Todd Bridges from Different Strokes specifically was in trouble after the show and at his low point held up a 7-11 or something. But he has his life together now.
I love that era of Japanese pop culture and anime. Such a breezy, charming, light-hearted feel. Plus, the art and animation are so technically brilliant, just gorgeous to look at.
I always preffered the look of magical hat on megadrive/genesis to the decap attack that we got in the west. But then I always preffered bright' colourful and quirky graphics in my games. Was a big fan of psycho fox as well and thought it was an equal to super mario bros in a way I never thought Alex kidd was.
Boss 1, as a clearly tropical or African dude, looks hilariously out of place in the Western graveyard that comprises Decap Attack's Halloween-themed first level. He should be shivering! 😂
I love these deep dives! I point everyone to your video about Yume Kojo whenever the topic comes up. One minor correction here: Frankenstein wasn't a doctor, he was a scientist working on his own, not receiving a doctorate. (Though there is an argument to be made that he was also a monster.)
I always get a kick out of reading your captions and seeing what jokes you decided to leave out of the final voice-over, like "All from me, about 35 years too late..." I don't blame you for doing the cuts, but rather I see it as a fun Easter Egg I get by watching with captions on.
Dude! There was so much I didn't know. Now the decisions Sega made with early Sonic makes even more sense. I didn't know they were behind Dinosaur King and Blue Dragon anime. This's why I subbed to this channel. Good job!
Nintendo manufactured toys in Japan back in the late 1960s-early 1970s, but it wasn't until after Sega purchased Japanese toy manufacturer Yonezawa in 1991, that Sega diversified into toys (with Yonezawa being renamed Sega Toys), whose well-known products in the West were the Sega Pico and the iDog (which was licensed out to Tiger Electronics). Both companies manufactured toys at different times in their history, with the distinction being that Nintendo did so before branching out into video games, while Sega manufactured toys and video games at the same time.
Yeah that’s true. I had that in the draft but cut it out to keep things under 30. But I bring it up because if you say anything about Sega you usually get hit with “muh kawnsole wuurs” and it drives me crazy. Especially after coming to japan and seeing that Sega just has a different kind of brand visibility here. Thanks for watching!
I literally watched Changerion and had no idea it was Sega co-produced! And in googling more about this collaboration, I find out that the Hakaider film was also co-produced by Sega! Always learning something new with your videos.
I don't suppose Nintendo had much or anything to say on the DDP main character designs, except attending the table. Fuji TV is literally listed as charcter designer (on a fan site).
Yes that’s true. I have a picture of the person who designed imajin, it was some kind of intra office contest to design him. But I left it out because it was too off track. I’ll bring it back someday
Really cool recap, as usual! I have always preferred the Western exclusives (Psycho Fox & Decap’attack) but it might also be due to have been growing up with them. Psycho Fox was so big for the Master System in some parts of Europe, my French friends are always blown away when I tell them the game never even came out on MarkIII in Japan. PS: I believe Blue Seed preceded RayEarth by a few months, and you forgot to mention the obvious Evangelion, Sega’s best bet ever in terms of anime mediamix.
I played both Magical Hat and Decap Attack, and I knew there was an anime in the mix, but had no idea Fuji TV was involved. I would have never thought that Decap Attack and Super Mario Bros. 2 were related in some way. Thank you very much for the excellent video.
This was an interesting video. I was aware of the Magical Hat-Decap Attack connection thanks to my history with Sonic the Comic (thanks for giving it a shout-out in the video, it's nice to see more of STC being remembered than just 'Evil Super Sonic'), which i have a habit of mentioning to people more than necessary just so that the Nintendo Kids don't get to hog all the trivia (just like you did in the video!), but I had no awareness of how it spread out into such a wide multimedia landscape, so lots of this was genuinely new stuff to me.
Wow....I thought I was the only one who had heard of this one. My friend back in the early 90's had this game bought from a bargain bin at a local video store. I was obsessed with this game back then, and last year, I completed it again. Bought a fully boxed copy from Japan about a year or so ago that I can't play but wanted it from a nostalgic perspective! I can't even begin to tell you how much Magical Hat evokes memories from my childhood, so thank you for covering this one! (From a 40 odd year old!)
Awesome to hear ! Have you ever seen the show? Unfortunately I know of no English subtitles that exist but the episodes can be found online or dvd for cheap
@GTV-Japan I didn't find out that it was an anime until a few years back. I did try and find a subtitled version, but to no avail. I'm over in Japan this month, so I'm going to have a mooch about Tokyo, Osaka, and Hiroshima and see if I can pick up any merch! I'd even be prepared to buy the soundtrack if I can find it.
Another delightfully wholesome and informative GTV Japan (trivia) vid. ^^ Thanks for sharing, appreciate your content and glad to have you on youtube : )
A magical anime, consisting of 33 episodes that concluded on 6-6-1990. It's hero bears the hexagram ✡️ as his talisman. I really love that Japanese media producers put deep occult symbolism and themes in many of their supernaturally themed shows, right in plane sight, Evangelion being the best example I've ever seen. This show looks like a lot of fun ❤💙
It’s weird to say that Magical Hat is a “mix” of titles including Decap Attack (in the title of this video) when since Decap Attack is the localization of Magical Hat, it came out afterwards.
I first owed and played Psycho Fox on my Sega Master System and then later on I got Decap Attack for my Sega Mega Drive console and loved both games but never knew about the Magical Hat game for Mega Drive only until the last 15 years ago and tried it out I actually like it and also enjoy the Anime 👍 great video
Great video and coverage of SEGA mix media adventures! Decap Attack was always one of my favorites Mega Drive games, besides I never actually finished the thing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Your videos aren't just filled with info, but with joy. I really appreciate that about you. Your passion does affect my wallet with all the cool stuff you share, but it's always worth it. Thanks again!
Maybe it's just my eyes playing tricks, but I'm seeing some huge nods to Dragon Ball (not Z). The dog with the floppy ears vs the pig also a coward, the girl much like Bulma with a bit of Lunch, the old man has a Roshi look, even Hat looks a light bit like Goku and the mech reminds me of a capsule. Enemies too, I'm seeing a bit of Pilar's cronies, especially the fox. It's nice to see some unaddressed parallels here. Shame when the game came out in the US it was wrecked with dopey cemetery look of it all with decap attack on genesis, and the other kid kool at least wasn't twisted on nes.
