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Published: 2019-06-07 02:14:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 1373; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 1
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"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down oneβs life for oneβs friends." -- John 15:13If you've seen the toku version of Giant Robo you know exactly what this picture is referencing.
Giant Robo (c) Toei Company and Hikari Productions
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I know he will...(Metalder opening intensifies despite Giant Robo and Metalder are different but I feel Metalder's opening is fitting)Β www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qblBmβ¦
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The whole show was in general
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You should watch it sometime
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Honestly, at least the Tokusatsu got a conclusion. "The Day the World Stopped" ended on a freaking cliffhanger, and the followup, apparently, was only released in Japan and in select places, ie comic-cons!
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And even that comic ends on two cliffhangers
A lotta people rip on the toku but I don't see that show left unfinished 51 years after it came out?
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What are the cliffhangers?
One could argue that the Toku ends on kind of a cliffhanger, with the promise that Giant Robo could come back. But it's a lot more satisfying than the anime ending
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Cliffhanger of the Giant Robo OVA manga'sΒ
1992 manga: final fight begins between the IPO and Big Fire.
2006 manga: same as the OVA
2014 manga: Daisaku was Big Fire the whole time and space related things are about to happen to earth or some shit
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I don't think the toku ended on a cliffhanger since that last line was a throwaway line in the event Toei would get more money to fund more episodes since production Giant Robo and their other 1967 toku's almost bankrupted Toei's t.v. division. That and the line was probably done to make kids feel less sad about Giant Robo's death (which didn't work evidently)
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Good point, at least Ultraman was alive after his final fight
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I mean both shows ended in ways where if the studio wanted to continue them they could (Ultraman sorta got a proper ish sequel with Return of Ultraman before they decided Ultraman Jack was a seperate character from Ultraman altogether) but GR sadly never got that luxary.
Considering how restrictive Hikari Pro has become for licensing their characters in recent years post Mitsuteru Yokoyama's death I think a lack of a sequel to the toku of Giant Robo will sadly stick.
(since most of his family despised Mitsuteru for being a manga-ka so spiking the IP's of his characters as a means of spiting on his grave. I kid you not.)
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Wait, so his family hated him because he was into manga?
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Yup. Everyone else in his family were businessmen and his parents wanted him to be one as well. He never liked being a businessman and prefered drawing and writing which lead to his family disowning him.
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So like what happened with Go Nagai, except taken to the next level...
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Yup. Worse is that as I mentioned his remaining family members took over his comic studio Hikari Pro and ended up spiking the licensing fees for the characters that made making new tv productions of them and new manga's damn near impossible to do. All to spite their late familu member (and to spite his two children who admired their father's work)
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So who all had beef with this guy in his family?
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Siblings and parents (though most of them are dead)
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So we're going to have to wait until they keel over before we can even attempt to adapt his work again?
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Fuck!! They're even worst as Harmony GOLD!! >_< At least with the Gold morons,their license will expire!! So with SRW in the future,hehehe..we get to see more Macross shit in SRW and I get to have Lynn Minmay to moiself. ^_^
But with these numbnuts,I don't even..
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Just like Starscream...and he has MET HIS MAKER!
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