Actually SEGA replaced Apollo Smile with Cherami Leigh in that Space Channel VR game that came out a few years ago since Apollo decided to retire and became a dance instructor somewhere else.
Every time I remember the sci-fi channel anime week, I think to myself: we're just a vtuber rig or one giant video essay away from the Apollo Smile renaissance.
Another neat tidbit about Obari and Transformers: he also worked as a designer on at least part 3 of the pilot episode while working at Ashi Productions. You can actually see which frames he worked on because Optimus has a much more bulky, exaggerated look.
There are plenty of shots in that episode that were clearly based on Obari's style, like at least half of it at minimum. Not saying it was all his work, but there's a lot of visual inspiration.
KaiserBeamz: *mentions and shows Apollo* Me: *childhood memory unlocked* no joke, I actually remember this from watching a late night showing of Galazy Express 999
Gotta love the Transformers roots. Obari says Optimus Prime's stock transformation footage was his first animation of his professional career, and our first taste of what was to come later from him.
I don't watch absolutely everything he posts, but largely, same here. Just clicked with his presentation style. Sure it helps that I (somehow) like watching videos about anime production history a lot more than I like watching anime.
I just find it fascinating learning about something someone is so invested in, I'd consider myself a moderate Anime lover, I'm more of a video game Otaku.@@WhitzWolf92
You know something is bad when a 2004 entry in the long running Kamen Rider franchise where each Rider is based on the card motif is better executed, and that season gave us the ultimate game of 52 Pickup by fighting monsters and capturing them when they get a taste of the Rider's iconic finishing moves, even the latest entry, Gotchard, is telling a good story with a full deck
It's a shame this is a bomb; I love the 90's look of Suzuki's character designs! It seems like this is the animes you imagine in you head while listening to music made real. No downtime or story, just cool looking stuff constantly happening.
13:30 Speaking of, how have you not covered Utena yet? There'd be so much to talk about. (Or is that the problem? haha) Anyway, yeah, I vaguely remember watching this one back in the day, and just recall a fever dream of explosions and Stuff Happening. I kinda wish we had more BTS material on this one, just to try to figure out what the hell went so wrong.
No way this is the 90’s stuff that I love! If I wanted award winning entertainment I’d rent titanic. Cool art, hot babes, non stop action I’m in baby! Different strokes for different folks just saying. You made a good video though loved it!
I also agree. He harps way too much on story, plot points, engaging three dimensional characters and blah blah blah, but you don't need that EVERY time. As long as you go into this knowing that it's basically a collection of randomly animated cutscene-like nonsense then despite what he says it's actually entertaining for what it is.
Its so fucking weird as a super monkey ball speedrunner to hear the soundtrack in a random video essay lol. Great video, I kinda want to check this out.
Look... I love English dubs. I am a defender of dubs. I have the utmost respect and admiration for the anime dubbing and localization industry. I even like this anime kinda, sorta, a little bit... it's a guilty pleasure. But even I have to say...... no this dub really does actually suck.
As a New Yorker, I cannot hate on this dub. And since you don't care about any of the other voices in this dub (Scott Cargle's also a CPM mainstay and voiced Red Lobster in this dub as well. What was he; chopped liver?), I will say two things about two of the voices: 1) The English voice of Casa Clubs was provided by comedienne, writer and impressionist, Nadya Ginsburg. Two years after this dub, Nadya would also be a cast mate on the ill-fated sketch comedy show on the WB, "Hype!". Since that show got canned, you could say she hasn't had the best luck until the later end the of the 2000's. However, she does have a RUclips page. Please don't harass her about her role in this. I have to say this for the safety of many online denizens overall. 2) There's a rumor floating around that Jeremy Welch (who voiced the King in this OVA) was the late Maddie Blaustein under an alias. And as for the anime itself? I consider this to be a Pilot OVA. As in, if the OVA was a success, they would've told more about the world and its cast in later episodes, had this become a series. But judging from the end results, that card is still floating around the void somewhere. And finally, at least you were nice to the dubbed voices. In comparison, back in the old days of the internet; they would usually have the tired old joke of "they took someone off the street" to do the voice work. Which, if you know about New York and its acting communities in voice over and Broadway, is complete bullshit. It's just nobody thought anime would be as big as Pokemon at the time.
