Tuned in to Retro Anime / Manga!

Not enough spear fighting to be quite honestly honest with you.

>>1507
that was the best part you don't get subtle slow character driven fantasy anime like this anymore

I wish it had continued

In an interview conducted in conjunction with the event, he talked about his future goals. Writing a sequel to “ZETMAN” in addition to a new manga on the theme of ghost stories, which he says he has recently become more interested in. He has apparently set his sights on remaking “Wingman” and “Video Girl” Katsura said, “Video Girl is difficult, but I have an idea for Wing Man. I would like to draw a continuation of the previous one and give it a modern twist. It is a sequel rather than a reboot. I think it would be more interesting that way,” he said.

*Wingman Spoilers here I don't know if there are spoiler tags*

The final episode of the 13-volume book depicts the decision of the main character, Kenta, to discard all memories of Wingman in order to save Aoi’s life. Katsura revealed part of his idea: “I think that when Kenta, who has forgotten everything, and Aoi, who remembers everything, meet, a drama is born.

>>533
Posting tags can be found here for future reference
https://www.wapchan.org/.static/pages/posting.html

>>528
great find

>>528
thanks for this >>529

>>528
No doubt about some of the earliest western anime fanart, especially dunbine

Independence bump

>>515
I feel that EatMan comes off as heavily nihilistic. And so I think the main reason EatMan was so hard to take in is because its nihilistic worldview resides heavily over the story.

Although many episode serve as a parable there is no overarching theme or message that the show has to deliver. If anything the episodic nature of the show is used as a way to show the cyclical and meaningless nature of life. All the moments in the anime are quickly forgotten and nothing that happens has any effect on an existing overarching story.

As well as this Bolt never really changes at all. Early on they reveal that he was some kind of freak weapon made in a lab, but besides that nothing is revealed about his past and they never mention it again.

And besides Bolt all the characters are fairly 2 dimensional and there is never an attempt at making characters 3 dimensional. I'd say there are two types of character in this anime: those who have are driven by their desires and those who have no desire. Mercenaries like Bolt and Heart are people who have lost any desire and so they wander the world acting as tools others can use to achieve their own desires. Yet people like Bolt know first hand that desire is a type of ignorance that only leads to more desire and so on. And this is shown through all the recurring characters whose desire either leads them to suffering or a point at which they only desire more.

Bolt helps people achieve their goals, but it is often implied that nothing he does really helps anyone face reality. In one of the last 98 episodes he gives the robots back their memories and lets them continue living on believing they are human. This implies that Bolt does not save anyone, he merely lets them live in their own fantasies, or dreams. I believe this is partly why the program in the episode where the little girl dies says that Bolt is the only one who gets her. Because just as the programs keeps people in a dream Bolt lets others live their own dream. And why when he fails to save the little girl he renounces his title as a mercenary when he failed to keep the little girl in her dream. In the final episode of 97 Bolt is forced to take down the ship that is the dreams of many. The flying ship is comparable to the titanic which was known as the unsinkable ship. In fact the flying ship in Bolt is even explained to be able to keep afloaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>516
>*That it is sometimes necessary to go against the goals that you set at the beginning

Sorry I hardly read through this before posting

>>516
Thanks for the write up, that's actually quite interesting and I never saw the anime in this light before. I can respect it a lot more from that.

I never really felt any nihilism from the anime, it just felt like a world that's not that different from our own and Bolt was helping random people as the story dictates, but the way you word it actually makes a lot of sense since the episode plots don't really matter it's more about Bolt trying to solve problems to fulfill the dreams of the people he helps.

>>518
I think what you're saying about the setting being similar to the real world is exactly right and partly why I believe it is nihilistic.

Because even though the anime takes place in a futuristic world, that at first seems different from our own, somehow its essence is similar enough to the our real world to be boring. But I think this is part of what gives EatMan a nihilistic vibe. It's not trying to take the viewer on an otherworldly adventure, rather the adventure is so founded in reality and humanity that it gets repetitive quick. Maybe part of Eatman's message is that there are no fairy tale like adventures out there, only harsh reality and dreams which deny reality's harshness. Bolt himself says that only someone who has eaten metal while crying can truly know what adventure tastes like.

Truth be told when it comes to these kinds of shonen reading the Manga is the best idea. Lots of things lost in transcription.

Specially with those early digital EFX that are frankly puke inducing. Fascinating that stuff like this was contemporary to SE Lain's pure digital production.

>>500
Both those statements can coexist.

>best character on the show by a longshot
>gets his own spinoff
>it sucks
I'm still pissed.

>Fires entire mag into a wall while next to a girl who flinches and almost breaks down everytime you shoot it
This is the kind of man I want to be. I still have absolutely no idea why he did this in relation to the episode plot.

>>502
>>503
>Filename
What?

God, the most boring anime i watched

>>1520
Thats why episode 10 is titled conclusion.