#Ichiro Itano
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omercifulheaves · 5 months ago
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Megazone 23 Part II (1986)
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rhade-zapan · 15 days ago
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Battle Royal High School ~ Ichirō Itano ~ 1987
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combattlerrickv · 1 year ago
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Here is the entire piece from Animage for December 1984
The main focus is on
Hideaki Anno Ichirō Itano Hiroyuki Kitakubo Masahito Yamashita Yuji Moriyama
With the last page being Mamoru Oshii talking about the group of animators.
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drcatco · 1 year ago
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"It's The Circus"
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5amfever · 2 years ago
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VIOLENCE JACK: EVIL TOWN (1988)
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Rod Serling steps into view, looking just a little more rundown than usual. "Picture of a man," he starts, "a man so violent they named him Violence Jack. Now, picture if you will, a town so vile they named it Hell Town. A subterranean town of debauchery and dastardly deeds. A town that would go on to inspire an OVA so evil it would take on the moniker of... EVIL TOWN."
He takes one final drag of his cigarette, sighing deeply. "That's the signpost you see up ahead. The signpost that signals your entry into… 1988's VIOLENCE JACK: EVIL TOWN." Thinking the crew is no longer rolling film or sound, Serling spikes his smokes on the floor. "This thing is just vile, repulsive even. This Go Nagai fella, well, he's just a nasty little freak!" 
In the world of post-apocalyptic media, you have everything from shows and movies about zombies to funky little Italian dune buggies. Dwindling resources. Familial bonds put to the test along endless stretches of barren asphalt. And then you have one of the best sub-genres: Inexplicably Big Dudes. Like Fist of the North Star, Go Nagai's Violence Jack manga fits right into that mold. Unlike Kenshiro and co., though, Jack is willing to explore every dirty little nook and cranny of what our bleak future has to offer. 
Folks, it ain't pretty. 
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Deep in the depths of the appropriately named Evil Town, a small group of survivors crack open a wall to find the colossal Violence Jack just kind of standing there. Apparently he's been standing inside this wall for six months? When they let him out he's just kind of like, "thanks." From there we transition into a battle between Evil Town's A, B and C Zones, each with their own unique brand of denizens, with Jack ultimately playing a pivotal role in who lives and who gets torn to shreds.
At first Jack partners up with the Zone A folks, promising to help them take on the slice of beef known as Mad Saurus, who hails from the extra loathsome B Zone. Before long, though, he finds himself teaming up with the women of C Zone, who are almost all fashion models—with a couple wrestlers thrown in for good measure—since they were heading to a fashion show in Kyoto when disaster struck. How convenient! Jack is tasked with protecting them from the brutes and rapists of both A and B Zones, so either way you slice it this is destined to culminate in a Big Dude versus Big Dude Beefdown. 
Over the course of roughly one hour, kids die horrible deaths, women are savaged in the most unpleasant of ways, there's cannibalism, necrophilia; basically nothing is off limits in the world of Violence Jack, more so here than anywhere else. It's all fairly reprehensible… and the animators at Studio 88 went obscenely hard on it! Director Ichiro Itano—yes, he of the famed style of action sequence that came to be known as the "Itano Circus," featuring incredibly stylized aerial combat and missile volleys—made sure his animators put all their blood, sweat and tears into the blood, sweat and tears on screen. Everything from the extremely gross depictions of sexual assault to Jack's expert knife play, which usually ends up splitting heads in half or sending punks into a somersault of guts, is depicted with the kind of love and care one might put into a sentimental Mother's Day card. 
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So yes, VIOLENCE JACK: EVIL TOWN is pretty nasty, and I'm worried I'll be put on a watch list if I don't add that caveat. It still hits just as hard now as it did over 30 years ago, though, shocks and all. If this is our future I'm good with checking out now... but if for a quick, tasteless glimpse. A peek, if you will, into the mind of Go Nagai, who is etched into history as one of the pillars of the manga and anime industries and, as good old Rod Serling famously put it above, a "nasty little freak." 
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bens-things · 2 years ago
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Megazone 23 II (1986) dir. Ichiro Itano
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michaelcoffeysthoughts · 1 year ago
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Watched Today: Battle Royale High School (1987)
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waruideshou · 2 years ago
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PODCAST: Megazone 23 Parts 1 & 2
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS Hello, friends! We are back are far too long an absence to discuss the seminal 1980s OAV, Megazone 23! Parts 1 and 2 only. In this episode, we chat about the creators of the films, articulate our own experiences with them in 2023, attempt to understand them from the mindset of the 80s fandom unto which they were released, answer…
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skmed83 · 6 months ago
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Raiden from Angel Cop (1989-1994)
Directed by: Ichiro Itano
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xbuster · 1 year ago
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Wait… Angel Cop was written by the main writer for FMA 2003 and directed by fucking ICHIRO ITANO???????? What the fuck.
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teragames · 1 year ago
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Lanzan un libro de arte para celebrar el 40 aniversario de "SDF Macross"
El libro de arte para promociona el 40.º aniversario de "SDF Macross" (@macrossD) tendrá una portada de Ichiro Itano.
Celebrando el 40 aniversario de la franciocia Macross, editorial Kodansha ha revelado detalles del segundo volumen de su Macross Super Encyclopedia. El nuevo se basa especialmente en Super Dimension Fortress Macross, revisitando The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? y The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Flash Back 2012. Esta es la…
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omercifulheaves · 6 months ago
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Megazone 23 (1985)
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gonagaiworld · 1 year ago
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L'art book del 40º anniversario di Macross presenta una nuova copertina illustrata da Ichirō Itano Il secondo volume della Macross Super Encyclopedia uscirà nel 2024. Info:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/lart-book-del-40o-anniversario-di-macross-presenta-una-nuova-copertina-illustrata-da-ichiro-itano/?feed_id=405496&_unique_id=6526436489db1 #Artbook #IchirōItano #Macross #マクロス
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false-songstress · 5 months ago
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lol the Crunchyroll product page is garbage so here's the info:
> both OVA and movie, both with Japanese audio with English subtitles (both Bandai Visual and Mange Entertainment subs) and the OVA also has the (Bandai Visual) English audio
> as pictured, there are art cards and an A4 size poster and a 184 page art book that includes interviews
> extras on the blu-rays include: Shoji Kawamori interview (for 12/14/2021 Screening in the USA) Shoji Kawamori & Ichiro Itano Interview (BANDAI SPIRITS PLASTIC KIT Interview) Macross Plus Game Edition Promo Macross Plus Game Edition OP Macross Plus Game Edition - Isamu Clip Macross Plus Game Edition - Guld Clip OVA 4 with English LPCM audio from Manga Entertainment OVA Edition Promo OVA 2 Preview OVA 3 Preview OVA 4 Preview
Crunchyroll link ($189.99)
All the Anime link (£124.99, early bird £99.99 until June 20 2024)
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Preorders for the Macross Plus Ultimate Edition are going live June 6 2024 at 5PM BST / 12PM EST / 9AM PST!
it includes both the OVA and movie! more info here
in the US they'll be for sale on the Crunchyroll store
and the All The Anime store for the UK (the French version is limited to 100 copies?? and will be sold through the AllTheAnime.fr storefront)
(I'll update this post with direct links when they go live)
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skeletonfumes · 3 years ago
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Angel Cop (1989-1994) Ichiro Itano
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teratogenics · 2 years ago
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MEGAZONE 23
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