The Five Star Stories: The Most AMBITIOUS Mecha Story?

The Five Star Stories: The Most AMBITIOUS Mecha Story? | FSS Exploration

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Жыл бұрын

THE FIVE STAR STORIES is Mamoru Nagano's magnum opus. And to say that it is an ambitious story is totally an understatement. The scope of the still unfinished story spans millennia with dynasties that can trace their lineage to the very first kings and knights of the Joker Star Cluster, with artificial humans with computerlike brains that can live for hundreds of years and control the new weapons of mass destruction called the Mortar Headds, or GothicMade depending on the version of the story you're reading.
So my friends, I'm Absa, and in this video I'm going to talk briefly about the eighties movie and how, from the very beginning, the manga challenged every expectation of what it meant to be a "mecha series".
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@mattmaddogwheaton4724 Жыл бұрын

As I said before the video was taken down by KZfaq, Five Star Stories is the GOAT mecha epic. It's so incredibly epic, Tetsuya Takahashi practically took notes from it as he was making Xenogears.

@youngimperialistmkii Жыл бұрын

The thing that I always loved about FSS is that it is mecha sci-fi. In the vein of epic far future space opera such a Dune and The Foundation series.

@jonathanafe2663 8 ай бұрын

Agreed allways loved the star empire/distant future vibe ... Funny you brought up foundation

@fatdoi003 6 ай бұрын

Nagano's design never gets old for over 30 years...... spent hours as kid drawing the mirage series and now my fav is the bang doll

@furagnar 5 ай бұрын

I was stationed in Japan when FFS came out. It took me 2 years to hunt down the VHS . To this day that it is the only VHS I have. Nagano is my favorite mecha designer. I'm glad you discovered FFS and shared it with everyone.

@emmettbuttry8676 Жыл бұрын

I love five star stories. I read a lot of the mangas and own the movie on dvd. In my opinion it is the greatest saga in anime/manga. It has mechas, gods and demons, dragons, tragic love stories, heroic fights, moments of pathos, game of thrones level political intrigue, and all on a scale that's span millions if not billions of years and maybe more then one universe. If you want something a bit different then gundam or macross to talk about you might want to look at the super robot genre, the Getter Robo series is a interesting one or some of the lesser known ones like Captain Earth or Star driver or even Dancougar.

@Beatnik59 Жыл бұрын

Like I said, it is hard to overstate the impact Five Star Stories had on anime and manga, because you see things that remind you of it everywhere. I believe that without The Five Star Stories, anime and manga would look a lot different today. We probably wouldn't have Turn ∀ Gundam, Gundam Wing, Iron Blooded Orphans, Neo-Genesis Evangelon, or that neo-baroque aesthetic that distinguishes today's anime, from the anime of a previous era.

@azazel3562 7 ай бұрын

de acuerdo , pero tengamos en cuenta que fss, la idea de un robot con piloto, y guerra de robot ya se habia consumido mundialmente con MAZINGER Z y sus ovas y o variantes y tiempo despues sugieron todas las copias burdas con robots guerreros y espaciales. mazinger z es el inicio de la lucha de robot. los demas solo son copias...."afanosamente inspiradas en el".

@Beatnik59 7 ай бұрын

Eso es cierto,@@azazel3562 . Pero la era de Manznger y Gaiking fue diseñada muy voluminosa y las historias eran simples. Los diseños de Five Star Stories eran elegantes y la historia tenía más matices.

@happy_camper 8 ай бұрын

My favorite mecha franchise of all time! FSS is so majestic, and impressive. It's truly EPIC. Not only is the artwork mind-blowingly beautiful, but the complexity and intrigue of the universe reminds me of Frank Herbert's "Dune". I just wish we had more in-period OVAs or perhaps a series in the style of the original anime. The movie is a masterpiece of animation.

@hitachicordoba Жыл бұрын

Love Nagano's mech designs! Please also review L-Gaim

@Natto-Over-Rice Жыл бұрын

Sad you had to reupload this but I’ve been getting more into the FSS model kits and this was really to watch while I work on my A-Toll kit 😄

@skylangford6083 Жыл бұрын

I've got a 1/220 jagd mirage twin tower to work on myself

@skylangford6083 Жыл бұрын

someone already beat me to it but yes, FSS is literally the Japanese version of Dune. The animation adaption in 1988 is the story of the first novel exactly how the 1984/2021 version of Dune is based on the first novel. Both Dune and FSS span different planets/galaxies and both have houses and kingdoms with their own unique worlds and political intrigue

@jovan3686 9 күн бұрын

Lmao when he started describing the premise I just kept thinking to myself “That’s Dune, he’s just describing dune” glad I wasn’t the only one

@oneinathousand2156 Ай бұрын

I’ve seen the clip at 6:12 as a GIF in so many videos and now I know the source, thanks!