Dragon Ball was the most popular anime in Japan even before the Z saga, and it directly superseded Dr Slump’s huge success (Dragon Ball was ironically supposed to be a reliever project to get out of the pressure from Dr Slump’s success). And adding Dragon Quest on top… It only makes sense that Toriyama’s work would have a huge influence on all the anime series from that era, consciously or not.
That Fox Character in the Anime kinda reminded me of Mouser from Super Mario Bros 2 and even had more than one of him in Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic which one of them got swapped out for Clawgrip when they made Super Mario Bros 2 or Clawglip as he's known in the Game's Manual and in the Credits
No it’s not. Now Sega games can appear everywhere while Nintendo and Sony, like suckers, spend billions to make hardware while Sega can just concentrate on games!
Well think about it. In 2000 it cost at least a billion dollars to get that hardware out the door. These days the cost would be more than Sega even has in the bank. It’s not possible! Even Nintendo doesn’t really design their own stuff. The switch is just the Nvidia shield which was ridiculed when it was first put on sale. And Sony is just taking pc architecture these days anyway. It’s not worth it.
Mixed media crossovers like this have always fascinated me, it's always interesting to see something so ambitious done. Even when they kind of fall apart (Strider being my main thought on that front) the attempt alone usually produces some interesting results.
Thanks for clarifying this confusing history. Psycho Fox and Decap Attack have been on my to buy list for some time but I never commit. One day I will get to them. 👍
My God.. I am speachless.. :^) The quality of this video and information presented are top of the top.. real treasure!! :-3 We always loved this game in our household. :o) This game have a very special place in my heart! Lol. Back then I didn't know that it was based on or connected to an Anime. But I was suspecting that due to the licencing notices. But we immediately made the connection with Psycho Fox for the Master System, for that one was another of our favorite. Thank you very much for this wonderful video. 👍👏
I randomly had the Magical Hat cartridge for my Mega Drive as a kid but had no idea what it was called or anything but still enjoyed the game and it’s music. I just had no idea what it was I was playing until many years later ! Fascinating to now know the full story behind it.
@@GTV-Japan I actually listened to blue hawaill by Elvis. I felt obligated to put money in it cuz it was my Sega duty lol...BTW it was only a dime a song and it took nickels too
@@GTV-Japan haha I hear yeah bud. You know your Hawaiian staples!!! Hey how long does it take to ferry to Okinawa? I'm planning my Tokyo trip for December.
@retropalooza a ferry from Tokyo to Okinawa? I’m not sure there are any! The one to Hokkaido takes like 18 hours or something. You’re better off flying. The ferry from Fukuoka I think takes 2-3 hours
The ending reminded me of a moment in The Simpson's 11x11 episode, in which Sideshow Mel tells an itinerant preacher that Krusty the Clown had become aphonic from using too many K's in his dialogues... I remember a friend lent me Decap Attack when I was a kid, so I was able to complete it, then it took me over two decades to find out it was a facelift of another game, at the time I was quite surprised!
Oh man I absolutely loved this game!! And still play it today. Basically my mate had a Japanese import megadrive (we are in uk) Basically my mate had games like aleste musha, this game, streets of rage 1, golden axe, twin cobra, hang on, women's wrestling by asmik... quite a collection that his dad bought back from Japan. I was very jealous as an 8 year old as I had a master system and thought I had a gotcha moment when I noticed he didn't have a pause button.....then he pressed start lol. Anyway time goes on and I'm 14 or thereabouts and he offers me some of these games like musha for very little money (showed me i could play them on my UK megadrive via takin off the plastic cartridge and putting the PCB straight in) - I didn't take note, but was happy to buy his games (aleste, this game, womens wrestling and twin cobra) for 20 notes. 5 each. Turns out he ended up a heroin addict and that was the reason. He died aged 18 when his own dealer overdosed him because he wouldn't stop snoring. The whole family is steeped in tragedy as there were 4 kids. 1 died of a heroin overdose as stated and another passed on through a random brain hemorrhage- who had just released a debut pop album!! So this game has lots of history too me. Decap attack just isn't colourful etc. Compared; plus I knew there was a link between this and psycho fox on the master system which I had also.
Decap Attack is literally this game with a different skin.. They couldn't release this game in the US because of the anime being nonexistent in the US, so it was transformed into Decap Attack Basically the same crap they did woth Doki doki Panic, turning it onto Super Mario Bros 2/USA.
You know, I shouldn't be as surprised as I was going into this that media mix projects were such a big part of SEGA. Like the only surprise to me outside of Magical Hat was that Borgman was funded by them. Like I knew about Zillion, about about Rayearth (though to be fare, I actually forgot about that one till the video brought it up... which is weird since I was a real big fan of CLAMP) and always loved the mecha designs for Sakura Wars. I'm now kinda kicking myself that somehow this didn't click for me sooner heh.
@@GTV-Japan Which is weird since I watched some of it back in the days people still called it Japanimation. On a small local channel they used to air anime movies and OVA's on Friday nights (sometimes forgetting to censor them, not that 13 year old me minded lol) and that was were I first found out about Borgman but for the life of me I don't remember the Zillion in it.
I can’t remember the episode offhand but in the 20-25 range, Memory points the Zillion at Dust Zeed. But also the weapons in the show were sold under the Zillion name. In the show, they had different names so as not to conflict with the original Zillion done by a different studio
@@GTV-Japan Ok, that explains it heh. Keep up the good work on this channel. I love getting these deep dives in really obscure things. Especially when they are legitimately things I actually didn't already know about.
05:52 Snow White suddenly appearing, jumping into the air, lifting her skirt, and firing several apples - with eyes - down at you, is the type of bizarre shit I associate heavily with retro Japanese platformers. I often assume "oh, it's probably a reference to some obscure Japanese folklore I'm not aware of" but, on multiple occasions I've searched and searched only to discover that it does appear to just be some completely bizarre, unexplainable shit spawned from the minds of the distant east.
