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All cultural boundaries aside, and even musical ability aside, the Screamer has a great gimmick going, and that's something with proven ability to get people there and listening, especially in the era of a billion people doing YouTube song covers of varying quality. Besides, I don't think the Lion video would be nearly as fun without the makeup bit and the Screamer/Vader super combo action.

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Leave it to Korea lol Maybe I should ask my Korean friend if he knows anything about this. He is a mech junkie, after all.

here's the rundown on all things Korean in the 80's that's a Japanese rip off. Yes, they're rip offs.

For those of you who care to know more, Korea in the 80's wasn't a stable country and had been led by a series of brutal military dictators ever since the cessation of hostilities between North and South Korea. During this time many Korean children were watching Japanese programming and becoming enthralled by it. Many older Koreans saw this as a sort of cultural attack on their kids... this older generation of Koreans had lived through and survived the occupation of Korea by Japan and part of this was the attempted elimination of the Korean language and culture by the occupying Japanese and so they were somewhat sensitive on that subject. And so various copy cat cartoons were created that either out right stole the look of Japanese anime or was at best, heavily influenced by. These shows were universally crudely produced and featured some sort of Korean twist... like the taekwon do practicing Mazinger Z clone Robot Taekwon V.

So there you go, some historical and cultural context for these rip off creations... not as humorous as "leave it to korea lol" but a little more nuanced and hopefully some of you will appreciate the rather difficult situation and context that birthed these rather sad bastardizations.

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here's the rundown on all things Korean in the 80's that's a Japanese rip off. Yes, they're rip offs.

For those of you who care to know more, Korea in the 80's wasn't a stable country and had been led by a series of brutal military dictators ever since the cessation of hostilities between North and South Korea. During this time many Korean children were watching Japanese programming and becoming enthralled by it. Many older Koreans saw this as a sort of cultural attack on their kids... this older generation of Koreans had lived through and survived the occupation of Korea by Japan and part of this was the attempted elimination of the Korean language and culture by the occupying Japanese and so they were somewhat sensitive on that subject. And so various copy cat cartoons were created that either out right stole the look of Japanese anime or was at best, heavily influenced by. These shows were universally crudely produced and featured some sort of Korean twist... like the taekwon do practicing Mazinger Z clone Robot Taekwon V.

So there you go, some historical and cultural context for these rip off creations... not as humorous as "leave it to korea lol" but a little more nuanced and hopefully some of you will appreciate the rather difficult situation and context that birthed these rather sad bastardizations.

Let me get this straight. The koreans intentionally created bootleg japanese cartoons so that their children will not be enthralled by the original japanese cartoons? :huh:

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Let me get this straight. The koreans intentionally created bootleg japanese cartoons so that their children will not be enthralled by the original japanese cartoons? :huh:

the idea was subversive. They would take stuff that their children could already identify and use them to teach korean culture, as was the case with taekwon V. It's not that surprising, many poor countries use similar tactics, the Palestinians have their own knock off Mickey Mouse for instance. In fact the idea is very old, many religious stories were started in this way, the story of Gilgamesh becomes the story of Noah and the Ark, for instance. Same with the adoption of buddhism by various asian cultures, they changed it fit their own needs from the original Indian form.

The point, if you need it spelled out for you, is that poor impoverished people who are on the verge of having their identities wiped out will use whatever means available to them in order to save themselves. In the case of Korea their wealth and intellectual and cultural elite had either fled or were subsumed by Imperial Japan and than their country was again stolen by the UN and used as buffer between the Soviet Union, USA and China and then whatever was left was ravaged by one of the most costliest wars of the 20th century. They were then left to US backed military dictatorships who would rather machine gun down students then give them opportunities.

So yes, in such a situation the Koreans did whatever they could to, in their minds, protect their culture and even their economy. Was it the right decision, who knows? However, I'm glad it's such a source of amusement to you, at least some good came of it.

and yes mods, this is the last I'll speak of this.

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Apologies if these were posted, wanted to post youtube links that gives a fresh laughing feeling in your mouth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJa8PgHi-g - Lucky Star Zombie Dance

- Hatsune Miku speed/odometer gauge

- Xbox 360 Forza2 Miku (even listening to her main theme, will make you crash)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLR8hYnusE Hatsune Miku - Jingle Bells

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-1-xDWfFnk - Hatsune Miku - "melody..." PV (English Subbed)

- Live action Gundam in 3D :p
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Apologies if these were posted, wanted to post youtube links that gives a fresh laughing feeling in your mouth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJa8PgHi-g - Lucky Star Zombie Dance

- Hatsune Miku speed/odometer gauge

- Xbox 360 Forza2 Miku (even listening to her main theme, will make you crash)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLR8hYnusE Hatsune Miku - Jingle Bells

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-1-xDWfFnk - Hatsune Miku - "melody..." PV (English Subbed)

- Live action Gundam in 3D :p

AHHH!!!! Miku is teh kawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiii!!!!!!! ^_^

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Here are more Hatsune(s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGv3d1FLjw4 - Hatsune Miku (HM) - Anger Video

- Lucky Star - Dreamland... (imo, just plain insanely funny)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USnIrEcadgQ - ????weird HM video????

- Loituma IevanPolkka - w/HM army

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7al5TKaR8M

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I'm going to hijack this thread with a plea for help. I apologise for this, but I've got a problem which is driving me batty. I've been trying to find a clip of either of the Frontier intros, but all I can see on youtube is very badly pixellated. Can anybody point me to a good link?

Thanks, and sorry for spamming.

Well, if you can't get it through YouTube, download the torrent for an episode and put it in whatever you need it for. Windows Media can play MKVs, just not the subtitles.

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