#Acrobunch

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[moron-juice]

Damn, why do you have like 4 husbands❗❗❗

[laboitediabolique]

Retail poster for Acrobunch, manufactured by Animec, 1982

[chojin-cu-chulain]

Well I'm done with Acrobunch

I think my favorite parts where the revelations behind Quaschika, and the Goblin Society.

I also liked the episodes that showed that not all Goblins were evil, and not all humans were good.

[diamond-is-sparkling]

I will say, however, that I love Kokusai Eiga-sha for the writing, voicing, and soundtracks in their shows.

Animation wise, we can get stuff like our heroes' eyes melting like ice cream here.

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Japanese illustrator and animator Mutsumi Inomata has passed away on March 10, 2024 at age 63. A cause of death was not shared.

Inomata is best known as one of the main character designer on a number of Bandai Namco's Tales of series. Her past works includeTales of Destiny, Tales of Eternia, Tales of Destiny 2, Tales of Rebirth, Tales of the Tempest, Tales of Innocence, Tales of Hearts, Tales of Graces, Tales of Xillia, Tales of Xillia 2, Tales of Zestiria, Tales of Berseria, and Tales of Crestoria.

Within anime, Inomata worked as an animator at Ashi Production from 1979 until 1982, when she and some animators from Ashi Production left the company and founded Kaname Production. There, she worked as character designer and animator on such anime as Acrobunch - The Quest for Treasure, Plawres Sanshiro, Leda - The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, Once Upon a Time, and Watt Poe to Bokura no Ohanashi, among others. In her later freelance career, she drew character designs for such anime as Future GPX Cyber Formula, Saitama Bōsō Saizensen Flag! Shinimonogurui no Seishun!!, and Brain Powerd. She also drew the illustrations for the Utsunomiko and The Weathering Continent novel series, both of which later inspired anime adaptations.

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Mutsumi Inomata passed away on March 10. She was an artist responsible for designing the characters in many Tales series games. Somebody needs to keep a close eye on Yoshitaka Amano and Tetsuya Nomura, we can't lose any more JRPG artists this year.

The official Twitter account for artist Mutsumi Inomata announced on Monday that Inomata died on March 10. Her family held a private funeral.

The announcement added that Inomata's death was "sudden," and she still had the draft for a new illustration that she had only started drawing before she died.

Inomata is perhaps best known for being one of the main character designers for Namco's (later Bandai Namco Entertainment) Tales of series of role-playing games, alongside Kousuke Fujishima. The company offered its condolences and sincere thanks to Inomata in a message on Monday, adding that the connection fans of the series have to Inomata's characters "will shine forever in their hearts." Inomata was the solo character designer for Tales of Destiny, Tales of Destiny 2, Tales of Eternia, Tales of Rebirth, Tales of the Tempest, Tales of Innocence, Tales of Hearts, and Tales of Graces, and collaborated with other character designers for individual character designs in other installments of the series.

Within anime, Inomata worked as an animator at Ashi Production from 1979 until 1982, when she and some animators from Ashi Production left the company and founded Kaname Production. There, she worked as character designer and animator on such anime as Acrobunch - The Quest for Treasure, Plawres Sanshiro, Leda - The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, Once Upon a Time, and Watt Poe to Bokura no Ohanashi, among others. In her later freelance career, she drew character designs for such anime as Future GPX Cyber Formula, Saitama Bōsō Saizensen Flag! Shinimonogurui no Seishun!!, and Brain Powerd. She also drew the illustrations for the Utsunomiko and The Weathering Continent novel series, both of which later inspired anime adaptations.

Source: Mutsumi Inomata's Twitter account ________________________________________

Not someone I'm familiar with, but I know she had to be stellar, if she wasn't there'd be more information about her instead of a laundry list of all the things she created and projects she worked on.

Having a bad run Akira Toriyama and now Mutsumi Inomata, I don't know if they're the same circle but I imagine they probably knew each other and crossed paths in their industries.

Oop and they both did Dragon Quest, there it is.

[animenostalgia]

Some sad news to share - Katsue Miwa, the Japanese voice of Unico in the two original Unico films, has passed away. On June 19, 2024, she suffered a pulmonary embolism, and unfortunately did not make it through. Other than Unico, she's also played characters like Hirame Hirayama in Chie The Brat, Miki Rando in Acrobunch, Shosho Akatsuka in the 80s Himitsu no Akko-chan, and Azusa Yamato in Superbook. Thank you for being part of our childhood, Miwa-san!

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Acrobunch just might have one of my least favourite anime endings ever. I can't believe I wanted to see this show for so long only for it to have such a shitty ending. I don't normally get mad at shows for the things they imply, but holy shit, I'm actually mad about this.

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Excited to see MIC’s ACROBUNCH coming to Discotek BD! It’s a show that’s held the fascination of anime fans since it first aired - this text is an Acrobunch article from a 1983 C/FO Magazine, complete with Books Nippan ad. Also in this issue was an Acrobunch fanfic story! 

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Me on my birthday.

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[holy-cucumber01]

Makyou Densetsu Acrobunch

Genre : fantasy, adventure, mecha, shonen

Аnime series : 24 duration 25 min

[laser-z-beam]

Not gonna lies guys, this feels less like punishment and more like “attempted murder.”

[chojin-cu-chulain]

I started watching an anime called Acrobunch

it's pretty much Indiana Jones with giant robots.

Or more accurately it's about a scientist/archaeologist named Tatsuya Rando, and his five kids who are trying to find a treasure called Quasechika before a race of green skinned underground demon people called the Goblin Society get their hands on it because apparently it's what enabled us to be the dominate civilization while the Goblins were forced underground.

My only real pet peeve is that even though there's only 24 episodes it takes 5 before the bad guys have their own robots.

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Started watching Galvion, and within the first few minutes it's set up some interesting lore:

Humanity meets aliens.

Aliens are pretty chill and share their knowledge.

Mankind makes great strive in its own science thanks to the aliens' teachings.

World War III starts, but is limited to just humans.

In the face of humanity's violence, the aliens... just lock us in our room.

It's just backstory to set up the show, but man, it's refreshing to just see a different take on alien-human interactions.

At the same time, I'm not surprised by that refreshing feeling. Galvion is a Kokusai Eiga-sha (J9 trilogy, Acrobunch, Baldios) joint, and I've found all of their shows to be refreshing one way or another.