The berzerker - No one wins

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:43 am

HungryCrackPot wrote:Problem is, most anime is not made with such an atmosphere in mind. Hell, I have yet to see one that is.

Yeah, that's too damn true. That problem applies to just about all thrash/grindcore though; it'd be damn hard to make a really outstanding thrash/grindcore video that's longer than a minute or so.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 2:54 am

flint_the_dwarf wrote: it'd be damn hard to make a really outstanding thrash/grindcore video that's longer than a minute or so.

Fortunately, this exceeds the length of the average grindcore song by a factor of about seven.

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I haven't seen much of it, and the existence of an uncut DVD release at all is somewhat in doubt, but Violence Jack hasn't been mentioned yet. More post-apocalyptic stuff, with Go Nagai's usual violence level, and scenes of rape and cannibalism that allegedly had to be cut for its original US release. It's three OVAs for a total of like 150 minutes or something, I forget.

The 'technological' bit, and the import filter, is what's really holding these ideas back. There is a lot of extreme gory stuff out there, but nobody wants to import it or even fansub it. And most of it is occult-oriented rather than sci-fi brutality; a guy may get beaten around with his own severed arm in Maryuu Senki (which I've only seen unsubbed-tape-copy-from-LD), but he's getting pasted by a demon-dragon dude, not a robot.

--K

ArcticTwilight · Post by **ArcticTwilight** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 7:46 pm

Im sure there is a anime out there worthy of the new gods of speed aka the Bezerker

HungryCrackPot · Post by **HungryCrackPot** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 9:07 pm

ArcticTwilight wrote:Im sure there is a anime out there worthy of the new gods of speed aka the Bezerker

Nothing that is too easily found except in the deepest pits of hell in china.

shai-hulud · Post by **shai-hulud** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 9:36 pm

Bakuretzu Hunters had this cool-looking mech that eats a crow.

I hope the rest of the series has mechs like that. Then we would be set.