I'm sure the Magical Hat anime is a real banger, and I'd love to see the episodes someday, but U feel we lost out big time on a Decap Attack cartoon. The game itself was so much more than Rom Hacking out characters that weren't known outside of Japan. It had its own personality and atmosphere. And I'm such a sucker for comedy monsters from Groovie Goolies to the Hotel Transylvania franchise and all the General Mills Monster Cereals in between. It would have made for such a hilarious, fun cartoon had SEGA licensed out the property to some animation studio.
While we never got a cartoon, the Decap Attack comic strip in STC actually ran for a a good long while - despite the name, the comic was originally conceived as a general Sega entertainment magazine and it featured strips based on other Sega properties like Streets of Rage, Wonder Boy, Golden Axe etc. Most of these were phased out and it became an exclusive Sonic comic, but Decap Attack was liked by the editorial team and so it was a survivor that kept going for almost as long as the whole comic did. It had the atmosphere of a lot of Cosgrove Hall-style wacky Halloween spookiness, like Count Duckula.
@@kapparomeo Problem is, that was very much a British publication at the time, so everyone outside of the country couldn't read it, or even knew about its existence, until the internet. I don't even think Chuck D. Head even made a cameo in the second Mega Man/Sonic crossover from Archie (just before they dumped both titles), but I haven't read the thing in a while.
Well. The joke was supposed to be it was Hat Tau and Hotoken. Which is what the scene is about when she in a towel thinking about what got her out of the bath
Me, after seeing Sega's ventures into multimedia in the early days of 8-bit: that explains a lot why Sega always invested mostly on products with little return in the West. It had historical precedence. Great vid, as always.
Amazing video, as always! 😊 Oh, and BTW, at 24:29 Xulé is pronounced "Shoo-leh". Xulé is a cutesy way of spelling the word "chulé", which is a word that doesn't exist in English, but it translates to "bad foot odor". You can see that bad odor represented as the acute accent on the letter É on the boxart. Also, on the boxart there's a sticker that says "Chulé incluído. Cuidado!!!", which means "Warning!!! Bad foot odor included".
One of the best scenes is when Hat wore a fake one outside so the real wouldn’t get ruined and the bad guys took that and were puzzled why it didn’t work 😂
About that one (omitted) nude frame around 14:00, I've always wondered what the rules were for nudity in cartoons in Japan. On the one hand, there was this frame which you implied snuck past public ire. But on the other hand, there were some anime that had overt nudity like Dragon Ball and Miss Machiko (which admittedly, I don't know if this one's target demo was kids).
@@AlanJones1984 Sonic the Comic was also fantastic in its own right! it took the discarded origin story featuring Dr. Kintobor all the way to the top! It also was not shy about inserting an influx of creative ideas that could have easily been applied to an original property. Plus, they even made the cartoon version of Robotnik far more terrifying than the SatAM version.
I don't think it categorizes as media mix but one of these partnerships of sega was with the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime. It was one of their biggest sponsors, even featuring the saturn in the TV series and also releasing the first games like iron maiden. In Iron maiden, the saturn version also shows lots of real products that had to be changed in later releases. Even sonic appears in a mug. They also released lots of figures developed by sega. Ah, the pronunciation of Sapo Xulé was totally wrong. It is something like Sapo Shu-leh.
What’s funny is that apparently it’s spelled Chule and this is like adding a Z to the end of words with an S. At least my understanding! The only Portuguese name starting with an X I know of is Xuxa, so I tried to copy that 😂
Did you at some point in one of your videos talk about the woman with the large glasses who is featured prominently in early Sega game commercials in Japan? I feel like somewhere I might have heard something about her story but honestly can’t remember. Was she an employee at Sega, or maybe a pop icon of some sort at the time? Just wondering. Thanks for the very chill video and your hard work!
Yuko Saito. Yes I did a video about the SG 1000 5 years ago. Wanted to remake and update it this year but ran out of time. Definitely something to do soon. She became an anime voice actress but I think at the time she was just up and coming and wasn’t a star yet
Oh my god!! Cyborg hunter on master system...aka borgman. I had no idea! I knew of zillion i had both of them. I had cyborg hunter too but didnt realised it was licensed etc.
Omg I love this game. I bought it in an import store in San Francisco back in the early '90s. I didn't even know Decap Attack was based on it until years later. Since I played Magical Hat first, I have always preferred it over the Western reskin. I just prefer the music and the whole aesthetic.
@@GTV-Japan I had a rubber figure of Sapo Xulé, in English, it's literally Stinky Feet Frog and this rubber toy had rubber snickers and once you took them off, it was really stinky, I'm serious, we kids loved these weird toys in the 90's.
@@GTV-Japan SEGA's distributor in Portugal was and is Eccofilm while in Brazil it is TECToy. Thanks to Ecofilm that Portugal had (as far as the West is concerned) exclusively Dragon Ball Z Legends and Dragon Ball games for Sega MegaDrive. But the thing is, when you bought Dragon Ball game for MegaDrive, you received an adapter that allowed you to play Japanese games on Mega Drive Pal. In Portugal, for some time GameGear was more popular than GameBoy.
So his name is "Hatto"? I thought it would be the Japanese word for Hat. Scraping up my memories from my college Japanese classes. The Hiragana spell "Ma-Ji-Ka-Ru" and the Katakana "hatto". Is the word for "magic" in Japanese Magikaru? I really wish I was as fluent in Japanese as I am in Spanish. Also, this video makes me wish I had a copy of Doki Doki Panic....
Yes the NES/Famicom version is total trash . It can not scroll vertically like Mega Man/Rockman, but it was designed around that . Kid Kool on the other hand is not designed around this limitation and the resolute is as we can see. SMS versions can scroll in all directions like Super Mario 3 so the game is solid .
Honestly, it looked like another attempt for Vic Tokai to make use of their "Kid Kool" gameplay style and engine. Psycho Fox played similarly to Magical Hat and Kid Kool, and that came later to the Master System. Of course, Brazil would see Psycho Fox four years following Magical Hat's Japanese release after being re-tooled to feature characters from the cartoon "Sapo Xule".
I have to commend them. Sega took a lot of effort to change the game around which is rarely done. New backgrounds new music, change stuff around. Compare that to kid kool!
