Anime Parodies

[Jen526]

I started digging around last night to see what I had from the old days. I'll post about other stuff a bit later (I found a Nikaku catalog! ), but one of the things I came across were tapes of some of the old parodies: Robotech III: Not Necessarily the Sentinels, KOR: The Akira Story, Ranma 1/3. I was pretty scandalized by the Ranma one back then, since it includes some pixelated pr0n-y bits.

I haven't sat down to watch the tapes yet, but I started poking around to see if any of these were on Youtube or anything, and discovered the guys who made them have a little blog-site: http://www.seishun.org/ The liner notes for the various parodies are a fun read.

[Daniel]

Excellent finds!

I'm so glad that you kept at least some of your old stuff and didn't toss it all out (I was gearing up to go dumpster diving in Akron )

[greg]

I especially liked Laputa 2 (used Nadia footage) and Voltron: Hell Bent For Leather. ("Hell bent, hell bent for lethaaaaaaah!") Oh man, it's making me chuckle just thinking of those shows.

The legendary Peter Payne went on to create J-List, the famous place to get anything from Domo-kun stuff to the infamous Hello Kitty vibrator to "hair nude" photo books. I'd talked to him back in my early days on the Net, back before he made it big. I think I must have lost all those e-mail correspondence. I think he originally went to Japan on the JET Program, then later founded his company, J-List. I got to meet him in-person at the '07 San Diego Comic Con, and got to talk to him about the Seishun Shitemasu dubs he'd made, and told him I loved the "We make holes in teeth!" gag they'd use a lot. Ah, natsukashii!

[greg]

I liked the Keroro Gunsou Rip-offs of macross(2 episodes), Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ultraman.
That Anime ripped basically anything off.

It's nothing compared to the manga. Maybe it's for TV licensing issues or something, but there isn't as much parodying in the show as in the manga. The show mostly sticks to Gundam references.

[Daniel]

I especially liked Laputa 2 (used Nadia footage) and Voltron: Hell Bent For Leather. ("Hell bent, hell bent for lethaaaaaaah!") Oh man, it's making me chuckle just thinking of those shows.

The legendary Peter Payne went on to create J-List, the famous place to get anything from Domo-kun stuff to the infamous Hello Kitty vibrator to "hair nude" photo books. I'd talked to him back in my early days on the Net, back before he made it big. I think I must have lost all those e-mail correspondence. I think he originally went to Japan on the JET Program, then later founded his company, J-List. I got to meet him in-person at the '07 San Diego Comic Con, and got to talk to him about the Seishun Shitemasu dubs he'd made, and told him I loved the "We make holes in teeth!" gag they'd use a lot. Ah, natsukashii!

Ah, you've met him. Is he a pretty cool guy in person?

I hope that Jen will let us see those videos...

Jen, in the case that you do intend on contributing the videos on these tapes to the AnimePast site at some time or other, are you set up with VHS digitization equipment? And more than that, these kinds of fansub style multi-generational tapes are the most difficult kind of media to digitize that I've ever come across. Instead of doing his tapes himself, David let me borrow his tapes so that I could pull clips out of them for the site, so that kind of route is also open. Going through and pulling out clips, digitizing cover art, and all that also does take some time, so I guess as a bonus of letting me borrow them, you'd also be spared that work as well.

Anyhoo, it's all up to you.

I liked the Keroro Gunsou Rip-offs of macross(2 episodes), Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ultraman.
That Anime ripped basically anything off.

As does Gin-Tama and Lucky Star(love the Timotei Rip off).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5KH9Z383hE

Do these guys ever get in trouble for copyright infringement?

It's nothing compared to the manga. Maybe it's for TV licensing issues or something, but there isn't as much parodying in the show as in the manga. The show mostly sticks to Gundam references.

I've only seen a very few episodes, but Gintama is probably my favorite new-era anime. I was introduced to Gintama via one of my friends, and I watch it with him when he visits. I remember there were a lot more than just Gundam references, but you're saying that the anime version was actually toned down in this respect?

[greg]

As for the copyright infringement.
Not in Japan, but many companies like Harmony Gold restrict what they can release overseas as does the board of censorship. Keroro Gunsou 2 episode Rip-off of Macross is being blocked even on Youtube.

Can you describe these Keroro Gunsou episodes that spoof Macross? I've read most of the manga that was released in English (wasn't able to get the final volume before Tokyo Pop died). The only time they spoofed Macross in the manga, as far as I can tell, is when Keroro has a cavity, so Fuyuki and Natsumi are shrunk down and given this Valkyrie-esque body armor with jetpacks and gunpods to go and destroy the cavities inside his mouth. In the TV show, they were injected into his mouth via a small White Base and the episode basically replaced every Macross spoof with a Gundam spoof.

In the manga, there were times they'd spoof Mazinger Z, Urusei Yatsura, and once Natsumi even wore a Lovely Angel uniform from Dirty Pair. I just didn't see that many references in the anime, and they toned the show down considerably to market more to children. I like the show, but it's just another case of "the book is better."

[kndy]

I especially liked Laputa 2 (used Nadia footage) and Voltron: Hell Bent For Leather. ("Hell bent, hell bent for lethaaaaaaah!") Oh man, it's making me chuckle just thinking of those shows.

The legendary Peter Payne went on to create J-List, the famous place to get anything from Domo-kun stuff to the infamous Hello Kitty vibrator to "hair nude" photo books. I'd talked to him back in my early days on the Net, back before he made it big. I think I must have lost all those e-mail correspondence. I think he originally went to Japan on the JET Program, then later founded his company, J-List. I got to meet him in-person at the '07 San Diego Comic Con, and got to talk to him about the Seishun Shitemasu dubs he'd made, and told him I loved the "We make holes in teeth!" gag they'd use a lot. Ah, natsukashii!

Ah, you've met him. Is he a pretty cool guy in person?

I knew Peter before he started J-LIST. Both of us were part of the J-Pop Mailing List in the early '90s and at the time, he was just your average guy that enjoyed Japanese adult videos. In fact, one of his first earlier meetings was with the late Ai Iijima. I have seen him a few times over the years at Anime Expo but I remember when he first started J-LIST and I used to joke with him on the perverted things that will most likely be seen on his store. But he had a mission back then and he served a need by people who desired certain things and I wouldn't be surprised if the need still continues today. Sex sells.

As for anime parodies, I met a few who created them. I believe one was for Ranma 1/3. But I remember back then they had some fear that the anime companies would not let them show it due to copyright infringement. I remember something happened back then in regards to that...

[raiderfan99]

I actually have ranma 1/3 mastered onto DVD from an old VHS tape if anyone is interested in me uploading it onto youtube. Its not the best quality but its watchable.

I also have Dirty pair does dishes in the same format, its often cited as the first fan parody production.

[greg]

I actually have ranma 1/3 mastered onto DVD from an old VHS tape if anyone is interested in me uploading it onto youtube. Its not the best quality but its watchable.

I also have Dirty pair does dishes in the same format, its often cited as the first fan parody production.

You probably don't want to upload anything onto YouTube. They are at the mercy of copyright enforcement and will be forced to take down videos on demand. The extremes they go to with copyright enforcement can be rather absurd.

I've never heard of Dirty Pair does dishes! That sounds funny.

[davemerrill]

"Dirty Pair Does Dishes" wasn't the first - the Pinesalad crew who did the Dirty Pair had previously made some Robotech parody videos. But even earlier was something called "You Say Yamato", by Phil Foglio, among others.

http://www.letsanime.blogspot.com/2008/ ... bbing.html