wigglepuss said: Be thankful, if Iria was ever revived in today's Anime market she would have a redesign and become Moe.
Some things are better left in the past.
You know what? You're right. I'll just keep loving my bad-ass, small breasted (certainly compared to current standards), gun toting, butt-kicking Iria the way she is. Thanks for the perspective :)
felixthepat said: You know what? You're right. I'll just keep loving my bad-ass, small breasted (certainly compared to current standards), gun toting, butt-kicking Iria the way she is. Thanks for the perspective :)
No problem, just the thought of Iria becoming a Moe girl singing group blasting away Zeriam almost made me vomit.
Not to mention what would've happened to her brother Gren..
Way back in...6th grade or so, I had heard of things like Gundam, Robotech, Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, etcetera, but I am pretty sure this was the first anime I ever saw. I found it to be ridiculously cool, & from then on I went on to discover more about anime. Bought a particularly nice DVD set of this a few years back (came in a cool tin, has neat extra concept art/interviews, & other things) & still watch it every now & then. ^_^
Good things should be left unchanged unless the author could more properly show things the original didnt show due to budget or whatnot. I've seen a few of my favorite shows get the "remake makeover" and its surely not pretty.
Tetsamaru said: Good things should be left unchanged unless the author could more properly show things the original didnt show due to budget or whatnot. I've seen a few of my favorite shows get the "remake makeover" and its surely not pretty.
It's just that the anime market for the most part is pretty awful, there's some good shows though; although the Moeblob thing that choked it is settling down (thank god) it's still too risky. But just going by what Iria was, she would either-
A) Become scantly clad with way more fanservice (ala the newest Birdy)...
or
B) Goddamned Moe or 'simplified' (ala Blood+ ewwww..) with fan service.
It would be a miracle if I could get Iria remade and slightly changed/upgraded without losing it's awesomeness.
wigglepuss said: It's just that the anime market for the most part is pretty awful, there's some good shows though; although the Moeblob thing that choked it is settling down (thank god) it's still too risky.
Ya, i get the whole market thing and changed demograph. It just still annoys how older people arent usually the target audience for remake shows. One show in particular that i grew up on, "Gaiking". I was estatic when i heard it was being remade. Then the 1st episode of the remade aired and I totally wanted to gourge my eyes out.
Ofcourse, I can admit not all remakes are bad. The 1980s Guyver and the 2005 remake Guyver i both like for instance. In that example, the remake was able to get a bit closer to the manga due to having more episodes. Ofcourse both animations take some liberties with Guyvers powers, but the studio had the Manga-ka's permission to make those changes for the sake of making the battles more fun to watch.
Tetsamaru said: Ya, i get the whole market thing and changed demograph. It just still annoys how older people arent usually the target audience for remake shows. One show in particular that i grew up on, "Gaiking". I was estatic when i heard it was being remade. Then the 1st episode of the remade aired and I totally wanted to gourge my eyes out.
Ofcourse, I can admit not all remakes are bad. The 1980s Guyver and the 2005 remake Guyver i both like for instance. In that example, the remake was able to get a bit closer to the manga due to having more episodes. Ofcourse both animations take some liberties with Guyvers powers, but the studio had the Manga-ka's permission to make those changes for the sake of making the battles more fun to watch.
I didn't even try the newest Gaiking, I knew my heart would just break.
You REALLY can't fuck up the Guyver, outside the horribly yet fond memories of the live action movies..the Guyver is like Fist of the North Star...kinda unfuckup-able (saved for THAT horrible live action movie). I did like the newest Casshern a bit.
I can understand the market changing slowly to accommodate the new bloods, I was a new blood so long ago, my problem was the SERIOUS lack of animation style that sorta happened like mid 2000s and up, then the horrible stories and same characters and my lack of OVAs.
I'd kill for a Master of Mosquiton series...KILL! But not now...
I agree with alot things that have been said here. If something not broke don't fix and fix it. Because when something is already overwhelmingly awesome and you try to make it better their is 90% chance you can be tryinng TOO hard and ultimately fuck it up.
Now I agree with that some things you remake are just unfuckup-able like wigglepuss said. Fist of the North Star, Guyver, Devilman (saved for that live action movie CG bullshit), those are just something you can't screw up on. Casshern was a good remake from original. So good in fact it made want to see more of my old favorites remade, but I already know deep down inside that if one of my favs was remade it wouldn't really targeted for the O.G. it would be tweaked dramaticly for the N.G. to jump on board.
I'd personally would like to see the 8 Man series remade after seeing how good Casshern: Sins came out. And I know that they have tools to make it happen Bbecause 8 Man: After was just awesome... just so long as they don't try TOO fuckin' hard with it.
Come to think of it, back in the old days, Women characters were more about being un-atainable and beautiful while still being totally covered. It turned into its own cliche' IMO. They all had long hair, hour glass figure and were taller than most of the cast. I wouldnt mind seeing Galaxy express being remade. http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=484 I can handle a few edits to target the New gen, as long as they don't try too hard.