No. Sonic was created long before that. It’s kind of like when 2-3 companies get together and make something then each arm does their thing sharing the rights and profits
I can never beat the first boss in this or Decap Attack. I like this version more than Decap Attack. It’s kind of disappointing and presumptuous when a game gets localized in this way. Even though we didn’t have that show here, I think people would have understood as long as the characters and setting were explained in the manual. The whole Decap attack character and setting is kind of nauseating, and the game is ugly compared to Magical Hat. The tropical look and use of colors is more appealing.
Sega had a different strategy that was more towards encompassing general entertainment which also included games but they are very ubiquitous in Japan. Popping up in places you don’t expect. The problem is that the narrative is written by Nintendoids who base everything for some strange reason on “muh kawnsule” and how Nintendo is a first party publisher and how special it makes them feel.
I have heard that these days, Kakefu-Kun manages a convenience store. That’s better than most child actors who usually rob them.
Kid Kleets never had it so good.
Yeah, that was a fact confirmed thanks to the Game Center CX episode where Arino plays Kakefu-kun
😂 Care to share what your last sentence (Classic Gaijilionaire savagery) is specifically in reference to?
I think that's a reference to how some child actors end up being criminals... Jake Lloyd, *cough cough*
Todd Bridges from Different Strokes specifically was in trouble after the show and at his low point held up a 7-11 or something. But he has his life together now.
I love that era of Japanese pop culture and anime. Such a breezy, charming, light-hearted feel. Plus, the art and animation are so technically brilliant, just gorgeous to look at.
Yeah I really like that era. Before anime was both weird and obsessed over by weirdos!
13:24 That's funny because Opa-opa is literally a basketball size robot character in the Zillion anime.
He’s cute!
I always preffered the look of magical hat on megadrive/genesis to the decap attack that we got in the west. But then I always preffered bright' colourful and quirky graphics in my games. Was a big fan of psycho fox as well and thought it was an equal to super mario bros in a way I never thought Alex kidd was.
I like bright colors too! It beats the look of some Genesis games where they mix colors together to have more on screen
Boss 1, as a clearly tropical or African dude, looks hilariously out of place in the Western graveyard that comprises Decap Attack's Halloween-themed first level. He should be shivering! 😂
I love these deep dives! I point everyone to your video about Yume Kojo whenever the topic comes up.
One minor correction here: Frankenstein wasn't a doctor, he was a scientist working on his own, not receiving a doctorate. (Though there is an argument to be made that he was also a monster.)
Oh my!
I always get a kick out of reading your captions and seeing what jokes you decided to leave out of the final voice-over, like "All from me, about 35 years too late..." I don't blame you for doing the cuts, but rather I see it as a fun Easter Egg I get by watching with captions on.
haha, well, what can I say? there are fun surprises everywhere!
Dude! There was so much I didn't know. Now the decisions Sega made with early Sonic makes even more sense. I didn't know they were behind Dinosaur King and Blue Dragon anime. This's why I subbed to this channel.
Good job!
Dinosaur King is one of the best kid shows out there! They have a Dreamcast at home!! Oh and all the dinosaurs too
Nintendo manufactured toys in Japan back in the late 1960s-early 1970s, but it wasn't until after Sega purchased Japanese toy manufacturer Yonezawa in 1991, that Sega diversified into toys (with Yonezawa being renamed Sega Toys), whose well-known products in the West were the Sega Pico and the iDog (which was licensed out to Tiger Electronics).
Both companies manufactured toys at different times in their history, with the distinction being that Nintendo did so before branching out into video games, while Sega manufactured toys and video games at the same time.
Yeah that’s true. I had that in the draft but cut it out to keep things under 30. But I bring it up because if you say anything about Sega you usually get hit with “muh kawnsole wuurs” and it drives me crazy. Especially after coming to japan and seeing that Sega just has a different kind of brand visibility here. Thanks for watching!
As soon as the doctor, not the monster came on screen I knew you couldn't refuse to make a reference.
Interesting and well made content as usual.
Thanks! How could I not pass up the chance?
10:56 I find it funny Dogu design is a striking resemblance to the ancient Dogu Statue.
Yeah I like that kind of touch. Maybe it alludes to ancient people capturing his likeness before he was sealed away?
These multimedia ventures are always exciting to look into!
Sega sure did get a lot of mileage out of this gameplay formula.
Totally! I’m sure they didn’t even really pay much for it too
I literally watched Changerion and had no idea it was Sega co-produced! And in googling more about this collaboration, I find out that the Hakaider film was also co-produced by Sega! Always learning something new with your videos.
Eventually I’ll get to changelion. They did so many things I may take years to do everything
I don't suppose Nintendo had much or anything to say on the DDP main character designs, except attending the table. Fuji TV is literally listed as charcter designer (on a fan site).
Yes that’s true. I have a picture of the person who designed imajin, it was some kind of intra office contest to design him. But I left it out because it was too off track. I’ll bring it back someday
Really cool recap, as usual! I have always preferred the Western exclusives (Psycho Fox & Decap’attack) but it might also be due to have been growing up with them. Psycho Fox was so big for the Master System in some parts of Europe, my French friends are always blown away when I tell them the game never even came out on MarkIII in Japan.
PS: I believe Blue Seed preceded RayEarth by a few months, and you forgot to mention the obvious Evangelion, Sega’s best bet ever in terms of anime mediamix.
It’s funny to think about how japan killed of the sms yet everywhere else it kept going
I played both Magical Hat and Decap Attack, and I knew there was an anime in the mix, but had no idea Fuji TV was involved. I would have never thought that Decap Attack and Super Mario Bros. 2 were related in some way. Thank you very much for the excellent video.
No problem. Happy to deliver as always! Have a good weekend
This channel is such a gem. Please never lose steam!
Thanks! I’ll try not to. But when the day comes, I’ll step down and walk away rather than run some zombie kind of channel. That’s a promise!