..........................it's not. God, you "Everything In The Entire World Sounds Like Jojo" people are the worst garbage of humanity. You know what it IS a reference to? The Diamond in a pack of cards, and the Joker in a deck of cards. ...because she's from a deck of cards and they're all based on cards. Not every goddamn thing in the entire goddamn universe revolves around that goddamn Jojo series. You people are worse than Undertale fans.
Have you ever watched or considered reviewing any adaptations of X or X/1999? I just watched the movie from movie from 1996 and it's kind of mind boggling how well animated it is for something i've never heard anyone talk about. Also being directed by Rintarou the storytelling is plenty weird by looks beautiful the whole time.
I got soo into Studio Ox chara & animation style after their Idol Project that i imported this JaJa Uma! Quartet OVA on VHS from Japan hehe....Sure its only for the animation and all related stuff i like it and the story is not important for me in this instance. I just wish the studio did more titles.
He does not like these types of comments because it neglects the amount of time, work, and effort put into the video. Wondered if he saw it since I saw a tweet of his a few days ago highlighting that frustration, and yep, he pointed it out as an example of it just now. You probably didn’t know, but it’s a heads up for the future.
All flash degrading substance. 3 times you watched this?.…. Damn. Also guess fan input didn’t work here huh. Wonder if there were any projects that did succeed with fan input.
@@KhayJayArt True. A Sound Argument, yet even a solid Design from one fan or script from another can really help with making something good. It definitely takes individuals who have worked on similar projects before that can make those ideas work. There have been Power Rangers fans who have become a Big part of the Writer’s room. I will agree that structuring an Idea around an Already Existing Franchise is Easier. Making ideas or story concepts for an Something like “Wild Cards” needs a lot more time in the Oven!
Hey, so dumb thought but was Wild Cards supposed to be based on games? The main characters are based on cards, they are fighting giant chess pieces, the racist stereotype summons mahjong pieces and the black and red spots at the end could be checkers.
The story is fine as a launching point to a series where stuff is delved into more deeply. It's basically like complaining the first two episodes don't cover the narrative, character crafting and world building of a series.
@@gamerbear84 You have a point!! I should make my own version of this with a narrative that’s not to be taken seriously with some world building and maybe add some magical girl and Tokusatsu inspiration! I’ll either call it Shuffled Aces, High Card Force, Pick Up Unit: 52, or One Eyed Wilds!
Back when I first watched this, I think there are SOME interesting aspects to what happens in this anime. They're just way too vague, overly condensed and truncated to the point where they come off as nonsensical. Ultimately I do agree that the majority of this is just motion p-n with cool character design, and anything of substance chopped out of either the story and dialouge.... But I actually think that at least when reading between the lines of what's here, there are some interesting.... CONCEPTS being tossed about. And I'll admit I havn't watched this, but I'm interested to see if you bring up the absolutely insultingly offensive English voice for the Chinese caricature villain. (Though it's not like the depiction as intended from the Japanese producers is much better). Also, I hope you at least bring up as a side note, the quick and brief history of the failed publicity-stunt-turned-voice-actress Apollo Smile and how this was one of her only few real roles in an English dub ever.
Seems like a bad choice to sigh and say "let's get this over with" at the beginning of a video. But maybe people just let videos play rather than make choices to stop watching if the person making a video indicates they think the subject is boring.
What was the point of Wild Cardz!?! Was it supposed to be a TV pilot that never got sold!?! And why, oh why, why in all holy Hans Mole Man dub is so god awful cringe worthy!?!
I hate how these American Anime distribution companies thought would sell to Americans in the 90s and early 2000s. They didn't give a damn about stories and characters. All they cared about was material that had lots of T&A and ridiculous action.
Me personally I dislike animation works that feel the need to alway move. One of my least favorite anime films is Dead Leaves it continues to move and ugly as sin too. I feel Wild Cards the same
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"A good story can save poor animation, where good animation cannot save a poor story.”
-Osamu Tezuka
Jay Ward was living proof of that with his cheap, but hilariously written cartoons.
Thats last part is the problem with James Cameron's Avatar
tezuka was so wise
Osamu, the man who invented limited animation, and almost definitely coined the term "anime" to describe exactly that.
That's why animators don't even try anymore,they are convinced that plot will save them
Actually SEGA replaced Apollo Smile with Cherami Leigh in that Space Channel VR game that came out a few years ago since Apollo decided to retire and became a dance instructor somewhere else.
Becoming a dance instructor is very fitting lol. I kinda wanna attend just to be taught by the insperstion of Ulala.
