Prime32
2014-04-10, 02:07 PM
So, Marvel's latest attempt* to cash into the Japanese market looks to be essentially Avengers meets Digimon. Loki has trapped the world's superheroes in disks, so a group of kids travel the world to find and free them. Here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmvUnYiripg
The actual OP is here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hMcVAKPiX0), and there's a TVTropes page here (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/MarvelDiscWarsTheAvengers).
I took a look at the first episode out of curiosity, and it's better than I expected - definitely a kids show, but surprisingly faithful for such a gimmicky premise. The "DISKs" were a new Stark Industries product intended to replace The Raft as prisons for superpowered criminals, until villains got their hands on some prototypes. Only two of the five kids are Japanese, and they're the grandsons of the DISKs' inventor (to my post-GBF amusement, Iron Man nicknames them "Samurai-kun"). Speaking of Iron Man he's in full Robert Downey Jr. mode here, splashing money everywhere and driving Pepper nuts. I'm curious how they'll handle Captain America, but in the brief glimpse we've seen he was shown as level-headed and having a friendly rivalry with Tony; good so far. Also Spider-Man somehow reminds me of Hououin Kyouma.
*Some older ones below
Live-action Spider-Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oey8s7eteqk) (70s)
...the protagonist fought both on foot and in a giant robot. This is where Super Sentai (aka the franchise Power Rangers is adapted from) got the idea. In fact, the first Super Sentai series to use the name "Super Sentai" was originally conceived as an adaptation of Captain America!
Replacement OPs/eyecatches (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSw4Xl5qfs) for the '92 X-Men series (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk)
Heroman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDq54iZhezQ) (2010 original series created by Stan Lee)
Marvel Anime (2011)
X-Men (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2jTogBrWrA)
Iron Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzOmdkqYO9w)
Wolverine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz7mrocDRtU)
Blade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfp7IZghgOU)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmvUnYiripg
The actual OP is here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hMcVAKPiX0), and there's a TVTropes page here (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/MarvelDiscWarsTheAvengers).
I took a look at the first episode out of curiosity, and it's better than I expected - definitely a kids show, but surprisingly faithful for such a gimmicky premise. The "DISKs" were a new Stark Industries product intended to replace The Raft as prisons for superpowered criminals, until villains got their hands on some prototypes. Only two of the five kids are Japanese, and they're the grandsons of the DISKs' inventor (to my post-GBF amusement, Iron Man nicknames them "Samurai-kun"). Speaking of Iron Man he's in full Robert Downey Jr. mode here, splashing money everywhere and driving Pepper nuts. I'm curious how they'll handle Captain America, but in the brief glimpse we've seen he was shown as level-headed and having a friendly rivalry with Tony; good so far. Also Spider-Man somehow reminds me of Hououin Kyouma.
*Some older ones below
Live-action Spider-Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oey8s7eteqk) (70s)
...the protagonist fought both on foot and in a giant robot. This is where Super Sentai (aka the franchise Power Rangers is adapted from) got the idea. In fact, the first Super Sentai series to use the name "Super Sentai" was originally conceived as an adaptation of Captain America!
Replacement OPs/eyecatches (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSw4Xl5qfs) for the '92 X-Men series (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAkL2-vh2Sk)
Heroman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDq54iZhezQ) (2010 original series created by Stan Lee)
Marvel Anime (2011)
X-Men (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2jTogBrWrA)
Iron Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzOmdkqYO9w)
Wolverine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz7mrocDRtU)
Blade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfp7IZghgOU)