@@GTV-Japan That's the best way to go out. Here's to that day being long after you've told all the awesome stories you've uncovered! 🍻
@NuevaBestia cheers. Maybe I can get to 300! That’d be something. As far as actual video making I can do that till I’m in my 70s
This was an interesting video. I was aware of the Magical Hat-Decap Attack connection thanks to my history with Sonic the Comic (thanks for giving it a shout-out in the video, it's nice to see more of STC being remembered than just 'Evil Super Sonic'), which i have a habit of mentioning to people more than necessary just so that the Nintendo Kids don't get to hog all the trivia (just like you did in the video!), but I had no awareness of how it spread out into such a wide multimedia landscape, so lots of this was genuinely new stuff to me.
Thanks and don’t worry. I have no memory of evil super sonic!
Wow....I thought I was the only one who had heard of this one.
My friend back in the early 90's had this game bought from a bargain bin at a local video store.
I was obsessed with this game back then, and last year, I completed it again.
Bought a fully boxed copy from Japan about a year or so ago that I can't play but wanted it from a nostalgic perspective!
I can't even begin to tell you how much Magical Hat evokes memories from my childhood, so thank you for covering this one! (From a 40 odd year old!)
Awesome to hear ! Have you ever seen the show? Unfortunately I know of no English subtitles that exist but the episodes can be found online or dvd for cheap
@GTV-Japan I didn't find out that it was an anime until a few years back.
I did try and find a subtitled version, but to no avail.
I'm over in Japan this month, so I'm going to have a mooch about Tokyo, Osaka, and Hiroshima and see if I can pick up any merch!
I'd even be prepared to buy the soundtrack if I can find it.
It’s on Amazon JP. 20000!
As for the dvd set you might find it. It’s old now but might be used somewhere
Psycho Fox was always a childhood favourite 🦊
I remember it got very positive reviews. It was one of the first games that made realize all the good stuff outside of the orbit of the NES.
Another delightfully wholesome and informative GTV Japan (trivia) vid. ^^
Thanks for sharing, appreciate your content and glad to have you on youtube : )
Cheers! I’m happy to still be around 👳🏻♀️
You've done it again Champ. You've earned the name Gokujo TV. Bravo young tiger.
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A magical anime, consisting of 33 episodes that concluded on 6-6-1990. It's hero bears the hexagram ✡️ as his talisman. I really love that Japanese media producers put deep occult symbolism and themes in many of their supernaturally themed shows, right in plane sight, Evangelion being the best example I've ever seen. This show looks like a lot of fun ❤💙
I think it’s a reference to the connection of the above and under world that Hat kept in balance 👳🏻♀️
GTV and Sega, best content on the platform.
I love the Magical Hat game, so this video was awesome to see it's backstory in great detail. Incredible video, thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome have a great weekend!👳🏻♀️
It’s always a good day when there’s a new GTV to watch.
Ice Cube said it best. Today was a good day!
It’s weird to say that Magical Hat is a “mix” of titles including Decap Attack (in the title of this video) when since Decap Attack is the localization of Magical Hat, it came out afterwards.
It is weird! That’s for sure
This has become one of my favorite episodes.
Thanks and it was one of my favs to make. I wish more people saw it but oh well.
Great Video as Always
I was interested in hearing about this Anime ever since I found out about the Origins behind Decap Attack
His attack face always makes me laugh
I first owed and played Psycho Fox on my Sega Master System and then later on I got Decap Attack for my Sega Mega Drive console and loved both games but never knew about the Magical Hat game for Mega Drive only until the last 15 years ago and tried it out I actually like it and also enjoy the Anime 👍 great video
Great to hear! I don’t think many have watched it because no English subtitles exist that I’m aware of. But it’s a very fun show.
Great video and coverage of SEGA mix media adventures!
Decap Attack was always one of my favorites Mega Drive games, besides I never actually finished the thing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I won’t spoil it for ya, but it has a better ending than Hat
Always good to watch your videos. I love them. Thanks!
Glad you like them!
Your videos aren't just filled with info, but with joy. I really appreciate that about you. Your passion does affect my wallet with all the cool stuff you share, but it's always worth it. Thanks again!
Thanks. I hope I don’t make you spend too much money! 👳🏻♀️
@@GTV-Japan It usually isn't too bad. It doesn't help that over the years it has gotten easier to get things from Japan though.
For me I love that fact that nearly everything can be found online. Either cheaper, far cheaper than the import days of the 90s or often free 🏴☠️
Maybe it's just my eyes playing tricks, but I'm seeing some huge nods to Dragon Ball (not Z). The dog with the floppy ears vs the pig also a coward, the girl much like Bulma with a bit of Lunch, the old man has a Roshi look, even Hat looks a light bit like Goku and the mech reminds me of a capsule. Enemies too, I'm seeing a bit of Pilar's cronies, especially the fox. It's nice to see some unaddressed parallels here. Shame when the game came out in the US it was wrecked with dopey cemetery look of it all with decap attack on genesis, and the other kid kool at least wasn't twisted on nes.
I would say there’s some homages in there
Dragon Ball was the most popular anime in Japan even before the Z saga, and it directly superseded Dr Slump’s huge success (Dragon Ball was ironically supposed to be a reliever project to get out of the pressure from Dr Slump’s success). And adding Dragon Quest on top… It only makes sense that Toriyama’s work would have a huge influence on all the anime series from that era, consciously or not.
That Fox Character in the Anime kinda reminded me of Mouser from Super Mario Bros 2 and even had more than one of him in Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic which one of them got swapped out for Clawgrip when they made Super Mario Bros 2 or Clawglip as he's known in the Game's Manual and in the Credits
he is a psycho fox for sure
I love Japanese games like this. Such a bright imaginative atmosphere. Gotta love those Sega Blue skies games.
The only way to play
It’s a real shame that Sega no longer makes home consoles anymore, but at least Nintendo still co-produces and distributes their games to this day.
No it’s not. Now Sega games can appear everywhere while Nintendo and Sony, like suckers, spend billions to make hardware while Sega can just concentrate on games!
@@GTV-Japan, woah, I did not know that before.
Well think about it. In 2000 it cost at least a billion dollars to get that hardware out the door. These days the cost would be more than Sega even has in the bank. It’s not possible! Even Nintendo doesn’t really design their own stuff. The switch is just the Nvidia shield which was ridiculed when it was first put on sale. And Sony is just taking pc architecture these days anyway. It’s not worth it.
