Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right. IYKYK

The crossdressing episode *almost* says some interesting things. The recurring bit about Lena being the most under suspicion because she doesn't live up to certain standards of femininity is interesting and the reverse Mulan plot could have been sweet if played straight. The ending really lost everything good that made it into that mess of an episode...

fake was legitimately one of the first boy's love manga i ever read, i remember stumbling across it in a secondhand bookstore when i was teen and as at the time i was being raised in a very very conservative mega church i was really shocked cause stuff like this was not shown or talked about at all except in super negative contexts. Years later after i got out of that church, its super funny to me to look back and seeing how the romance was presented made me realize years down the line that i was very much not a straight cis person (i identify now as a gay trans man) but yeah thank you for talking about this! like it's very important for people to know esp in the retro anime spaces that something like this did in fact exist

Can I recommend Cyber Team in Akihabara?

3:32 . . . it that Voyager? Battlestar Voyager?

You implying Brain Powerd is a Evangelion ripoff?

This anime/manga probably empowers and designs women better than anything that has come out in the last 5 years since all the woke everything must be gay stuff. Women (or whoever is supposedly writing "strong" female characters these days) need to look at this and re-learn what it means to be cool. A show for everyone is a show for noone. But Desert Rose? That might just be the exception to the rule. Amazing video.

Cindy and the whole episode is just a Batman plot. It's literally an episode of a Batman series. It's actually a good plot but doesn't work because of how stupid the rest of the OVA is.

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Haha Yeah..the idea that anything made by man would be inheritantly free of flaws IS a fairly foolish notion. Flaws are a subjective concept that we define. If a flawed being that defines what a flaw is, creates and programs something, you can bet their own recognized flaws will be expressed in the end product. It's the age old dream of aspiring to creates something that is more than the sum of our parts turned into a nightmare scenario. Great fiction.

That tribalist shiz is way too mucj to deal with. I am never watching this show! Lol

1h? Damn

24:17 Berger. Not Burger. Sorry to be "that guy", but we're talking about the voice of The Pain in Metal Gear Solid 3.

I know we were all about sub vs dub superiority back in the day, but I thought bav was one of the first (outside pokemon) i could tolerate in dub back in the day. For me, the only other female lead sports anime that affected me the same way was princess nine.

I remember (Vaguely) another olympic mascot has an anime. Misha the bear from the russian olympics

You ending reflection made me cry. You mentioned how this movie does not feel cheap and manipulative. One thing thta gebuinly irks me is when KZfaqrs select to do a video on media with some kind of emotional message just so they can do a finishing speach on how much it meant and deep it was just for the manipulative factor. It is so honestly infuriating and makes me want to scream "WHAT YOU WANT AN EMMY OR SOMETHING FUCKER!" at the screen these days for how oversaturated the platform is with it. You can always tell when the are just hamming it up, saying what they feel is the best dramatic thing expected for them to say and hoping we'll all gasp and quietly dab out eyes at their genius while they don't actually care. Again, you can tell when this is the case and that's what seperates it from a genuine outro written with emotional investment. You kept mentioning how much this meant to you early on, nearly causing me to roll my eyes but you PROVED it by the end. I believe you gebuinly came up with everything yoy said in heartfelt expression. Thank you SO much for this. It's so hard not to see youtube in a jaded lense these days as just another version of cable but less regulated and more xapitolism driven with how it formats things. The little bits of genuine heart and vulnerability like this is what makes it worthwhile. Thank you for making this video one of those moments as this movie deserves it. Thank you for being more than a dumb Tuberbot and sharing some of your joy with us. One more time. 💛✌️🤟

i prefer the OVA over Victory,mostly because Akari is NOT A FREAKING CRYBABY IN IT!!! (seriously,i was getting PTSD flashbacks of wanna be the strongest in the world while watching the early episodes of Victory)

0:29 -Too bad its Sunday..those streets would be full of local commuters any other day..Sorry..I had to. Maybe the commotion was in response to DBZ censorship?

I only watched Victory up to ep13 back in the day. Wild how I never knew how those last 4 episodes went.

