The Crying Freeman Anime was Ridiculous
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- (Warning - flashing lights at 15:21 and 15:30)
Straight out of the age of anime on VHS comes a tale of assassination, international intrigue, and random disrobing for knife fights. Crying Freeman is emblematic of the excess of the Japan of the bubble age - but it's a ridiculous, fun time to look back on.
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Believe it or not we need shows like this in the modern era just sayin.
I mean, there's a reason I'm still talking about Crying Freeman to this day and not random modern Isekai #378.
I don't necessarily disagree, but uh.. people are definitely talking about random modern isekai 378 more than they are about Crying Freeman@@noahoskow4551
As far fetched as it is this anime is still entertaining. Remember how some of James Bond’s antics were, you’re like “No way” but he gets a pass cause he’s James Bond😂
Your editing is killing me! 🤣Thank you for bringing back memories of renting crying freeman at 13 from Hollywood video! Glad I wasn’t alone!
Crying Freeman himself comes across to me as being an erotic incarnation of Speed Racer, all dolled up with homoerotic nudity and a fondness for gory violence.
Will always love this series, it's self seriousness, craziness and style. The soundtrack is unironically great and tbh despite the cheesiness episode 1 is legitimately good with memorable moments. It's like they started with an attempt at a stylish and passionate story but immediately went bonkers afterwards (same for the manga).
Speaking of the manga it's the third and last collab between Ikegami and Koike (who didn't even know the OVA existed until asked his thoughts on it). Their first two were Offered and Wounded Man/White Haired Devil/Kazuibito. Those two don't come anywhere near as good as Freeman which is saying something. Offered is uninteresting and Wounded Man is downright disgustingly offensive with one of the most hateable protags I've ever followed, even as a huge fan of this era of manga and anime. Wounded Man also has an OVA adaptation and its just as bad. Freeman, while being crazy and absurd still has a ton of love put into it and it's hard not to appreciate that fact at the very least, not to act like it's some masterpiece.
You said it all perfectly here.
They cut out all of the character development of the original manga tale. And this was just another example of "All Anime is SEX AND VIOLENCE!"
This is amazing, only video on RUclips talking about crying freeman, this is a truly underrated anime 👌🏽😁
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I’m impressed by OVA animation, so much detail and I’m surprised most of them were directly to video release back then. Most of those animations are strong enough for cinematic release, thank you for the review, I really enjoyed it 👍🏻
English subs are up! Hopefully we managed to incorporate all the memes properly.
Hey 皆んな, thanks for stopping by! This episode is a bit of a departure from our usual sort of content - as a big fan of "so-bad-it's-good" media, it's a bit more of an experiment in doing something I've always thought would make for a fun video. Hopefully you enjoy it (and maybe even find it a little interesting) - if you prefer the usual more serious takes, those will be back soon! Let me know what you thought about this video, and what your favorite schlocky Japanese media is.
English subs will be up soon, and mind the flashing lights warning in the description. じゃ！
a surprise to be sure, but a pleasant one
The scene where everyone is being a human shield is living rent free in my head. Like the Knife that dude got stabbed with.
I loved these when I was a kid! I had them on VHS, they were released by Manga Entertainment in the UK. I'm sure the versions I owned had a different English dub though.
Nice! I know Streamline did two dubs of it back in the day - wonder if it was an older version? Would love to hear whatever version of the dub they released over there. The ADV Films version on my DVDs is hilarious.
@@noahoskow4551 I had to look it up, but yeah Manga did their own dub for the UK release, Streamline did the US release then a third dub was done by another company: dubbing.fandom.com/wiki/Crying_Freeman
@@alanwardle4724 Just listened to some of it! Seemed they went the opposite route of the Streamline dub - giving the Chinese characters (who are most of the cast) "Chinese" accents. Seems just as wonderful as the US dub, but in a very different way.
Ok, I'm actually watching even more of the UK dub and... it's a treasure. Like, so funny that I just want to make another video of the best cuts from the UK dub. Thank you for bringing this to my attention 😂
@@noahoskow4551 😂 I can't wait to see it if you do
I appreciate your dedication keep it up friend
Why thank you - I'm enjoying myself, so I'll be making YT videos for a while to come.