Mixed media crossovers like this have always fascinated me, it's always interesting to see something so ambitious done. Even when they kind of fall apart (Strider being my main thought on that front) the attempt alone usually produces some interesting results.
It’s a fun ride. Even when it goes bad
Almost immediate thumbs up!
Almost? Well. I’ll try harder next time!👳🏻♀️
Thanks for clarifying this confusing history. Psycho Fox and Decap Attack have been on my to buy list for some time but I never commit. One day I will get to them. 👍
I say go for it. Decap attack is great
@@GTV-Japan I think I should before it gets too steep in price.
My God.. I am speachless.. :^)
The quality of this video and information presented are top of the top.. real treasure!! :-3
We always loved this game in our household. :o)
This game have a very special place in my heart! Lol.
Back then I didn't know that it was based on or connected to an Anime. But I was suspecting that due to the licencing notices. But we immediately made the connection with Psycho Fox for the Master System, for that one was another of our favorite.
Thank you very much for this wonderful video. 👍👏
Thanks im glad you liked it! The next big video is being made right now so I hope to see you there!
@@GTV-Japan Of course!! :-D
I'll be happy to! 👍
I randomly had the Magical Hat cartridge for my Mega Drive as a kid but had no idea what it was called or anything but still enjoyed the game and it’s music. I just had no idea what it was I was playing until many years later ! Fascinating to now know the full story behind it.
That’s cool! I guess it was pretty popular at the time
Also, don’t think I didn’t see that you used the Famicom advert for Fantasy Zone!
It’s pretty trippy! And why not when we’re turning everything else upside down
I actually seen a Sega jukebox in a dive bar in Hawaii
Nice!
@@GTV-Japan I actually listened to blue hawaill by Elvis. I felt obligated to put money in it cuz it was my Sega duty lol...BTW it was only a dime a song and it took nickels too
@retropalooza good lord all you had to do next was eat locomoco and some pancakes for the true Japanese Hawaiian experience
@@GTV-Japan haha I hear yeah bud. You know your Hawaiian staples!!! Hey how long does it take to ferry to Okinawa? I'm planning my Tokyo trip for December.
@retropalooza a ferry from Tokyo to Okinawa? I’m not sure there are any! The one to Hokkaido takes like 18 hours or something. You’re better off flying. The ferry from Fukuoka I think takes 2-3 hours
That anime was giving me Dragon Ball Season 1 vibes.
Hmmm yeah I can see that! It’s very much like Wataru too 👳🏻♀️
Another excellent episode!
Thanks for the support! Next one will be out on August 18th!
The ending reminded me of a moment in The Simpson's 11x11 episode, in which Sideshow Mel tells an itinerant preacher that Krusty the Clown had become aphonic from using too many K's in his dialogues... I remember a friend lent me Decap Attack when I was a kid, so I was able to complete it, then it took me over two decades to find out it was a facelift of another game, at the time I was quite surprised!
Just another stab at Kato Kaelin!
Oh man I absolutely loved this game!!
And still play it today.
Basically my mate had a Japanese import megadrive (we are in uk)
Basically my mate had games like aleste musha, this game, streets of rage 1, golden axe, twin cobra, hang on, women's wrestling by asmik... quite a collection that his dad bought back from Japan.
I was very jealous as an 8 year old as I had a master system and thought I had a gotcha moment when I noticed he didn't have a pause button.....then he pressed start lol.
Anyway time goes on and I'm 14 or thereabouts and he offers me some of these games like musha for very little money (showed me i could play them on my UK megadrive via takin off the plastic cartridge and putting the PCB straight in)
- I didn't take note, but was happy to buy his games (aleste, this game, womens wrestling and twin cobra) for 20 notes. 5 each.
Turns out he ended up a heroin addict and that was the reason.
He died aged 18 when his own dealer overdosed him because he wouldn't stop snoring. The whole family is steeped in tragedy as there were 4 kids. 1 died of a heroin overdose as stated and another passed on through a random brain hemorrhage- who had just released a debut pop album!!
So this game has lots of history too me.
Decap attack just isn't colourful etc. Compared; plus I knew there was a link between this and psycho fox on the master system which I had also.
Decap Attack is literally this game with a different skin..
They couldn't release this game in the US because of the anime being nonexistent in the US, so it was transformed into Decap Attack
Basically the same crap they did woth Doki doki Panic, turning it onto Super Mario Bros 2/USA.
I’m shocked 😳
The animation style for the “Magical Hat” anime series reminds me of “Transformers G1” by Toei Animation, and Studio Ghibli’s movies.
You know, I shouldn't be as surprised as I was going into this that media mix projects were such a big part of SEGA. Like the only surprise to me outside of Magical Hat was that Borgman was funded by them. Like I knew about Zillion, about about Rayearth (though to be fare, I actually forgot about that one till the video brought it up... which is weird since I was a real big fan of CLAMP) and always loved the mecha designs for Sakura Wars.
I'm now kinda kicking myself that somehow this didn't click for me sooner heh.
Oh yeah Borgman gets forgotten but it had the Zillion in the show!!
@@GTV-Japan Which is weird since I watched some of it back in the days people still called it Japanimation. On a small local channel they used to air anime movies and OVA's on Friday nights (sometimes forgetting to censor them, not that 13 year old me minded lol) and that was were I first found out about Borgman but for the life of me I don't remember the Zillion in it.
I can’t remember the episode offhand but in the 20-25 range, Memory points the Zillion at Dust Zeed. But also the weapons in the show were sold under the Zillion name. In the show, they had different names so as not to conflict with the original Zillion done by a different studio
@@GTV-Japan Ok, that explains it heh. Keep up the good work on this channel. I love getting these deep dives in really obscure things. Especially when they are legitimately things I actually didn't already know about.
I got a list of 20 more for next year already lined up. A few in this style where anime and game cross over
I loved this. Underrated video. You’re still one of my favorites 😅
Thanks! I’m watching the next series in the Sega line now to prepare for next year
@@GTV-Japan i remain optimistic 😎
@creativecatproductions it’s a good one!
Me watching the video: This sure looks like Decap Attack...