@muhammadwibisonojanuar7793 5 ай бұрын

Another anime like Five Star Stories will be Escaflowne, Magic Knight Rayearth, Gun x Sword, Dunbine, and Knight's & Magic

@josephk8506 Жыл бұрын

I have had this movie in my DVD collection when it was available many years ago, and the mechanical designs are among the most compelling designs I've seem to this day! They were way ahead of their time IMHO... Hopefully the rebranded Gothicmade will get rereleased in a digital format and get expanded in the near future.

@webfox100 Жыл бұрын

Glad i got to see this video the first time around.

@broodo1 Жыл бұрын

I'm here for all of it. Even the re-uploads 👍🏽

@mattlewis4553 11 ай бұрын

FSS and particularly Gothicmade = Best designs in all of Mecha anime. I have a 1:72 Z.A.P and its mind blowing in 3d

@hiyazaki09 3 ай бұрын

one of the most beautiful movie mech i and design i have ever scene and the landscapes wow 🤘🏻🤣👍🏻

@LegendoftheGalacticHero 4 ай бұрын

So happy you had a video on this one too

@lucambridgman7978 8 ай бұрын

Shoujo Romance in Mecha's Skin. Prince charming with a golden mecha rescuing maiden in distress. The storyline is unique in the mecha genre.

@barryvercueil2346 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Loved the movie so much I started reading the Manga. Definitely worth it.

@thehobbyist1162 Жыл бұрын

There are model kits that were made from plastic, resin and soft vinyl kits from several companies like Volks, Wave, Work shop cast and Kiyodo for five star stories.

@freddekl1102 11 ай бұрын

And all of them are for pro modellers, essentially statues with no colour separation (and with steep price) right? Nothing to have looking good out of box and pose safely

@thehobbyist1162 2 ай бұрын

@@freddekl1102 exactly

@BhelliomRahl 10 ай бұрын

Love the anime, great art and music; however the manga was even better. The clothing and outfits were brilliant, you can see that Mamoru Nagano was a fashion designer.

@JTVega Жыл бұрын

I read a few Manga volumes Soap plays multiple roles in the series.

@mattmaddogwheaton4724 Жыл бұрын

He's practically the main character of the entire saga. Basically, he's to FSS what Fei is to Xenogears.

@connorwaltman4966 11 ай бұрын

Needs a Blu-ray release

@mandasenna4290 Жыл бұрын

Indeed it is very ambitious, too ambitious for any single man. However I respect what Nagano Mamoru is trying to do. BTW, Rognar and Kaien were my favorite characters, the cast is wonderful. There are so many characters and they are (mostly) well-written.

@trollingisasport 4 ай бұрын

The music as well...fugghh

@TheSilverCrono 9 ай бұрын

Two days I will go the rest of my life anxiously awaiting: a home video release of Gothicmade and a competent English translation of the FSS manga.

@SimianScience 5 ай бұрын

my holy grail of anime. some day i will own this

@troloinkto 10 ай бұрын

I completely agree, "mecha" is just an ingredient, a part of the world or setting, rather than something as narrow as a "genre", all of them are very different and each is unique in its story, characters and world building, I can't have a TOP 10 because I don't feel that one is better than the other, my favorites would be all in the 1st place, but for me, there have been at least 4 mecha designers who I think that have influenced or inspired 90% of all real robots in the industry and even in hollywood and videogames, those would be Kunio Okawara, Shoji Kawamori, Mamoru Nagano and Yutaka Izubuchi, each one of them has contributed a lot for the industry, the super robots are another whole story as well

@TheBlackleoner 6 ай бұрын

Gran video!!!!!

@jza1169 2 ай бұрын

Try " Fight!!! Iczer One!", Dangaioh, and Madlax.

@notani3533 11 ай бұрын

Escaflow is definitely my favorite outside Gundam.

@Spacefrisian 3 ай бұрын

This seems interesting, shame its hard to find it physically, just like Heavy metal L-gaim and Dangaioh.

@TheServoman 11 ай бұрын

If you are a Mecha fan, please consider Patlabor series for real robot and Gunbuster for super robot. You will love both I think.

@nia1waifu107 8 ай бұрын

I hope it gets a Re-Adaptation as either a movie series or ova series

@MFDOOOOM 6 ай бұрын

The translation of the manga has been dead for years..m is the original manga finished publishing?

@daviddavid5880 8 ай бұрын

I'm often mystified by how so much great classic anime seems to just vanish. There's so much I'd be willing to pay to see again. So many great films... I won't pay you 20bucks for them (get a life. They're 40yrs old ffs), but I'd toss ten bucks to watch any of a dozen old Anime I could name. And quite a few more I can't remember the names of.

@foxsong4508 4 ай бұрын

Another good mecha anime is vandread

@RenanARodrigues Жыл бұрын

i think code geass would be a good mecha anime to watch, it has 2 seasons, 4 movies, 5 ova's, i hope u have fun

@kira516 3 ай бұрын

Sorry but xenogears from ps1 deserve that title more

@venomouslizards Жыл бұрын

Too bad the English version of the manga is incomplete and extremely expensive. A long with that, L-Gaim doesn’t even have a blu-ray and the dvd looks and sounds terrible. Two of my favorite mecha stories and I can’t fully experience either.