Every time I remember the sci-fi channel anime week, I think to myself: we're just a vtuber rig or one giant video essay away from the Apollo Smile renaissance.
One thing's for sure--these ladies ain't no Royal Flush Gang.
And they're certainly not J.A.K.Q.
The 4 Kamen Riders of Blade they are not
Nor are they edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass.
We can do this all day.
They ain't no Shuffle Alliance either
I'm really digging these character designs. Not quite Cyberteam in Akihabara, but still gives that late-90's goodness.
U would love obari
They got that Saber Marionette charm to them, very shiny coloring, big sparkling eyes, sharp angles
Top tier anime design 10/10
@@kasrasadrehashemi174 Already do.
@@kasrasadrehashemi174 I already do. Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture is among my favorite anime movies.
@@Homodemon I'm pretty sure that Saber Marionette and CTA were created by the same guy.
Another neat tidbit about Obari and Transformers: he also worked as a designer on at least part 3 of the pilot episode while working at Ashi Productions. You can actually see which frames he worked on because Optimus has a much more bulky, exaggerated look.
There are plenty of shots in that episode that were clearly based on Obari's style, like at least half of it at minimum.
Not saying it was all his work, but there's a lot of visual inspiration.
KaiserBeamz: *mentions and shows Apollo*
Me: *childhood memory unlocked*
no joke, I actually remember this from watching a late night showing of Galazy Express 999
Gotta love the Transformers roots. Obari says Optimus Prime's stock transformation footage was his first animation of his professional career, and our first taste of what was to come later from him.
I very much remember that when this came out people were super excited. Then it came out and they watched it, and nobody cared anymore.
You know I started watching KB for his Looney Tunes videos but now I watch all of his videos.
I don't watch absolutely everything he posts, but largely, same here. Just clicked with his presentation style.
Sure it helps that I (somehow) like watching videos about anime production history a lot more than I like watching anime.
I just find it fascinating learning about something someone is so invested in, I'd consider myself a moderate Anime lover, I'm more of a video game Otaku.@@WhitzWolf92
@@WhitzWolf92😒
That X-men ‘97 animation breaks my heart
Oh wow, I remember this being a spin-off or cash-in on the success of Idol Project, even shared the same character designer, Noritaka Suzuki
Idol Project was similarly unwatchable, so that makes sense.
"we have different hair so you can tell us apart!"
Many such cases...
It all connects to the Transformers.
And I love it.
All roads lead to G1 Transformers ;)
You know something is bad when a 2004 entry in the long running Kamen Rider franchise where each Rider is based on the card motif is better executed, and that season gave us the ultimate game of 52 Pickup by fighting monsters and capturing them when they get a taste of the Rider's iconic finishing moves, even the latest entry, Gotchard, is telling a good story with a full deck
Hooray Kamen Rider Blade!
Apollo Smile! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a loooooong time. Even back then, I never really understood why she was as popular as she was.
Hope your next ova is Gunsmith cats
I can remember seeing ads for Wild Cardz in Animerica and thinking... nah. Good to know my childhood scepticism was warranted.
Whenever I recognize the Sonic music used in these video, the little Sonic fan in my heart is happy
Apollo smile
It's a shame this is a bomb; I love the 90's look of Suzuki's character designs! It seems like this is the animes you imagine in you head while listening to music made real. No downtime or story, just cool looking stuff constantly happening.
Now we have the anime "High Card" who also have powers inspired by play cards
19:51 SPEED FORCE dimension
7:03 -And.. you guessed it! Misami Obari
me:
13:30 Speaking of, how have you not covered Utena yet? There'd be so much to talk about. (Or is that the problem? haha)
Anyway, yeah, I vaguely remember watching this one back in the day, and just recall a fever dream of explosions and Stuff Happening. I kinda wish we had more BTS material on this one, just to try to figure out what the hell went so wrong.
People watch for story. Is possible to turn "friends" into the slideshow and people will still love them.
This anime feels like '97 in a nutshell. Like if they made a whole show consisting of action-packed intros
Man, this looked so cool when I picked it up at a Blockbuster in 1999. Then I watched it.
No way this is the 90’s stuff that I love! If I wanted award winning entertainment I’d rent titanic. Cool art, hot babes, non stop action I’m in baby! Different strokes for different folks just saying. You made a good video though loved it!
Agreed!
It's cool, but man does it lose much of its luster when there is no substance to back it up.