Entertaining exposé of this uberfun anime! Your edits are funny as eff. Nutty plots maybe, but CF oozes quality like few other OAVs. Stylish art and astonishing animation impress me EVERY time I watch it. Cinematic and tons of fun. Cheers!
Young man this movie series rocked my world early to mid 90's.
Them dudes a Wu told you too.
Hey 30:15 got me with that spit😂 great edit bro keep it up!
This anime was great . one of my favorites
ah yes, how I realized I was gay. but oh god this plot was so stupid lmf. you going from a mindslave to leader of the 108 dragons because….. because?
The manga is even more absurd. And less so than Wounded Man. Wounded Man is the craziest and most cringy story ever told. Same writer and artist as crying freeman
It’s called Japanimation and for all of the I’m fans of today you can thank this time. For where we are today.
Great video, if you do more of these can the sound clips match the volume of the narration? There would be a sudden spike of sounds during the cutaway music.
i would love to see a video on the wounded man a manga by the same creator who has an amazingly shlocky OVA.
No way man, my dad had that on VHS. The cover reminds me of it. I never actually watched it, I just thought it was pron and got dissapointed when it wasn't lmao
Dude, that's the kind of sense of humor that my boyfriend enjoys a lot! with all thos Megaman and Initial D memes stuff. I enjoyed watching it! Please don''t change!
Grew up with this series.
Def an interesting show to watch as a kid! 😂
@@noahoskow4551 Coolest anime ever saw, was watching Tom and Jerry cartoons lol.
Still one of my favorites till this day…No shame 😂
No need to feel shame over being a Crying Free-fan!
Watching the last quarter of this video I just kept laughing and laughing.
First time I saw it I was on acid in high school at a party with a bunch of friends. Absolutely mind blowing and great. Then to discover RZA sampled it on the classic 90s Wu-Tang albums. Just so cool. Pure violence and porn! Hahaha
the comics were much darker
Thanks i always thought so to.
Another wafer of intrigue
Salutations, Crying Walkman.
@@UnseenJapan with honour!
the Japanese guy getting brainwashed by the Chinese with some woo woo acupuncture is hilarious to me.
Bruh I watched this as a kid way to young for it 🤣🤣🤣...mom had no idea
12:46 Plastic Little
I'd seen that tape from a Blockbuster Store. ☺
It's probably my first nude anime I'd seen. I couldn't believe it. I was like, "there's no way they gonna draw nip... there you go." 🤣
FREEMAN
Freeman!!
@@OneSleeplessOne フリーマン
Great review.
There is nothing ridiculous about this. You just have no depth of esoteric knowledge
You’re right, if only we could’ve been enlightened by our own intelligence 😩
where is that clip from? 12:00
It's Kawajiri Yoshiaki's Wicked City (1987). A classic of the 1980s demons and hyperviolence genre.
@@UnseenJapan thanks man, binged crying freeman yesterday and needed to watch this after whatever the hell that was.
If you think this anime portrays africans in a bad light than i should say the same for italians cause of the precedent episode.
There are two more
Don't care, was awesome and wish to see update... But probably won't happen... Everything seems to be so serious.. 🤨 🙂
What RIDICULOUS is, it's to say about the "The Crying Freeman"was ridiculous. The mania back then, pre the Internet, used to be beyond imagining. Now everyone wants to be a smart ass by just sitting at home and recording bullshit RUclips videos and criticizing the old classics. THIS is fucking RIDICULOUS!!!
It's called reviewing and giving opinions also addressing some issues and pointing it out. Which every anime reviewers does and it's nothing wrong. Every anime has positive and as well as critical points nothing wrong addressing those
bro.. don't fuck with the original.
And who do I slap for this?
Good question - but why slap when you can have a disrobed knife fight?
@@UnseenJapan Lol,I do get your point but you have to take it for what it is,I mean a guy who strips down to his butt floss before every fight is,,,Well to be honest, hilarious.🤔😁
And that's the beauty of Crying Freeman.
Going to say great show fella really like this one Freeman is anime from my beginnings of watching and down the 90s for show me so much crazy stuff but yeah this is good. Nice job thanks
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