A Midget versus a Klepto Monkey

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Zeta wrote:
I don't know what a detective conan is, nor do I speak hapanese. Anything with Lupin in (ininin) has to be good, though.
[synopsis of 500+ episodes sans twists]

Only in Japan!
Also gory, highly detailed and in some cases extremely painful-looking/ sounding murders. It could have also been in China or Korea otherwise.
Malchik wrote:Written and produced at DIC media U.S and animated jointly at Japan and Taiwan. Of course every cartoon of the eighties and early nineties were sweatshop animated.
I think it was Tokyo Movie Shinsha who animated most of the 80's American cartoons and perhaps some European ones too plus some episodes of specific 90's shows like Batman: The Animated Series, look at their history.
G.Silver wrote:The big rumor I heard regarding Inspector Gadget was that the guy who does Steam Detectives had a hand in the character designs, but maybe that's completely wrong and he just drew some inspiration from it. The main thing is, there's a character in it who looks just like him.
Asamiya probably drew some concepts from Gadget for SD and gave it a twist. I mean, the dude did a typical science fiction manga in which binary code materializes in the real world as people (referring to it as a "game") in order to delete and reform it, plus the magical girl show where the Internet is more or less a parallel universe where people can get caught by viruses and only anthropomorfic representations of Norton, Chkdsk and Defrag can save them.

And, although I don't complain about that kind of Gadget Universe redesign (I dig this one too), I do still wonder about the atmosphere thang and what would the series revolve around.

And isn't there a goddamned Ape Escape "proper" animu already? Christ...

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(Refering to the Inspector Gadget and the Gadgetini intro) Good god, that was awful... I feel like I need a Gadgetini on the rocks...

Penny looked sweet, tho. Hopefully that will be her rough appearence in this new anime.

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I hope the crew behind the new Gadget series put some effort into the music in their show (unlike the infidels behind Gadgetinis), since the soundtrack was one of the original series most memorable aspects. Personaly, i just love the action-variation of Penny's theme. Unless you feel uneasy about visiting odd, dark, french sites, you can listen to it here: http://www.coucoucircus.org/da/generique.php?id=879

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I found Gadgetini tolerable. The episode dedicated to Brains break down was class. The Inspector Kid one was gruesome however. I couldn't get past one episode.

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I don't think the Inspector Gadget franchise can really be violated because it was so terrible to begin with.

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Ooh, you bitch.

Seriously though, the same could be said of many other much-loved classic series. I'd say it was decent kids fluff with some cool ideas, musical themes and voice talent. And it's still more charming than most of today's kidvid.

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