I also agree. He harps way too much on story, plot points, engaging three dimensional characters and blah blah blah, but you don't need that EVERY time. As long as you go into this knowing that it's basically a collection of randomly animated cutscene-like nonsense then despite what he says it's actually entertaining for what it is.
i was OBSESSED with this one, im pumped for this video!!
Prepare to be disappointed. He does nothing but trash it.
I'm glad I saw this in the original dub. Why it saw VHS release in Finland, I have no idea, but I was really sorry to find out there wasn't more.
Once more everyone is reminded that writing should not be a democracy, but a benevolent dictatorship.
I actually have this anime. Who would've thought that 'Wild Cardz' had ties to 'Transformers'. Also, I met Apollo Smile at A convention years ago.
Would love to know what Year honestly.
@@danielramsey6141 2001, or 2002, I believe.
@@danielramsey6141 Either 2001, or 2002.
This feels like something that could benefit from a remake.
Its so fucking weird as a super monkey ball speedrunner to hear the soundtrack in a random video essay lol.
Great video, I kinda want to check this out.
I checked it out, it's pretty good.
we saw what you did there with FG and the bad animation example
A day with a new Kyoto Video upload from KB is a good day in my book.
nah homie. this ova slaps.
Your mistake was to watch the dub in the first place.
18:41 -. 😖.
For some reason this card part given me unsettled feeling for some reasons I repeated OVER CARDS LIKE UGH MAN?!. 😨😰😖💔.
Great Video
Can you review maybe the Movie "Lily C.A.T." someday?
Greetings from Germany
Fantastic Alien-like anime. Great OVA!
This dub still holds up
They should AWFUL LOL
Look... I love English dubs. I am a defender of dubs. I have the utmost respect and admiration for the anime dubbing and localization industry. I even like this anime kinda, sorta, a little bit... it's a guilty pleasure. But even I have to say...... no this dub really does actually suck.
I LOVE Idol Project and still enjoy this godawfully plotted anime. Meh, I'm weird that way.
How does one find out what individual animators were responsible for individual scenes?
As a New Yorker, I cannot hate on this dub. And since you don't care about any of the other voices in this dub (Scott Cargle's also a CPM mainstay and voiced Red Lobster in this dub as well. What was he; chopped liver?), I will say two things about two of the voices:
1) The English voice of Casa Clubs was provided by comedienne, writer and impressionist, Nadya Ginsburg. Two years after this dub, Nadya would also be a cast mate on the ill-fated sketch comedy show on the WB, "Hype!". Since that show got canned, you could say she hasn't had the best luck until the later end the of the 2000's. However, she does have a RUclips page. Please don't harass her about her role in this. I have to say this for the safety of many online denizens overall.
2) There's a rumor floating around that Jeremy Welch (who voiced the King in this OVA) was the late Maddie Blaustein under an alias.
And as for the anime itself? I consider this to be a Pilot OVA. As in, if the OVA was a success, they would've told more about the world and its cast in later episodes, had this become a series. But judging from the end results, that card is still floating around the void somewhere.
And finally, at least you were nice to the dubbed voices. In comparison, back in the old days of the internet; they would usually have the tired old joke of "they took someone off the street" to do the voice work. Which, if you know about New York and its acting communities in voice over and Broadway, is complete bullshit. It's just nobody thought anime would be as big as Pokemon at the time.
The Rayearth ova dub felt like a Disney/Broadway movie.
Jo Diamond sounds like a Jo Jo reference
..........................it's not. God, you "Everything In The Entire World Sounds Like Jojo" people are the worst garbage of humanity.
You know what it IS a reference to? The Diamond in a pack of cards, and the Joker in a deck of cards. ...because she's from a deck of cards and they're all based on cards. Not every goddamn thing in the entire goddamn universe revolves around that goddamn Jojo series. You people are worse than Undertale fans.
Have you ever watched or considered reviewing any adaptations of X or X/1999? I just watched the movie from movie from 1996 and it's kind of mind boggling how well animated it is for something i've never heard anyone talk about. Also being directed by Rintarou the storytelling is plenty weird by looks beautiful the whole time.
So the clip choices around 1:10 were _intentionally trying_ to start a war in comments, right?
Can you review the Rayearth ova and mention the dub?
Please don’t cancel the last Looney Tunes episode
Does a good team of poker cards ever work?
Yes
19:16 What is that face from?
The tik tok crowd might like it. It's got flashy action without the need to pay attention.
This is the exact thought I had. Quick cuts for short attention spans.