GTV: ...Decap Attack!
Me: wow.
...i also need some kahlua
He need some milk!!
05:52
Snow White suddenly appearing, jumping into the air, lifting her skirt, and firing several apples - with eyes - down at you, is the type of bizarre shit I associate heavily with retro Japanese platformers. I often assume "oh, it's probably a reference to some obscure Japanese folklore I'm not aware of" but, on multiple occasions I've searched and searched only to discover that it does appear to just be some completely bizarre, unexplainable shit spawned from the minds of the distant east.
Yes. Certainly.
I'm sure the Magical Hat anime is a real banger, and I'd love to see the episodes someday, but U feel we lost out big time on a Decap Attack cartoon. The game itself was so much more than Rom Hacking out characters that weren't known outside of Japan. It had its own personality and atmosphere. And I'm such a sucker for comedy monsters from Groovie Goolies to the Hotel Transylvania franchise and all the General Mills Monster Cereals in between. It would have made for such a hilarious, fun cartoon had SEGA licensed out the property to some animation studio.
The Ghoulie Get together by Collective Soul on the Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits album is one of my favorites!
While we never got a cartoon, the Decap Attack comic strip in STC actually ran for a a good long while - despite the name, the comic was originally conceived as a general Sega entertainment magazine and it featured strips based on other Sega properties like Streets of Rage, Wonder Boy, Golden Axe etc. Most of these were phased out and it became an exclusive Sonic comic, but Decap Attack was liked by the editorial team and so it was a survivor that kept going for almost as long as the whole comic did. It had the atmosphere of a lot of Cosgrove Hall-style wacky Halloween spookiness, like Count Duckula.
Oh I was half asleep before. It was the Toadies. Collective Soul did the song from The Bugaloos
It’s something that should be talked about more
@@kapparomeo Problem is, that was very much a British publication at the time, so everyone outside of the country couldn't read it, or even knew about its existence, until the internet. I don't even think Chuck D. Head even made a cameo in the second Mega Man/Sonic crossover from Archie (just before they dumped both titles), but I haven't read the thing in a while.
Only 3 letters of support for the 1 frame anime teen nudity? Japan, you disappoint me...
Well. The joke was supposed to be it was Hat Tau and Hotoken. Which is what the scene is about when she in a towel thinking about what got her out of the bath
Japan has the best cartoons/anime
Hell yes! If only the taxes weren’t so cripplingly high!!!!
Me, after seeing Sega's ventures into multimedia in the early days of 8-bit: that explains a lot why Sega always invested mostly on products with little return in the West. It had historical precedence.
Great vid, as always.
This one was really great!
Cheers! I recommend the show!
Amazing video, as always! 😊 Oh, and BTW, at 24:29 Xulé is pronounced "Shoo-leh". Xulé is a cutesy way of spelling the word "chulé", which is a word that doesn't exist in English, but it translates to "bad foot odor". You can see that bad odor represented as the acute accent on the letter É on the boxart. Also, on the boxart there's a sticker that says "Chulé incluído. Cuidado!!!", which means "Warning!!! Bad foot odor included".
Yes I know that now! 🐸
Awesome episode!
Glad to have you back again!
fun fact: uson island exists in real life somewhere on Philippines
Fun!
Looks comfy AF…. But maybe add a chin strap to the magical, super important hat? LOL! 😅
One of the best scenes is when Hat wore a fake one outside so the real wouldn’t get ruined and the bad guys took that and were puzzled why it didn’t work 😂
@@GTV-Japan That's like that gif of the dude putting sunglasses over his sunglasses LOL
About that one (omitted) nude frame around 14:00, I've always wondered what the rules were for nudity in cartoons in Japan. On the one hand, there was this frame which you implied snuck past public ire. But on the other hand, there were some anime that had overt nudity like Dragon Ball and Miss Machiko (which admittedly, I don't know if this one's target demo was kids).
In the old days even live action tv had all kinds of crazy. I can’t even say what I saw but I can say I was shocked!
@@GTV-Japan I’m so curious. Mum’s the word tho lol
Well just go to nyaa dot si and get the whole series yourself 🏴☠️
i honestly keep forgetting decap attack was a game first before the very weird comic strip in the uk sonic the comic
I’ve never read it before. I can see why it’s popular
As a rabid Sonic the Comic reader in my youth, I associate Decap Attack much more with the comic than the game.
@@AlanJones1984 Sonic the Comic was also fantastic in its own right! it took the discarded origin story featuring Dr. Kintobor all the way to the top! It also was not shy about inserting an influx of creative ideas that could have easily been applied to an original property. Plus, they even made the cartoon version of Robotnik far more terrifying than the SatAM version.
I don't think it categorizes as media mix but one of these partnerships of sega was with the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime. It was one of their biggest sponsors, even featuring the saturn in the TV series and also releasing the first games like iron maiden. In Iron maiden, the saturn version also shows lots of real products that had to be changed in later releases. Even sonic appears in a mug.
They also released lots of figures developed by sega.
Ah, the pronunciation of Sapo Xulé was totally wrong. It is something like Sapo Shu-leh.
I said shu le! Oh well. I tried.
@@GTV-Japan sounded more like zu or ju haha
What’s funny is that apparently it’s spelled Chule and this is like adding a Z to the end of words with an S. At least my understanding! The only Portuguese name starting with an X I know of is Xuxa, so I tried to copy that 😂
Great video, your channel is a gem ❤
💎
Did you at some point in one of your videos talk about the woman with the large glasses who is featured prominently in early Sega game commercials in Japan? I feel like somewhere I might have heard something about her story but honestly can’t remember. Was she an employee at Sega, or maybe a pop icon of some sort at the time? Just wondering. Thanks for the very chill video and your hard work!
Yuko Saito. Yes I did a video about the SG 1000 5 years ago. Wanted to remake and update it this year but ran out of time. Definitely something to do soon. She became an anime voice actress but I think at the time she was just up and coming and wasn’t a star yet
14:28 Now I need to see the frame but can't find it 😭😭
Sorry! 😂
@@GTV-Japan It's okay 😔
Oh my god!! Cyborg hunter on master system...aka borgman. I had no idea! I knew of zillion i had both of them. I had cyborg hunter too but didnt realised it was licensed etc.
