and said magazine is still affecting the Japanese popular culture. Its stories, artwork, concepts and ideas were leading the industry during the magazine's golden era and managed to hit the popular culture like a million volt with everything it had. It could be best described as Japan's equivalent to Métal Hurlant/ Heavy Metal, just cuter.

[@OfficialMediaMon]

@@Kuikkamies Why are you leaving these comments on nearly every person’s reply who expressed disgust towards Lemon People and l*con in general, dude.

[@Kuikkamies]

@@OfficialMediaMon Mostly because it seems they've never read the magazine and are judging it almost forty years after the fact, with little to no context or facts at hand. Considering how much lolicon as a term has changed, about once every decade since the 1970s, that's understandable.

[@elijahblechman8633]

@KnG what I'm gathering from context here is that this series was not pornographic at all in reference to the characters who were underaged. The way he uses the term appears to apply to a genre were the main characters of little girls. It doesn't appear there was any pornographic material about them it's particular but it did future pornographic material about adults. Still very uncomfortable closeness there. If I'm not correct somebody please correct me

[@Elementa2006]

"...in Lemon People, a hentai magazine..." Me: Huh, well I suppose there are supposed to be some manga runs published in hentai magazines... "...specializing in lolicon material." Me: Yikes.

[@Kuikkamies]

Funny that, not all series in Lemon People were lolicon or porn. It had straight horror, science fiction and action without any of the strappings people sell the magazine with nowadays. Sure, you had explicit material, yet most of that pales in comparison what you see in the modern night anime shows. Let's add to this that lolicon as a term has changed at least thrice since its inception, and arguably most of Lemon People's content can be characterized as bishoujo akin to Sailor Moon (at least during its golden era, before the social pressures and the economic bubble got to it.)

[@coolthinghere6853]

@@Kuikkamies really? jeeze youd think a detail as important as "the definition of lcon at the time" would be in the video. the less shit sexualizing underage characters the better

[@Kuikkamies]

@@coolthinghere6853 The video isn't about LePle, or the original comic, though. It isn't exactly missing as the whole source is sidenote.

[@duhjiklertika8350]

Does anyone know how to find the song at 00:51

[@user-gf5dr5nq6l]

please let me know if you find it

[@duhjiklertika8350]

@@user-gf5dr5nq6l found it just search gekisatsu uchuuken LP side 1 part 1

[@user-gf5dr5nq6l]

@@duhjiklertika8350 thank you!

[@user-gf5dr5nq6l]

someone please name the song

[@MarioLopezSounds]

anyone have the name of the 0:51 song?

[@MercuryFalcon]

Theme from the Space Punch LP

[@duhjiklertika8350]

@@MercuryFalcon can't find it still

[@di3727]

@@MercuryFalcon Would you please post the LP, because I can't seem to find it, chief.

[@MarioLopezSounds]

@@di3727 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqLboIeQZ6h_laM&ab_channel=KnG

[@Kuikkamies]

@@di3727 You'd need to look for 撃殺!宇宙拳 or Gekisatsu! Uchuuken rather than Space Punch!.

[@dejiko]

I like the fact that the MC is a loli. People that go into blind rage because of drawings are pathetic.

[@anotherbig976]

A lot of time it feels like projection when people go that apeshit

[@VexX6]

@@anotherbig976 Especially since this wasn't a hentai or an echhi series she changed to a loli to fit the aesthetic of the magazine.

[@the-NightStar]

At the risk of making myself sound weird, i'm going to say I agree with you in a show of solidarity.

[@lisbonmapping8425]

Looks really cool other than the fact that it's lolicon shit.

[@Thekowaikaiju]

Would have made a decent band name. Get back to making videos, guy!

[@harlanlittlejohn8989]

It's for the best that his manga career didn't go anywhere, the world doesn't need anymore lolicon trash.

[@KOTEBANAROT]

I know right? Good riddance

[@Kuikkamies]

I wouldn't call a solid 10 plus years of comic career not going anywhere. Hariken had a solid work after Uchuuken in Pretty Executor, which was turned into a live-action movie at one point. He also had numerous one-shot comics across the board, one of which was made for Toho's Godzilla Comic Anthology. Hariken also illustrated the comic based on the 1995 Gamera: Guardian of the Universe. It's more like a career shift from comics to making movies, as tokusatsu seemed to have been his passion ever since he started cosplaying Hakaider in the 1970s.

[@elijahblechman8633]

Yeah he moved on to making a positive influence on the world. Even if it was non-sexual from what I'm gathering the world doesn't need any media appealing to those kind of people.

[@user-rc3cm1zv4j]

While I REALLY don't like the fact that the main character is a loli, it is sad that there wasn't any anime adaptation

[@PinkWytchBytch]

And this right here is what sort of drove me from actually watching anime. The uncomfortable perversion of underage girls and the sheer shamelessness of their… hobbies