Finally saw the series and ova. The sequel was better after the halfway point.

Would you consider doing a video on Excel Saga? nobody talks about it.

With like the other Legacy sequel means hated by religious fundamentalists?

Words in English no dub

Okay, I've just seen the first five minutes but this already sounds to me like the biggest most intricate excuse ever made to see bouncing boobies in the history of anime xD

ReSTART is where I first heard of Battle Athletes. Restart says "Look ma, no rails!" early and stays off them the entire time.

Watch the tv serie, and ova and well love the idea, beggining was good, but the ending goes wild, and non sense and no thanks, better than the modern version

I watched it on a bluray player. It was funny, and it was great, 10/10.

Akira had the Olympics Stadium.

Beethoven using the power of music... Hong kong sunk.

25:06 Nah, a racist conscience would have said "Oh cool! Racism!" and went on its way.

Yikes, that's some of the most unfortunately awful transphobia I've seen in an anime for a while.

Nice to see a Kyoto Video retrospective on two of my favourites. That was a pleasure to watch. Pity we weren't graced with at least one clip from the OVA's horrendous gag dub, but oh well. As for the 19:12 - 22:14 segment, I don't see the issue/harm, Anna is happy at the end of the day.

Surprised/disappointed you didn't bring up the English dub

In all honesty, majority of [harmful] things in fiction tends to go over my head, as I usually explore those purely just for entertainment rather than to take something out of it, be it ideologies, philosophies, etc. To be fair, that partly might be 'cause I've got my values and beliefs set pretty early on, seeing no bigger need in taking on others in conviction that what I have is already fair/just enough to both myself and everyone out there. Of course, I do find issues with outright harmful actions taking place in real world, mind you.

Yuri > Any real world issue.

I remember watching this on tv back in the late 90s, couldnt remember the name, the only thing i could remember well was the ending where the protagonist have to race agains the young clone of her mom.

This whole video is so based. Nicely done!

in some ways Victory predicted Restart with Akari's mom and the plot point surrounding her lol think about it, someone decided to dig up the grave of something that had long since died and revived it. Battle Athletes RESTART is the same as Akari's mom, something that came from digging up the dead IP of a known series back in the day and was given a fresh coat of paint to supposedly compete with the "athletes/shows" of today but lacked the charm and grace of the original. WEIIIIIIRD ISN'T IT?

It was a given that you'd cover _Battle Athletes_ eventually and as usual, you delivered And I agree, _Victory_ is _far_ more entertaining than the OVA and the final episodes of _Victory_ are so much fun _ReSTART!_ just didn't need to exist, and it was redundant since we already have _Uma Musume_ as as the closest modern day successor to _Battle Athletes_ anyway The fact that we have so little yuri fanart of _ReSTART!_ compared to the OG series pretty much says all (And even before I realized that I'm trans, the OVA's treatment Anna always left a bad taste in my mouth, so I'm in full agreement there too)

heh yuri curry

I remember loving this anime back in the day. I need to rewatch it and come back to this video.

Increase the yuri!

59:14 “You can never have enough yuri.” Unless it’s Yuri On Ice, we’ll just have to settle for what we got.

i know of ending sentences with 'aru' being a thing for anime characters with Chinese accents from Kagura from Gintama. i don't know if there's any truth to this.

Even in the year 5000, New York still sucks.

I still have some of the original series on VHS.

"Athletic lesbianism" is one hell of a term.

While it’s not about JUST the Olympics, Yawara A Fashionable Judo Girl had the 1992 Olympics as a massive plot element, culminating in the Olympics. Each episode ended with a countdown to the 1992 Olympic games - the first time women’s judo would be a medaled event. It was so popular, one of the competitors was nicknamed Yawara-chan. Also please cover Yawara someday if you’re ever so inclined.

27:15 he looks like Steven Seagel

Always a treat when someone reviews or does a retrospective on one of the animes that I grabbed off my uberweeb roommate's shelf in college to watch in between rounds of Modern Warfare while I was unemployed. I can't remember if I enjoyed this one or not it's been so long.