Yup one of the many mediocre forgettable anime CPM picked up with an quick and cheap dub to sell quickly in hopes they can make at least some scratch.
Hey, what's that song at the intro? I can never find it in the credits
I got soo into Studio Ox chara & animation style after their Idol Project that i imported this JaJa Uma! Quartet OVA on VHS from Japan hehe....Sure its only for the animation and all related stuff i like it and the story is not important for me in this instance. I just wish the studio did more titles.
Honestly? Looks like an amazing cornball 90's fever dream. The horrible English localization seals the deal -- sometimes bad is better than good ~
Yep
we must risk....our lives... aaNNNDDDD
I can't help but want to rewrite and redub this...
You should review Gokudo anime.
He does not like these types of comments because it neglects the amount of time, work, and effort put into the video. Wondered if he saw it since I saw a tweet of his a few days ago highlighting that frustration, and yep, he pointed it out as an example of it just now. You probably didn’t know, but it’s a heads up for the future.
@@jakewerderly5959 he does not take requests
@@jakewerderly5959they did😮
Jingling keys can only hold your attention for so long.
and i was right,your review is better than bennethesage's review
Oh most certainly. But at the same time, I still enjoy his reviews.
Haven't seen this one yet, but it has been on the to-watch list for years.
i saw this anime when i was 13...and i liked it...yeah i was a weird kid with no taste
All flash degrading substance. 3 times you watched this?.…. Damn. Also guess fan input didn’t work here huh. Wonder if there were any projects that did succeed with fan input.
Creators need to stop taking fam input on anything! Fans don't know what they hell they want half the time.
@@KhayJayArt
True. A Sound Argument, yet even a solid Design from one fan or script from another can really help with making something good. It definitely takes individuals who have worked on similar projects before that can make those ideas work.
There have been Power Rangers fans who have become a Big part of the Writer’s room.
I will agree that structuring an Idea around an Already Existing Franchise is Easier. Making ideas or story concepts for an Something like “Wild Cards” needs a lot more time in the Oven!
Hey, so dumb thought but was Wild Cards supposed to be based on games? The main characters are based on cards, they are fighting giant chess pieces, the racist stereotype summons mahjong pieces and the black and red spots at the end could be checkers.
I feel like this series has some interesting missing hidden potential. Maybe someone should redo this series but with a better story.
The story is fine as a launching point to a series where stuff is delved into more deeply. It's basically like complaining the first two episodes don't cover the narrative, character crafting and world building of a series.
@@gamerbear84 You have a point!! I should make my own version of this with a narrative that’s not to be taken seriously with some world building and maybe add some magical girl and Tokusatsu inspiration! I’ll either call it Shuffled Aces, High Card Force, Pick Up Unit: 52, or One Eyed Wilds!
@@otakushogun7880 If you do go for it, hope you have fun with it. :)
So they never set or explain the rules????
Of what?
Back when I first watched this, I think there are SOME interesting aspects to what happens in this anime. They're just way too vague, overly condensed and truncated to the point where they come off as nonsensical. Ultimately I do agree that the majority of this is just motion p-n with cool character design, and anything of substance chopped out of either the story and dialouge.... But I actually think that at least when reading between the lines of what's here, there are some interesting.... CONCEPTS being tossed about.
And I'll admit I havn't watched this, but I'm interested to see if you bring up the absolutely insultingly offensive English voice for the Chinese caricature villain. (Though it's not like the depiction as intended from the Japanese producers is much better). Also, I hope you at least bring up as a side note, the quick and brief history of the failed publicity-stunt-turned-voice-actress Apollo Smile and how this was one of her only few real roles in an English dub ever.
Third
Seems like a bad choice to sigh and say "let's get this over with" at the beginning of a video. But maybe people just let videos play rather than make choices to stop watching if the person making a video indicates they think the subject is boring.
Wow, I usually like older anime, but that character design was offputting for me.
Also, how much of the "humor" was due to "localization"?
What was the point of Wild Cardz!?! Was it supposed to be a TV pilot that never got sold!?! And why, oh why, why in all holy Hans Mole Man dub is so god awful cringe worthy!?!
I hate how these American Anime distribution companies thought would sell to Americans in the 90s and early 2000s. They didn't give a damn about stories and characters. All they cared about was material that had lots of T&A and ridiculous action.
Me personally I dislike animation works that feel the need to alway move. One of my least favorite anime films is Dead Leaves it continues to move and ugly as sin too. I feel Wild Cards the same
What exactly is the intro song?