Anime World Order Show # 220 – Witness the Beginning of Toei’s Dark Universe

This was originally the intro of Show 219, but it took a little longer to edit. So, PRESTO! In this, Show 220, Gerald–mere hours upon exiting the theater–shares his thoughts on the major critical and commercial disaster that every single one of us and every single one of you could see coming from a mile away, the 2023 live-action Knights of the Zodiac film adaptation of Saint Seiya. Despite originally recording this 3 weeks ago, we remain fairly confident that this is not something which you’ll have heard discussed to death by this point. Because that would have required people to SEE it! (We estimate the comments section will be the highest concentration online of people in the US who saw this movie. So…less than 10?)

No outlines or show notes for this one, really. The promo for Right Stuf Anime is from 21:13 – 23:52.

We last talked about Saint Seiya in Show 21 back in 2006.

I guess in the meantime you can watch the trailer and think “yeah, this was a bad idea.”

Or think about that recently unearthed from the Library of Congress pilot of “Guardians of the Cosmos” which was an attempt to make a more US TV-friendly animated version…and think “yeah, this was a bad idea.”

Or that live-action Starstorm pilot thing done around the time of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Or that CG Netflix one that everybody hated which this movie appears to be adapting itself from despite the aforementioned “that everybody hated.” You know what you can’t readily get, though? An unedited official English translation of the entire manga. Or the anime, for that matter. Hmm, you don’t suppose the reason “Saint Seiya will never be popular in the US, no matter how hard they try” is actually just because they’re not exactly trying properly? Maybe consider NOT putting the cart before the horse for once?

Don’t worry; we intend to release another episode in June that will be an actual anime review! Of something people like and you might have seen or heard about before, even!

Bonus – AWO on ANNCast

We imagine there aren’t too many people who listen to us that do not listen to the ANNCast, but just in case it may be worth pointing out that all of us were on the latest episode, answering Twitter questions for about two hours. Give it a listen if you want to hear our thoughts on Space Dandy and learn sordid details of our lives which we’ve already disclosed in either previous episodes or on Twitter.

Update: The link should work now. Guess their site’s set up to disallow people from linking to…RSS feed enclosure items? Seems…odd…