Well then my friend, get over to my Borgman video and enjoy!
@@GTV-Japan could you send me a link as I can't seem to find it.... many thanks
It’s one of the end cards at the end of this video. I’ll send a link too but it often gets eaten up
Here’s the link ruclips.net/video/51cwcqcKiFA/видео.html
@@GTV-Japan many thanks
About the Sapo Xulé character, in portuguese the "Xu" or "chu" are pronounced like the Chu in Pikachu. So it's Sapo CHU-lé.
Oh I thought Xu was different
23:56 A... are you Cinemassacretruthing us?
Take a wild guess
@@kevinpaz3142 I thought that was exactly i did though ;)
But was I’m a truther.
@@GTV-Japan We are 540 people here in my friend list who says otherwise ;)
I’m sorry you gotta be the bottom of the totem pole. The b on the d.
Omg I love this game. I bought it in an import store in San Francisco back in the early '90s. I didn't even know Decap Attack was based on it until years later. Since I played Magical Hat first, I have always preferred it over the Western reskin. I just prefer the music and the whole aesthetic.
I do like the music too, though I will say Decap Attack has 7 themes for 7 worlds, but hat. is just kind of all mixed up.
@@GTV-Japan True!
Loved this game as a kid!
No idea why rhey changed rhe aesthetics for the western release and made it so "euro". 😅
Yeah. It’s weird!
😂 More NG Scenes, please!
sure! just wait till the next few coming out, they are hilarious.
Very interesting how they recycled so many times one game :D it was the formula for the game engines in 90's to this day .
Totally!!
Correction: Sapo Xule was not a action figure and was not created by tec-toy he was actually from a comic.
Oh ok. But I did see an action figure of him. Must have been made after 🐸
@@GTV-Japan I had a rubber figure of Sapo Xulé, in English, it's literally Stinky Feet Frog and this rubber toy had rubber snickers and once you took them off, it was really stinky, I'm serious, we kids loved these weird toys in the 90's.
@roberto1519 neat! Thanks for sharing
24:38 Correction, not here in Portugal.
Several websites and message boards had people from Portugal claiming to own the game
@@GTV-Japan it is strange
Yes! I may actually go all in in a new video just about him
@@GTV-Japan SEGA distributor in Portugal was and is Eccofilm while in Brazil it is TECToy
@@GTV-Japan SEGA's distributor in Portugal was and is Eccofilm while in Brazil it is TECToy.
Thanks to Ecofilm that Portugal had (as far as the West is concerned) exclusively Dragon Ball Z Legends and Dragon Ball games for Sega MegaDrive. But the thing is, when you bought Dragon Ball game for MegaDrive, you received an adapter that allowed you to play Japanese games on Mega Drive Pal. In Portugal, for some time GameGear was more popular than GameBoy.
So his name is "Hatto"? I thought it would be the Japanese word for Hat. Scraping up my memories from my college Japanese classes. The Hiragana spell "Ma-Ji-Ka-Ru" and the Katakana "hatto". Is the word for "magic" in Japanese Magikaru? I really wish I was as fluent in Japanese as I am in Spanish. Also, this video makes me wish I had a copy of Doki Doki Panic....
Yes his name is hat
Cool vid
16:25 Wait a second, didn’t the Nerd make a video about this game some time ago?
Who? What nerd? I don’t know I’m not a scientist!
@@GTV-Japan AVGN. He did a video on Kid Kool.
Sorry never heard of!
Yes the NES/Famicom version is total trash . It can not scroll vertically like Mega Man/Rockman, but it was designed around that . Kid Kool on the other hand is not designed around this limitation and the resolute is as we can see. SMS versions can scroll in all directions like Super Mario 3 so the game is solid .
It is funny to think about how the let a game like that, where the action stops and the screen moves, out the door
I don't hate Decap Attack but it reeked of "americanisation of a japanese IP"
Honestly, it looked like another attempt for Vic Tokai to make use of their "Kid Kool" gameplay style and engine.
Psycho Fox played similarly to Magical Hat and Kid Kool, and that came later to the Master System. Of course, Brazil would see Psycho Fox four years following Magical Hat's Japanese release after being re-tooled to feature characters from the cartoon "Sapo Xule".
I have to commend them. Sega took a lot of effort to change the game around which is rarely done. New backgrounds new music, change stuff around. Compare that to kid kool!
Sick vid
Have you considered making video on the Crash Bandicoot manga?
I have not. But I’ll look it up. The rule usually is that if it’s never been translated it’s on the table
@@GTV-Japan Do fan translations count?
No! Ok point me to some pdfs and I’ll take a look
@@GTV-Japan Not sure if you saw but look up "random hoo haas scans bits"
Does sonic x count as a nedia mix?
No. Sonic was created long before that. It’s kind of like when 2-3 companies get together and make something then each arm does their thing sharing the rights and profits
19:11 amogus
I can never beat the first boss in this or Decap Attack. I like this version more than Decap Attack. It’s kind of disappointing and presumptuous when a game gets localized in this way. Even though we didn’t have that show here, I think people would have understood as long as the characters and setting were explained in the manual. The whole Decap attack character and setting is kind of nauseating, and the game is ugly compared to Magical Hat. The tropical look and use of colors is more appealing.
Yeah it’s a weird design but his face is funny I say 👳🏻♀️
@@GTV-Japan it is an amusing character for sure. If they made another one I'd be down.
I wouldn’t be against that!
0:40 this guy can’t help himself insults his own audience lol
I’m a regular Don Rickles, a real nice guy !!
Kid Kool is not kool.
So he is Kid Lame?
Please, dude, SEGA just wasn't as forward-thinking and innovative as Nintendo... they just weren't.
Always 2nd rate
And this coming from THE biggest Sega fan boy
Sega had a different strategy that was more towards encompassing general entertainment which also included games but they are very ubiquitous in Japan. Popping up in places you don’t expect. The problem is that the narrative is written by Nintendoids who base everything for some strange reason on “muh kawnsule” and how Nintendo is a first party publisher and how special it makes them feel.
I would like to play magical hat it looks cool.